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Horowitz, Joy.
PARTS PER MILLION: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Viking, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of "corporate neglect, petty politics, endless legal wrangling and our love-hate relationship with petroleum centers on Beverly Hills High School and its illustrious alumni, oil derricks and alarming number of cancer victims. Initially skeptical of the idea that the profitable oil pumps adjacent to the school have led to an array of horrible diseases among its graduates, Horowitz quickly found herself pulled into a story that raises fundamental questions about how we assess risk and balance our desire for justice with scientific and legal ambiguities about establishing causes and assigning blame. She is better at raising such questions than answering them, largely because in her case the truth…
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New York: Viking, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of "corporate neglect, petty politics, endless legal wrangling and our love-hate relationship with petroleum centers on Beverly Hills High School and its illustrious alumni, oil derricks and alarming number of cancer victims. Initially skeptical of the idea that the profitable oil pumps adjacent to the school have led to an array of horrible diseases among its graduates, Horowitz quickly found herself pulled into a story that raises fundamental questions about how we assess risk and balance our desire for justice with scientific and legal ambiguities about establishing causes and assigning blame. She is better at raising such questions than answering them, largely because in her case the truth does not come out, no lawsuits have come to trial, let alone been resolved. That doesn't make for very satisfying reading, but it's faithful to a time in which, as Horowitz says, even our will to do right by our communities has been contaminated by competing desires." Currently, the emphasis is on closing existing wells, and protecting the environment from abandoned wells. Notes, cast of characters and list of agencies, index. xxii, 442 pp. ISBN: 978-0670037988.
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Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 92854

Keywords: California, cancer clusters, journalism, los angeles, oil industry, oil wells

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Locke, Attica.
BLACK WATER RISING.

Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

New York: HarperPerennial, (2010.). SIGNED - The author's first novel, the story of a young black lawyer in Houston, Texas, in 1981, trying to put his past behind him and barely succeeding in staying above water. Nominated for the Edgar, short listed for the Orange award, this grips you from the first page. SIGNED on the title page. 427 pp. ISBN: 9780061735851.

Condition: Near fine.

Book ID: 59370

Keywords: African American Mystery, edgar nominee, first book, houston, oil industry, texas setting

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Locke, Attica.
BLACK WATER RISING.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young black lawyer in Houston, Texas, in 1981, trying to put his past behind him and barely succeeding in staying above water. Nominated for the Edgar, short listed for the Orange award, this grips you from the first page. SIGNED on the title page. 427 pp. ISBN: 978006173868.

Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Book ID: 90493

Keywords: African American Mystery, edgar nominee, first book, houston, oil industry, texas setting
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Locke, Attica.
BLACK WATER RISING.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young black lawyer in Houston, Texas, in 1981, trying to put his past behind him and barely succeeding in staying above water. Nominated for the Edgar, short listed for the Orange award, this grips you from the first page. SIGNED on the title page. 427 pp. ISBN: 978006173868.

Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket.

Book ID: 91628

Keywords: African American Mystery, edgar nominee, first book, houston, oil industry, texas setting

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White, Robin.
SIBERIAN LIGHT.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Delacorte, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller featuring Gregori Nowek and involving a savage triple murder in a small river town in Siberia which takes the reader from the intricate workings of a Siberian oil field to the bitter resolve of a gulag survivor, and a wild, violent chase across the frozen taiga. As a former oil roughneck and oil-logging engineer who has lived in Siberia, White knows the terrain he is writing about. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens - "new directions and a great old read." 441 pp. ISBN: 0-385316887.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 81447

Keywords: Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, oil industry, siberian tiger, taiga
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White, Robin.
SIBERIAN LIGHT.

Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

New York: Delacorte, (1997). First edition - A thriller featuring Gregori Nowek and involving a savage triple murder in a small river town in Siberia which takes the reader from the intricate workings of a Siberian oil field to the bitter resolve of a gulag survivor, and a wild, violent chase across the frozen taiga. As a former oil roughneck and oil-logging engineer who has lived in Siberia, White knows the terrain he is writing about. 441 pp.

Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped).

Book ID: 81448

Keywords: arc, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, oil industry, siberian tiger, taiga, uncorrected proof

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