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421) After the ashes
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1883 thirteen-year-old Katrien Courtlandt is more interested in science and exploring the Javanese jungle for beetles with her native friend, than in becoming a young lady like her despised cousin Brigitta--but when Krakatoa erupts, the tsunami hits, and their families are swept away the two cousins must struggle to survive together.
422) The informers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 1980s. Centers on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap - a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster - and the very bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting the intertwining strands are a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs and one another with total abandon. They don't realizing that they are dancing on...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From the Great Lakes to Iceland, the San Andreas Fault to Krakatoa, travel the globe to reveal the physical processes that have shaped some of the most well-known locations and geological phenomena in the world. With rocks as their clues and volcanoes, ice sheets, and colliding continents as their suspects, scientists launch a forensic investigation that helps visualize how the earth has evolved and formed over billions of years.
Author
Pub. Date
mayo de 2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Puede una sola mujer cambiar el curso de la historia? Costa Rica, diciembre de 1883. Aitana Ugarte, una joven bilbaína, desembarca en Puerto Limón para casarse por matrimonio concertado con un terrateniente de sesenta años, dueño de un cafetal en las prósperas Tierras Altas de Turrialba, a las faldas de un volcán legendario sobre el cual circula una misteriosa leyenda. Pero cuando llega a la hacienda se encuentra una tierra devastada,...
428) Under the mountain
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Teenage twins Rachel and Theo travel to Auckland to stay with relatives following the sudden death of their mother. Where there was once a psychic bond between them, now there is a rift as Theo, particularly, refuses to confront his grief. Rachel reaches out to him, but is rebuffed. They visit Mt. Eden, where Theo sees Mr. Jones, a strange old man from whose hands fire seems to glow. Inside the mountain, he and Rachel find what can only be an alien...
430) Yellowstone
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Yellowstone is no ordinary wilderness, it is the world's first national park, a lost world of vast plains and endless forests defended on all sides by towering mountains, home to America's last great bison herds, the grizzly bear and realm of the wolf ... Join the charismatic cast of Yellowstone's wildlife as they turn to face the extreme challenges of the seasons ... The daily struggles of the wildlife are intimately linked to Yellowstone's greatest...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
50th Anniversary.
Language
English
Description
Scooby-Doo goes Hollywood: The gang goes Hollywood as Scooby stars in his first film, but when a creepy creature wants to put a stop to the film, Scooby must solve the mystery to ensure his star status remains intact. Aloha, Scooby-Doo!: Scooby-Doo and the Gang head to Hawaii for a big surfing contest that becomes disrupted by the grumblings of a nearby volcano and the disappearance of a surfing hottie. Scooby-Doo and the Gang romp around the jungle,...
434) Sensor
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A woman walks alone at the foot of Mount Sengoku. A man appears, saying he's been waiting for her, and invites her to a nearby village. Surprisingly, the village is covered in hairlike volcanic glass fibers, and all of it shines a bright gold. At night, when the villagers perform their custom of gazing up at the starry sky, countless unidentified flying objects come raining down on them--the opening act for the terror about to occur!'"--Amazon.
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