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"One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls -- sisters, eight and eleven -- go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional...
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Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
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272 p. : col. ill, col. maps ; 29 cm.
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English
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A tour of selected endangered natural and cultural sites profiles each for their extraordinary natural attributes, the human-driven and natural disasters that are threatening them, and the restoration efforts that are preserving some.
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"In the Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps no greater honor for a young girl than to be chosen to be part of the famed USSR gymnastics program. So when eight-year-old Anya is tapped, her family is thrilled. What is left of her family, that is. Years ago her mother disappeared. Anya's only confidant is her neighbor, an older woman who survived unspeakable horrors during her ten years in a Gulag camp-and who, unbeknownst to Anya, was also her mother's...
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Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2022]
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329 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Three fierce women connected to a billionaire film mogul collide at a Hollywood party in this richly observed novel about female ambition, complicity, and privilege. Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. But a decade in at thirty-eight, that's exactly how she spends her days, earning six figures to make sure the movie mogul and his family have everything they could ever dream of and more....
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
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199 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"With the emotional echoes of Little Fires Everywhere and the lush atmosphere of Disappearing Earth, a riveting debut novel in which a wildfire creeps toward Berkeley, California, igniting tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices growing beneath the city's surface. As a wildfire threatens Berkeley, the city's inhabitants are forced to reckon with the cracks in the lives they've built. Abigail, a wealthy white woman, decides...
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Left behind volume 1
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English
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Airline captain Rayford Steele goes in search of his family and answers to how billions of people just disappeared off the face of the Earth.
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English
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When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply,...
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"Nothing's more Jersey than a good delicatessen. And if you're visiting Trenton, you can't do better than the Red River Deli. The coleslaw's edible and the oil in the deep fryer gets changed-eventually. It's a tribute to quality management, but that's now in jeopardy because the last three managers have vanished. The only clue to each disappearance is one shoe left behind. Stephanie Plum, Jersey girl and bounty hunter extraordinaire, is stepping into...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 240 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Of all the continents on Earth, none preserves a more spectacular story of our planet's origins than Australia. NOVA's four-part "Australia's First 4 Billion Years" takes viewers on a rollicking adventure from the birth of the Earth to the emergence of the world we know today. With help from host and scientist Richard Smith, we meet titanic dinosaurs and giant kangaroos, sea monsters and prehistoric crustaceans, disappearing mountains and deadly asteroids....
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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French Army Captain Antares Bonassieu and his squad are assigned to monitor a remote valley of Wakhan, Afghanistan on the border of Pakistan. Negotiating control of the region between local shepherds and possible Taliban sympathizers grows more and more tenuous for them as men from all sides start mysteriously disappearing. Unable to explain this eerie phenomenon, the soldiers find themselves embroiled in an existential nightmare, desperate for their...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the enigmatic Paul WR, the most talented astronaut of his generation. But a few hours before the start of the great mission, Paul disappears.
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Monster Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (12 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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It’s nearly lunchtime in Luna’s house and her mother is preparing a scrumptious meal. Luna, Jupiter, and Clyde are shocked to find that all that’s left of an enormous bunch of kale is this little plate full. What’s happened to all that kale? It’s an all new adventure in the world of culinary science for the trio as they try to discover what’s behind the mystery of the disappearing kale.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 73 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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A detailed overview of contemporary life in the tiny South Pacific country of Tuvalu, this film documents the earth's first sovereign nation faced with total destruction due to the effects of global warming. With a population of about 11,000 living on a total landmass of only 20 square miles less than Manhattan spread over nine low-lying atolls 600 miles to the north of Fiji, Tuvalu has been inhabited for over four millenia.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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The hidden face of the beauty island: In the south, millions are forgotten by mankind. Droughts are increasing, soils become poorer, water is scarce, fishing resources are decreasing rapidly already disappearing dangerously.
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The Video Project
Pub. Date
2010.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (139 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Call of Life is the first feature-length documentary to fully investigate the growing threat posed by the rapid and massive loss of biodiversity on the planet. Featuring leading scientists, social scientists, environmentalists and others, the film explores the scope, the causes, and the predicted global impact of a mass extinction occurring on a scale not seen since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. If current trends continue,...
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Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2010.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Español
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Master director Patricio Guzman travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners;...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file)
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English
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The Arctic is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the planet; its frozen world is one of the last refuges of the unknown land on Earth and the Arctic, as we know it, is, literally, disappearing. Under the threat of global warming, this vast expanse of water and ice, and its inhabitants, are facing unprecedented upheavals. This timely documentary, the first of two on climate change, follows the year-round trip of the CCGS Amundsen, a Canadian research...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Following the flow of the Ganges, India is facing many climate related problems. In the Himalayas, the Gangotri glacier is melting. In the Sundarbans, 4 islands have disappeared since 1975. To the south, tornadoes from Bangladesh have pushed Bengalis towards India, to an area already over populated.
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