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Daughter of the merciful deep / by Penelope, L.,1978-author.;
""Our home began, as all things do, with a wish." Jane Edwards hasn't spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown along with every other Black resident. Now, twelve years later, she's found a haven in the all-Black town of Awenasa. But the construction of a dam promises to wash her home under the waters of the new lake. Jane will do anything to save the community that sheltered her. So, when a man with uncanny abilities arrives in town asking strange questions, she wonders if he might be the key. But as the stranger hints at gods and ancestral magic, Jane is captivated by a bigger mystery. She knows this man. Only the last time she saw him, he was dead. His body laid to rest in a rushing river. Who is the stranger and what is he really doing in Awenasa? To find those answers, Jane will journey into a sunken world, a land of capricious gods and unsung myths, of salvation and dreams made real. But the flood waters are rising. To gain the miracle she desires, Jane will have to find her voice again and finally face the trauma of the past"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; African American women; Black towns; Dams; Drowning victims; Gods, African; Imaginary places; Magic; Mute persons; Spirits;
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Gnawing around / by Colleen, Marcie.; James, Steve,1980-;
"When a few beavers come to town, the Grumpy Woods are even more grumpy than usual. These beavers are chewing down the trees and drying up their river water with a dam. Everyone gets even angrier when the Super Happy Party Bears throw a dance party to celebrate the new dam, but when they dance that dam right down the river, everyone admits the bears aren't so bad after all"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Bears; Beavers; Forest animals;
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Chastise : the Dambusters story 1943 / by Hastings, Max,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in northwest Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron on the night of 16/17 May 1943, was an epic that has passed into Britain's national legend. Max Hastings grew up embracing the story, the classic 1955 movie and the memory of Guy Gibson, the 24-year-old wing-commander who led the raid. In the 21st Century, however, he urges that we should see the dambusters in much more complex shades. The aircrew's heroism was entirely real, as was the brilliance of Barnes Wallis, inventor of the ‘bouncing bombs'. But commanders who promised their young fliers that success could shorten the war fantasised as ruthlessly as they did about the entire bomber offensive. Some 1,400 civilians perished in the biblical floods that swept through the Mohne valley, more than half of them Russian and Polish women, slave labourers. Hastings vividly describes the evolution of Wallis' bomb, and of the squadron which broke the dams. But he also portrays in harrowing detail those swept away by the torrents. He argues that what modern Germans call the Mohnekatastrophe imposed on the Nazi war machine temporary disruption, rather than a crippling blow. Ironically, Air Marshal Sir Arthur ‘Bomber' Harris gained much of the public credit, though he bitterly opposed Chastise as a distraction from his city-burning blitz. Harris also made perhaps the operation's biggest mistake-- failure to launch a conventional attack on the huge post-raid repair operation which could have transformed the impact of the dam breaches on Ruhr industry. Here once again is a dramatic retake on familiar history by a master of the art. Hastings sets the Dams Raid in the big picture of the bomber offensive and of the Second World War, with moving portraits of the young airmen, so many of whom died; of Barnes Wallis; the monstrous Harris; the tragic Guy Gibson, together with superb narrative of the action of one of the most extraordinary episodes in British history.
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 617; Dams; Operation Chastise, 1943.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Water power / by Vonder Brink, Tracy.;
Energy and Fuel -- Where Does Water Come From? -- Capturing Water Energy -- Changing Water to Power -- Powering a City -- Challenges of Water Power -- The Future of Water Power."How is water used to make energy? Why do we build dams for power? Water Power answers these questions and much more!"--
Subjects: Water-power;
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Great wonders of the world / by Ash, Russell; Bonson, Richard;
Describes the Seven Wonders of the World, providing background and related information, and surveying such modern wonders as the Channel Tunnel, Hoover Dam, Versailles, and the bullet train.
Subjects: Seven Wonders of the World; Curiosities and wonders;
© 2000., Dorling Kindersley,
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Bob the Builder. [videorecording] : the movie / by Morton, Colleen,film director.; Pleydell-Pearce, Scott,film director.; Cox, Brian,1946-voice actor.; Demri-Burns, Dustin,voice actor.; Froggatt, Joanne,1980-voice actor.; HIT Entertainment,production company.; Universal Pictures (Firm),publisher.;
Brian Cox, Dustin Demri-Burns, Joanne Froggatt.Bob and his team get together with the Mega Machines to build a new dam and reservoir for Spring City - but are they up to this mega challenge?Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Bob the Builder (Fictitious character); Machinery;
For private home use only.
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Top wing. [videorecording] / by Paramount Pictures Corporation,publisher.; Nickelodeon (Television network),broadcaster.; 9 Story Media Group,production company.;
Spring into action with Team Top Wing in these eight eggciting missions! First, when Sandy Stork mixes up the eggs in her delivery, Swift, Rod, Penny, and Brody must scramble to get them back home before they hatch! Then, team up with the rescue birds in training as they save Cheep and Chirp in two tweeting tales.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, stereo.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Animated television programs.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Birds; Flight training;
For private home use only.
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Wochiigii lo [videorecording] : end of the peace.
Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace follows the struggles of Diane Abel and Chief Roland Willson of West Moberly First Nations as they battle the BC government against the construction of a multi-billion-dollar mega-dam along the Peace River in British Columbia, Canada (commonly known as Site C Dam). If constructed, it will give way to the extinction of their people's culture by destroying the land and water they have occupied for over 13,000 years. While crown corporations and political parties collude against their traditional way of life, the desire to fight for their nation is embedded in these two resilient individuals.DVD.Library Bound Incorporated
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Wild river : a novel / by Philbrick, W. R.(W. Rodman);
When a dam fails and rushing waters sweep away their adult supervisors, five middle schoolers on a white-water rafting adventure are left alone with few supplies and the opportunity to forge powerful bonds as well as develop dangerous disagreements.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Survival; White-water canoeing; Rafting (Sports); Friendship; Interpersonal relations; Wilderness areas;
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Go as a river / by Read, Shelley,author.;
Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion as danger. When tragedy strikes, Victoria leaves the only life she has ever known. She flees into the surrounding mountains where she struggles to survive in the wilderness with no clear notion of what her future will bring. As the seasons change, she also charts the changes in herself, finding in the beautiful but harsh landscape the meaning and strength to move forward and rebuild all that she has lost, even as the Gunnison River threatens to submerge her homeland--its ranches, farms, and the beloved peach orchard that has been in her family for generations. Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s, Go as a River is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, home--where least expected. This stunning debut explores what it means to lead your life as if it were a river--gathering and flowing, finding a way forward even when a river is dammed.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Families; Man-woman relationships; Survival; Young women;
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