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Author
Series
Lumber baron's daughters volume 3
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant engineer, Jilly Stiles sets her focus on fulfilling her dream of building a mountaintop railroad-and remaining independent. But when a cruel and powerful man goes to dangerous lengths to try to make Jilly his own, marrying her friend Nick may be the only way to save herself and her dreams"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Where some people see rubbish, Rosie Revere sees inspiration. Alone in her room at night, shy Rosie constructs great inventions from odds and ends. Hot dog dispensers, helium pants, python-repelling cheese hats: Rosie's gizmos would astound - if she ever let anyone see them. Afraid of failure, she hides them away under her bed. Until a fateful visit from her great-great-aunt Rose who shows her that a first flop isn't something to fear - it's something...
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press, a division of Nomad Communications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When these 15 women coders and engineers face impossible problems, they don't quit--they find solutions. They are all doing amazing work in technical fields while overcoming unique challenges not equally faced by male colleagues. Engineering and coding have typically been considered men's fields of study, but these innovative women are showing that problem solving with science and math is everyone's field, and it's time for the world to see powerful...
Author
Series
Lumber baron's daughters volume 1
Language
English
Description
"She mixed danger, desperation, and deception together. Love was not the expected outcome. With their sharp engineering minds, Laura Stiles and her two sisters have been able to deal with their mother's unfortunate choice in husband until they discovered his plans to marry each of them off to his lecherous friends. Now they must run away--far and fast--to find better matches to legally claim their portion of their father's lumber dynasty and seize...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get married already. And while Nada has a good job as an engineer, it's a far cry from realizing her dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper instead of a bang because of the double-crossing of he-who-must-not-be-named. Something...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Best laid plans: She was the sexiest thing in a hard hat that architect Cody had ever seen, yet structural engineer Abra also had a will as strong as a steel girder. But he has plans for her that even this spirited beauty could not resist.
From this day: B.J. Clark, the manager of an inn in Vermont, resents the efforts of the inn's new owner, Taylor Reynolds, to modernize it, while Taylor's fascination with B.J. makes him think about abandoning his...
Author
Series
Secret scientists of London volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"You couldn't design a better hero than the very eligible and extremely charming Earl Grantham. Unless, of course, you are Margaret Gault, who wants nothing to do with the man who broke her youthful heart. Widowed and determined, Margaret Gault has returned to Athena's Retreat and the welcoming arms of her fellow secret scientists with an ambitious plan in mind: to establish England's first woman-owned engineering firm. But from the moment she sets...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This STEM/STEAM picture book tells the story of Edith Clarke, the innovator who solved an electrical mystery and built the first graphing calculator--from paper, an accomplishment that helped her become of the first woman electrical engineer in America"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The twelve scientists who are profiled here are women from all sorts of backgrounds who are currently rocking science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Each of them has a different story to tell about how she got to where she is today, but the one thing they have in common is that they are truly wonder women of science. Around the world there are many more women doing incredible work and breaking new ground in STEM fields--not to mention...
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the African American women who worked as mathematicians at NASA and proved invaluable to the American effort during the space race.
Author
Publisher
AFK, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the technologically advanced African city of Numbani, in the not-so-distant future, humans live in harmony with humanoid robots known as omnics. But when a terrorist tries to shatter that unity, a hero named Efi Oladele rises! This action-packed novel is an all-new, original story straight from the minds of the Overwatch game team!
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