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Hannah Smith novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When a wealthy Palm Beach widow hires Hannah Smith to prove that she was sold 'stigmatized property' without full disclosure, Hannah realizes she can stop the historic, some say haunted, house from being replaced by condos while tracking her family history. Although she doesn't believe in ghosts, she will learn some things are more dangerous than ghosts.
1003) End game
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Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 20
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Langley is experiencing a series of gruesome murders. The CIA's own headquarters should be the safest spot on the planet, but a highly professional, violently psychopathic assassin, who hideously disfigures his victims, strikes without mercy. The murders spread from Langley to a prison outside of Athens, where the first clue to what will become the End Game surfaces. A code carved into four copper panels of the legendary statue in a courtyard at...
1006) Built with love
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Series
A second chances novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"After the death of her husband, Kestra returns to her hometown of Port Star. With the purchase of her childhood dream house -- a stone mansion along the rocky Oregon coast -- it appears she has found a way to rebuild her life. Kestra begins to transform the old house into an elegant, yet charming, restaurant. But as the renovations begin, a mysterious stranger moves into her caretaker's cottage -- and eventually into her heart. Suddenly life is full...
1007) All around town
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"From the perfect family home to an awesome country farm, build a land for all your favorite LEGO® minifigures" -- Back cover.
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Pub. Date
2004
Description
The renowned architect introduces his iconoclastic approach to public space and shares his vision for the most important architectural project of our time, the 1776 Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site. Drawing on his uncommon background and global perspective, in Breaking Ground Daniel Libeskind explores ideas about tragedy and hope, and the way in which architecture can memorialize-and reshape-human experience. Born in 1946 to Holocaust...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"What began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor Édouard René de Laboulaye and attended, among others, by a promising young sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, was the extravagant notion of creating and giving a monumental statue to America that celebrated the young nation's ideals. Bartholdi, and later civil engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, caught the spirit of the project and thus began the...
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Nathan Hale's hazardous tales volume 6
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"From Nathan Hale, #1 New York Times bestselling author and Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List maker, comes the definitive graphic novel about the Alamo.
Hale relays the facts, politics, military actions, and prominent personalities that defined the Texas Revolution in factual yet humorous scenes that will capture the attention of reluctant readers and fans of history alike.
In the early 1800s, Texas was a wild and dangerous...
Hale relays the facts, politics, military actions, and prominent personalities that defined the Texas Revolution in factual yet humorous scenes that will capture the attention of reluctant readers and fans of history alike.
In the early 1800s, Texas was a wild and dangerous...
1011) Small Angels: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"As a teenager, Kate found a safe harbor from her parents' constant fighting in the company of the four Gonne sisters, who lived with their strict grandparents next to Small Angels, a church right on the edge of dense green woods. The first outsider to ever get close to the sisters, Kate eventually learned the family's secret: The woods are home to a capricious, menacing ghost whom generations of Gonnes had been charged with stopping from venturing...
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Hugo Marston novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Hugo Marston, a former FBI agent and head of security at the US embassy in Paris, investigates the abduction of aging bookseller Max Koche, and soon the bodies of more missing booksellers are found floating in the Seine.
1013) Spring House
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Pregnant and still grieving the death of her fiancé, historian Megan Buchanan is forging ahead on a dream project: to restore to its original glory the landmark hunting lodge her own great-great-grandfather built on Virginia's Eastern Shore. With the help of her fiancé's caring best friend, it's sure to draw much-needed tourist revenue to Cape Hudson, a town rich in southern history. However, it's Spring House, the caretaker's cottage on the grounds,...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Examines the economies of being environmentally conscious in green building design. The first program, The green apple, uses New York City, particularly One Bryant Park and the Solaire, to demonstrates how the ubiquitous skyscraper can be a model of environmental responsibility. The second episode, Green for all, features architect and activist Sergio Palleroni as he works to provide design solutions to regions suffering from social and humanitarian...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Shannon Hammer's younger sister Chloe left Lighthouse Cove after high school to make it big in Hollywood. And she did it! For several years now, Chloe has been the co-host of a popular home repair show on the Do-It-Yourself Network. Now, after ten years, Chloe returns to Lighthouse Cove with her crew and co-host to film several shows featuring her sister Shannon, along with some special mini-segments on Victorian style and design. But Shannon realizes...
1020) The hidden White House: Harry Truman and the reconstruction of America's most famous residence
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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Critically acclaimed author Klara leads readers through an unmatched tale of political ambition and technical skill: the refurbishment of the White House during the Truman administration In 1948, Harry Truman, President of the United States, almost fell through the ceiling of the Blue Room in a bathtub into a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution. A team of the nation's top architects was hastily assembled to inspect the White House,...
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