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Lexile measure
860L
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. They (the Monkey Wrench Gang) take on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are...
2) Savage run
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a massive explosion occurs deep within the forests of Twelve Sleep County and a colorful environmental activist appears to have perished in the blast, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is called to the scene to help investigate. The case is wrapped up quickly, explained as an environmental publicity stunt gone wrong, but Joe isn't convinced. He soon discovers clues that suggest a deadly conspiracy one that will test his courage, his survival skills,...
4) Night moves
Publisher
Tipping Point Productions, LLC ; Maybach Film Productions ; RT Features ; Filmscience Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
6) Ever green
Author
Publisher
Wasteland Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sandy Anderson is Arizona to the bone, Catholic to the bone and beyond. She lives in Central Arizona with her wonderful husband and various other creatures. The book's main character is a bit of a mystic, a bit of a pragmatist, a bit of a philosopher, and a tree hugger, though not an "environmentalist." She is somewhat lame, somewhat realistic, somewhat poetic and somewhat primitive. She has been given reason, also, to be perennially hopeful --
8) If not us
Author
Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hesse lives in a small coastal town, where a coalmine and power station are a part of the scenery - and part of the problem of climate change. His mum is a member of the local environment group campaigning to close both down. But Hesse is more interested in surfing - and in Fenna, the new exchange student from the Netherlands. When someone tries to derail the campaign and cover up the dangerously high emissions levels from the power station, Hesse...
10) Elephant song
Author
Language
English
Description
White Gold Ivory. In Africa, it is the tragic and thrilling object of greed, corruption, and senseless death. In this dangerous world of poachers and blood money, one determined man and one dedicated woman risk their lives to stop the senseless slaughter of a species on the brink of extinction. Following a trail that leads from the Mountains of the Moon and the deep forests of central Africa to the secret opulence of Taiwan and London's corridors...
11) Hot water
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Environmental activist AJ Palladino, first encountered in Rock Bottom, is no stranger to the juggling act of managing both work and family. But when she's asked to leave home and take a case involving a nuclear power plant, it takes all her skills to keep her world from crashing down on her. Colleton River is a new one-of-a-kind nuclear facility designed to create medical isotopes with the potential to save millions of lives. Unfortunately, the plant...
Author
Series
Bruno volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
" ... the Dordogne's great pleasures--wine, romance, and intrigue--threaten Bruno's beloved village of Saint-Denis."--Jacket.
13) Hayduke Lives!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
At the end of The monkey wrench gang Hayduke is left clinging to a cliff. Now he's off to stop Goliath, the world's largest earth-moving machine.
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1995.
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
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After losing his summer job with his uncle, sixteen-year-old Michael agrees to go to work for an environmentalist magazine in Vermont run by friends of his grandparents.
Michael Racine lives in a world of highly successful and accomplished teenagers. Unfortunately, he isn't one of them. He knows it, and he's afraid everyone else does too. So when he gets the chance to intern at a magazine run by friends of his grandparents, he jumps at it. The...
18) Sweetgrass
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Sweetgrass is a historical tract of land in South Carolina that has been home to the Blakely family for eight generations. But Sweetgrass -- named for the indigenous grass that grows in the area -- is in trouble. Bulldozers are leveling surrounding properties, and the Blakelys could be forced to sell the one thing that continues to hold their disintegrating family together. For some of the Blakelys, the prospect of selling Sweetgrass is bittersweet...
20) Future weather
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Lauduree is a 13-year-old loner, passionate about nature and obsessed with ecological disaster. Greta, her grandmother, is a nurse jaded by alcohol and disappointment. When Lauduree is abruptly abandoned by her dreamer single mom, she decides to take survival into her own hands, forcing her and Greta to rethink their futures.