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When a determined doctor meets the rebellious heir to a Texas oil dynasty, sparks fly . . . but the flames of passion blazing between them could destroy an empire.No one knows why Dr. Lara Mallory opened up her medical practice in the rowdy Texas town controlled by Tackett Oil. But everyone remembers her role in the well-publicized scandal that caused the downfall of White House hopeful Senator Clark Tackett. Now the iron-fisted matriarch...
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Distributed by Garden Thieves Pictures
Pub. Date
2010]
Language
English
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Filmmaker Joe Wilson returns to his hometown of Oil City, Pa., after his wedding announcement appears in his small hometown newspaper causes controversy, and he receives a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen who is being tormented in school. Challenges viewers to rethink their values and close the gaps that divide communities on this controversial issue.
4) Pioneer
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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In the early 80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian oil boom. Oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea, authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline. Petter, a professional diver, is obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea. Then a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who is pulling the strings. He then realizes that he is in way over his head...
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"Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early...
7) Oil spill!
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Explains why oil spills occur and how they are cleaned up and suggests strategies for preventing them in the future.
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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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...
9) Oil
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Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The story of an oil spill and its devastating effects on animals and the environment"--
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English
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"In her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? She wanted to see what men were like with no women around. In Aberdeen, Tabitha became deeply entrenched in the world...
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Ruka Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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There is enough carbon trapped in the Canadian tar sands to plunge the earth into irreversible climate change, and it is the Keystone XL pipeline that will set that carbon free. Is this 2,100-mile steel pipeline a vital piece of our nation's energy future or the conduit for global climate disaster? In The Pipeline and the Paradigm, Samuel Avery investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL--a project...
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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"The first book about the BP disaster by a world-renowned oceanographer, A SEA IN FLAMES examines the environmental and social consequences of the spill from the perspective of those directly affected by it. It will be published on the one-year anniversary of the spill, in April 2011. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is among the greatest environmental catastrophes in U.S. history. Carl Safina's Blowout provides an extraordinary perspective on it. Consisting...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day's end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in U.S. history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety.
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The New Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Jocelyn C. Zuckerman spent years traveling the globe, from Liberia to Indonesia, India to Brazil, reporting on the human and environmental impacts of this poorly understood plant. The result is Planet Palm, a riveting account blending history, science, politics, and food as seen through the people whose lives have been upended by this hidden ingredient. This groundbreaking work of first-rate journalism compels us to examine the connections between...
16) Oil spills
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Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
19) The BP oil spill
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Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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