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1) Dark ghost
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
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Description
"He wasn't civilized or tame. He had his own code and he lived by it. Monk. Bounty hunter. Vampire slayer. Andre Boroi has spent centuries battling the undead, holding out against the dark with honor. But now, gravely wounded by master vampire Costin Popescu, Andre will be easy to track--his spilled blood marking the killing trail for Popescu and his hungry band of underlings. Andre's only chance is to disappear into the gray mist of the Carpathians....
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Sapphire brides volume 1
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1890s. Emily Carver is tired of following her gold-hunting father from one mining camp to another: she wants a home where she can put down roots. When she realizes she's losing her heart to the intriguing new man in their Montana camp, she is afraid that love will only result in disappointment and heartache. Caeden Thibault is a young geologist cataloging minerals indigenous to the state. He avoids romantic entanglements, fearing he might become like...
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Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Get ready to step out of the lab and into the field. Readers will love learning about this fun STEM career as a geologist. The book introduces readers to work geologists do both inside and outside, as they uncover the mysteries of our Earth. This book covers the basics of earth science and geology, while explaining the equipment and processes geologists use to collect, test, and analyze data. Readers will learn about different kinds of geologists...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell-clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world-making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth. Smith spent twenty-two years piecing together the fragments of this...
7) 10.5
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Disaster strikes the United States when a 10.5 magnitude earthquake hits the Pacific Northwest causing the West Coast to separate from the rest of the continent. The situation is made worse by aftershocks and a tsunami. Now it's up to one geologist to save the Coast and the 50 million people who live there from annihilation.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Publishing Group's PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book tells how two amateur paleontologists, an English doctor and his wife, found a fossilized tooth that led to the discovery of a large species of dinosaurs known as Iguanodons.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
On the heels of Mark Hitchcock's prophecy bestseller 2012, the Bible, and the End of the World comes a suspenseful novel (coauthored with bestselling novelist Alton Gansky) about the supposed expiration date of planet earth-December 21, 2012.
Andrew Morgan is a wealthy oil executive in search of the meaning of life. In his quest for answers he encounters the ancient Mayan predictions that the world will end in 2012. That the claims seem supported...
10) The wave
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes in the underground. Kristian gets worried and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm goes off and the disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many...
11) Eight below
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
An American geologist flies to Antarctica to participate in a project at the United States Research Base. Once there, he teams up with arctic guide Jerry Shepard and his best friend, Cooper. The scientist soon discovers that Shepard also has eight other valuable friends, a pack of sled dogs he's worked with for years who have rescued him from a number of tight spots. As the three men explore a frozen mountain region, an unexpected accident coupled...
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Closing her assignment with the FBI's Seattle office, forensic geologist Raleigh Harmon returns to her hometown of Richmond, Virginia, expecting a warm welcome. Instead she finds herself investigating an ugly cross burning at a celebrity's mansion and standing in the crosshairs of her boss at the Bureau. And the deeper Raleigh digs into the case, the murkier the water becomes...until she's left wondering who the real victims might be. To make matters...
15) Pandora's curse
Author
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Geologist Philip Mercer and Dr. Anika Klein work against time to stop a German corporate mercenary from getting his hands on a wartime solid gold treasure chest that holds a lethal artifact possessing the power to destroy the Earth.
16) The great quake: how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of plate tectonics. On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m., the biggest...
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