Mass, Wendy
Summary: Earth is in danger! The only thing that can save the planet are six essential elements that can fuse into a new source of clean energy. But the elements are scattered throughout the galaxy. And it's up to the Voyagers-, a team of four remarkable kids and an alien, to gather them all and return to Earth. The Voyagers have made it to the last planet. If they complete this mission, they can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MASMbue, Imbolo
Summary: "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MBUMbue, Imbolo
Summary: "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mbue 2020Williams, Missouri
Summary: "In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the Matriarch and her brother, and the family descended from their incest, cling to existence on the edges of a ruined city."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILMbue, Imbolo
Summary: In the African village of Kosawa, people live in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made, and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MBUCobb, William J. (William James)
Summary: Ruby Cole decides to abandon her baby rather than marry a man twice her age who already has two wives and sets off a series of reactions that involve an equestrian police officer, pawnshop clientele,and a grieving ornithologist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unbridled Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COBStrieber, Whitley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRHe, Joan
Summary: In a near future when life is harsh outside of Earth's last unpolluted place, Cee tries to leave an abandoned island while her sister, STEM prodigy Kasey, seeks escape from the science and home she once trusted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HEDavidson, Ash
Summary: A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAVFarmer, Nancy
Summary: In 2137, fourteen-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of El Patrón, he is expected to take over as leader of the corrupt drug empire of Opium, where there is also a hidden cure for the ecological devastation faced by the rest of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FARMcConaghy, Charlotte
Summary: "Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean's tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world's last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCRoss, Joel N.
Summary: "Tthirteen-year-old tetherboy Chess and his crew may have escaped the slums, but they cannot escape the Fog. When they retreat to the mountaintop sanctuary of Port Oro, they discover that the deadly white mist will soon swallow the entire city. Will the slumkids be able to save Port Oro, or will they run out of time?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROSD'Lacey, Chris.
Summary: As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of best-selling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world from the forces of evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2008
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Summary: "A fantasy novel told in four parts about a land crippled by the use of magic, and a tyrant who is trying to rebuild an empire-- unless the people find a way to resist"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.De la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: More than a century after a catastrophic disaster wiped out most of humanity and covered much of the earth with ice, fifteen-year-old Cass yields to the voice in her head urging her to embark on a dangerous journey across a poisoned sea to the mythical land, Blue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2013