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1) Savage run
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Series
Language
English
Description
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett heads for the forests of Twelve Sleep County to investigate a massive explosion that may have killed an environmental activist and uncovers evidence of a deadly conspiracy.
Author
Series
Bruno volume 2
Language
English
Description
Gourmand law enforcer Bruno Courrèges investigates both an arson fire that targeted a GMO crop-research station and two mysterious deaths which are somehow related to the competition between three winemakers for a fertile Saint-Denis property.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke returns from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power--taking on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the natural habitat....
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Series
Doc Ford volume 19
Language
English
Description
Sneaking an underwater look at a notorious Russian black marketeer's fancy yacht, Doc Ford emerges to discover that the marketeer's private island has been taken over by environmental extremists who threaten to kill a hostage every hour until their demands are met.
8) Sweetgrass
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The Blakely family, despite the tragedy that separated them, must band together to save their historic plantation, which has been in the family for generations and is the only thing that holds them all together, from being sold to developers.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The rise and fall of a cult leader. After losing her medical license, Dr. Barbara Rafferty turns environmentalist to protest French nuclear testing in the Pacific. The campaign attracts media attention, money flows and she sets up a commune on an atoll, an experiment which ends in bloodshed.
Author
Series
[Joan Spencer mystery] volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The manager of the local Civic Symphony, Joan Spencer, is upset when Sylvia, one of her top violinists and an ardent environmentalist, turns up dead while protesting and all the clues point to Joan's son Andrew as the prime suspect.
11) Hayduke lives!
Author
Language
English
Description
George Washington Hayduke III was last seen clinging to a rock face in the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for his eco-radicalist crimes. Now he is back with a fiery need for vengeance. In this sequel to the enormously popular and entertaining The Monkey Wrench Gang , Hayduke teams up with his old pals Doc Sarvis, Seldom Seen Smith, and Bonnie Abbzug in a battle against the world's biggest earth-moving machine. Fundamentalist preacher...
12) Berani
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Perspectives of two Indonesian middle-schoolers and a caged orangutan entwine. Wealthy Malia faces the consequences of disobediently circulating an anti-palm-oil petition at her school, resulting in suspensions for herself, her best friend, and her teacher. Ari, fortunate to be plucked from his impoverished village to attend school and compete in chess tournaments, helps the uncle who is hosting him but worries about Ginger Juice, the orangutan his...
Author
Publisher
Banyan Tree Books in association with Heyday Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation, Ectopia. Rumors abound of barbaric war games, tree worship, revolutionary politics, sexual extravagance. Now this mysterious country admits its first American visitor: investigative reporter Will Weston, whose dispatches alternate between shock and admiration. But Ectopia gradually unravels everything Weston knows to be...
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