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Author
Series
Series of unfortunate events volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Dear Reader, I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, this one might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumbermill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking...
4) Roses
Author
Language
English
Description
Having not married in spite of their true feelings, cotton tycoon Mary Toliver DuMont and timber magnate Percy Warwick struggle with deceit, secrets, and tragedies that challenge their children and grandchildren in their small east Texas community.
Author
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
The second novel from the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan. A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his father; and Viv, who fell in love with Hank's...
8) Timberjack
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the rugged Canadian forests, a young man avenges himself on a timber-business rival whom he suspects of murdering his father"--
9) True north
Author
Language
English
Description
The scion of a family of timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a malevolent father and an alcoholic mother. As David comes to adulthood, with the help of the courageous women he loves, he realizes he must come to terms with his forefathers' destruction of the woods of Michigan's Upper PLeninsula, as well as the working people who made their wealth possible. 30 years into the process, David looks closely at the root of his father's evil --...
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The journey of a single tree from forest, to sawmill, to consumer; the evolution of logging from frontier days, when the technology was crude and the wood seemed inexhaustible, to today, when the reverse is true; options we may have for preserving the industry, and the ecology, for future generations.
Author
Series
Resource bulletin PNW volume 208
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
19) Lumbermen
Author
Publisher
Rourke Publications
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
A history of lumbering in the United States, describing the work of the men with jobs in that industry in its early days. Includes a section on the giant redwood tree.