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Summary: When a top-secret research team is hired to develop a clean energy source to minimize America's dependence on foreign oil, Sheriff Nate Osborne and journalist Ashley Borden investigate a saboteur's attack on the experimental power station.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DORFurst, Alan.
Summary: In 1940, exiled Russian writer I.A. Serebin is recruited for an operation in Istanbul by a Hungarian master spy working for the British secret services.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FURCussler, Clive.
Summary: When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team, it appears a simple act of nature. But when the survey team is abducted and Pitt's research vessel nearly sunk, however, it's obvious there's something more sinister involved. All trails lead to Mongolia where a mysterious mogul is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSDu Brul, Jack B.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBCussler, Clive.
Summary: When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team, it appears a simple act of nature. But when the survey team is abducted and Pitt's research vessel nearly sunk, however, it's obvious there's something more sinister involved. All trails lead to Mongolia where a mysterious mogul is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: CD SA CUSKiesling, Lydia
Summary: "The year is 1998. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is a lonely American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny's bemused eyes, we watch global interests flock to her temporary backyard for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hearing rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Media Reads, a Zando imprint 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIESandford, John
Summary: "By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now she's restless and bored in a desk job for a U.S. Senator, but just as she's ready to quit, she is offered a task she can't refuse: feet-on-the-ground investigative work, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security. Several oil companies in Texas have...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SANGarlock, Dorothy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARGrove, Fred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRORobinson, Patrick
Summary: When a rogue Saudi Arabian prince plots a coup d'etat with the assistance of the French, American admiral Arnold Morgan is assigned to counter the work of terrorist Ravi Rashood in the face of mounting international opposition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBBarnett, Jill.
Summary: In the aftermath of a fatal car crash, Laurel grows up in a single-parent home and Cale and Jud Banning are raised by their grandfather, a situation that culminates years later in the Banning brothers' heated rivalry for Laurel's affections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARNELocke, Attica.
Summary: When African-American lawyer Jay Porter jumps into the bayou to save a drowning white woman in Houston, Texas, in 1981, he finds his practice and life in danger when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation involving Houston's elite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOCRobinson, Patrick
Summary: A rogue Saudi prince, disgusted by the royal family's profligate ways, plans a coup d'état. He surreptitiously enlists the help of the French, who appoint Le Chasseur (the Hunter) to do the dirty work. Assisting him will be the world's most wanted terrorist, Hamas's Ravi Rashood, arch-enemy of the United States. With the French and Muslim fanatics on the verge of controlling Saudi oil, and the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RobVarley, John
Summary: "John Varley has won multiple awards for his "imaginative and engaging"* novels. Now the author of Millennium, Steel Beach, and Rolling Thunder speculates how people would survive in a world suddenly stripped of the fuel that makes it run... Despite warswith Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as 9/11, the United States' dependence on foreign oil has kept the nation tied to the Middle East. A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARBarnett, Jill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARPatterson, Richard North.
Summary: The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murdering three PetroGlobal workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PATSummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018