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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...
22) Local hero
Series
Criterion collection volume 994
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
Author
Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 3
Publisher
Warner Books
Language
English
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"... a young woman takes over a frontier hotel during Oklahoma's oil boom and carves a place for herself in a man's world"--Jacket.
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Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment...
26) Blood of victory
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Series
Night soldiers volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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English
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"At Cape Three Points on the beautiful Ghanaian coast, a canoe washes up at an oil rig site. The two bodies in the canoe--who turn out to be a prominent, wealthy, middle-aged married couple--have obviously been murdered; the way Mr. Smith-Aidoo has been gruesomely decapitated suggests the killer was trying to send a specific message--but what, and to whom, is a mystery. The Smith-Aidoos, pillars in their community, are mourned by everyone, but especially...
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Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Esta valiosa investigación ha sido el punto de partida para la estrategia del gobierno de López Obrador contra el huachicoleo. "El cártel negro es el trabajo más amplio, mejor documentado y más descarnado acerca de la grave incursión de la delincuencia organizada en Pemex. Ana Lilia Pérez, una periodista fuerte, incisiva y acuciosa, presenta en este libro la que probablemente sea su más acabada y potente investigación periodística." -Carmen...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"From Jung Yun, the critically-acclaimed author of Shelter, an unflinching portrayal of a woman trying to come to terms with the ghosts of her past and the tortured realities of a deeply divided America. Elinor Hanson, a forty-something former model, is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives an unexpected assignment. Her mentor from grad school offers her a chance to write for a prestigious magazine about the Bakken...
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Publisher
Times Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben realized that this small and temporary victory was at...
31) Warrior class
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The phenomenon of the show reaches its crowning conclusion in the astonishing ninth and final season. A lifelong, deadly secret stuns everyone, marriages, fortunes and lives are shattered forever, and the war between the Carrington and Colby empires rages on to the very end. The glittering cast, the spectacular glamour, the jaw-dropping twists--they're all here with a shocking series climax.
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Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude--the world's largest reserves--an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately wreaking economic havoc. Crude Nation reveals the ways in which this mismanagement has led to Venezuela's economic ruin and turned the country into a cautionary...
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W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Two journalists, a young upstart and a disillusioned veteran, are sent to find the missing wife of a British oil executive in the environmentally devastated Nigerian Delta where they must contend with the brutality of government soldiers and militants.
36) The oil kings: how the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia changed the balance of power in the Middle East
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
This is an account of how the US decision in the mid 70s to choose Saudi Arabia as the dominant oil power in the Mideast ultimately led to the Islamic revolution in Iran and it is the story of how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and international affairs. As Richard Nixon fought off Watergate inquiries in 1973, the U.S. economy reacted to an oil shortage initiated by Arab nations in retaliation for American support of Israel in the Arab- Israeli...
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Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
Description
In this book the author goes deep inside ExxonMobil Corp, the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States. He investigates the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of its power. ExxonMobil's annual revenues are larger than the economic activity in the great majority of countries, equivalent to the GDP of Norway. In many of the countries where it conducts business, ExxonMobil's sway over politics...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation's special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century that followed and down to the present day, the oil industry's leaders and its ordinary workers together fundamentally...
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Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For those seeking a true family story of the Osage Reign of Terror portrayed in Killers of the Flower Moon Journalist Dennis McAuliffe Jr. grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. It was only by chance that he learned the real cause was a gunshot wound, and that her murder may well have been engineered by his own grandfather. As McAuliffe peeled away layers of suppressed...
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Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. This book claims to discover and identify key suspects--some in the highest echelons of American government--by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee the desired result. The author offers an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism--without which 9/11 cannot be understood:...
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