Patterson, James
Summary: "James Patterson and award-winning Zambian writer Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable survival story of a Maasai girl who faces down poachers to find a future among the elephants. Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PATSummary: Covering the dire elephant poaching crisis : poachers, rangers, victims and those who save the elephants. A n unbridled terrorist-driven slaughter of the African elephant ; weighs both the human and environmental toll.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Light Productions 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Noel Marshall stars as Hank, a doctor and outspoken naturalist in Africa who allows lions, tigers, cheetahs, and other big cats to roam freely around his remote estate. While away protecting animals from poachers, Hank's family, including Marshall's real-life wife and daughter, Tippi Hedren (The Birds) and Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), arrive at his home and are stalked by the massive lions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ROABorkovich, John
Summary: As a Conservation Officer for 27 years with Michigan's DNR, author John Borkovich tells his adventure stories about running down wiry poachers of all stripes and hues. John is recognized for his clever approach to track down the bad guys and save our valuable natural treasures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.28 BorRenner, Rebecca
Summary: "David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters To catch a Florida Man, you have to become one, and that's what Officer Jeff Babauta did. As his ponytailed, whiskey-soaked alter ego, he established Sunshine Alligator Farm. His goal? Infiltrate the shady world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Walker, John A.
Summary: The name of this book may be kind of misleading, beause what started out to be a weekly Fish Report in the local paper turned into tales from a U.P. (Michigan's Upper Peninsula) Game Warden. It kind of became a weekly story about working as a Game Warden and growing up in God's Country, Michigan's U.P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.A. Walker 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 WALGibbs, Stuart
Summary: "Someone is trying to hunt FunJungle's Asian greater one-horned rhinoceros, and twelve-year-old Teddy Fitzroy is on the case"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JT Series GibbsWalker, John A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.A. Walker 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 WALWhite, Randy Wayne
Summary: The world's shark population is in trouble for a sad, simple reason: shark fin soup. And although it's illegal, poachers have been targeting Florida's biannual migration of blacktip sharks. Marine biologist Doc Ford needs some assistance protecting the sharks and enlists the help of three kids, Luke, Marta, and Sabina. Together they form Sharks, Inc. and are given an important assignment: to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WHISummary: The incredible story of a baby elephant who was born into a rescue camp in the wilderness of Botswana. When she is suddenly orphaned at one-month-old, it is up to the keepers who look after the herd to keep her alive. This one elephant's tale remains both intimate and epic, a journey of tragedy and triumph, because when her entire species faces extinction, one life means everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NALFitzgerald, María José
Summary: Twelve-year-olds Barana and Abby come together to solve a sea turtle egg poaching mystery plaguing Barana's Honduran coastal village, and learn the true meaning of friendship, courage, and community along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FITOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Africa where they must use magic to save a rhino and her baby from poachers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSBCopies Available at Kingsley
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Contents: Yooper Reality Check -- Hunting Shacks -- A Game Warden's Wifee -- Buddies in Uniform -- Yesteryears -- Proper Training, But Maybe Not To Bright -- Dedication Story -- Grandpa's Big Buck -- My Opinion -- Judges, Make For Interesting People -- Lucky Me -- Kids, Please Listen -- Youth -- I really Shouldn't Tell You This, But -- I Hate Trailers -- Christmas of the 90's?
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.A.W.'s Pub. 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 WALFletcher, Susan
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Bryn must try to find a way to save a baby dragon from a dangerous modern world that seems to have no place for something so ancient.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FLEJames, Tania.
Summary: A rice farmer-turned-poacher whose brother has been killed and a documentary filmmaker dedicated to preserving wildlife find their views challenged by the violence of a brutal escaped elephant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMMay, Peter
Summary: Ex-Detective Inspector Fin McLeod discovers a light aircraft at the bottom of a spontaneously drained loch while investigating illegal activity on the estate of a poacher and former childhood friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2015
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1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fiction May 2015Dixon, Franklin W.
Summary: "Hunters in Nairobi are threatening more than a few animals."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIXKnecht, G. Bruce.
Contents: South Indian Ocean -- Valparaiso, Chile -- South Indian Ocean -- Los Angeles -- South Indian Ocean -- Los Angeles -- Southern Ocean -- Riviera, Spain -- Southern Ocean -- New York City -- Southern Ocean -- New York City -- Southern Ocean -- Cape Town, South Africa -- South Atlantic Ocean -- Bridgehampton, New York -- South Atlantic Ocean -- Vancouver, Canada -- South Atlantic Ocean -- Vancouver...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.259 KNERussell, Kirk
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSJans, Nick
Summary: "The unlikely true story of a six-year friendship between a wild, oddly gentle black wolf and the people and dogs of Juneau, Alaska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636 JANKing, SJ
Summary: "Leah the biology expert and Gustavo the history buff are whisked away on a mission to a forest in North Carolina. There, they meet a botanist working to protect the amazing Venus flytrap--an endangered species of plant--from being stolen by poachers andsold for money. It'll take every bit of brainpower, bravery, and expertise that Leah and Gustavo have to stop the poachers and rescue the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KINPearson, Ridley
Summary: When partner Grace Chu's cover is blown while on a dangerous assignment, ex-military contractor John Knox races to assist while struggling to convince her handlers of the threat, trace the theft of a high-value AIDS vaccine, and elude violent ivory poachers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PEASummary: Exposes the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds in southern Europe. Songbird populations have been drastically declining for several decades, with a number of species facing imminent extinction. This poignant documentary explores the wonder of these tiny globe-trekking marvels, millions of which are unlawfully slaughtered each year for large sums on the black market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015