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English
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The northern mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy worth twenty-eight times its weight in gold. It's also linked with slippages of time and space that gradually render the area uninhabitable. Three intertwined stories flow from the disaster of River Meadows. The accounts they hand down is an Epic of Gilgamesh for our times, illuminating the wisdom of nature and our flawed stewardship...
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Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
For more then twenty years, tons and tons of metallic and electronic waste from all around the world has been transported to a Chinese town called Fengjang, in the south of Shanghai. Around 50,000 migrant workers have formed a real army to dismantle these metallic wastes. These green soldiers decompose, cut, split and recycle, with the most rudimentary means, almost 2 million tons of garbage every year. To remain and assume the minimum materials that...
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Series
Mighty Muskrats mystery volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Four inseparable cousins, known as the Mighty Muskrats, work together to find a missing archeologist on the Windy Lake First Nation.
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Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Language
English
Description
"Mining has a significant presence in every part of Canada - from east to west coasts to the far north. This book tells the stories of the people and companies who pushed mining into new territories, created new towns and generated jobs by the thousands. It highlights the experiences of those who lived and worked in mining settlements across the country, as well as the rise of major mining companies and the emergence of Toronto and Vancouver as centres...
8) Never never
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Detective Harriet Blue volume 1
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller of a brilliant investigator facing the shock of her brother's murder arrest . . . and her own exile in the Australian outback.
Harry Blue is the top Sex Crimes investigator in her department. But even she didn't see this coming: her own brother arrested for the grisly murders of three beautiful young women. "For her own good," she's been sent to a desolate location and assigned to a new "partner."...
Harry Blue is the top Sex Crimes investigator in her department. But even she didn't see this coming: her own brother arrested for the grisly murders of three beautiful young women. "For her own good," she's been sent to a desolate location and assigned to a new "partner."...
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Publisher
Heritage
Language
English
Description
Sophie, Molly, Mark, Harriet, Leticia, and Posy take time from their boring boarding school lives to go on a cattle drive in the North American West, but when they run into a familiar villain, the kids wind up in a dangerous mission to an old mine.
12) The zigzag way
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Description
A young historian traveling to Mexico for the first time, Eric becomes involved in a curious quest to uncover the mysteries of his own family in an old mining town, where he becomes involved with the lives of characters past and present.
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Searching for her buried friend after the mines collapse, twelve-year-old Pakistani mica miner Nura finds herself at the Sijj Palace, a luxury hotel for the dangerous and deceitful jinn, where she must discover the truth beneath the glitter or be trapped forever.
16) The rock rats
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Series
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Tor
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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