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2) Well #9
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Behind every light switch is a coal miner. Inside every car engine is a roustabout and mud logger. Our smartphones charge on coal, our vehicles drink gas and oil given up by our prehistoric ancestors and pumped from the ground by people we never meet.
Meanwhile, there are Dani and Cap Pellegrin, Mr. John, Robert Brooks, Allen and Mora and Jacob. They are just as human in their feelings, just as American, yet somehow hidden, forgotten if we ever knew...
3) Engulfed
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My story isn't the beginning or the middle. It is the end of the end. It was over before it could ever really begin. A tale of nothing and everything. The world stopped in a heartbeat. We were given a mere forty-eight hours. If that. It seemed cruel. Suddenly next-day delivery meant nothing, but getting ourselves to our family the next day meant everything. Those who weren't within driving distance of their family didn't have a hope in hell of returning...
4) Uprooted
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It was a warm spring evening in the country home where Beth and Marie shared their lives with dogs, cats, cows, chickens, and many beautiful birds flittering in the trees. Beth sat under a huge oak tree and relaxed after chores were done, animals fed, and the evening light fading. Marie had left that morning with her brother to visit family up north. Beth was planning to catch up at home, with HAM radio operators, spend some quality time fishing in...
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Many proclaimed the glory of Fauxbook as the titan of the new generation. With a click came the certainty of friendship, love, and support. A post could deliver the illusion of power to the impotent. Fauxbook was a household name that came with so much control it was impossible to fail...or so everyone thought. It all started with the bomb that killed its founder. Malicious? That's what many thought. And the case? Solved, wrapped up with the killer...
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En 2111, los europeos habían construido una gigantesca presa que iba desde Gibraltar al norte de África.
De esta manera, se consiguió desecar el mar Mediterráneo, que pasó a llamarse Valle del Nuevo Mediterráneo.
En este inmenso valle prodigaba la agricultura y las industrias, y vivían millones de personas. Sin embargo, un técnico sismógrafo, se dio cuenta de que en pocas semanas habría un gigantesco terremoto en la zona de Gibraltar que...
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Candlewick Press
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2023.
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First edition.
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"Season after season, the mountain people give life to their crops with water from the river, while the valley people use water from a nearby lake to nourish their fields. Despite their similarities, neither allows the other to seek water on their land--instead, they exchange harsh words, and when drought descends, they come to blows. But when the hottest summer yet brings torrential downpours, the waters overflow and trap the valley people. A wise...
8) 470
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Climate scientists tell us that some level of climate change is now baked in. So what will life be like in this climate-changed world?
In 2031, Zanna is housesitting a beachside house in Byron Bay, living the kind of life that inspires gloating selfies. She isn't thinking about climate change, it's just something in the background squeezing her life choices. She has much more immediate concerns, like whether she should let her parents meet her new...
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Based on a true story
The hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage--except six-year-old Hester, who miraculously survived. Oleander City is the tale of this little girl and the volatile collision between the American Red Cross, the Ku Klux Klan, and one of the most famous boxing matches in...
10) Clocking Out
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Stories include:1:11 Epistaxis-Actual vampires don't need fangs in order to feed.2:22 Starlight, Starbright-An astronaut defies orders not to return to Earth, but he does anyway…with dire consequences.3:33 Rescue-Two detectives go in search of thirteen missing children and the person responsible for their disappearances.4:44 Forecast-A bizarre weather phenomenon envelopes a city.5:55 Firewood-He was warned about going into the...
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Critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Andrés Neuman's Fracture is an ambitious literary novel set against Japan's 2011 nuclear accident in a cross-cultural story about how every society remembers and forgets its catastrophes.
Mr. Yoshie Watanabe, a former electronics company executive and a survivor of the atomic bomb, has always lived like a fugitive from his own memories. He's spent decades traveling the world, making a life in different...
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Llueve intensamente en Nápoles y a las pocas horas los estragos del agua se dejan sentir en la ciudad, algunos edificios se derrumban, grandes simas se abren en las calles. Por si fuera poco, empiezan a producirse extraños fenómenos: de la fortaleza almenada de la ciudad salen voces fantasmagóricas, las monedas de cinco liras emiten una dulce melodía, el mar se desborda y sus aguas siguen el rastro de los niños que callejean, tres muñecas raídas...
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He couldn't accept what he'd just heard the damn government had caused all this to happen. He gave Stevie a look of disbelief. Stevie nodded, his lips drawn tight in an angry frown. "The weapon manipulates magnetic fields and uses extremely low frequency energy waves that will penetrate the diameter of the Earth, so it is possible the impact of this malfunction will be worldwide. Initially, the animals and insects will be triggered to attack adults,...
14) The Shoelace
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What if the two people you trusted the most gave you two conflicting realities of life? What if you had based your entire life on an ideology, only to realize it was not true? How do you cope with the uncertainties of existence? What do you do with a life that no longer seems familiar?Amogh Dharamadhikari seeks to find answers to these questions while standing on the balcony ledge of a 30-story building. Either he will get his answers today or...
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In a new America where civilization as we know it has ended, every hour counts. Everything is ticking along perfectly in the sanctuary community of Osto until a band of raiders arrives intent on violence. Vasha has led her people through the worst the world has to offer for years, but this new threat could destroy her hope for the future. She's forced to strike a bargain with the leader of the raiders as tensions rise among the survivors and refugees...
16) Meteor
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Troy has spent thousands of dollars building an underground bunker in preparation for what he believes will be a pending apocalypse. His family, and most of his friends, think him crazy. But when a massive meteor slams into Africa, sending soot and debris into the atmosphere and leaving the world in perpetual darkness, Troy's prepping is the only thing keeping his family alive. With food shortages, acid rain and a breakdown of civilization, will Troy's...
17) Love Across Wars
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In Love Across Wars, a multicultural novel, two historic families connected through WWII find their destinies intertwine again in the aftermath of 9/11 as their scions are caught in the whirlwind of events from Philadelphia to Peshawar and Afghanistan.Christina Gartenley has been having a nightmarish vision signaling 9/11 since she was 10. Her brother David joins the Army after their father's horrifying ordeal at the Twin Towers on 9/11, but goes...
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The Nicholson family spot an oil slick on the Nicola River on the first day of their vacation in Merritt, BC. Julia resolves the oil slick source, and a series of mysteries that follow, involving the oil industry, federal government, and the Nicola-Coldwater First Nations bands opposed to a new pipeline construction. She and her friend Leah discover a serious pipeline break on Coldwater lands and expose a cover-up by the oil company. The pipeline...
19) To the Lake
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Ousted from Moscow by a deadly epidemic, Anya and her husband must flee society, menaced by harsh Russian winter and desperate people.
A deadly flu epidemic sweeps through Moscow, killing hundreds of thousands.When a virulent flu epidemic sweeps through Moscow killing hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, Anya and her husband Sergey decide to flee to a lake in the far north of Russia where they hope to sit out the epidemic.
But as the wave of...
20) Kacie-B
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Mother Nature's Biting Back. Everyone's on the menu.
Kacie stands isolated in her home town. Ever since she stood up to the rich kid.
With the money and work the fuel tycoons brought to town, no one wants to hear about her troubles. Just like no one wants to hear the gas drills have poisoned idyllic Culvanna County.
It's easier to blame Kacie. Say she brought it on herself.
But something's stirring in the hills - waking up to Kacie's pain. Waking...
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