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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...
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When an oil spill prevents penguins from doing the things they love to do, Big Boots come and dress them in sweaters until they--and the water--can be cleaned. Includes facts about penguins and why dressing them in sweaters is not always a good idea.
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Mermaid S.O.S volume 2
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The six young mermaids are delayed on their vital mission to bring magic crystals back to the Coral Kingdom by an oil spill created by the evil Mantora, as Ellie seeks the special ingredient for a potion that will help save birds caught in the oil.
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Wind Riders volume 3
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"Max and Sofia must save harbor seals from an oil spill caused by a leaking boat engine in Scotland"--
5) Plunder
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While researching archaeological sites that may soon succumb to the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill, Faye Longchamp helps a young teenager who has lost everything but a dilapidated old houseboat left to her by her murdered grandmother and uncle.
6) Biomutant
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"Biomutant is an open-world, post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu fable RPG, with a unique martial arts styled combat system allowing you to mix melee, shooting and mutant ability action. A plague is ruining the land and the Tree-of-Life is bleeding death from its roots. The Tribes stand divided. Explore a world in turmoil and define its fate-will you be its savior or lead it to an even darker destiny?"--Container.
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Bindi wildlife adventures volume 5
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Bindi takes a pair of twins whale-watching and they see an oil spill which threatens the whales. Includes animal facts about whales.
9) Wild shores
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First responders novels volume 5
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"Gillian "Gem" Martin is the lead biologist at a wildlife sanctuary on the Northeast coast and head of the Wildlife Emergency Response Team called in when catastrophes, man-made or natural, threaten the endangered species she studies. Austin Germaine is a troubleshooter, the hired gun for a big oil company, whose job is to help contain leaks and prevent media coverage of a pending disaster until the danger can be eliminated. If it can be. When Gem...
10) Oil-soaked wings
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An oil spill spells trouble for Seaside Sanctuary and the birds and other marine animals that live along the beach, including a young pelican that Elsa and Olivia rescue; all the birds need to be carefully cleaned and given medical attention--but there is another problem: until the spill is cleaned up the birds cannot be released, and the company responsible for the spill does not seem interested in doing its part.
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When the BP oil spill devastates the Gulf coast, those who made a living by shrimping find themselves in dire straits. For the oddballs and lowlifes who inhabit the sleepy, working class bayou town of Jeannette, these desperate circumstances serve as the catalyst that pushes them to enact whatever risky schemes they can dream up to reverse their fortunes. At the center of it all is Gus Lindquist, a pill-addicted, one armed treasure hunter obsessed...
14) Prince William
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On Prince William Sound in Alaska, Denny rescues a baby seal hurt by an oil spill and watches it recover at a nearby animal hospital.
16) Dancy's woman
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Lauren Vandis was sent to the boondocks of Mississippi to persuade Coyle Dancy not to sue her family over a busted oil pipeline that had left his leg in a cast and turned his catfish farm into oily acres of Mississippi mud. Face-to-face with a gorgeous, furious, southern man, Lauren didn't have the nerve to tell Coyle the truth. Instead she pretended to be the nurse sent to help him.
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Sheriff Matt Callahan mystery volume 2
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"The gruesome death of a young woman pulls Sheriff Matt Callahan into a shifting universe where nothing is as it appears. As his island faces the threat of environmental ruin from the rupture of an oil pipeline under the waters of Lake Michigan and secret drilling along its shores, an unseen and relentless force poses a greater peril to the people of the island and beyond. When Callahan attempts to navigate the maze of deception that conceals those...