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Summary: " ... the Dordogne's great pleasures--wine, romance, and intrigue--threaten Bruno's beloved village of Saint-Denis."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSmith, Mark (Mark Bernard)
Summary: Hesse lives in a small coastal town, where a coalmine and power station are a part of the scenery - and part of the problem of climate change. His mum is a member of the local environment group campaigning to close both down. But Hesse is more interested in surfing - and in Fenna, the new exchange student from the Netherlands. When someone tries to derail the campaign and cover up the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIBlack, Baxter
Summary: A down-on-his-luck former rodeo champion, Luck is working in the remoate Nevada desert with fellow cowboy Al Bean when Teddie Arizona, a gorgeous siren with the henchmen of her "husband" F. Rank Pantaker in hot pursuit, arrives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Baxter
Summary: Lick is down on his luck working on a ranch in the remote Nevada desert with Al Bean, an ornery old cowboy. Into their lives crashes Teddie Arizona, a woman of mystery who crawls out of the wreckage of her plan with a $500,000 secret and her husband's henchmen on her trail to retrieve the money.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLAFink, Jennifer Natalya
Summary: "On the night of December 2, as 1984 drew to its Reaganomic close, an explosion at an American-owned factory in Bhopal, India, released untold amounts of toxic gas on uncounted numbers of people, creating a human and environmental disaster of insurmountable proportions. Known as the Bhopal disaster, it once dominated international headlines, and is now barely remembered. Yet Bhopal remains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FC2 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINGreer, Robert O.
Summary: In Denver, CJ Floyd, a black bondsman, is hired by a black federal judge to find the killer of his daughter. She was a member of an animal rights group. The group was planning a war against the cattle industry, involving use of a deadly toxin to kill cowboys. A debut in fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRELeon, Donna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M LEOBrockovich, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BROBox, C. J.
Summary: Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, called in to help investigate a massive explosion in the forests of Twelve Sleep County in which a well-known environmental activist is presumed to have died, puts his own life in danger when he refuses to accept the verdict that the incident was an environmental publicity stunt gone wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOXCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOXBrockovich, 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 BRODu Brul, Jack B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBLeon, Donna.
Summary: A watchman at a glass factory in Venice is killed, and a copy of Dante's Inferno found at the scene may contain the evidence Brunetti needs to solve the murder.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Editions 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEOWheeler, Richard S.
Summary: A billionaire acquires land to create a buffalo park in Montana and when cattlemen refuse to sell, wolves are smuggled from Canada to ruin them. The conflict escalates as Indians and Greens enter the fray. A look at the exploitation of ecology by business and special interest groups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: W WheelerBeres, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Medallion Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCheever, John.
Summary: The story of an old man's search for love is told through a constellation of events: the struggle to save a pond from pollution, the murder of a gallant scientist, and an exquisite but fleeting affair with the beautiful woman he sees in a bank line.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEDublin, D. H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DUBLeon, Donna.
Summary: After coming to the aid of Vianello's old friend, Ribetti, arrested during an environmental protest, Commissario Brunetti becomes concerned about Ribetti's father-in-law, Giovanni De Cal, a nasty factory owner heard making threats against his son-in-law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEOMerberg, Julie
Summary: Rhyming text introduces young readers to iconic activists from Frederick Douglass and Alice Paul to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malala, encouraging them to speak up for such important issues as equality, education, and the environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Downtown Bookworks 2020
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE MERMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: The Blakely family, despite the tragedy that separated them, must band together to save their historical plantation, which has been in the family for generations and is the only thing that holds them all together, from being sold to developers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Summary: Maggie Glenn, a newspaper photographer sent to cover an incident in her home town, becomes caught in the middle of the conflict, opening old wounds and forcing her to revisit a past she wanted to leave behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RASSummary: A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRRobinson, Kim Stanley.
Summary: A group of radical environmentalists struggles to find a way to save the natural beauty of Antarctica from the politicians who are fighting for control of its natural resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998