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Author
Publisher
Windsor Publications
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
263 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
"[Vermont an Illustrated History] demonstrates that although the faces of Vermont's inhabitants have changed, the qualities of self-determination and endurance so necessary in establishing Vermont's modern communities remain active features in today's Green Mountain state.
The text is illuminated with more than 400 vintage photographs, including thirty-two pages of brilliant color. Biographies of many Vermont businesses and organizations are highlighted...
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English
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Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question -- why her only son died -- and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm....
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Series
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English
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Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. He's retained Dick Pender to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating world conflicts. Shaw (no first name), a man with a truly unique past, travels the world reluctantly doing the bidding of a secret multi-national intelligence agency in order to keep the world at peace and safe. Katie James, a journalist who will...
9) One by one
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English
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"Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a full-service chef and housekeeper, a cozy fire to keep you warm, and others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight co-workers…each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide.
When the co-founder of Snoop, a trendy London-based...
10) The bookshop
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Language
English
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In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted....
12) One mile under
Author
Series
Ty Hauck novels volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this long-awaited return of detective-turned-global-troubleshooter Ty Hauck, he and a courageous young whitewater guide step into a deadly showdown between downtrodden farmers and a clandestine energy giant bent on destroying their way of life.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 25 min., 31 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
We buy, who pays? is a documentary about Western companies producing clothes and shoes in developing countries. It shows us the problems with the working conditions, like low wages, forced overtime, health issues, child labour and chemicals destroying land and groundwater. What can be done to solve these problems? We visit factories in India and talk to suppliers, labourers, NGOs, and farmers who give their point of view. Do western companies take...
15) Darkness falls
Author
Series
Mark Beamon thrillers volume 5
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Environmentalist Erin Neal, retired from the field and grieving in isolation since the death of his eco-terrorist girlfriend, is pressed back into service by Homeland Security when terrorists mutate the controllable oil-eating bacteria Neal invented to clean up oil spills and unleash it in the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.
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Language
English
Description
"Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early...
17) Outside, inside
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful book that describes the impact of COVID-19 on communities and why some essential workers could not quarantine.
Publisher
Watershed Media
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
277 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Language
English
Description
ENERGY takes an unflinching look at the systems that support our insatiable thrist for more power (and the ideas behind those systems) along with their unintended side effects. From oil spills, nuclear accidents, mountaintop-removal coal mining, and natural gas "fracking" to wind power projects and solar power plants, every source of energy has costs. Virtually every region of the globe now experiences the consequences of out-of-control energy development....
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Language
English
Description
"There are few industrialists in history who could match Elon Musk's relentless drive and ingenious vision. A modern alloy of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs, Musk is the man behind PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and SolarCity, each of which has sent shock waves throughout American business and industry. More than any other executive today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that...
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