Rollins, James
Summary: When a remote military research station is decimated, Commander Gray Pierce and the Sigma Force must solve a mystery from Antarctica's distant past using an ancient map that leads them to a new form of death, which could result in mankind's extinction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLKolbert, Elizabeth
Summary: "Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Adapting from her New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning adult...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books 2024
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Summary: "Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world: Mara. A refugee, Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation, a world-dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH LUMaloney, Brenna
Summary: "A humorous and engaging nonfiction book about bugs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 639.97 MALBlack, Riley
Summary: "In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life's losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 BLAHannibal, Mary Ellen
Summary: "Award-winning writer Mary Ellen Hannibal has long reported on scientists' efforts to protect vanishing species, but it was only through citizen science that she found she could take action herself. As she wades into tide pools, spots hawks, and scours mountains, she discovers the power of heroic volunteers who are helping scientists measure-- and even slow-- today's unprecedented mass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Th Experiment, LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 HANSummary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "An informative picture book that takes readers along on a high stakes mission to battle one of the deadliest natural disasters to threaten the nation, while offering a dramatic look into the work of the highly-trained first responders who risk their lives to fight wildfires."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J363.37 PALSummary: A major discovery shows how life came back after an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. With exclusive access to a fossil trove from the key first million years after impact, the film charts the rise of a new living world from the ashes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RISSummary: "THE RELUCTANT RADICAL is an intimate portrait of climate activist Ken Ward. Ken breaks the law as a last resort and with great trepidation, to fulfill what he sees as his personal obligation to future generations. The film follows Ken through a series of civil disobedience direct actions, culminating with his participation in the coordinated action that shut down all the U.S. tar sands oil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RELRamakrishnan, Venki
Summary: "A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we age and die-from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: "A journey through the great mass-extinction events that have shaped our Earth. Drawing on the latest research, this timely and original book lays out the current scientific understanding of mass extinction on our planet. Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics and geology have transformed our knowledge of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously"--Publisher's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.84 BENSummary: "A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle. ... Featuring interviews with Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Heinberg, Thomas Berry, William Catton, Ran Prieur and Richard Manning, What a Way to Go looks at the current global situation and asks the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VisionQuest Pictures 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHAGísli Pálsson
Summary: "The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. G?sli P?lsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2024
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Summary: Draws on the work of geologists, botanists, marine biologists, and other researchers to discuss the five devastating mass extinctions on Earth and predicts the coming of a sixth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.84 KOLJames, Hollis
Summary: "Michelangelo discovers an amazing creature in the sewer. Is it a friend, an enemy, or a monster?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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Summary: Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in JT Science Fiction, Call number: JT SF Haddix 2017Quarello, Serenella
Summary: "Every living creature contributes towards the richness and beauty of our planet. Each one has a reason to exist, from the giant panda to the pygmy possum, and if we lose them, it will be forever. Extinctopedia tells a complex story, not just of those who are extinct, but also of those in greatest peril, with explanations of what threatens their survival. It is also a story of hope-hope for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Comet Press, LLC 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 576.8 QUASummary: Years after the Raccoon City disaster, Alice is on her own. She is aware that she has become a liability and could endanger those around her and she struggles to survive and bring down the Umbrella Corporation led by the sinister Albert Wesker and head researcher Dr. Isaacs. Meanwhile, traveling through the Nevada Desert and the ruins of Las Vegas, Carlos Olivera, L.J., and new survivors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RESLunde, Maja
Summary: "Mikhail lives in Russia in 1881. When a skeleton of a rare wild horse is brought to him, the zoologist plans an expedition to Mongolia to find the fabled Przewalski horse...In 1992, Karin, alongside her troubled son Mathias and several Przewalski horses, travels to Mongolia to re-introduce the magnificent horses to their native land...Europe's future is uncertain in 2064, but Eva is willing to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and, most important, why their lives are in danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in JT Science Fiction, Call number: JT SF Haddix 2016Millet, Lydia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2008
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Summary: Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic and evolutionary history and how it informs the way humans inhabit, exploit, and impact Earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 BARInstaread.
Summary: Inside this Instaread of The Sixth Extinction: Overview of the book; Important People; Key Takeaways; Analysis of Key Takeaways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: iDreamBooks Inc 2015