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42) Airborn
Author
Series
Publisher
Full Cast Audio
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Summary: Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
43) Ten
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives—an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie are looking forward to two days of boys, booze, and fun-filled luxury. But what starts out as fun turns twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine. And things only get worse from there.
47) Dairy queen
Author
Series
Dairy queen trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
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English
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Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain Club
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 214 p. : col. ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While hiking the Long Trail, you may have stopped to ask, “What kind of a tree is that?” Or wondered about a colorful flower growing trailside. Now you can have the answers at your fingertips, with the easy-to-use Nature Guide to Vermont's Long Trail. Author and GMC member Lexi Shear introduces readers to the natural communities of the Long Trail, and then journeys the length of the trail to point out its fascinating natural features, as well...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 21 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this program, we'll explore the exciting race underway to design greener products of all sorts. You can work toward a green career as an architect, interior designer, industrial engineer, or product designer within a myriad of businesses. This is a contest that will reward those who can envision or help create the "greener mousetraps" of tomorrow. Jobs profiled in this program include: Architect, Interior Designer, Consultant, and Landscape Designer....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 567 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
MIT scientist and federal agent John Kenner embarks on a critical search to find and stop the head of a mainstream environmentalist group whose rage over losing an important source of funding leads him to devise a series of weather disasters and instill fear in the public over global warming.
53) Going green
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 24 min. 22 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Learn simple and easy tips to make your library and its services more environmentally friendly. The program is divided into two sections. One features tips and strategies for building a new, green library building, while the other discusses ways to make your current facilities more environmentally friendly. Included in the program are tips on “green” programming, environmentally-friendly cleaning policies, and simple tips that can be used by any...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and, through the lens of Shin's life, unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state. Through Harden's harrowing narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world's darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 281 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green, America's first female tycoon. A strong woman who forged her own path, she was worth at least $100 million by the end of her life in 1916--equal to about 2.5 billion today.
Green was mocked for her simple Quaker ways and her unfashionable frugality in an era of opulence and excess; the press even nicknamed her "The Witch of Wall Street." But those who knew her admired her wit and wisdom,...
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Language
English
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Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940, she was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most girls were uneducated. We see her become the first woman both in East and Central Africa to earn a PhD and to head a university department in Kenya. We witness her...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Wangari Maathai, a Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist who, shocked to see entire forests being cut down in her native country of Kenya, decides to take action, beginning with the planting of nine seedlings in her own backyard.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
45 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Wangari Maathai received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her efforts to lead women in a nonviolent struggle to bring peace and democracy to Africa through its reforestation. Her organization planted over thirty million trees in thirty years. This beautiful picture book tells the story of an amazing woman and an inspiring idea.
60) Where I belong
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"Eleven-year-old Brendan Doyle doesn't get along with his foster mother, he's failing fifth grade, and he's bullied mercilessly by a band of boys in his class. Then Brendan meets two potential friends--an eccentric old man and a girl from summer school--and he sees that there may be hope for him after all"--
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