Burlington Public Library

A mysterious event, known as the Change, causes all electronic devices, including computers, telephones, engines, and radios, to quit working, and forces a reorganization of society, with groups of survivors banding together for safety and sustenance, or criminal purposes.

Describes the process of metamorphosis, in which certain animals change form, or shape, as they grow into adults.

Describes how various modes of Transportation.

Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission.

Explores the various punishments given out to thieves, murderers, and other criminals in ancient Greece.

Describes the fight by ethnic groups to achieve equality in the United States.

Discusses how water forms, how to keep it clean, and its importance to humans and the ecology. All life on Earth depends on the water cycle! The Water Cycle is a fascinating book that introduces children to this important cycle using a clear, step-by-step approach. Kids will learn about how different processes, including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and run-off, work together to move water from the ground to the air and then back down...

Religious historian Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, life, and afterlife of history's most powerful book. Armstrong analyzes the social and political situation in which oral history turned into written scripture, how this all-pervasive scripture was collected into one work, and how it became accepted as Christianity's sacred text. She explores how "as the pragmatic scientific ethos of modernity took hold, scripture was read for the information...

Gorillas using iPads, lemurs finger painting, squirrel monkeys popping bubbles . . . these primates are pretty smart! Could you make the grade in Primate School? Learn how diverse the primate family is, and some of the ways humans are teaching new skills to their primate cousins. Author Jennifer Keats Curtis is once again working with organizations across the country to share fun facts about primates through this photo journal.

In the 1850s, Emma Giesy wonders if God has abandoned her when she and her husband's family find themselves struggling alone in the remote coastal forest of Washington Territory, after leaving a repressive religious community led by an autocratic German leader.