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5) Vanishing rain forests: optimizing a balance of human impacts in humid tropical regions of Mexico
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. This book takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant...
Author
Series
Gulf Coast studies volume no. 13
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
15) Integrated land-change science and tropical deforestation in the southern Yucatán: final frontiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
18) The last resort
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"When a group of five girlfriends heads for the tropics, they relax, hit the beach and step out for a night of partying. All is fun and games, until someone gets hurt. Robbed by their tour guide and left for dead, the girls take shelter in an old abandoned resort. This vacation might have been the time of their lives, but the last resort will most likely be the time of their death."--Container.
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Series
Language
English
Description
China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper.