Fleming Community Library

"In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and...

Details the history of the nuclear age, from the discovery of nuclear fission and the Manhattan Project to the Cuban missile crisis and the use of nuclear power.

This book describes the characteristics and movement of stars, the constellations they form, the composition and shapes of different galaxies, and more. 4-8 Medialog, Inc.

"Read about the way hydraulic fracturing, or "hydrofracking," is used to harvest natural gas and learn how it has shaped our nation today"--Page 4 of cover.

"In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. When the Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls, they immediately dispatched a patrol rescue boat. But within an hour, the Coast Guard rescue boat was in as much trouble as the tanker―both paralyzed in unrelenting seas. Enter Captain Frank Quirk who was compelled to act. Gathering his crew of four, Quirk plunged his forty-nine-foot...