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OverDrive eBooks December 2018
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"Exploration really is the essence of human spirit, and to pause, to falter, to turn our back on the quest for knowledge, is to perish." -- Frank Borman (Apollo 8 astronaut)
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December 21st: 50th Anniversary of Apollo 8
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The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
The moments of grandeur and weakness, the aspirations, and the problems of America's astronauts are revealed in an exploration of the dimensions of their inner lives in space, on the moon, and on the earth.
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Almost Astronauts : 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
by Tanya Lee Stone
The story of 13 true pioneers of the space age--the "Mercury 13" women who, nearly twenty years before the first women were allowed into NASA's aerospace program, were brave enough to face prejudice and jealousy to challenge the government and in the end, their inspiring example empowered young women to take their rightful place in the sky, piloting jets and commanding space capsules.
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Endurance : My Year In Space, a Lifetime of Discovery
by Scott Kelly
A memoir by the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station shares candid reminiscences of his voyage, his colorful formative years, and the off-planet journeys that shaped his early career.
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The Space Barons : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport
Traces the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space as navigated by today's leading billionaire entrepreneurs, sharing insights into how professional rivalry and Silicon Valley innovations are dramatically lowering the cost of space travel and exceeding the achievements of NASA.
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Murder for Christmas
by Francis Duncan
When the party guests of Benedict Grame discover a body, that bears a striking resemblance to Father Christmas, under the tree, it is up to Mordecai Tremaine to find the culprit before another death occurs.
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Shakespeare's Christmas
by Charlaine Harris
Cleaning lady and karate expert Lily Bard returns home for her sister's Christmas wedding and becomes caught up in an unsolved four-year-old kidnapping when she discovers that her new brother-in-law's daughter bears a striking resemblance to the missing child.
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A Christmas Party : a Seasonal Murder Mystery
by Georgette Heyer
A colorful assortment of guests at a festive holiday house party discover there is a killer in their midst when their universally reviled host is found dead-in a room locked from the inside. For Inspector Hemingway of Scotland Yard, the investigation is complicated by the fact that every guest is hiding something-throwing all their testimony into question and casting suspicion far and wide. The clever and daring crime will mystify readers, yet the answer is in plain sight all along...
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The Twelve Clues of Christmas
by Rhys Bowen
While serving as an assistant to the hostess of a large Christmas house party in Tiddleton-under-Lovey, Georgie gets the attention of her retired detective grandfather after dead bodies begin showing up.
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