Del Norte Public Library

Unearth a treasure trove of geological knowledge with this in-depth guide to over 500 rocks and minerals Learn how rocks are formed and how to recognize them by their unique qualities and colors. This is a wonderful book for beginners, students and rock collecting enthusiasts that includes the latest scientific research and specimen classification.

Explains how to start and organize a rock collection; provides detailed descriptions of hundreds of minerals with information on geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structures; and includes 385 color photographs.

"Think you know the person you married? Think again... Things have been wrong with Mr. and Mrs. Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can't recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts--paper, cotton, pottery,...

Hopalong Cassidy rides straight into an ambush in the West's untamed territories.

Miss Julia ignores her husband Sam's request for her to mind her own business, and while figuring out who has been passing bad checks in her name and waiting for arrival of Hazel Marie's twins, she begins to investigate the possible murder of a person whose dead body is found in a tool shed six blocks from her house.

Immediately after switching schools, Jon Gummyshoes, fourth-grade detective, is confronted with a new case--someone is trying to sabotage one of the bands in the upcoming Battle of the Bands by threatening the lead singer.

The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of predicting quantities of rippable and non-rippable rock on proposed construction projects, using seismic soundings supplemented by test borings and electrical resistivity measurements. Six projects scheduled for construction in different geologic settings were selected for investigation and field work has been completed on all six. To date, only three of the projects have been constructed....

Taken from surviving transcripts from the American Legends Collection (ALC) created in 1936 as part of the Federal Writers Project of the WPA, Zimmer weaves the story of Joseph Roper, member of the Ian McCandles gang.

Special features: Behind the scenes : Doc & Sprocket; Fraggle-oke!; Fraggle Rock trivia unlocks a bonus episode; animated episode "No Fraggle is an island"; bonus Pingu episode "Pinga has hiccups."Dance Your Cares Away: Boober Gorg / written by Sugith Varughese -- Blanket of snow, blanket of woe / written by B.P. Nichol -- Inspector red / written by Susan Juhl, Jerry Juhl.Cameras, George Clements, Ron Manson ; editors, Wayne Ricketts, Pat Hamilton...

In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up. William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist. "One of the best young adult books I've read in years."--Pat Conroy At the beginning of his junior year at a boys' boarding school, 16-year-old Alex is devastated when...