Alice Henderson
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Alex Carter novels volume 2
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English
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"[W]ildlife biologist Alex Carter lands a job studying a threatened population of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic...But as her study progresses, and she gathers data on the health of individual bears, things start to go awry. Her helicopter pilot quits unexpectedly, equipment goes missing, and a late-night intruder breaks into her lab and steals the samples she's collected. She realizes that someone doesn't want her to complete her study, but Alex...
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Alex Carter novels volume 1
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English
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"While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex Carter is run off the road and threatened by locals determined to force her off the land. Undeterred in her mission to help save this threatened species, Alex tracks wolverines on foot and by cameras positioned in remote regions of the preserve. But when she reviews the photos, she discovers disturbing images of an animal of a different kind: a severely injured man seemingly...
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Alex Carter volume 3
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English
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Alex Carter heads to northeastern Washington State to investigate a possible sighting of a mountain caribou--an animal that became extinct in the contiguous U.S. years ago--and becomes embroiled in a clash between loggers and activists and the murder of a local forest ranger.
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In a future laid waste by environmental catastrophe, one woman in a shielded megacity discovers a secret hidden within-and the nightmare of what lies beyond.
The Skyfire Saga
Her designation is H124-a menial worker in a city safeguarded against the devastating
storms of the outer world. In a community where consumerism has dulled the senses, where apathy is the norm and education is a thing of the past, H124 has one job: remove the bodies of citizens...
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Una emocionante novela protagonizada por una intrépida bióloga especializada en fauna salvaje y dedicada en cuerpo y alma a salvar especies amenazadas... y que recurre a sus superiores técnicas de supervivencia para frustrar los planes de quienes pretenden impedírselo.
La bióloga Alex Carter, recién llegada a una reserva natural de Montana con el objetivo de estudiar a unos curiosos mamíferos, los carcayús, sufre el acoso de un coche que la...
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An Earth ravaged by an environmental catastrophe now faces its greatest threat-from space. And only the woman known as H124 can harness a lost technology to save it from absolute destruction. The Skyfire Saga As a deadly asteroid careens towards Earth, H124 and her Badlander companions race against time to piece together the ancient ruins of a spaceship that can intercept it. But this is not their only mission. In case their plan is not successful,...
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Environmental devastation has left Earth a wasteland, but an even more nightmarish fate looms if the woman known as H124 can't stop an extinction-level asteroid from destroying the planet. The Skyfire Saga On the run from a dangerous media empire, H124 places her hope in learning more about the Rovers, the last bastion of humans to embrace science as a solution to Earth's ongoing environmental catastrophe. But with the planet under imminent threat...
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In New Mexico, during Lent and Holy Week each year, the Penitent Brotherhood enacts a primitive Passion Play, which in its traditional ritual of self-torture represents a curious survival of the Middle Ages. Much lurid journalism has been devoted to the Penitentes, but in this sympathetic account by Alice Corbin Henderson, an eyewitness, the ceremonies are presented in their true aspect, with the historic background and reason for the survival clearly...
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2010.
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Simon Pulse paperback edition.
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English
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"In Coyote moon, a typical night at the carnival becomes deadly as shapeshifters turn the amusement park into their own house of horrors. Buffy starts having past-life nightmares in Night of the living rerun, and must face her historic counterpart before the events of the past repeat in the present. In Portal through time, Slayers over the centuries are in danger, and Buffy must protect them in order to save her own life and legacy."--P. [4] of...
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