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1) Skinny dip
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Series
Language
English
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Ex-police officer Mick Stranahan rescues a woman from the ocean. Joey Perrone's husband tried to kill her by pushing her overboard from a cruise liner because he suspected that she had figured out his scam of doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can illegally dump fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. Mick helps Joey haunt and taunt her homicidal husband.
2) Fatal
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Language
English
Description
From The Sisterhood, Michael Palmer's first New York Times bestseller, to The Patient, his ninth, reviewers have proclaimed him a master of medical suspense. Recognized around the world for original, topical, nail-biting suspense, emergency physician Palmer'swork has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Now he reaches controversial and startling new heights in a terrifying tale of cutting-edge microbiology, unbridled...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Lisa convinces the locals to clean up the polluted Lake Springfield after a crowd of fans sink the Green Day concert stage. Meanwhile, Homer saves a pig from being killed in Krusty Burger and adopts it, calling the animal Spider Pig. After two days, Spider Pig fills up a silo with its excrement and not knowing what else to do, Homer dumps the silo in the lake, polluting it. The angry population forces the Simpsons to move to Alaska. Meanwhile, the...
5) Fever
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Language
English
Description
Charles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukemia. The cause: a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as a doctor and a man if he tries to fight it ... With chilling accuracy and riveting suspense, Robin Cook portrays the struggle of one family searching for the truth from a corporation and a medical establishment all too willing to ignore the...
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
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Series
Mermaid S.O.S volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Holly must solve the puzzle of an old legend if she and the other mermaids are to stop the toxic waste leaking from a wrecked ship, threatening a family of turtles living nearby, and get back to their vital mission for Queen Neptuna.
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English
Description
"Jack Lambeau is the prodigal son returned home to Lakeland, New York; the Ivy-League educated architectural visionary brought home to reinvent the dying port town and smooth over its self imposed scars. His friend, Steven Turner is the Brooklyn-born local reporter who will bear witness to the city's successes and failures. Between them come Jack's beautiful fiancee Anne--an artist with secrets of her own - and his undisciplined brother Harris, hired...
9) Hazmat
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Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Every day, people are faced with critical, life-threatening situations - in times of trouble, who can help? In this title, readers will get to know the hazmat technicians who arrive on the scene of a toxic threat. Chapters highlight the nine classes of hazardous materials as well as the training, tools, and knowledge hazmat technicians need to save lives and property due to a nuclear radiation emergency, a chemical spill, or a contaminated area. An...
10) Gone
Publisher
RiverRain Productions ; a [United States] : b Distributed by 24P Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In this post-apocalyptic thriller, Dirk Been and Joel Klug star as tenacious, young lawyers who are sent to Manila to defend a multi-national corporation accused of spilling hazardous waste; but instead, meet their fate in the last days of the Earth. Chaos ensues when the Rapture strikes, causing the characters to size up the world, humanity, and finally God in this highly intelligent, critically acclaimed motion picture.
12) Toxic terror!
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Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Angelina Butterworth couldn't understand why people kept polluting our planet until the day she discovered it was the diabolical plan of aliens bent on destroying Earth! In this entertaining and instructive narrative, readers will be on the edge of their seats as they find out if Angelina can escape the slimy tentacles of the evil Toxlings while learning what people can do in real life to stop our world from becoming an actual toxic wasteland. This...
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Series
Publisher
Wonder Books, an imprint of The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Introduces readers to what household waste pollution is, the consequences of this type of pollution, and what people are doing to help. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts page, a STEM project, a phonetic glossary, ways for readers to help, an index, an introduction to the author, and sources for further research."--
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The sleepy desert town of Prosperity, Arizona, is being menaced by giant arachnids that have mutated through exposure to toxic waste. The local sheriff and her teenage daughter work to prevent a complete takeover by the bloodthirsty spiders, getting valuable help from Prosperity's prodigal son, who's just returned to his embattled hometown.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The 3 ninjas, Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum, are spending the summer with their martial artist grandfather when their friendship with a local Native American girl, Jo, pulls them into a modern-day battle between the local Native Americans and a corrupt businessman.
17) The judge
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Series
Andy Roark mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Boston, 1985. With the late December cold comes a new job for ex-military operative turned private investigator Andy Roark. Boston judge Ambrose Messer is being blackmailed, and he needs Roark's help to stop the culprit. Messer is judging the bench trial of a chemical company accused of knowingly dumping chemical waste in an unsafe manner, causing birth defects and cancer. The evidence against them is overwhelming, but the message from the blackmailer...
18) Gomorra
Series
Criterion collection volume 493
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Italiano
Description
Five disparate tales of Naples' mafia underworld, where men and children are caught up in a corrupt system that extends from the housing projects to the world of haute couture. Adapted from the best-selling exposé by undercover Italian reporter, Roberto Saviano.
20) Prophecy
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A savage beast, grown to monstrous size and driven mad by toxic wastes that are poisoning the waters, spreads terror and death on a Maine countryside.
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