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Chemical industry Fiction Chemical industry Waste disposal Environmental aspects Fiction Corporations Corrupt practices Fiction Historical fiction Legal stories Logging Fiction Mississippi Fiction Trials (Offenses against the environment) Fiction Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) Fiction Young adult fictionDeCamp, Alison.
Summary: In 1895, twelve-year-old Stan decides to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan, documenting in his scrapbook his travels and encounters with troublesome relatives, his mother's suitors, lumberjacks, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DECCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DECCameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC POWBurcat, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Publisher Page, an imprint of Headline Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURSummary: After an injury and losing her college basketball scholarship, a young woman returning home struggles to rebuild her life as she and her family in Flint, Michigan face internal turmoil and the aftermath of a deadly water crisis. The bonds of family are all they have left as they rebuild their lives, their town, and their hope for their future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLIGrisham, 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.
Format: text
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Publisher Page, an imprint of Headline Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1878, eleven-year-old Annabel and her parents survive a year of adventure which includes floating downriver in two shacks along with a group of Michigan lumbermen moving logs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction Whelan 2002Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHEDavidson, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAVSmith, Colby Cedar
Summary: Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIDornbush, Jennifer
Summary: "July 1989, in a sleepy Michigan town, high school grad, Nina Laramie, heads out with her friends and is never seen alive again. Months later, her skeleton is found near a remote party spot in the forest.The ME determines Nina has been brutally raped and bludgeoned to death. Fear and anger ripple through this tight knit community when the case goes cold.Thirty years later, Riley St. James, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ally Press 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 364.1 DorGrisham, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
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.
Format: text
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
Copies Available at Peninsula
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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2010
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI AVARussell, Mary Doria
Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RUSGrant, Libbie
Summary: In 1827, in rural Pennsylvania, Emma Hale marries an itinerant treasure-digger who claims he can speak directly to God. In a few short years, Joseph Smith will found his own religion, gain tens of thousands of zealous followers and fracture Emma's life and faith.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRANull, Matthew Neill.
Summary: "A turn-of-the-century logging company decimates ten thousand acres of virgin forest in the West Virginia Alleghenies and transforms a brotherhood of timber wolves into revolutionaries"--Cover flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lookout Books, Department of Creative Writing University of North Carolina Wilmington 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NULHobey, Jack.
Summary: "Recounts the case of The People vs. Herman Swift, a story which ran on front pages of newspapers throughout Michigan for three years in the early 20th century. It is one of the most sensational cases to ever go to the Michigan Supreme Court and was reviewed on appeal by famous Michigan governors, Chase Osborn and Nathaniel Ferris. The story revolves around the complex, tragic figure of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harbor House Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.76 HOB1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 362.76 HOB
Summary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOLSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOWForbes, Lani
Summary: To the Chicome people, an eclipse is a time of terror. When darkness falls, the barrier separating the heavens and the earth becomes unstable. Then come the ravening Tzitzimime--the star demons who thirst for human blood. Mayana and Ahkin know the full extent of the coming danger, but they must gather support or the Chicome Empire is doomed. As the eclipse nears, many maneuver for power in this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FORBrockovich, 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