Sinisalo, Johanna
Summary: It is claimed Albert Einstein said that if bees disappear from the earth, mankind has four years left. When bee-vanishings of unprecedented scale hit the United States, Orvo, a Finnish beekeeper, knows all too well where it will lead. And when he sees the queen dead in his hives one day, its clear the epidemic has spread to Europe, and the world is coming to an end. Orvos special knowledge of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Owen Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINPulkkinen, Riikka
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PULKukkonen, Janne
Summary: "Lily is a young novice who dreams of being a master thief. That's not easy when the Guildmaster of Thieves only assigns you the lowliest jobs: pick-pocketing, trespassing, and petty theft. But on one of these meager quests, Lily unearths a plot involving a mysterious cult and long-forgotten gods -- a secret that could destroy the whole world. Lily must fight to save the same people who have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: :01, First second 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KUKTuomainen, Antti.
Summary: It's two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling a ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded; abandoned vehicles are left burning in the streets; the authorities have issued warnings for malaria, tuberculosis, Ebola , and the plague. People are fleeing to the far north of Finland and Norway, where conditions are still tolerable. Social order is crumbling and private...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUOSummary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005