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It’s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby...
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Holland family saga volume 1
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A decade after taking a shot at Bonnie and Clyde during one of their notorious armed robberies, a Depression teen-turned-soldier escapes death during the Battle of the Bulge and marries a beautiful young woman with whom he seeks his fortune along the Texas-Louisiana oil coast.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
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Genghis Khan - the greatest conqueror of all time, who at his peak ruled an empire that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. His conquests are the stuff of legend, his tomb a forgotten mystery. Until now. When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia's Lake Baikal, it appears a simple act of nature. But when the survey team is abducted and Pitt's research vessel nearly sunk, it's obvious there's...
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Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford. By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master's in economics, she's restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty's ready to quit, but her...
8) Oil
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the history of the oil industry, the ways in which oil is refined and processed, the uses of oil and oil products, the influence that the need for oil has on the world's current political situation, and the impact of oil byproducts on the environment.
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This had to be the worst night of Sage Tyler's life. First her fianc ̌jilts her. Then she has to fly home with Harlan Boyd, the arrogant, drop-dead gorgeous stranger who overheard every word of that humiliating episode--and enjoyed it! All Sage wants is for this sexy, no-account drifter to keep his distance--and keep her broken engagement a secret. But Harlan Boyd has desires of his own.
10) Darkness falls
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Mark Beamon thrillers volume 5
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Erin Neal suddenly finds himself back on the international stage when a number of important Saudi oil resources are threatened by a mysterious new bacteria with a voracious appetite for oil.
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2008.
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The Dragon in the Sea is a riveting thriller of a submarine crew trapped in the depths of the sea, hunted by one of their own.
In the endless war between East and West, oil has become the ultimate prize. Nuclear-powered subtugs brave enemy waters to tap into hidden oil reserves beneath the East's continental shelf. But, the last twenty missions have never returned. Have sleeper agents infiltrated the elite submarine service, or are the crews simply...
12) Those in peril
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Hector Cross novels volume 1
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2011.
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Hazel Bannock is the owner of the Bannock Oil Corporation, a major oil producer with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel's yacht is hijacked by pirates. Hazel is not on board at the time, but her nineteen-year-old daughter, Cayla, is--and the kidnappers are demanding a crippling twenty billion dollar ransom.Complicated political and diplomatic considerations make it impossible for the world's major powers to intervene, so when...
14) Killing Adonis
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2016.
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Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently lying in a coma amidst an armada of premium machinery. The...
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[2009]
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Taking a new identity after a shoot-out with fellow officers of the L.A.P.D., John Barron fled the country he loved and, as Nicholas Marten, became a landscape architect in the north of England determined to put a life of violence behind him forever. Then suddenly he found himself in Spain ensnared in a massive global conspiracy.
17) Running on Fumes
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Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 2
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2005.
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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Frank and Joe travel to California where they investigate the leader of a utopian community and his followers to see if they intend to sabotage the oil industry.
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Hemlock County cycle volume 4
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[1999]
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Oil workers battle company goons in a labor conflict in 1930s Pennsylvania. It happens after five workers die in an accident at the Thunder Oil refinery, where management is penny-pinching on safety measures to increase profits. Leading the strikers is union organizer Doris Golden and driller Bill Halvorsen, their joint struggle giving birth to love.
19) Syriana
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2005.
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As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. Across the globe, a disenfranchised...