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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Bernadette is a frightfully intelligent wife and mother whose intense allergy to Seattle specifically, and to people in general, has driven her to hire a virtual assistant in India to execute even her most basic tasks. Then her daughter, Bee, insists on a family trip to Antarctica as her reward for getting perfect grades in middle school, and Bernadette is faced with the daunting prospect of actual human interaction. And then Bernadette disappears....
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Language
English
Description
Rand's hero is Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect who won't compromise his integrity, especially in the unconventional buildings he designs. Roark is engaged in ideological warfare with a society that despises him, an architectural community that doesn't understand him, and a woman who loves him but wants to destroy him. His struggle raises questions about society's attitude toward revolutionaries. Since this book's publication in 1943, Rand's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Thirty-two year old Alexandra Moreland is a rising star in the architectural world and lives in Manhattan. But when she is plagued by identity theft, her successful life is turned upside down. Someone has gained access to her bank accounts, credit cards, personal background, and is now impersonating her. Then, with overwhelming circumstantial evidence stacked against her, Alexandra is arrested for the murder of a woman she claims she's never met....
4) True love
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Language
English
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After she mysteriously inherits a nineteenth-century Nantucket house, Alix Madsen gets drawn into the unsolved disappearance of her ancestor two hundred years ago and begins to have feelings for Jared Montgomery, who lives in the property's guesthouse.
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Language
English
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Description
A relevant and timely novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece.
He seemed like the perfect pastor to lead Centerville Christian Church.
She was the perfect pastor's wife.
When Paul Hudson accepted the call to pastor the struggling church, he had no idea what to expect. But it didn't take long for Paul to turn Centerville Christian Church around. Attendance was...
He seemed like the perfect pastor to lead Centerville Christian Church.
She was the perfect pastor's wife.
When Paul Hudson accepted the call to pastor the struggling church, he had no idea what to expect. But it didn't take long for Paul to turn Centerville Christian Church around. Attendance was...
Author
Series
Wyoming men volume 12
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing to Wyoming after Ty Mosby, the love of her life, breaks her heart, Erianne, keeping her pregnancy a secret, tries to stand strong when he follows her, willing to do anything to beg for her forgiveness and win back her trust.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception. Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive--and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. EMMA...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Language
English
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Maybe opposites don't always attract. If they did, architect Olivia Sullivan would have run away with bad boy Rafe Russo when they were teenagers. Instead, Olivia has spent ten years dreaming up designs for a life that hasn't gone the way she planned. Still reeling from her career's implosion and her father's death, Olivia thanks her lucky stars for the support of her three lifelong friends. But this good girl is through sitting on the sidelines....
12) For baby and me
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
361 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nick Boone may be a brilliant architect, but his life is one-dimensional: just the way he wants to live it. He's a woman-of-the-week man, not marriage material. Not by a long shot. And fatherhood? Forget it. He has no idea what a family even looks like. But even a tough boss like him can't abandon Sierra Clark on the night she loses her parents. When her tears melt his cool, professional distance, attraction takes over and he gives in to a night...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
As an orphaned Black boy growing up in America in the early 1900s, Paul R. Williams became obsessed by the concept of "home." He not only dreamed of building his own home, he turned his dreams into drawings. Defying the odds and breaking down the wall of racism, Williams was able to curve around the obstacles in his way to become a world-renowned architect. He designed homes for the biggest celebrities of the day, such as Frank Sinatra and Lucille...
15) I left my heart
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Language
English
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"A Friend or Two: Elizabeth Wainwright, an East Coast heiress in disguise, takes a job waitressing at a Fisherman's Wharf café, eager to live a simpler life. One day Andrew Breed-handsome, mysterious and charismatic-walks in. He says he's a longshoreman, but his words and actions don't quite add up. Is Elizabeth falling in love with someone who's pretending to be something other than he claims? Is Andrew? No Competition: Local architect Shayne Reynolds...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
459 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of two novels includes Christyne Butler's "The Last Chance Maverick," in which architect Jonah Dalton tries to get over his heartbreak with artist Vanessa Brent, who is hiding a trauma of her own.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Details the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, a young boy from the prairie, who introduced organic architecture, a style he created based on the relationship between buildings and the natural world.
18) A testament
Author
Publisher
Horizon Press
Pub. Date
1957
Language
English
Description
Contents: Book one - Autobiographical--Book two - The new architecture.
19) A beauty so rare
Author
Series
Belmont Mansion novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Eleanor's practical plans for the new home for Civil War widows and orphans at Belmont Mansion, in Nashville, conflict with architect Marcus' artistic vision. Will they ever manage to find common ground?"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c1966
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
282 p. : ill
Language
English
Description
Winslow Homer was the antithesis of the unkempt bohemian artist of the nineteenth century. He not only always maintained the appearance of an English country gentleman, but was also an everyday sort of man, both in his life and his paintings. Yet he is ranked as one of America's greatest painters. The reason is not hard to discover, for Winslow Homer's powerful epic statements spoke for America with a breadth that few other artists have achieved....