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Adventure stories Imaginary wars and battles Mines and mineral resources Mines and mineral resources Comic books, strips, etc Mines and mineral resources Fiction Mines and mineral resources Juvenile fiction Railroads Railroads Comic books, strips, etc Science fiction Star Wars fictionCollins, Ailynn
Summary: After losing their communication link with two members of their team, the remaining young miners abandon their expedition on Asteroid AX245 to search for their missing friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLHutchinson, Michael
Summary: "Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee are four inseparable cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. Nicknamed the Mighty Muskrats for their habit of laughing, fighting, and exploring together, the cousins find that each new adventure adds to their reputation. When a visiting archaeologist goes missing, the cousins decide to solve the mystery of his disappearance. In the midst of community...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HUTSummary: Explores the three categories of mineral resources found within the earth (power resources, gem stones, and metals) and how they have been utilized for the advancement of civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TREScheyder, Ernest
Summary: Tough choices loom if the world wants to go green. The United States and other countries must decide where and how to procure the materials that make our renewable energy economy possible. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of other devices means the world must dig more mines to extract lithium, copper, cobalt, rare earths, and nickel. But mines are deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 333.8 SCHPatterson, James
Summary: Detective Harriet Blue of the Sydney Police Department prides herself on an uncanny ability to catch the most deviant of criminals. So when her brother is charged with a brutal string of murders, it rocks her world. Shocked, in denial, and facing uncomfortable questions about how much she knew, Harry is transferred to avoid the media circus. Investigating the disappearance of a worker in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson 20171 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2017
Hopeless, Dennis
Summary: "A flash flood in Rainbow Ridge reveals shocking truths about the masked bandits and Barnabas's dealings with his mine. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. "--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOPHopeless, Dennis
Summary: "Abby joins the masked bandits to steal from her father, but when Onawa drags Barnabas deep into the mine, the spirit of Big Thunder Mountain reveals its earth-shaking power. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOPHunter, Dianna
Summary: "Susan B. Ellingson (SB to those who know her) publishes a struggling newspaper with the help of a retired librarian. Near the mining town of Iron, Minnesota, waters split three ways along the Laurentian Divide, carrying minerals and contaminants to Hudson's Bay, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. When a corporation seeks a permit to dig for copper and nickel and store potentially harmful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holy Cow! Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNHopeless, Dennis
Summary: "Mine owner Barnabas T. Bullion is determined to shelter his daughter Abby from the Wild West, but she ignores him and sneaks into the Big Thunder Mountain gold mine. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOPTower, Eric J.
Summary: It should come as no surprise that mining is a very important way to obtain resources in the game of Minecraft. It's also a very important way to get resources in the real world! This informative book will show young readers more about how people build real-life mines and what they mine for, including in-game resources such as diamonds, iron, gold, and coal. It will also show them how to use...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019
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Summary: "Abby joins the masked bandits to steal from her father, but when Onawa drags Barnabas deep into the mine, the spirit of Big Thunder Mountain reveals its earth-shaking power. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOPHopeless, Dennis
Summary: "After getting caught in a cave-in, Abby is rescued by a masked stranger, who also happens to be part of a crew of bandits that is stealing from the mine. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of the ABDO Group 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC HOPSummary: In this highly anticipated sequel to the popular TNT original movie, Noah Wyle reprises his role as Flynn Carsen, the nerdy yet precocious librarian who was called to protect the world's greatest secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Librarian 2006Lindsey, Johanna
Summary: In 1880s Montana where passions and gold fever run high, an American heiress turns to a rugged mountain man to help her locate her father's fortune. Summoned back to Philadelphia from the social whirl in London, Violet Mitchell never expected to find her brothers living on the edge of financial ruin while their father seeks new wealth in Montana's gold fields.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LINReintgen, Scott
Summary: "Emmett and the Genesis team must join forces with a surprising set of allies if they're ever to make it home alive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REIKhan, M. T. (Maeeda Tariq)
Summary: Searching for her buried friend after the mines collapse, twelve-year-old Pakistani mica miner Nura finds herself at the Sijj Palace, a luxury hotel for the dangerous and deceitful jinn, where she must discover the truth beneath the glitter or be trapped forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Contents: Introduction : the mineral collection of the Houston Museum of Natural Science / Joel A. Bartsch, Wendell E. Wilson and Mark Mauthner -- The discerning eye : what makes a mineral collectible? / Wendell E. Wilson -- Plates / Wendell E. Wilson and Joel A. Bartsch -- The paths of discovery : from the mine to the museum / Wendell E. Wilson -- A royal passion : a history of aristocratic mineral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houston Museum of Natural Science and the Mineralogical Record, in association with H.N. Abrams 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 549.074 WILSuarez, Daniel
Summary: "The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation--a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUASteele, Michael Anthony.
Summary: Mining is a blast for these Lego City miners! Will they find gold?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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Summary: A Wookiee is a girl's best friend! When Chewbacca meets young Zarro on an Outer Rim planet, he has no choice but to set aside his own mission to help her rescue her father from a dangerous mine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Lucasfilm Press 2018
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Summary: The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other "emerging markets" have transformed their economies, Africa's resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. While Africa accounts for about 30 per cent of the world's reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 per cent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 BURGreaney, Mark
Summary: A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world's hi-tech sector. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREBova, Ben
Summary: Running a galactic ore carrier with his family in the wake of the Asteroid Wars, Victor Zacharius flies their ship into the middle of a military attack and bravely saves his family, only to find himself in the clutches of the seductive Cheena Madagascar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2007