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The future is now : solving the climate crisis with today's technologies / by McDonald, Bob,1951-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In the absence of motorized boats and gondolas, Venice's waters have returned to a sparkling blue color. Deer have been spotted roaming cities in Italy, and mountain goats recently took over a small seaside town in Wales. Taking advantage of the decreased boat traffic, whales have returned to roaming Vancouver's harbours. The absence of "regular" human activities has dramatically affected our environment. In this book, Bob McDonald turns his focus to global energy sources, and shows how the global shutdowns may have been exactly what we needed to show us that a greener future is achievable. This is not another "wake-up call," and not another plea to heed the climate science. This is an exploration of the incredible technologies that our species can use to get out of the mess we've made for ourselves. It is a work of immense optimism, to counteract the sense of doom that hangs over most discussions of the environment. Many alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal have been available for decades--but they alone will not be enough. Additional power will come from small nuclear reactors the size of an office desk, and space-based solar power satellites with enormous mirrors that can capture sunlight, convert it to microwaves, and beam it to the ground to light up entire cities. Energy will be captured from waves, tides, and hydrogen. Vehicles will no longer have tailpipes that emit smog particles. Food will be sourced locally. Green technology is one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy, and will only continue to skyrocket as current products improve their performance and new products emerge. A new green age is upon us--let this book be your guide to the future."--
Subjects: Clean energy.; Renewable energy sources.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Renegade [electronic resource] : by Ward, J. R..aut; cloudLibrary;
It’s forbidden love at first sight in the third novel of the reader-favorite Moorehouse Legacy series from J.R. Ward, writing as Jessica Bird. Originally published as From the First in 2006. It’s bad enough that Alex Moorehouse has always yearned for his best friend’s wife, Cassandra Cutler. When a boating accident makes her a widow, the grief—and the guilt—threaten to sink him. But his self-imposed reclusiveness is about to be destroyed by the arrival of the last person in the world he ever wants to lay eyes on again. As Alex and Cassandra reluctantly work together to rebuild his family’s bed-and-breakfast, and his anguished heart in the process, will their growing bond be strong enough to survive both of their secrets? Don’t miss the rest of The Moorehouse Legacy series! Book #1: The Rebel Book #2: The Player Book #3: The Renegade Book #4: The RogueGeneral adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Contemporary; Sagas; Small Town & Rural; Military;
© 2006., HQN Books,
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Fool's gold [videorecording (DVD)] / by Claflin, John; De Line, Donald; Dziena, Alexis,1984; Goldmann, Bernie; Hart, Kevin; Hudson, Kate,1979; Klane, Jon; McConaughey, Matthew,1969; Sutherland, Donald,1934; Tennant, And; Warner, Malcolm-Jama; Winstone, Ray,1957; Zelman, Daniel; De Line Pictures (Firm; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ; Warner Home Video (Firm;
Director of photography, Don Burgess ; editors, Troy Takaki, Tracey Wadmore-Smith ; music, George Fenton ; costume designer, Ngila Dickson ; production designer, Charles Wood.Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Alexis Dziena, Ewen Bremner, Ray Winstone, Kevin Hart, Malcolm-Jamal Warner.Finn is looking for a lost Spanish galleon in the Caribbean. He believes he has found the galleon and has marked the location with his own sunken boat. He enlists the help of his ex-wife, Tess, who is intrigued until she finds he has no real proof of the Spanish ship's location. Fate has put the two together again, this time onboard the boat of multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt and his daughter, Gemma. Nigel is fascinated by Finn's story and wants to help him find the treasure. Moe is an old mentor of Finn's who also happens to be looking for the same treasure. Watching both is gangster rapper Bigg Bunny who Finn owes money to. Finn and Tess discover a clue as to where the fortune may lie. Now all Finn has to do is get the gold, get the girl, and get going before Bigg Bunny gets himCanadian Home Video Rating: PGDVD ; widescreen (2.40:1) presentation
Subjects: Comedy film; Fathers and daughters; Feature film; Galleons; Man-woman relationships; Treasure troves;
© c2008., Warner Home Video,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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102 camp songs [sound recording (CD)].
