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Chemical industry Fiction Chemical industry Waste disposal Environmental aspects Fiction Corporations Corrupt practices Fiction Environmental lawyers Crimes against Fiction Legal stories Mining corporations West Virginia Fiction Mississippi Fiction Mountaintop removal mining Environmental aspects West Virginia Fiction Pigs Fiction Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) FictionBurcat, Joel R.
Summary: "A psychotic coal mine operator and cynical neighbors with an anti-mining agenda fight out a strip mine permit battle. Mike Jacobs, a 28-year old environmental prosecutor with Pennsylvania's environmental agency, DEP, is caught between the warring factions, but is ordered to "babysit" the case. All Mike wants to do is to protect the environment and neighbors from certain harm as a result of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Publisher Page, an imprint of Headline Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURGrisham, John.
Summary: When a judge returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste in a small Mississippi town, the company's billionaire owner seeks to influence the appeal process by using his money to "buy" a seat on the state Supreme Court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468 FIC GRIBurcat, Joel R.
Summary: " Fracking for natural gas has turned deadly in Bradford County, Pa., and not only is the water contaminated, but people are dying. Round-the-clock operations conducted by Yukon Oil and Gas may have poisoned a residential well and threatened a town's water supply. Who is contaminating water wells in Bradford County? Why are contractors disappearing? Mike Jacobs, a 29-year old impassioned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Publisher Page, an imprint of Headline Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURSummary: Two country handymen and a seismology student discover a desolate town infested with gigantic man-eating creatures that live underground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR TREGrisham, John.
Summary: Wall Street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting candidate to run for Supreme Court judge when a Mississippi jury rules agains one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into the towns water supply, causing a cancer cluster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIGrisham, John.
Summary: Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: LP FIC GRIKim, Carol
Summary: Jina is learning about climate change for a class project, but her efforts to save energy at home (by turning off all appliances) just seem to inconvenience her parents, and frustrate them all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KIMSummary: Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2010
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI AVASummary: A look at the world's water crisis and how the causes of the depleting water supply is connected to pollution, human rights, and even politics. Features interviews with scientists and activists. Includes commentary, expanded interviews, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2008
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FLOSummary: A crew of young environmental activists executes a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is a part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOWSummary: "The fates of three strangers intertwine in Fraedaeric Tellier's thriller GOLIATH. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from pesticide exposure. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist working for a multinational chemical corporation. Patrick is a lonely but tireless environmental lawyer. All will have their lives collided and turned upside down after one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOLBunting, Eve
Summary: While helping their dad run Fred's Fall Color Tours in New England, Jim and Andy think the tourists are pretty silly; then one night the boys experience something which makes them change their minds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION BuntingCurtis, Grace
Summary: "Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the Milky Way. The last word in sub-orbital luxury--and an absolute magnet for intrigue. Intrigues such as: Why are there love poems in the lobby inbox?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: SF CURBrockovich, Erin.
Summary: Ten years after fleeing her hometown of Scotia, West Virginia, in disgrace, AJ Palladino returns as a successful environmental lawyer to assist another lawyer with a crusade against moutaintop removal mining and discovers her hometown's secrets while confronting her own past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrockovich, Erin.
Summary: Ten years ago, a pregnant seventeen-year-old, Angela Joy Palladino, fled her hometown, Scotia, West Virginia, as a pariah. Over time, AJ succeeded in establishing herself as an environmental activist, only to be forced to retreat from the spotlight in the wake of a crushing media disaster. Upon arriving in Scotia, AJ learns of the sudden death of the lawyer who hired her. Soon after joining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BROBrockovich, Erin.
Summary: As a single mom of a special-needs boy, Angela is happy for any work she can get, even if it means returning to the West Virginia hometown she left in disgrace. But when her new boss turns up dead, Angela discovers that her own secrets aren't the only ones her mountain hometown has kept buried.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A night in Terror Tower: Sue and Eddie are out sightseeing at the infamous Terror Tower when the wax figures in the Tower's torture chambers start to move. Suddenly the two are traveling back in time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GOOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOzeki, Ruth L.
Summary: Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZEForte, Lauren
Summary: The irrepressible Olivia participates in environmentally responsible initiatives with her family, but she must devise a clever solution to the problem of her brother needing a nightlight in order to keep everyone in the family happy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Kelley, Ceece
Summary: "A guardian angel sibling sends a well-wishing message to the newest addition of their family. But how is it delivered? Filled with whimsical illustrations and a touch of magic, Rainbow Letters celebrates rainbow babies--children born after pregnancy or infant loss--while capturing the beauty of life and beyond."--Amazon website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soaring Kite Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KELSummary: Hit men Ray and Ken have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INDealey, Erin
Summary: "When the kids in room 5 write to Earth asking what they can do to help save our planet, they are delighted to get a letter back."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEAMunro, Janet
Summary: English journalists discover that simultaneous nuclear attacks by the Americans and the Soviets knocked Earth off its axis, putting it on a collision course with the sun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI DAYVanderMeer, Jeff
Summary: "'Am I a person?' Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. 'Yes, you are a person, ' Rachel tells him. 'But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.' In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm, the Company, until he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017