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Jay Porter novels volume 1
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English
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Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX's Empire—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)
Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)
The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)
"A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented
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"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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An investigative journalist, drawing from hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades, reveals, for the first time, the far-right conspiracy that's stopped the world from preventing the climate crisis, and tells the high-stakes stories of people fighting back to get global emissions under control.
"Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in...
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2019.
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English
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A groundbreaking account of the failures that prevented the world from committing to taking measures against climate change documents key negotiations against a backdrop of 1980s history while explaining what the choices of the past mean for today's world.
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English
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"Author Erika Bolstad was shocked to learn she had inherited mineral rights in North Dakota in the throes of an oil bonanza. Determined to unearth the story behind her unexpected inheritance, she followed the trail to her great-grandmother, Anna, who herfamily had painted to be a courageous homesteader who paved her way in the unforgiving American West. But, Bolstad discovers a darker truth about Anna than her family had ever shared. With journalistic...
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