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2) Sick puppy
Author
Series
Skink novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Short-tempered environmentalist Twilly Spree, having sought retaliation against litterer Palmer Stoat by loading Stoat's Range Rover with a horde of hungry dung beetles, realizes he has hit the jackpot when he discovers Stoat is one of the movers and shakers in a plan to build a mall on a pristine Gulf Coast island.
Author
Series
George Washington Hayduke volume 2
Language
English
Description
George Washington Hayduke, an ex-Green Beret, gathers his friends, the Monkey Wrench Gang, to oppose developers and the world's largest earth-moving machine
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands. The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction site...
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Series
Publisher
Monkfish Book Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
478 pages 23 cm
Language
English
Description
""Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic...
6) Arise
Publisher
Distributed by Beyond Words Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captures the portraits and stories of extraordinary women around the world who are coming together to heal the injustices against the earth, weaves together poetry, music, art and stunning scenery to create a hopeful and collective story that inspires us to work for the earth.
Author
Physical Desc
205 pages
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Matthew Moseley has a passion for long-distance swims in sometimes treacherous waters. In the early morning darkness of June 27, 2021, he wades into the Green River and begins the first-ever 52-mile swim where its waters meet those of the Colorado River in Canyonlands National Park. Stroke by stroke, Moseley invites you on his journey, as he encounters expected and unexpected adventures along the way. He shares his unique connection to the rivers,...
Author
Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Open Midnight weaves two parallel stories about the great wilderness — Brooke Williams’s year alone with his dog, ground truthing backcountry maps of southern Utah, and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, William Williams, who in 1863 made his way with a group of Mormons from England across the ocean and the American wild almost to Utah, dying a week short. The story follows two levels of history — personal, as represented by his forbear,...
Author
Series
George Washington Hayduke volume 1
Language
English
Description
Four widely desperate people form a gang dedicated to the destruction of a dam that has ruined the Colorado River Valley.
11) Chasing midnight
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
It began peacefully enough, on one of Florida's private islands. At a reception hosted by a notorious Russian black marketeer, Doc Ford uses darkness, and his friend Tomlinson, as cover to get an underwater look at the billionaire's yacht. By the time Ford surfaces, everything has changed. Environmental extremists have taken control of the island. Or are they thugs hired by the Russian's competitors? Whatever the motive, they have herded everyone...
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists. Here is a guided tour into an underground world of radical activism and an introduction to the shadowy figures behind the headlines. But here also is the story of how everyday people are prevented from speaking up for what they believe in. Like the Red Scare, this "Green Scare" is about fear and intimidation,...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey’s grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey. Sean Prentiss takes readers across the country...
16) Freedom
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Formats
Description
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter’s dreams. Together with Walter—environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man—she...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a collection of gripping stories of adventure, bestselling author Doug Peacock--loner, iconoclast, environmentalist, and contemporary of Edward Abbey--reflects on a life lived in the wild, reflecting on the question many ask in their twilight years: "Was It Worth It?" With adventures both close to home (grizzlies in Yellowstone, jaguars in the high Sonoran Desert) and farther afield (tigers in Siberia, spirit bears in British Columbia, the amazing...
Publisher
Canyon Productions
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This documentary, part biography, part tribute, is a look back at Edward Abbey's life as remembered by 16 of his closest friends and family members. Rare film clips and interviews with Abbey, combined with over 120 rare and largely unpublished photographs, offer an insightful look into the personal life and philosophy of this iconoclastic writer.
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Series
Language
English
Description
On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Guido Brunetti and Inspector Vianello play hooky to help get Vianello’s friend Marco Ribetti—an environmental activist arrested during a protest against toxic waste being dumped into the city’s waters—released from prison. But on the steps of the police headquarters, they come face-to-face with Ribetti’s cantankerous father-in-law, who has been overheard making threats against Ribetti. And...
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