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Listeners will learn things like why rhinos have such thick skin and horns, why beetles have two sets of wings, and what an armadillo’s shell is made of. Each title will also cover where the animal or insect lives, what it likes to eat, and other interesting facts.

All animals have special characteristics that make them good at hunting or defending themselves. But animals with venom may be the coolest! This series introduces each animal, where it lives, what it eats, and how it uses its venom to survive.

Some animals have giant mouths with incredibly powerful bites! The bites can be for catching prey, eating, or fighting. Each title will look at where the animal lives, what it looks like, and its bite!

What are amphibians? What are insects? What do they all have in common? These questions and more will be answered in this informative series.

Planets are incredible space bodies, so incredible that life can survive on at least one of them! Each title in this series is information-packed and covers everything from the size of the planet, to what its atmosphere is made of, to the missions that have explored it!

Technology is changing every day, bringing information to us faster than ever and making more things possible. Library-goers will love hearing about and exploring the amazing technologies in the world today.

Welcome to "A Small Blue Dot - An Artificial Journey Through the Solar System", a children's book about the adventures of Lina and her robot friend Sam as they explore our solar system. This book was created utilizing generative artificial intelligence (e.g., OpenAI ChatGPT & Dall-E, MidJourney, Jasper.AI and Smurf.AI) as an experiment to better understand the role of artificial intelligence for creativity. Lina and Sam's journey takes them to the far reaches of space, where they encounter all manner of strange and wonderful things.

Books about cool construction machines are always picked up by book lovers. But these titles are written for those who are getting a bit more comfortable with new words and harder, but still simple, sentence structures.

Tiny creatures lurk in the warm soil of the American South, waiting to attack a human victim. Once they invade through bare skin, the parasites travel deep into the gut of the unsuspecting host, where they suck blood like a vampire. Hookworm takes center stage in YALSA-winner Gail Jarrow’s third book of the Medical Fiascoes series. In this exciting medical mystery, she reveals how a parasite slowly drained the energy and life from millions of southerners. Can early twentieth-century scientists and doctors uncover its secrets, fight back, and cure the victims?

Did you know that you have a little bit of dinosaur in you? And it’s your brother’s fault. That egg fight meant there were only two eggs left and one of them had a carbon atom that used to be in the bones of a Spinosaurus. This humorous story follows a carbon atom as it journeys from dry bones to your spinal column–and beyond!

In January 1776, George Washington had a problem: the British army controlled the city of Boston. The colonial army needed to force the British to leave. But how? Washington had a solution: ask his engineer Rufus Putnam to solve the problem. They needed to take control of the high ground, Dorchester Heights, just south of Boston. They could place cannons there to bombard the British army.

Did you know that you have a little bit of dinosaur in you? And it’s your cousin’s fault. She dared you to pitch a peanut high in the air and catch it in your mouth. You didn’t know it had a nitrogen atom that used to be in the egg of a Hadrosaurus. This humorous story follows a nitrogen atom as it journeys from dry bones to your skull–and beyond!

Fritz Fuchs und Ordnungsamtmann Kluthe verschlägt es gemeinsam an die Nordsee. Fritz freut sich auf Wattwandern, Tierwelt und Strandsegeln, doch dann verschwindet Herr Kluthe allein im Watt. Fritz ahnt davon nichts. Denn Wattführerin Sine weiht ihn gerade in die Geheimnisse des Meeresbodens bei Ebbe ein. Als dann aber das Meer wieder ansteigt und zu dem abgebrochene Anrufe auf Fritz' Handy landen, startet er eine Rettungsaktion in letzter Minute.

Fritz ist im Goldrausch. Im Bärstädter Fluss wurde Gold gefunden. Auch er versucht sein Glück und träumt von einer goldenen Zukunft, genau wie sein Ururgroßvater Willibald 1896 in den USA. Zusammen mit Oma Ilse und seiner Schwester Suse stürzt sich Fritz ins Abenteuer. Sie pachten von Besitzer Wittenborn ein Stück Land, so wie viele Bärstädter auch. Und schon bald haben sie Erfolg. Doch Familie Fuchs entdeckt, dass sie sich blenden ließ.

Alan Shepard's boyhood fascination with flight led him from constructing model airplanes in his grandfather's basement to attaining national hero status in the race to space. Rooted in hard work and education, this pioneer's dreams of flight came true as he became not only the first American launched into space but, later, one of the privileged few to walk on the moon. When he wasn't soaring above the clouds, astronaut Alan Shepard used his expertise to benefit others, raising money to fuel the dreams of science students and guiding NASA missions.

Investigate the mysterious and creepy with these thrilling and informative books. Explore the origins, locations, and mythologies of Area 51, cryptids, ghosts, and more.

The earth is full of natural dangers that everyone should know how to survive. Step up and learn exactly what these disasters are, how to prepare, and the best ways to brave them.

Weather is a truly amazing phenomenon that we can see every day. But it can be hard to understand what makes some weather so wild! How do tornadoes form? Where do hail stones come from? All these questions and more will be answered in this series.

From the food to the rides to the entertainment, fairs are fun for so many reasons! This series will bring listeners to fairs big and small to learn about their histories and all the neat things they have to offer.

When a sudden downpour, a monsoon, falls in the desert, plants and animals explode with growth. Plants sprout, bloom, produce seeds and die within a couple days. Likewise, in a week, animals hatch, grow, mate, lay eggs, and return to hibernation or estivation.