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New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear.
When a group of eco-terrorists engage in a global conspiracy to generate weather-related natural disasters, its up to environmental lawyer Peter Evans and his team to uncover the subterfuge.
From Tokyo to Los Angeles, from Antarctica to the Solomon Islands, Michael Crichton mixes cutting edge science and action-packed
2) Arctic drift
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Oceanographer Dirk Pitt traces a lost ship's mysterious cargo to a scientific discovery that could reverse the dangers of climate change in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling action adventure series.
When an act of sabotage aims to slow down a technological breakthrough in American clean energy, it puts the United States on the brink of war with one of its closest allies. Tension boils on the homefront, too, as gas prices...
When an act of sabotage aims to slow down a technological breakthrough in American clean energy, it puts the United States on the brink of war with one of its closest allies. Tension boils on the homefront, too, as gas prices...
3) Two degrees
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"When three children endure separate climate change disasters--a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florid--they emerge from their experiences committed to changing the world."--
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2007.
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English
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By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world’s climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next.
But the president-elect remains optimistic...
But the president-elect remains optimistic...
8) Roberto & me
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Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.
9) Winter World
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A new ice age on Earth. A mysterious object in space. And a desperate mission to save humanity from extinction
Each month, Earth grows colder. Snow falls in summer. Glaciers trample cities across North America, Europe, and Asia. Chaos erupts. Around the world, people abandon their homes, fleeing the cold, flocking to regions where they can survive the new ice age. Nations prepare to go to war for the world's last habitable zones. NASA and other scientific...
10) The war beneath
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"Living and working underwater can be a dangerous thing. First the bulkheads sweat, then there's a trickle of water, and then in an instant you're gone. The only thing left is a bloody pulp in the dark water and crushed bone fragments on the seafloor. And you can't bolt to the surface in an emergency... The Bends will get you. But that's not the worst. When you're living underwater and also working as a spy for your city, that's when things get really...
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" Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career...
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Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Three generations grapple with the ultimate consequences of a world warmed by climate change until a tyrannical scientist’s stratospheric shield encases Earth in a perpetual, oppressive fog, leaving their descendants to fight for the lost sky and their future.
15) The last boy
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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The Last Boy is the gripping tale of Danny Driscoll, a huggable, enchanting five-year-old boy who, on a normal October afternoon, disappears from his daycare in Ithaca, New York. A search continues through the winter, but few clues come forth to explain the boy's disappearance. Then, as spring approaches without any new developments in the case, a miracle occurs ... one that leaves the people of Ithaca with a new set of questions, and a mystery that...
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Atria Books, an imprint of SImon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"This vivid, terrifying, and galvanizing novel reveals our future world after previous generations failed to halt climate change-perfect for fans of The Drowned World and World War Z. 2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the direst predictions scientists had made at the turn of the century. No country-and no one-has remained unscathed. Through interviews with scientists, political leaders, and citizens around the globe, this riveting oral...
18) The nano flower
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Greg Mandel ; 3
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Tor
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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A spacewoman divides her spirit in two, leaving one half with her husband who is in outer space, while she takes the other half with her back to Earth. The story is played out in the course of a search for technology to adapt nature to global warming.
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Verso
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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"The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional response to the deterioration of our global habitat."--P. [4] of cover.
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Sexto sol ; 2
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2011.
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Español
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Mientras un grupo de arqueólogos y científicos examinan una extraña pirámide para entender los violentos cambios que está sufriendo la Tierra, el Sol está emitiendo radiaciones que afectan el eje de rotación de nuestro planeta. En esta carrera para entender lo que sucederá, la misma ciencia se vale de los conocimientos milenarios de los chamanes y el grupo de investigadores emprende viajes astrales para concebir la realidad desde una perspectiva...
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