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"When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny's been avoiding since the day she left for college--her northern Michigan hometown. Sonny grudgingly returns to the long, cold, snowy winters of her childhood...with...
2) Weather girl
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April Showers Bring May Flowers
Books Barbie Would Love
Celebrating Jewish Heritage (SCPL)
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"A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results in this charming romantic comedy from the author of The Ex Talk. Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weatherwoman Torrance Hale, is too distracted by her tempestuous relationship with her ex-husband, the station's news director,...
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My weirdest school volume 10
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Sprinkles Newman, the local TV meteorologist, is coming to Ella Mentry School! She s going to teach A.J. and the gang all about the weather. But what happens when a real live (well, not live) hurricane comes to the school? Hold on to your umbrellas!
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A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations. Snow in Vermont is as common as dirt. Why would anyone want ot photograph it? From the time he was a small boy, Wilson Bentley thinks of ice crystals as small miracles, and he determines that one day his camera will capture for others their extraordinary beauty. Often misunderstood in his time, he took pictures that...
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Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean explains how she purposefully finds the silver lining in every cloud, no matter what challenge she faces. Janice is well-known for the infectious joy she brings to segments on Fox & Friends, no matter the weather. Yet many of her fans know there's more to her story than blizzards that are brewing or National Pancake Day celebrations. In this honest yet optimistic book, Janice reveals obstacles she's faced that...
6) Second wind
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In his fortieth novel, Francis introduces a decidedly unhorsey hero, BBC meteorologist Perry Stuart, who, with his best friend Kris, an amateur pilot, has long dreamed of flying through the eye of a hurricane. In an odd twist of fate, all the right circumstances fall into place: Hurricane Odin forms over the Caribbean; Perry and Kris have overlapping vacations; and Kris finds a wealthy Florida businessman willing to finance their adventure. As part...
8) Twister
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Scientist Jo Harding and her crack team of tornado chasers are pursuing the most destructive weatherfront to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years. TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms has other plans. Jo's team is planning to launch revolutionary electronic sensors into the...
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A Christmas miracle gives rival meteorologists Tara and Sam the opportunity of a lifetime to move up to the big leagues, but they must first beat an impending blizzard on their way to the city for an interview. Instead, they get stuck in the village of Mistletoe, where the holidays are no longer celebrated. Can they put aside their differences and bring Christmas back to a sleepy rural town.
10) Stormchasers
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STORMCHASERS is a tale of scientific discovery and natural wonder that takes audiences on a journey around the planet to encounter the origins of the earth’s weather patterns, to experience our most extreme storms—monsoons, hurricanes and tornadoes—and to witness scientists who study and predict weather events. Using a combination of conventional IMAX documentary filmmaking methods, computer animation, and unique photography, the film depicts...
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Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife is the masterly new novel by Kathryn Harrison, “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff). Set in Alaska in 1915, it tells the story of a young scientist’s consuming love for a woman known as the Aleut, a woman who never speaks, who refuses to reveal so much as her name.
Born and educated in midwestern cities, Bigelow is sent north by the United States government to establish a weather...
Born and educated in midwestern cities, Bigelow is sent north by the United States government to establish a weather...
12) Jonas
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Minnesota Marshalls volume 2
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Jonas Marshall is done storm-chasing, plagued with the memory of a terrible accident that paralyzed a fellow chaser, so the last thing he's going to do is run into more danger. Now, he's just a simple weatherman deploying dirigibles in an experiment to track weather patterns in Slovenia. As far from danger as he can get. But danger comes knocking in the form of hiker in need of rescue, and he can't deny that her companion--beautiful Sibba Kovac--is...
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"What if tornadoes could be stopped or slowed down? In this addition to the critically-acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to come up with a way to predict tornadoes with even greater accuracy, and save countless lives across America's heartland."--
14) Meteorologist
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"In Meteorologist, carefully leveled text and vibrant, full-color photographs take early fluent readers on an informational interview with a scientist. Readers learn about the day-to-day responsibilities and challenges of this career and the things they can do now to prepare for work as a meteorologist"--
15) Meteorologist
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to meteorologists. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
16) Ark storm
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"The Ark Storm is coming--a catastrophic weather event that will unleash massive floods and wreak more damage on California than the feared 'Big One.' One man wants to profit from it. Another wants to harness it to wage jihad on American soil. One woman stands in their way: Dr. Gwen Boudain, a brave and brilliant meteorologist. When Boudain notices that her climate readings are off the charts, she turns to Gabriel Messenger for research funding. Messenger's...
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"Joanne Simpson made groundbreaking-or should we say cloudbreaking-discoveries about weather and how it worked. Born in Massachusetts in 1923, she became interested in clouds while sailing in Cape Cod. As a young adult, she went to the University of Chicago and began studying and then teaching meteorology. After the war, women were expected to go back to being homemakers, but Joanne instead received her Masters Degree and began a PhD program. She...
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"Meteorology deals with the scientific study of Earth's atmosphere, atmospheric phenomena, and weather. Meteorologists are the scientists who conduct these studies. Meteorologists use their research to understand, interpret, observe, and forecast weather conditions. This volume is a helpful guide to any young person with an interest in science and the discipline of meteorology. Readers will learn about the branch of meteorology, its practical applications,...
20) Twister
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"The house rips apart piece by piece. A bellowing cow spins through the air. Tractors fall like rain. A 15,000-pound gasoline tanker becomes an airborne bomb. A mile-wide, 300 miles-per-hour force of total devastation is coming at you. Scientists pursue the most destructive weather front to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in fifty years. By launching electronic sensors into the funnel, the storm chasers hope to obtain enough data to create...
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