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c2010., McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Tho Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "More than 40 years before the publication of "The Origin of Species", 12-year-old Mary Anning, a cabinet-maker's daughter, found the first intact skeleton of a prehistoric dolphin-like creature, and spent a year chipping it from the soft cliffs near Lyme Regis. This was only the first of many important discoveries made by this incredible woman, perhaps the most important paleontologist of her day. Henry de la Beche was the son of a gentry family, owners of a slave-worked estate in Jamaica where he spent his childhood. As an adolescent back in England, he ran away from military college, and soon found himself living with his elegant, cynical mother in Lyme Regis, where he pursued his passion for drawing and painting the landscapes and fossils of the area. One morning on an expedition to see an extraordinary discovery -- a giant fossil -- he meets a young woman unlike anyone he has ever met..."--Inside jacket.
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2017., Adult, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Cri Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A tale set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting follows the exploits of two ambitious paleontologists who sabotage each others' careers in a rivalry that came to be known as the Bone Wars.
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c2010., Dutton Call No: Fic Che Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home on the English coast, she sets the religious fathers on edge, the townspeople to vicious gossip, and the scientific world alight. Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, and in the struggle to be recognized in the wider world, Mary and Elizabeth discover that friendship is their greatest ally.
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By Bazell, Joshc2012., General, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: Fic Baz Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, a.k.a. Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world's worst field assignment, Brown has no real choice but to say yes. Even if it means that an army of murderers, mobsters, and international drug dealers--not to mention a lake monster--are about to have a serious Pietro Brnwa problem.
