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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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""The things we learn about our environment when we draw on location help us as we imagine, draw, and design the future.""--Francis D.K. Ching While computer-aided design has changed the way designers explore and communicate their visions, freehand drawing remains an essential skill for capturing a flow of visual ideas and developing them on the spot. Freehand Drawing & Discovery takes an updated and practical approach to using hand sketching in a...
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Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside,...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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As the town prepares for its 150th birthday celebration, everyone is alarmed when a priceless crystal goes missing. The only suspect seems to be a strange man living in the woods known as the Shaman. It's up to Roxy and her best friend Max to discover the identity of the true thief and recover the precious jewel.
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Hope's Crossing volume 6
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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No one has ever felt sorry for Genevieve Beaumont. After all, she has everything money can buy. That is, until she discovers her fiancé has been two-timing her and she's left with two choices: marry the philanderer to please her controlling father or be disinherited and find a means to support herself. Genevieve's salvation appears in the most unlikely of prospects: Dylan Caine, a sexy, wounded war vet whose life is as messy as hers. Dylan's struggling...
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Nameless City volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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The Nameless City--held by the rogue Dao prince Erzi--is under siege by a coalition of Dao and Yisun forces who are determined to end the war once and for all ... Rat and Kai must infiltrate Erzi's palace and steal back the ancient and deadly formula for napatha--the ancient weapon of mass destruction Erzi has unearthed--before he can use it to destroy everything they hold dear!
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"For most of America's history, rural people and culture have been casually mocked, stereotyped, and, in general, deeply misunderstood. Now an array of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays, along with anecdotes from the authors' real lives, dives deep into the complexity and diversity of rural America and the people who call it home. Fifteen extraordinary authors--diverse in ethnic background, sexual orientation, geographic...
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Hopeless romantics volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Charlotte Bishop runs out of options in New York City. Fired, broke, and blacklisted, she's forced to return to her hometown of Hope Lake to lick her wounds. Althought she's expecting to find a miserable place with nothing to do, she is pleasantly surprised to discover it's bustling and thriving. She's only supposed to be there until she can earn enough money to move back to New York. She's not supposed to reconnect with her childhood friends or...
89) The City
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Scary stories for young foxes volume 2
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English
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Cozy and her littermates are driven from their suburban den because something is killing the foxes in their area, and so they travel to a strange new world, the City, to confront a new set of dangers, where they meet 0-370, an injured fox who has escaped from a fur farm and who gives them a new mission--return to the farm, defeat the humans, and free the caged foxes.
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"In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will...
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Rages trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity--plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanity's survival reliant on a privileged few. If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below. Charismatic and powerful, Iravan is one such architect. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his archeologist...
94) El 7o Día
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
The matriarch of one of two feuding clans in a small Spanish village, presses her family to avenge real and imagined injustices. Based on events which took place in Puerto Hurraco in southern Spain in 1992.
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Trubble Town series volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Wendy the Wanderer's over-protective father never lets her go anywhere alone, so when he hires a babysitter, Wendy decides to venture out into Trubble Town alone where she meets Squirrelly McSquirell and other townsfolk.
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2013.
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English
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We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "Internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside. In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad historical look at the forces that have shaped the planning and design of cities and information technologies from the rise of the great industrial...
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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In this sparkling revival of the hit Australian dramedy, Laura Gibson returns to the lovely coastal town of Pearl Bay for the first time in 20 years, but it isn't the same as she remembers. Determined to mend her fractured relationship with her daughter, Laura realizes that Pearl Bay and her family may need her as much as she needs them.
100) Live, laugh, kidnap
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2022.
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English
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Three teen girls get caught up in a real estate battle between a commune and an exploitative megachurch in their small Montana town, and they devise a plot to exact revenge and make a profit by kidnapping the pastor's son and demanding ransom money.
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