Vol. 1 - Camp spaghetti -- Soap and towel -- Be kind to your web footed friends -- This old man -- We're here because we're here -- Apples and bananas -- Oh, you can't get to heaven -- On top of my pizza -- The worm song -- Little black things -- Ta ra ra boom de ay -- Three cheers for the bus driver -- There was a little rooster -- An annoying song -- Polly Wolly Doodle -- Take me out of this camp, please -- Black socks -- My Bonnie lies over the ocean -- Reuben, Reuben I've been thinking -- Rise and shine -- Everywhere we go -- We're five miles from camp -- La cucaracha -- One hundred bottles of pop -- Oats, peas, beans and barley grow -- Mary had a swarm of bees -- I've been working on the railroad -- It's raining, it's pouring -- If you're happy and you know it -- Michael, row the boat ashore -- Head, shoulders, knees and toes -- Kum ba yah -- The old Chevrolet -- Oh, playmate, come out and play with me. Vol. 2 - I'm a nut -- Glub, glub, glub your boat -- Squirty orange -- Greasy grimy gopher guts -- I met a bear -- Ravioli -- Little bugs -- Nobody likes me, everybody hates me -- On top of my headache -- Swing low sweet chariot -- Switch -- It ain't gonna rain no more -- Two little fleas -- Shenandoah -- Have you ever seen? -- I went to Cincinnati -- Chicken sandwich -- Oh my monster, Frankenstein -- Onward, Christian bedbugs -- Take it out, remove it -- Miss Polly had a dolly -- The ants came marching -- The green grass grows all around -- Down by the bay -- Peace like a river -- The bear went over the mountain -- She'll be coming around the mountain -- Itsy bitsy's birthday -- Announcements -- Sweet Betsey from Pike -- Johnny had a head like a ping pong ball -- The littlest worm -- The cat came back -- Yuck! cats!. Vol. 3 - Elbows off the table -- I had a cat -- Do your ears hang low? -- A sailor went to sea -- O Tom the toad -- Greeting song -- Row, row, row your boat -- Home on the range -- A peanut sat on a railroad track -- Bug juice -- The animal fair -- Monkey see and monkey do -- Yon Yonson -- There's a hole in the bucket -- The preposition song -- Reuben and Rachel -- I eat my peas with honey -- The more we get together -- SMILE -- No L -- Oh, Susanna -- The baby bumblebee -- Father Abraham -- Road kill stew -- Bring back my neighbours to me -- Biblical baseball game -- Michael Finnegan -- Clementine -- Nero, my dog, has fleas -- The baby prune -- How much wood -- Sally the camel -- Soup, soup -- I'm a little piece of tin
Subjects: Children's song;
© p2004., Twin Sisters,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Not how I pictured it / by Lefler, Robin,author.;
"Agnes "Ness" Larkin has been out of the spotlight since her quick departure twenty years ago from a starring role in a hit teen TV drama. When the show is tapped for a reboot, no one is more surprised than Ness that she signs on to rejoin the cast, leaving behind a normal--if not exactly thrilling--life in Toronto. Also back for round two are Libby, Ness's former best friend and soon-to-be makeup-empire magnate, and Hayes, Ness's one-that-got-away, who has risen to A-list fame (and somehow gotten even better looking) in the ensuing years. After the cast sets off for filming near the Bahamas, a storm rolls in and leaves the seven actors and one production assistant stranded on a small island, with only an abandoned, derelict mansion in which to wait out the storm. But when the weather clears and a new day rises, they find that their boat is gone. Stuck in a bizarre, crumbling house on an uninhabited island with possibly the most useless survival group in history, Ness and her co-stars are forced to revisit a minefield of past transgressions and come to terms with the adults they've become as they work together to ride out their personal storms. Or at least pretend to. They are actors, after all. Interspersed with weather reports, fictional memoir excerpts and Perez Hilton-esque blog posts, Not How I Pictured It is a rollicking novel of delightful absurdity, pithy dialogue and no shortage of heart."--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Actors; Actresses; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Storms; Survival;
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Far Cry : a novel / by York, Alissa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.It's 1922 at Far Cry Cannery, a quarter-mile of boardwalk and wooden buildings strung along the rocks of Rivers Inlet on the northwest coast of British Columbia. The time has come for Anders Viken, storekeeper and honorary uncle to the recently orphaned Kit, to give an account of his secret self--from his first home in Norway, another land of islands and fjords, to his escape from his family's loving grip, to his wide-open years of rough living and impossible love. As the sockeye flood up the inlet, Anders sets his secrets down for 18-year-old Kit, the only member of his chosen family he has left after her mother, Bobbie, scandalized Far Cry by running off with the camp's handsome Chinese cook, and her father, Frank, was found drowned alongside his own boat. While Anders does his reckoning, Kit fends off the attentions of the cannery manager and tries to earn her keep. Oars in hand, she glides her skiff out over the great returning school and casts her net. This, at least, makes sense to her, as opposed to the convoluted workings of love.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Fishing villages; Reminiscing; Secrecy; Young women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder / by Grann, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they had a very different story to tell. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes--they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang. The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound. Most powerfully, he unearths the deeper meaning of the events, showing that it was not only the Wager's captain and crew who were on trial--it was the very idea of empire"--
