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Lake Superior, the north country, the great fresh-water expanse. Frigid. Lethal. Wildly beautiful. The Long-Shining Waters gives us three stories whose characters are separated by centuries and circumstance, yet connected across time by a shared geography. In 1622, Grey Rabbit-an Ojibwe woman, a mother and wife-struggles to understand a dream-life that has taken on fearful dimensions. As she and her family confront the hardship of living near the...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (18 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 discussion guide (2 sheets ; 28 cm)
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English
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Created for students, agency personnel, and general viewers, this 18-minute DVD presents a brief history of treaty-reserved tribal harvesting rights in the upper Great Lakes region. Viewers are introduced to 21st century Ojibwe harvesters and the natural resource agency that manages treaty resources on behalf of its Ojibwe member tribes--The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC)"--Container.
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2022.
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English
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"Five summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. A magazine writer has to make a choice when she returns to the lake she grew up on, and to the man she thought she'd never have to live without, in this achingly nostalgic debut. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser that has felt too true for the last decade, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life. Instead of glittering summers...
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From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet. Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit...
69) What is a river?
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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""What is a river?" an inquisitive young girl asks her grandmother as the pair sits together on the river's banks. Like many questions posed by curious children, this one is deceptively simple in its asking. Yet, its answer spans the very world itself: geography and history, science and religion, industry and environmentalism. Through author-illustrator Monika VaicenaviÄienÄ's eyes, the river becomes a vessel for enormous complexity, a lens through...
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English
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The Great Lakes are the largest system of freshwater lakes in the world and America's greatest freshwater resource. For over a century they have been the target of controversial diversion schemes designed to sell, send, or ship water to thirsty communities, sometimes far from the source. In part to protect the Great Lakes from overzealous entrepreneurship, the Great Lakes Compact was signed in 2008. Although the Compact fulfills that promise and ensures...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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359 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Georgia can almost feel her heart cracking a little more every day. With Daddy sinking deeper into alcoholism and Mama struggling to keep the family afloat, Georgia is sent to stay with her mysterious great aunt in her old country house. Soon, lonely Georgia meets Angela, a girl with secrets of her own, and they discover a magical lake. At first, the lake offers a thrilling escape, but as things grow worse at home, a troubled boy appears at the lake...
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2018.
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76 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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"The battle for clean water begins! As soon as Dr. Zomboss discovers Lake Gumbo near Neighborville, Gargantuars start posing on Muscle Beach, volleyballs bounce off bungee zombies, and Zomboss revs up a giant underwater drill to pollute the lake! Nate, Patrice, and Crazy Dave spot trouble and do all they can to quell another zombie attack"--
73) Gone-Away Lake
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English
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Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.
74) Deep-sea dive
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
When Dorothy Ann accidentally loses Jyoti's high-tech locket in the ocean, Ms. Frizzle's class travels down through the layers of the sea to retrieve it. Includes glossary.
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Nancy Drew diaries volume 6
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English
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We all waited while Henry trooped us back to the fire pit, where the cooler had been kept. He walked over to where it had been set the night before ... and frowned. Then he looked around the fire pit, then back at the same spot, then at us. "You don't know where the food is?" Zoe asked incredulously. Henry shook his head. "It's not that," he said. "It's that I think the food's been ... taken."
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Join nature filmmakers Bob Swerer Sr. and Bob Swerer Jr. as they visit with Dick Proenneke 20 years later while venturing into the remote wilderness of Alaska to experience and film the abundant wildlife in the region.
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