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"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...
3. Blowout
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Nate Osborne and Ashley Borden volume 1
Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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When a top-secret research team is hired to develop a clean energy source to minimize America's dependence on foreign oil, Sheriff Nate Osborne and journalist Ashley Borden investigate a saboteur's attack on the experimental power station.
4. Blowout
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University of Pittsburgh Press
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"In Blowout, Denise Duhamel asks the same question that Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers asked back in 1954--'Why Do Fools Fall in Love?' Duhamel's poems readily admit that she is a love-struck fool, but also embrace the 'crazy wisdom' of the Fool of the Tarot deck and the fool as entertainer or jester. From a kindergarten crush to a failed marriage and beyond, Duhamel explores the nature of romantic love and her own limitations. She also examines love...
5. Blowout
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Random House Audio
Pub. Date:
[2019]
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English
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Rachel Maddow offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil and gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe, from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea, exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading...
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"A good makeup artist never panics. Bella Shaughnessy knows that. She's the resident makeup maven in her family of Boston Irish hair salon owners, and she has an artful solution to just about every problem. But Bella feels bruised beyond reach of even the best concealer when her half sister runs off with her husband. What can she do to cover a hurt like that? Plenty, as it turns out. When Bella comes up with an invigorating new business idea, reinvention...
7. Blowout
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Elise Faber
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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She had no time in her life for a man. Least of all a swoony hockey player who was allergic to commitment. Jules was just trying to give her kid a good life. She worked hard, kept her head down, and avoided men like the plague. Because men were a plague. There was a reason she was a single mom, scraping together an existence, and faking it for her kid. She'd been burned. Bad. It didn't matter that Cas was successful and smart and could kiss like a...
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Katerina Carter Fraud Thriller volume 3
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English
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A Sinister Crime Lies Deep U Katerina Carter Legal Thriller. The fraud investigator Katerina Carter's trip to a remote island aboard a luxurious yacht, she suspects the boat's slick and charming owner is hiding a dark secret. With her cunning instinct for sniffing out malevolent cons, Kat tries to warn her friends that something is very wrong with their host and that his moneymaking scheme smells fishy. And why is she only one who thinks he's not...
11. Blowout!
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date:
2011
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English
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In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led by Sal Castro, a courageous and charismatic Mexican American teacher who encouraged the students to make their grievances public after school administrators and school board...
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Welcome to Wonderland volume 4
Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
2019
Lexile measure:
690L
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English
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P.T. and Gloria need a great plan to ensure the Wonderland can beat a slick new attraction in the "Fun In The Sun" contest.