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1) One by one
Author
Language
English
Description
"Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet doesn't sound like the worst problem in the world, especially with others to keep you company. Unless that company happens to be eight of your coworkers ... each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide. When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech startup, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, tensions simmer and loyalties are tested. Then...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
236 p.
Language
English
Description
"Launched in January 2018, the Overwatch League (OWL) is the first large-scale concerted effort to build a competitive, global framework for an esport that can rival the largest pro sports leagues. $3.5 million in prize money, a broadcasting deal with ESPN, and the purchase of OWL teams by celebrity owners including Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, and Stan Kroenke, owner of the Los Angeles Rams, set the stakes for the launch. The...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
798 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic rise-and unimaginable fall-of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan No company embodied American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial power more spectacularly and more consistently than the General Electric Company. GE once developed and manufactured many of the inventions we take for granted today, nearly everything from the lightbulb to the jet...
10) The white lotus
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (352 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the newest set of high class vacationers check into the exclusive White Lotus resort in Hawaii, manager Armand finds himself facing more than the usual excessive demands of one-percenters. He takes on momma's boys and workaholics with a professional facade, his coping mechanisms become as extreme as the pressure he's under, while the guests themselves unravel inside their toxic dynamics until the situations collide with incredible consequences....
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
xi, 212 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Keepers of cows, goats, or sheep will benefit from information on designing a well-functioning small dairy, choosing equipment, and understanding the myriad processes involved.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 p.
Language
English
Description
"After an Oregon mother finds an SOS letter in a box of Halloween decorations, a story unfolds about the man who wrote it: a Chinese political prisoner, sentenced without trial to work grueling hours at a "reeducation" camp-manufacturing the products soldin our own big-box stores"--
Author
Series
In death volume 31
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a series of murders including those of a limousine driver and a high-priced escort, an infuriated NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas enters her husband, Roarke's, rarified circle to prevent the imminent killing of another victim.
18) Outside, inside
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Something strange happened on an unremarkable day just before the season changed. beautiful book that describes the impact of COVID-19 on communities and why some essential workers could not quarantine. Everybody who was outside . . . went inside. Outside, it was quieter, wilder, and different. Inside, we laughed, we cried, and we grew. We remembered to protect the ones we love and love the ones who protect us. While the world changed outside, we...
Author
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of oil flowing from a well in the wilds of northwestern Pennsylvania shook the modern world in 1859. Refined as kerosene for lamps, a lubricant for home and industrial needs, and ultimately as a fuel for transportation in the form of gasoline, oil literally changed the world and defined global economics and politics. Western Pennsylvania's Oil Heritage profiles the history of Pennsylvania oil from its discovery and development to its...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st paperback ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 202 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With world oil production about to peak and inexorably head toward steep decline, what fuels are available to meet rising global energy demands? That question, once thought to address a fairly remote contingency, has become ever more urgent, as a spate of books has drawn increased public attention to the imminent exhaustion of the economically vital world oil reserves. Kenneth S. Deffeyes, a geologist who was among the first to warn of the coming...
