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1) Oil!
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"By turns an ardent family saga, scintillating potboiler, and anti-capitalist tirade, Oil! ranks among the most important critiques of fossil energy ever printed. This edition features a contextual introduction by Michael Tondre, which will illuminate the novel's urgent timeliness in our warming world"--
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Jay Porter novels volume 1
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English
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When African-American lawyer Jay Porter jumps into the bayou to save a drowning white woman in Houston, Texas, in 1981, he finds his practice and life in danger when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation involving Houston's elite.
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"Houston in the 1920s is a city of established cotton kings and newly rich oil barons, where the elite live in beaux art mansions behind the gates of Courtlandt Place. Kirby Augustus Allen, grandson of the Allen brothers who founded Houston as a real estate deal, is grooming his daughter Hetty to marry Lamar Rusk, scion of the Splendora oil fortune. Instead, at the No-Tsu-Oh Carnival of 1928, beautiful, rebellious Hetty encounters a mysterious man...
5) Open season
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Joe Pickett novels volume 1
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English
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Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden -- especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way -- is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind Joe's state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile...
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Dynasty volume season 4
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CBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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The knives are out and so is the Carrington family backstabbing. After somehow surviving her bachelorette party in the third season finale, Fallon just wants to get married to Liam and have a nice, calm life. Those aren't two words usually associated with Carringtons.
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Dynasty volume season 3
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The Carrington family will face the unknown on all fronts. Dealing with the fallout from the startling second season finale, Fallon is surrounded by a host of rivals looking to destroy her, the most wicked of which is her own brother, Adam, who takes the idea of 'sibling rivalry' to a whole new level of crazy. At the same time, Fallon and Liam attempt to keep their romance sane, but secrets and skeletons from her closet will make that more difficult...
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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The roughest of Alaska's oil-rig roughnecks, Forrest Taft specializes in fighting oil-well fires. Yet he faces an even more incendiary battle against renegade Aegis Oil president Michael Jennings. Aegis has put profits over environmental safety. And that puts Taft, a Native Alaskan activist and anyone else opposing the company on its hit list. But Taft hits back, using the martial arts, survival and explosives skills he learned as a high-level CIA...
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Dynasty volume season 9, 2
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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The phenomenon of the show reaches its crowning conclusion in the astonishing ninth and final season. A lifelong, deadly secret stuns everyone, marriages, fortunes, and lives are shattered forever, and the war between the Carrington and Colby empires rages on to the very end. The glittering cast, the spectacular glamour, the jaw-dropping twists - they're all here with a shocking series climax.
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Dynasty volume season 1
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CBS DVD
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Wealth, power, deception, and double-dealing ... what does it take to build a dynasty? A modern re-imagining of the iconic primetime soap, centering on the powerful Carrington family as they defend their throne against the Colbys, new rivals and threats, and even each other.
11) The last jihad
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Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy thrillers volume 1
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Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
Description
Jon Bennett is a senior White House advisor, but nothing has prepared him for the terror that he will face. Saddam Hussein dispatches his top hit men to assassinate the President of the United States. Iraqi terrorists spread carnage throughout London, Paris, and Riyadh ... and the Butcher of Baghdad has a nuclear ace in his hand that he has not yet played.
12) Local hero
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Criterion collection volume 994
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
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"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"--
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Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime...
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Dynasty volume season 5
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Final Season of Dynasty is here to give you more Carrington drama! After Eva, Fallon's scorned and lovesick assistant, shot her, Fallon lay bleeding out on the campaign gala floor with her marriage to Liam also circling the drain. Will she survive the internal damage? Will her marriage survive the external damage? It's anyone's guess... This 5-disc collection includes 22 scintillating episodes from the Fifth and Final Season plus a gag reel and...
17) The son
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English
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Spring, 1849. The first male child born in the newly established Republic of Texas, Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his homestead and brutally murder his mother and sister, taking him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to Comanche life, learning their ways and language, answering to a new name, carving a place as the chief's adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white men...
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Publisher
Fernwood Publishing
Pub. Date
©2020
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English
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"Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. To Be a Water Protector, explores issues that have been central to her activism for many years -- sacred Mother Earth, our despoiling of Earth and the activism at Standing Rock and opposing Line 3. For this book, Winona discusses several elements of a New Green Economy and the lessons we can take from activists...
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Dynasty volume season 5, 2
Publisher
CBS Paramount Network Television
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Follows the exploits of the Carringtons and Colbys, both 'oil rich' family dynasties in Denver, Colorado, as they accrue and manipulate power and wealth. Includes fifteen episodes, and features the debut of Emma Samms as Fallon, plus the shocking cliffhanger of the royal wedding massacre!
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