Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training ashe battled injustice.
Publisher
Electric Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With magic returned to the world, the Librarians are needed now more then ever. Jacob Stone, Eezekiel Jones and Cassandra Cillian have taken on the role of full-time Librarians, and together with their guardian, Eve Baird, long-time Librarian, Flynn Carsen and their caretaker, Jenkins, they will face all the challenges that this new age of magic is bringing to the world. An ancient spell has brought some of the greatest fictional villains off the...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"With scrupulous research and on-the-ground reporting, the authors assay the art and science of giving--determining the current most successful local and global aid initiatives (on issues from education to inner-city violence to disease prevention), evaluating the efficiency and impact of specific approaches and charities, as well as fundraising. Most compellingly, perhaps, they show us how particular people have made a difference, and offer practical...
5) Explorers
Language
English
Formats
Description
In their makeshift laboratory, three boys (Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix and Jason Presson) use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey. Nominated for Best Make-Up and Best Special Effects at the **Academy of Science Fictions & Horror Movies.** *"It looks terrific, moves along at a gallop, and is marvelously good natured." - Geoff Andrew, **Time Out***
Series
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Meet the Commando Elite--toy action figures with an attitude. They've escaped from their boxes along with the Gorgonites, kindhearted but unusual-looking creatures. Now teenager Alan Abernathy gets enlisted to help the Gorgonites and rescue the girl of his dreams before the whole town is turned upside down.
8) Tripwire
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A stranger who has come to Key West to find Jack Reacher is murdered, and Jack must retrace the man's trail to New York to find who was looking for him and why.
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rajiv J. Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of President Barack Obama's United States Agency for International Development, shares a dynamic new model for creating large scale change, inspired by his own involvements with some of the largest humanitarian projects of our time.
11) Dragonslayer
Language
English
Formats
Description
Back in the days when everyone believed in magic, a horrifying fire-breathing dragon terrorized the sixth-century British countryside. The only hope for the beleaguered citizens is an aging sorcerer (Sir Ralph Richardson). But when he is killed before he can save the people, the task falls on his young apprentice, Galen (Peter MacNicol). Galen's mission is complicated by resistance from the king - and by falling in love - but his biggest challenge...
12) Speak up
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text encourage the reader to speak up about everything from their own name being mispronounced to someone bringing a weapon to school. Includes author's note about real people who have found their voices, when to speak up, and how to express oneself without speaking.
13) We'll meet again
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Violetta Denver waits without word from her fiancé, Jowan, who is missing in action during World War II, while she and her twin sister get involved in a web of intrigue.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sam leaves home for the mountains after being told that the family trip has been canceled, preventing him from doing the algae experiments he had planned for. The film chronicles his struggle for independence, and his battle with the forces of natures. *"A slender, honest study of a boy learning to be a man in his own way." - Howard Thompson, **The New York Times***
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable,...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"One of those benefits is that volunteers make peoples' lives better. And a second benefit is self-directed: people who help others help themselves. Volunteers feel personal satisfaction when they see how their efforts are making the world a better place. This is a powerful tool for reducing stress, combating depression, and providing a sense of purpose. Volunteer work can be challenging but those who tackle problems or aid strangers meet like-minded...
Author
Publisher
GO, Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama. Tiananmen Square, 1989. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common? They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a global climate action movement, she knows better than most...
18) Below
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Jack has adventures and rescues with his action figure Guy.
19) Unstoppable
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a bird and a crab team up to combine the advantages of flight and claws, it gives them an idea: why not expand the team to include other animals who have a special trait -- and soon they all set out to rescue their lake from development, because united together they are unstoppable.
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Orem Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. NOTE: WILL REQUIRE A POSTAGE FEE
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can put in a request for us to add it to the collection. Submit Request