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The uninhabitable earth : life after warming / by Wallace-Wells, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century. In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await -- food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. But the world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today. Like An inconvenient truth and Silent spring before it, The uninhabitable earth is both a meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation"--
Subjects: Nature; Global warming; Climatic changes; Global environmental change; Environmental degradation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Another grand adventure. by Stephens, Leigh.Lost at sea.; O'Ryan, Ellie.Perry speaks!; Depken, Kristen.Attack of the Ferb snatchers! ; Depken, Kristen.Boogie down.; Povenmire, Dan.; Marsh, Jeff,1960-;
Lost at sea / adapted by Leigh Stephens ; based on the series created by Dan Povenmire & Jeff "Swampy" Marsh -- Perry speaks! / adapted by Ellie O'Ryan ; based on the series created by Dan Povenmire & Jeff "Swampy" Marsh -- Attack of the Ferb snatchers! / adapted by Kristen Depken ; based on the series created by Dan Povenmire & Jeff "Swampy" Marsh -- Boogie down / adapted by Kristen Depken ; based on the series created by Dan Povenmire & Jeff "Swampy" Marsh.Super reader: grade 2-grade 3.LSC
Subjects: Flynn, Phineas (Fictitious character); Fletcher, Ferb (Fictitious character); Stepbrothers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Nixie makes waves / by Scott, Lisa Ann.; Burns, Heather.;
Appeals to 2nd-3rd graders.Reading level grade 3.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Mermaids; Rescues; Sea horses; Friendship;
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The quickening : creation and community at the ends of the Earth / by Rush, Elizabeth A.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans, and believed to be both rapidly deteriorating and capable of making a catastrophic impact on global sea-level rise. In The Quickening, Elizabeth Rush documents their voyage, offering the sublime--seeing an iceberg for the first time; the staggering waves of the Drake Passage; the torqued, unfamiliar contours of Thwaites--alongside the workaday moments of this groundbreaking expedition. A ping-pong tournament at sea. Long hours in the lab. All the effort that goes into caring for and protecting human life in a place that is inhospitable to it. Along the way, she takes readers on a personal journey around a more intimate question: What does it mean to bring a child into the world at this time of radical change? What emerges is a new kind of Antarctica story, one preoccupied not with flag planting but with the collective and challenging work of imagining a better future. With understanding the language of a continent where humans have only been present for two centuries. With the contributions and concerns of women, who were largely excluded from voyages until the last few decades, and of crew members of color, whose labor has often gone unrecognized. The Quickening teems with their voices--with the colorful stories and personalities of Rush's shipmates--in a thrilling chorus. Urgent and brave, absorbing and vulnerable, The Quickening is another essential book from Elizabeth Rush."--
Subjects: Climatic changes.; Explorers; Motherhood.; Nature; Women and the environment.;
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The silky seal pup / by Cobb, Amelia(Children's author); Williams, Sophy.;
Appeals to 2nd-3rd graders; reading level: Grade 3.LSC
Subjects: Parker, Zoe (Fictitious character); Zoos; Sea lions; Animal rescue;
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Sink or swim / by Watkins, Steve,1954-;
In January 1942, twelve-year-old Colton is on his family's fishing boat in the Atlantic with his older brother Danny when the boat is capsized by a Nazi U-boat, and Danny is severely injured; realizing how close the enemy is, Colton takes his brother's enlistment papers and joins the Navy, determined to do his part to defeat Germany--if only he can keep his age a secret and survive life at sea.Appeals to 4th-6th graders.Reading level Grade 6.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; United States. Navy; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Submarines (Ships);
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Mouse overboard! / by Stilton, Geronimo.; Loizedda, Danilo,1971-; Aliprandi, Christian.; Tramontozzi, Lidia Morson.; Dami, Elisabetta.;
Appeals to 2nd-4th graders.Reading level: Grade 4.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Sea stories.; Stilton, Geronimo; Gama, Vasco da, 1469-1524; Mice; Reporters and reporting; Brothers and sisters; Ocean travel;
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Bo and the merbaby / by Elliott, Rebecca.;
Merbaby Flo was born with only one fin, unable to swim--so Bo and the other unicorns set out for the Shiny Sea to find the Golden Fish and ask Goldie to use his magic to help baby Flo.Appeals to 1st-2nd graders.Reading level Grade 2.LSC
Subjects: Diary fiction.; Unicorns; Mermaids; Magic; Helping behavior;
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The story of more : how we got to climate change and where to go from here / by Jahren, Hope,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our planet to dangerous levels. In short, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions--from electric power to large-scale farming and automobiles--that, even as they help us, release untenable amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and shares the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it."--
Subjects: Global warming.; Greenhouse gases; Climatic changes.; Technological innovations.; Consumption (Economics); Civilization, Modern;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The last resort : a chronicle of paradise, profit, and peril at the beach / by Stodola, Sarah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."With its promise of escape from the strains of everyday life, the beach has a hold on the popular imagination as the ultimate paradise. In The Last Resort, Sarah Stodola dives into the psyche of the beachgoer and gets to the heart of what drives humans to seek out the sand. At the same time, she grapples with the darker realities of resort culture: strangleholds on local economies, reckless construction, erosion of beaches, weighty carbon footprints, and the inevitable overdevelopment and decline that comes with a soaring demand for popular shorelines. The Last Resort weaves Stodola's firsthand travel notes with her exacting journalism in an enthralling report on the past, present, and future of coastal travel. She takes us from Monte Carlo, where the pursuit of pleasure first became part of the beach resort experience, to a village in Fiji that was changed irrevocably by the opening of a single resort; from the overdevelopment that stripped Acapulco of its reputation for exclusivity to Miami Beach, where extreme measures are underway to prevent the barrier island from vanishing into the ocean. In the twenty-first century, beach travel has become central to our globalized world-its culture, economy, and interconnectedness. But with sea levels likely to rise at least 1.5 to 3 feet by the end of this century, beaches will become increasingly difficult to preserve, and many will disappear altogether. What will our last resort be when water begins to fill the lobbies?"--
Subjects: Stodola, Sarah; Beaches; Outdoor recreation; Outdoor recreation; Seaside resorts.; Outdoor recreation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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