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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In this highly original work of lyrical reportage, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic,...
8) Coastlines
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookwright Press
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Discusses coastal features such as benches, bars, lagoons, and deltas and explains how the sea shapes the edge of land.
9) Coastlines
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Contains information about coastlines around the world, how they change, environmental issues, and tourism.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Language
English
Description
With oceans on all four sides, Australia turns a coastal face to the world. Much of the Australian coast is rich in history, scene of shipwrecks and navigators, prisons and prisoners, aged cemeteries and Aboriginal art sites. These pages describe the wondrous creatures of the country - womabts and wallabies, emus and enchidnas - and Australians at work and play.
13) A lethal legacy
Author
Language
English
Description
"Douglas Island sits off the coast of New York State, its imposing cliffs warning away visitors. Still, Finn Douglas has big plans for his inheritance and the rambling manor house that dominates the landscape. He has a vision to turn the island into a resort getaway for overworked city dwellers. But when the broken body of his business partner is found at the base of the rocky escarpment, he fears it wasn't an accident. Special Agent Craig Frasier...
Author
Series
Cape Charade ; 2
Language
English
Description
"One secret, one nightmare, one lie. You guess which is which. 1. I have the scar of a gunshot wound on my forehead. 2. I have willfully misrepresented my identity to the US military. 3. I'm the new mother of a seven-year-old girl. Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory. A bullet to the brain will cause that. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence and her very self. She finds herself in...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the late '70s, Irene Kelley was an artist, Robert a businessman; each possessed by dynamism and vibrancy. But with two young boys to care for, Irene finds herself confined by the very things she'd dreamed of having. Robert, pressured by Irene's demands, risks the family business to pursue a fail-safe real estate opportunity. Twenty years later their sons, Nathan and Andrew, are drawn back to confront a fateful diagnosis. Revisiting the Cape Cod...