Subjects: Wager (Ship); Mutiny; Shipwreck victims; Shipwreck victims; Shipwrecks;
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Cat's claw / by Albert, Susan Wittig.;
"Sheila Dawson has made history as the first female police chief in Pecan Springs, Texas. She's also cracked many a mystery in collaboration with local sleuth China Bayles--that's why everyone thinks she's such a smart cookie. Now, Sheila puts those smarts to work, sifting through secrets to find a killer on the prowl ... Larry Kirk, Pecan Springs' computer guru, has been shot dead in his kitchen. At first Police Chief Sheila Dawson believes it to be suicide, perhaps triggered by his painful divorce. Further investigation reveals that Kirk's death wasn't self-inflicted. And the truth is reinforced by her friend China Bayles' news--Larry recently asked her for legal advice in regards to a stalker. As a police chief in a male-dominated force, Sheila meets many challenges, especially when her theories rock the boat in high-profile cases like that of George Timms. He was caught breaking into Larry's computer shop to steal his own computer back because of dangerous personal information it contained. Now that Larry is dead, she's sure it's connected to the burglary. And she's also sure she'll get plenty of resistance on her assessment ... Timms' time to turn himself in to the police comes and goes, and he's nowhere to be found. In her investigation, Sheila uncovers secrets, terrible secrets that would drive anyone to kill. So who then? It's up to Sheila to prove she's got what it takes to hunt down the predator that's loose on the streets of Pecan Springs ..."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Bayles, China (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Women police chiefs;
© 2012., Berkley Prime Crime,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Refuge in the black deck : the story of ordinary seaman Nicola Peffers / by Peffers, Nicola,author.; reprint of (manifestation):Peffers, Nicola.Black deck.;
"Ordinary Seaman Nicola Peffers exposes ongoing harassment from her male colleagues, despite Canadian Forces' "zero-tolerance policy" and chronicles PTSD survival experience. When Ordinary Seaman Nicola Peffers boarded the HMCS Winnipeg in 2009, she was embarking on her first deployment with the Canadian Navy. At twenty-six years old, one of the few women on the boat, and one of the top students in her training class, Nicola began her career with a sense of optimism and hope towards seeing the world and serving her country. Rather than finding the teamwork and belonging she had hoped for, Nicola endured constant sexualization by the men she worked with. Along with the rigors of an intense military training process, she also faced sexual harassment and mistreatment from her superiors, meanwhile bound by rigid hierarchies and the physical distance between home and life at sea. Socially isolated, Nicola's only refuge, at times, was hiding in the black deck, a dark and cramped area of the ship that no one visits unless they absolutely have to. Refuge in the Black Deck is about physical and emotional strength, the failures of the justice system in the face of sexual harassment, and the harmful effects of trauma that continue even after having left the site of the experience."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Peffers, Nicola.; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Sexual harassment in the military; Women sailors; Women sailors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bear A Novel [electronic resource] : by Phillips, Julia.aut; cloudLibrary;
From the celebrated, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth comes a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods—“a mesmerizing story about hope, sisterhood, and survival with a truly shocking twist at the end” (People, Book of the Week). One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Summer: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, People, Vulture, Elle, Bustle, LitHub, Parade, Publishers Weekly, WBEZ Chicago “Thrilling and propulsive, glorious and terrifying. Julia Phillips is a brilliant writer.”—Ann Patchett “Beautiful and haunting . . . this is brilliant.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) They were sisters and they would last past the end of time. Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and raised, they and their mother struggle to survive. Sam works on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena bartends at the local golf club, but even together they can’t earn enough to get by, stirring their frustration about the limits that shape their existence. Then one night on the boat, Sam spots a bear swimming the dark waters of the channel. Where is it going? What does it want? When the bear turns up by their home, Sam, terrified, is more convinced than ever that it’s time to leave the island. But Elena responds differently to the massive beast. Enchanted by its presence, she throws into doubt the desire to escape and puts their long-held dream in danger. A story about the bonds of sisterhood and the mysteries of the animals that live among us—and within us—Bear is a propulsive, mythical, richly imagined novel from one of the most acclaimed young writers in America.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Psychological;
© 2024., Random House Publishing Group,
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