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The lost cause / by Doctorow, Cory,author.;
"It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year. The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders, the momentum is too great; these vast programs cannot be stopped in their tracks. But there are still those Americans, mostly elderly, who cling to their red baseball caps, their grievances, their huge vehicles, their anger. To their "alternative" news sources that reassure them that their resentment is right and pure and that "climate change" is just a giant scam. And they're your grandfather, your uncle, your great-aunt. And they're not going anywhere. And they're armed to the teeth. The Lost Cause asks: What do we do about people who cling to the belief that their own children are the enemy? When, in fact, they're often the elders that we love?"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Political fiction.; Novels.; Climate change mitigation; Climatic changes; Conflict of generations; Conspiracies; Grandfathers; High school students;
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The immortal King Rao : a novel / by Vara, Vauhini,1982-author.;
"Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao--literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had a visionary idea: the personal computer known as the Coconut. His wife, Margie, was an artist with a marketing genius. Together they created a new world order, led by a corporate-run government. Athena's future is now in the hands of its Shareholders--unless she can rejoin the Exes, a resistance group sustaining tech-free lifestyles on low-lying islands. Lyrical, satirical, and profound, The Immortal King Rao obliterates genre to confront the digital age. This gripping, brilliant debut poses an urgent question: can anyone--peasant laborers, convention-destroying entrepreneurs, radical anarchists, social-media followers--ever get free?"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Satirical literature.; Novels.; Biotechnology; Climatic changes; Fathers and daughters; Government, Resistance to; High technology industries; Involuntary memory; Memory; Technology and civilization; Women prisoners;
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Greta and the Giants : inspired by Greta Thunberg's stand to save the world / by Tucker, Zoë.; Persico, Zoe,1993-;
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Subjects: Thunberg, Greta, 2003-; Giants; Forest conservation; Environmental protection; Social action; Climatic changes;
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Beasts of the southern wild [videorecording] / by Alibar, Lucy.; Alibar, Lucy.Juicy and delicious.Videorecording.; Easterly, Levy.; Gottwald, Michael.; Henry, Dwight.; Janvey, Dan.; Penn, Josh.; Romer, Dan.; Wallis, Quvenzhané.; Zeitlin, Benh.; Cinereach (Firm); Court 13 (Firm); Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
Director of photography, Ben Richardson ; edited by Crockett Doob, Affonso Gonçalves ; music by Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin.Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Pamela Harper.Hushpuppy is a tenacious six-year-old force of nature in an isolated bayou community. When her tough but loving father Wink succumbs to a mysterious malady, the fierce and determined girl bravely sets out on a journey to save him. But Hushpuppy's quest is hindered by a "busted" universe that melts the ice caps and unleashes an army of prehistoric beasts.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, region 1, NTSC, dual layer; widescreen presentation 1.85:1; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: African American families; Animals, Fossil; Climatic changes; Fantasy films.; Fathers and daughters; Feature films.; Floods; Marginality, Social;
© c2012., Cinereach ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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Global / by Colfer, Eoin.; Donkin, Andrew.; Rigano, Giovanni.;
Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old Sami, from a village along the Bay of Bengal, and fourteen-year-old Yuki, from Northern Canada, strive to protect their homes from the encroaching damage brought on by climate change.Ages 10 and up.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Environmental comics.; Cartoons and comics.; Climatic changes; Global warming;
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Donde el corazón te lleva : la historia de Dindim y Joao / by Gold, Irma.; Crispe, Susannah.;
Inspirado en una historia real, este cuento relata una insólita y emocionante relación entre un hombre y un animal. La autora se basó en un artículo del periódico sobre un pingüino de Magallanes encontrado en una isla cerca de Rio de Janeiro, cubierto de petróleo y enfermo. El viejo Joao lo cuidó, alimentó y lo llamó Dindim. Dindim permaneció con su amigo hasta que un día sintió la llamada de la naturaleza y abandonó la isla migrando hasta la Patagonia. Por razones insondables para los científicos, Dindim ha decidido regresar cada año junto a Joao, haciendo un viaje de miles de kilómetros y enfrentándose a múltiples dificultades.
Subjects: Picture books.; Climatic changes; Oil spills; Magellanic penguin; Human-animal relationships; Spanish language materials.;
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Dust / by Stine, Alison,1978-author.;
When her reclusive family relocates to climate-ravaged Colorado, sixteen-year-old Thea, who is hard of hearing, finds community and potential love with Ray, a Deaf boy.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Communities; Dysfunctional families; Hard of hearing people; Love; Communities; Family problems; Hard of hearing people; Love;
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Those beyond the wall / by Johnson, Micaiah,author.;
Scales is an enforcer who keeps the peace in Ashtown, a rough, climate-ravaged desert town. But that fragile peace is fractured when a woman is mangled and killed within Ashtown's borders, right in front of Scales' eyes. When more mutilated bodies start to turn up, Scales is tasked with finding the cause -- and putting an end to it. As Scales and her team delve into both worlds to track down the invisible killer, what they find points to something bigger and more corrupt than they could've ever foreseen -- and it could spell doom for the entire world.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Corruption; Cultural pluralism; Deserts; Emperors; Invisibility; Mechanics (Persons); Multiverse; Murder; Scientists; Serial murder investigation; Social stratification;
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Shell Games : A Novel. by Kistler, Bonnie.;
Set against a backdrop of rampant development and devastating climate change, 'Shell Games' is a dazzling thriller about a young woman whose fabulously wealthy mother might be the victim of an elaborate con or might be losing her mind - and the daughter cant tell where the truth lies. From the author of 'Her, Too'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General; FICTION / Psychological; FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense; FICTION / Women;
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Emily posts / by Kyi, Tanya Lloyd,1973-;
"When she is cut from her middle school's podcast crew, social media influencer wannabe Emily Laurence must find another way to spread the news of a climate march, trying to balance her impeccable manners with 21st-century activism"--
Subjects: Ecofiction.; Social media; Podcasts; Environmental protection; Protest movements; Middle schools;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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