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1) Windfall
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A group of residents of Meredith, NY discover the impacts that a 400-foot high windmill could bring to their community, but become divided over how they see wind power affecting the future of the community.
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Synopsis: Faced with frequent power outages, skyrocketing energy costs, and constant reminders of the impacts of conventional energy sources, homeowners and businesses are beginning to explore ways to use energy more efficiently and to generate their own electricity to reduce fuel bills and their carbon footprint and to achieve greater independence. Power From the Wind is an easy-to-understand guide for individuals and businesses interested in installing...
3) Wind power
Author
Publisher
Schiffer Pub. Ltd
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Wind power is today's most developed form of "green" energy on the planet. This comprehensive survey examines the history of wind power, from early people's technology to harness the wind for basic mechanical tasks (such as turning grain to flour) through today's "Wind Rush." The process of building a wind farm and the growth of offshore wind farms are included. Color imagery helps illuminate the text as well as inspire the imagination. An extensive...
4) Wind power
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"An examination of the ways in which wind has historically been used as an energy source and how current and future energy demands are changing its technical applications and efficiency levels"--
7) Solar storms
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the characteristics and importance of the sun and how sunspots, solar wind, and solar storms affect the earth.
9) Wind power
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how winds create a renewable energy source that play a vital role in lifestyles and global economies. Wind supplies power throughout the world. From Earth's rotation to weather cycles to seasonal wind patterns, wind creates a renewable energy source that plays a vital role in lifestyles and affects global economies. Discover the many different forms of energy that provide power to heat your home, light your nights, get you moving, and improve...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When artifacts are stolen from the Arapaho Museum, Father John and Vicky are drawn down a path of two-bit hoodlums, drug dealers, and murder... An allergic reaction lands a young man in the ICU, but his life hinges on solving the mystery of a thirty-year-old murder... Vicky finds herself in a game of cat and mouse with Lonny Hereford, the murderer they call Bad Heart, whom she helped put away three years ago.
12) Winter's child
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Coel's New York Times bestselling series continues as Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley discover that a centuries-old mystery is tied to a modern-day crime on the Wind River Reservation... In the midst of a blizzard, Myra and Eldon Little Shield found an abandoned baby on their doorstep and brought her inside. Five years later, no one has come back to claim the little girl now known as Mary Anne Little Shield. But now...
13) The drowning man
Author
Series
John O'Malley and Vicky Holden mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When a priceless Arapaho artifact, a petroglyph known as "The Drowning Man," is stolen, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley join forces to find the culprits, only to discover that the crime may be linked to an unsolved seven-year-old case involving stolen artifacts and murder.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With her gritty mysteries steeped in authentic Native American culture, New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel is "widely considered the most accomplished heir to Tony Hillerman's legacy," (Scripps Howard News Service). In the latest Wind River novel, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley confront a ruthless killer in the wake of a miraculous event. A mysterious penitent confesses to murder, and then flees the confessional...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Broken" entwines the story of writer Lisa Jones with that of quadriplegic healer Stanford Addison, a Northern Arapaho on the Wind River Indian Reservation, while also exploring powerful spirits, material poverty, spiritual wealth, friendship, violence, confusion, death, and above all else,"a love that comes before and after and above and below romantic love."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1973, Liz Plenty Horses was accused of betraying the militant American Indian Movement, known as AIM, to the FBI after the death of one of their members. She went into hiding with her baby daughter, never to be seen again. Now, a skeleton with a bullet hole in the back of the skull has been discovered at the bottom of a ravine on the Wind River Reservation. The body was that of a woman who was murdered sometime in 1973. With the police reluctant...
Author
Publisher
PixyJack Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Covers renewable energy options for grid-tied and off-grid homeowners, including solar energy (passive and active), wind power, microhydro energy, geothermal heat pumps, solar water heating, biomass heating, backup generators and pumping/storing water. Also examines energy conservation, system sizing/pricing, and tax incentives"--
20) The spider's web
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Arapaho Ned Windsong is shot to death, his fiancé Marcy is the only witness. And when the men Marcy has accused of murdering her fiancé are found dead in an abandoned barn, Vicky and Father John realize they are caught in a web of lies and deceit woven by a master.
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