Pines and Plains Libraries

Explores the major attributes of the Arctic and Antarctic biomes, showcasing the diversity of regional animals and their environments.

When the leader of an antiglobalization group plans to use the sixty-year-old findings of a Hungarian genius to create a polar shift and give the industrialized nations a jolt before reversing the effect, the NUMA Special Assignments Team must stop him.

Continues to capture wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctic and other frozen regions of the planet.

"Using unique Photicular technology, Polar shows a hauntingly beautiful yet fragile world, caught forever in moments of living motion"--Page [4] of cover.

For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica. This is his masterful chronicle of one penguin colony's astonishing journey of life, death, and rebirth--and of the extraordinary human experience of living amongst them in the planet's harshest environment. A miracle occurs each winter in Antarctica. As temperatures plummet 60 degrees below zero and the...

Explore arctic environments, polar landscapes, animals, and people in and around the North and South Poles.

When an American research team discovers a hidden Russian ice station in the frozen abyss of the polar ice cap, a frenzied dual cover-up takes place, trapping an Alaskan couple in the middle of a horrifying scientific experiment.

An Inuit child learns that her mother's love is unconditional when she disobeys and journeys across the Arctic, from village to ice floe, in search of her puppy.