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February
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Lisa Moore,Lisa Moore |
"Propelled by a local tragedy, in which an oil rig sinks in a violent storm off the coast of Newfoundland, 'February' follows the life of Helen O'Mara, widowed by the accident, as she continuously sp… |
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Train wreck!
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Wesley S. Griswold |
The stories and descriptions of 19 of the worst historic rail disasters, between 1833 and 1958. The book was compiled largely from contemporary accounts in local and national newspapers, with sketche… |
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Heat
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Michael Cadnum |
A teenaged diving champion must deal with the aftermath of a diving accident and her attorney father's remarriage and subsequent arrest for fraud. |
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Holiday hero
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Sandra Byrd |
Tess can't wait for spring vacation of her dreams: a trip with her family to San Diego, but when her brother suffers a serious accident, it looks like her plans are ruined. |
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The Raising
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Laura Kasischke |
Last year Godwin Honors Hall was draped in black. The university was mourning the loss of one of its own: Nicole Werner, a blond, beautiful, straight-A sorority sister tragically killed in a car acci… |
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The silver penny
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Randall Wright |
A rare silver coin and a mysterious red-haired boy seem entangled in eleven-year-old Jacob "Deb" Corey's fate when he is laid up with a badly broken leg on his family's farm in the mid-1800s, just af… |
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Dickens' Dreadful Almanac
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Charles Dickens |
Victorian news snippets |
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Vivos bajo tierra
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Manuel Pino Toro |
"The story of the thirty-three trapped miners in the San Jose mine in the middle of the Chilean desert is an epic in the classic sense, filled with real heroes, blessings from God, and the curse of m… |
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Hot water
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Erin Brockovich |
"Environmental activist AJ Palladino, first encountered in Rock Bottom, is no stranger to the juggling act of managing both work and family. But when she's asked to leave home and take a case involvi… |
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Good Luck, Martha
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Karen Barss |
"Martha worries that her recent bouts of bad luck might be contagious! Uh-oh. Martha walked under a ladder--and then she broke a mirror--so now she thinks she's jinxed! Helen tries to explain that al… |
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Macondo well Deepwater Horizon blowout
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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Analysis of Causes of the Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Fire, and Oil Spill to Identify Measures to Prevent Similar Accidents in the Future |
"The blowout of the Macondo well on April 20, 2010, led to enormous consequences for the individuals involved in the drilling operations, and for their families. Eleven workers on the Deepwater Horiz… |
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Rainy Day Rescue
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Inda Schaenen |
Welcome to Plattsburgh, Missouri, where everyone either owns, rides, or stables a horse—everyone that is except for April Helmbach. April is different from other thirteen-year-old girls in her town. … |
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A secret kept
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Tatiana de Rosnay |
"Antoine Rey thought he had the perfect surprise for his sister Me laine's birthday: a weekend by the sea where they spent happy childhood summers. It had been over thirty years, since their mother d… |
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Deep down dark
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Héctor Tobar |
Relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Ch… |
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The Accident Season
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Moïra Fowley-Doyle |
Every October Cara and her family become mysteriously and dangerously accident-prone, but this year, the year Cara, her ex-stepbrother, and her best friend are 17, is when Cara will begin to unravel … |
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Well done Noddy!
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Enid Blyton |
The adventures continue for Noddy when poor big-ears has an accident and smashes his bicycle to bits. Noddy sets about earning enough money to help buy his best friend a shiny new bike. But with so m… |
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Bringing Columbia home
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Michael D. Leinbach |
On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA'… |
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Counting on Katherine
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Helaine Becker |
"You've likely heard of the historic Apollo 13 [mission]. But do you know about the mathematical genius who made sure that Apollo 13 returned safely home? As a child, Katherine Johnson loved to count… |
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The Exxon Valdez oil spill
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Elspeth Leacock |
In March 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled approximately 11 million gallons of oil when it ran aground in one of the largest oil spills in the history of the United States. This book details the timelin… |
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Prudent practices in the laboratory
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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Prudent Practices in the Laboratory |
Prudent Practices in the Laboratory--the book that has served for decades as the standard for chemical laboratory safety practice--now features updates and new topics. This revised edition has an exp… |
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