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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.
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Language
English
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"New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe. If you thought America's drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ routinely spill from our taps. Many are to blame: the EPA,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city|s water supply to a source that corroded Flint|s aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African American, were not seen as credible, even in matters of their own lives. It took eighteen months of activism by city residents and a band of dogged outsiders to force the state to admit that the...
Author
Series
Andromeda novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name—and spawned a new genre, the technothriller—the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.
The Evolution is Coming.
In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the
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Series
Andromeda novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle--designated The Andromeda Strain--killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (25 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film goes beyond the news headlines to spotlight the impact of the devastating water contamination crisis on the people of Flint, Michigan. The film highlights the stories of residents who were personally injured, along with the work of local organizations and individuals that rallied to support them. Flint is a city of 100,000 people, with 41% living below the poverty line and an African-American majority. The city switched in 2014 to water...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 4 separate volumes (DVD) (688 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Monk has more trouble than ever after Dr. Kroger unexpectedly dies. He decides to buy a house. Unfortunately, some creepy people want to get their greedy hands on whatever is hidden in that house, even if they have to destroy the house to do it. He has to deal with a murdered homeless man; miraculous fountains; lottery murders; a stolen bike at a biotech lab; submarine 'suicides;' exploding grills; protecting a boxer; the impossible murder of Monk's...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1998, Bilott was a lawyer specializing in helping big corporations stay on the right side of environmental regulations. He received a call from a West Virginia farmer, Earl Tennant, who was convinced the creek on his property was being poisoned by runoff from a DuPont landfill. Bilott agreed to help Tennant, and discovered documents going back fifty years on the harmful effects of the man-made chemical PFOA (one of a class of chemicals called PFAS)...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD)(9 hr., 38 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
He's ingenious, he's phobic, he's obsessive-compulsive. Monk's hilarious, offbeat antics have made him unfit for duty, but he's back as a police consultant to help out on their most baffling cases.
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxi, 368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
What's really in your food?
Award-winning investigative journalist and clean food activist Mike Adams, the "Health Ranger," is founder and editor of Natural News, one of the top health news websites in the world, reaching millions of readers each month.
Now, in Food Forensics, Adams meticulously tests groceries, fast foods, dietary supplements, spices, and protein powders for heavy metals and toxic elements that could be jeopardizing your health.
To...
11) Resident evil
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Resurrected edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 195 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Resident evil: A virus has escaped in a secret facility turning the staff into hungry zombies. The complex computer shuts down the base to prevent infection. The parent corporation sends in an elite military unit, where they meet Alice, who is suffering from amnesia due to exposure to nerve gas. The military team must shut down the computer and get out, fighting their way past zombies, mutants, and the computer itself, before the virus escapes and...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 176 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious virus is brought to Earth by a returning satellite, an elite and dedicated squad of scientists assembles to search for the truth and stop the mutating killer before it ends life on Earth.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the re-opening of the Hive and the T-Virus, the Umbrella Corporation quarantines the whole city, disabling anyone at all from leaving. Among those trapped within, are members of the suspended STARS group. To survive the mess around them, Alice, now a genetically modified project, has to accept a deal with Dr. Ashford, a scientist whose daughter has gone missing, and escort her out of the city. If Alice accepts, he'll ensure that the group are...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Obelisco
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1a. edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Este libro, único en su género, representa una guía esencial para todos aquellos que sufren, a veces sin saberlo, intolerancia y alergia a la leche. Existe una extensa bibliografía científica con respecto a estos trastornos; sin embargo, nunca hasta ahora se había reunido en forma de libro un número tan alto de pruebas acerca de los peligros de la leche para el uso del lector no especializado. Esta obra demuestra cómo los elementos contenidos...
16) A civil action
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (115 min.) : sound, color ; 3 3/4 cm
Language
English
Description
A high-priced personal injury attorney represents eight families whose children died of leukemia after large corporations let toxic waste leak into the water supply in the Boston area. He puts his career, reputation and all that he owns on the line for the rights of his clients.
19) Erin Brockovich
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a law case against a giant corporation for water pollution. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin a legal fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (688 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Monk has more trouble than ever after Dr. Kroger unexpectedly dies. He decides to buy a house. Unfortunately, some creepy people want to get their greedy hands on whatever is hidden in that house, even if they have to destroy the house to do it. He has to deal with a murdered homeless man; miraculous fountains; lottery murders; a stolen bike at a biotech lab; submarine 'suicides;' exploding grills; protecting a boxer; the impossible murder of Monk's...
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