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Fossil fuels Environmental aspects Genghis Khan 1162-1227 Fiction Mongolia Fiction Mongols Fiction Offenses against the environment Prevention Petroleum industry and trade Fiction Petroleum industry and trade Moral and ethical aspects Petroleum reserves Fiction Russia (Federation) Fiction Treasure troves FictionShattuck, Jessica
Summary: "It's 1953, and for Nick Taylor, WWII veteran turned company lawyer, oil is the key to the future. He takes the train into the city for work and returns to the peaceful streets of the suburbs and to his wife, Bet, former codebreaker now housewife, and their two children, Katherine and Harry. Nick comes from humble origins but thanks to his work for American Oil, he can provide every comfort for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECoughlin, Jack
Summary: When the Sphinx is blown up by terrorists who also launch attacks on an Iranian soccer team and a vessel in the Red Sea, Kyle Swanson and his Trident team uncover an extremist plot to provoke war between Egypt and Iran to upset the balance of international power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUStout, Dan
Summary: Carter's a homicide cop in Titanshade, an oil boomtown where 8-tracks are state of the art, disco rules the radio, and all the best sorcerers wear designer labels. It's also a metropolis teetering on the edge of disaster. As its oil reserves run dry, thecity's future hangs on a possible investment from the reclusive amphibians known as Squibs. When a Squib diplomat is murdered, Carter's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOMorris, Brittney
Summary: The stress of an oil refinery being built in their backyard, threatening their families' livelihood, prompts four working-class teens to join a dangerous scavenger hunt where the reward of power could change their families' fates and save the city they love so much.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MORCussler, Clive.
Summary: Juan Cabrillo, chairman of the corporation team aboard the "Oregon," is determined to help a man of peace return to his home. To do it, he's taking on two of the most dangerous nations on earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CUSBrown, Dale
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROPoyer, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POYJohnson, Craig
Summary: While working for an oil company in the bitter cold of winter, Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear soon encounter a ferocious polar bear who seems hell-bent on their destruction. But it's not long until they realize the danger does not lurk outside in the frozen Alaskan tundra, but with their coworkers who are after priceless treasure and will stop at nothing to get it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Four Texas women struggle against nature and opportunists on their Brazos River ranch during the Great Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILSandford, John
Summary: "By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now she's restless and bored in a desk job for a U.S. Senator, but just as she's ready to quit, she is offered a task she can't refuse: feet-on-the-ground investigative work, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security. Several oil companies in Texas have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROCussler, Clive.
Summary: When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team, it appears a simple act of nature. But when the survey team is abducted and Pitt's research vessel nearly sunk, however, it's obvious there's something more sinister involved. All trails lead to Mongolia where a mysterious mogul is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: CD SA CUSCussler, Clive.
Summary: When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team, it appears a simple act of nature. But when the survey team is abducted and Pitt's research vessel nearly sunk, however, it's obvious there's something more sinister involved. All trails lead to Mongolia where a mysterious mogul is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSKiesling, Lydia
Summary: "The year is 1998. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is a lonely American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny's bemused eyes, we watch global interests flock to her temporary backyard for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hearing rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Media Reads, a Zando imprint 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1999
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Summary: When a top-secret research team is hired to develop a clean energy source to minimize America's dependence on foreign oil, Sheriff Nate Osborne and journalist Ashley Borden investigate a saboteur's attack on the experimental power station.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DORFurst, Alan.
Summary: In 1940, exiled Russian writer I.A. Serebin is recruited for an operation in Istanbul by a Hungarian master spy working for the British secret services.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FURBarnett, Jill.
Summary: In the aftermath of a fatal car crash, Laurel grows up in a single-parent home and Cale and Jud Banning are raised by their grandfather, a situation that culminates years later in the Banning brothers' heated rivalry for Laurel's affections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARNEVarley, John
Summary: "John Varley has won multiple awards for his "imaginative and engaging"* novels. Now the author of Millennium, Steel Beach, and Rolling Thunder speculates how people would survive in a world suddenly stripped of the fuel that makes it run... Despite warswith Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as 9/11, the United States' dependence on foreign oil has kept the nation tied to the Middle East. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2012
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Summary: In a post-oil America with no electricity, no Internet, dwindling resources, and little civic order, the residents of the small town of Union Grove, New York, must deal with roving bandits and a sinister cult that threatens to shatter the hamlet's stability.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNGarlock, Dorothy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: When a rogue Saudi Arabian prince plots a coup d'etat with the assistance of the French, American admiral Arnold Morgan is assigned to counter the work of terrorist Ravi Rashood in the face of mounting international opposition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBLocke, Attica.
Summary: When African-American lawyer Jay Porter jumps into the bayou to save a drowning white woman in Houston, Texas, in 1981, he finds his practice and life in danger when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation involving Houston's elite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOCSummary: "THE RELUCTANT RADICAL is an intimate portrait of climate activist Ken Ward. Ken breaks the law as a last resort and with great trepidation, to fulfill what he sees as his personal obligation to future generations. The film follows Ken through a series of civil disobedience direct actions, culminating with his participation in the coordinated action that shut down all the U.S. tar sands oil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018