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80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the 2010 mining accident in San José, Chile, in which thirty-three men became trapped underground for over sixty days, and details the rescue efforts and the worldwide media coverage of the event.
44) Warburg in Rome
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362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"David Warburg, newly minted director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, arrives in Rome at war's end, determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews streaming into the city. Marguerite d'Erasmo, a French-Italian Red Cross worker with a shadowed past, is initially Warburg's guide to a complicated Rome; while a charismatic young American Catholic priest, Monsignor Kevin Deane, seems equally committed to aiding Italian Jews. But the city is a labyrinth...
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x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010.
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96 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Text, photographs, and illustrations from the New York Times section, "A Nation Challenged," record how the world was changed due to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and their aftermath.
47) Bips and roses
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Series
Zoey and Sassafras volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Oh no! There's a big problem with the forest roses ... magical roses that are very important because they are the first food for newborn hippogriffs. Can Zoey, Pip, and Sassafras use their science know-how to fix the magical roses before the hippogriff eggs hatch?"--Back cover
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222 pages : illustrations (mostly color), color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The men and women of Yosemite Search and Rescue work around the clock, ready to respond at any hour in any weather. It's not all helicopter heroics and plucking unlucky rock jocks off The Nose of El Capitan. It also means helping the teen with the busted ankle on the Mist Trail, finding the missing child in Tuolumne Meadows, and rescuing the newlywed clinging to a slick rock after her raft implodes. Most of Yosemite's nearly 4 million annual visitors...
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Series
Ryan Quinn volume 1
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362 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his father disappears and his mother is abducted, Ryan learns that his missing parents are secret agents and that he must undertake a perilous mission to rescue them.
Ryan Quinn, the son of a United Nations worker, has traveled around the world but is finally settled at a great school in New York. But when his father disappears and his mother is abducted, Ryan discovers his parents actually work with an underground organization that has performed...
52) A perfect day
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's just another day on the job for a band of badass combat zone rescue workers as they defy death and confront war's absurdities. The setting is 1995, somewhere in the Balkans. Over the course of 24 breathless hours, Mambru leads his team of humanitarians, including hard-bitten, wisecracking veteran B and new recruit Sophie, as they deal with a most unexpected crisis, layers of bureaucratic red tape, and the reappearance of Mambru's old flame.
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Physical Desc
xii pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 255, pages ; 23cm
Language
Español
Description
"The story of the thirty-three trapped miners in the San Jose mine in the middle of the Chilean desert is an epic in the classic sense, filled with real heroes, blessings from God, and the curse of miserable conditions and ruthless exploitation brought on by malevolent, unscrupulous corporations. They spent 69 days and nights trapped deep underground in a mine in Atacama, Chile, one of the most arid and desolate deserts in the world. For the first...
55) Cats in the city
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Series
Stick Cat volume 2
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219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While admiring the view of the city from his friend Edith's apartment, Stick Cat notices that Hazel, the bagel maker, is in danger across the alley, and he devises a plan to rescue her.
56) The red bandanna
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Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Welles Crowther didn't see himself as a hero. He was just an ordinary kid who played sports, volunteered for the fire department in his town, and eventually headed off to college and then to Wall Street to start a career. Throughout it all, he always kept a red bandanna in his pocket, a gift from his father when he was little. On September 11, 2001, Welles was at his job on the 104th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when the Twin...
57) Dinosaur rescue!
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Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
When a crew of builder dinosaurs break down on a level crossing, they know the only thing they can do to save themselves is to call Dinosaur Rescue! In no time at all, help is on its way, but will the Dinosaur Rescue team get there in time to stop the train?
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Physical Desc
84 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ryder and his team of dogs describe their characteristics, abilities, favorite activities, and vehicles; rescue Mayor Goodway when her hot air balloon goes awry; and Skye rescues her hero, pilot Ace Sorenson, as the others ready a landing.
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Series
Secret Explorers volume 1
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127 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Secret Explorers jump into action to save a pod of humpback whales, but when Connor and Roshini's submarine malfunctions, the explorers could be the ones in trouble.
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