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Black Holes in Action (An Augmented Reality Experience)
by Kevin Kurtz (Author)
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Booktalk: Black holes are invisible because light cannot escape their gravity. Explore new techniques that astronomers use to study black holes and learn about thrilling discoveries in black hole science, with the help of augmented reality features.

Snippet: The black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is destroying stars. It pulls them in with its enormous gravity. Stars circle the black hole until they disappear forever.

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Out of the Blue: How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas
by Elizabeth Shreeve (Author) and Frann Preston-Gannon (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Life on Earth emerged “out of the blue.” It began in the vast, empty sea when Earth was young. Single-celled microbes too small to see held the promise of all life-forms to come. Those microbes survived billions of years in restless seas until they began to change, to convert sunlight into energy, to produce oxygen until one day “Gulp!” one cell swallowed another, and the race was on.

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