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- Oil people : a novel / by Huebert, David,author.;
"Weaving together family saga, gothic myth, and eco-fiction, Oil People is an audacious debut novel about history and family, land and power, and oil as both contaminant and an object of wonder. It's 1987, and thirteen-year-old Jade Armbruster lives with her parents and older sister on their family petroleum museum--an old and decaying property that their father is desperately trying to sell. While she tries to live out a normal teenage existence, avoiding her best-friend-turned-nemesis and vying for the attention of a cute farmer boy, the oil swirling beneath her family's home has left a mark on all of them. For Jade, it appears as a haunting yet familiar presence that she can't quite place. It's 1862, and Clyde Armbruster catches his big break, striking Lambton County's first gusher and helping to form a community that will be known as Oil Springs. The discovery brings wealth and opportunity to him and his wife, but his daily proximity to oil leaves him infertile and may be the cause of his periodic hallucinatory visions of a red-haired girl in strange clothing. At the same time, Clyde and his wife develop a tense friendship with their eccentric and wealthy neighbours, a relationship that promises even more success until a fateful moment intertwines the two families forever, locking them into a bitter rivalry that lasts generations. As the two narratives twist and tangle together, family secrets and deceits are slowly unveiled, and the slick and lucid spectre of oil seeps off the page, revealing a portrait of a world and a land physically bleeding from the actions of the greedy and powerful. Intense and visceral, agile and lyrical, Oil People signals the arrival of a profound and vital voice."--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Sagas.; Novels.; Families; Family secrets; Petroleum industry and trade; Secrecy;
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- Island people : the Caribbean and the world / by Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses."From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa Maria's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to fantasies projected from without by the West, and viewed as a place to be consumed. It stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than 300 years. Its societies were shaped by mass migrations and forced labor from the 16th century onwards, imposed by European or latterly-American imperial masters. Scattered across a vast arc of islands and in some instances separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, the more than 40,000,000 Caribbean people today are countering their imperial history by shaping cultural conversation the world over: through literature, music, art, and religion in an era when cultures everywhere are contending with "rootlessness""--Provided by publisher.LSC- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The dolphin people / by Krol, Torsten.;
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- Subjects: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.;
- © 2009., McArthur,
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- Someone I like : poems about people / by Nicholls, Judith.; Manna, Giovanni,1966-.;
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- Subjects: People;
- © c2000., Barefoot,
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People's China
Mode of access: Internet.- Subjects: Religion & Spirituality;
- © , China International Book Trade
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- Aboriginal Peoples / by Hudak, Heather C.,1975-;
Discusses the way of life for the different Aboriginal Peoples living in Canada and the impact of European settlers on their lives.- Subjects: Native peoples;
- © 2006., Weigl,
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- The people remember / by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu.; Wise, Loveis.;
Includes bibliographical references.LSC- Subjects: African Americans; Kwanzaa;
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- Sometimes people march / by Allen, Tessa.;
Highlights some of the rallying causes for organized marches throughout history.Ages 4-8.LSC- Subjects: Social movements; Protest movements; Marches;
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StarGate People Asia
Mode of access: Internet.- Subjects: Entertainment & TV;
- © , PhilStar Daily Inc (Philippines)
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- Good rich people / by Brazier, Eliza Jane,author.;
"For fans of Parasite and Ready or Not--a destitute woman pretends to be someone else and moves into the lower floor of a Los Angeles duplex, and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs. All out of money and friends couches to sleep on, Demi is desperate. Lucky for her, a stranger presents her with the chance of a lifetime: a new identity and the downstairs apartment in a secluded Beachwood Canyon duplex. Unlucky for her, the couple upstairs is wealthy, bored, and in need of a new play thing. What starts as another round of the game the couple play where they move a 'self-made' person into the apartment and compete to make them lose everything, quickly devolves into chaos. Because Demi isn't clueless and she's spent her whole life just trying to survive. We all know this game can only end in one way ... winner takes all."--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Deception; Homeless women; Rich people; Survival;
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