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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America's idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the geodesic dome, he enthralled a vast popular audience, inspired...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand, until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
Formats
Description
The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim.
This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed...
This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Francine Rivers, the internationally best-selling author of Redeeming Love (K0031), has won many prestigious awards, including the Christy Award for Inspirational Historical Fiction and the ECPA Gold Medallion. More than a million copies of her books are in print. And the Shofar Blew is her poignant tale about the danger of straying from God's true path. Energetic young pastor Paul Hudson rejuvenates a dying church and boosts attendance so high that...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Nantucket writer Madeline King couldn't have picked a worse time to have writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration is in short supply. Madeline's best friend Grace, is hard at work transforming her garden into the envy of the island with the help of a ruggedly handsome landscape architect. Before she realizes it, Grace is on the verge of a decision that will irrevocably change her life. Could Grace's crisis...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy Banning shakes up social norms by secretly attending university and trying to avoid marrying the rich banker that her family has picked for her, instead setting her sights on a young architect who is working on plans for the 1893 World's Fair.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Some people aren't meant for happily-ever-after. And Deborah Standridge is one of them. When she called off her wedding to the perfect man to pursue her passion as an architect across the country, she didn't mean to hurt anyone. But Deborah saw her chance to finally make her own dreams come and she took it, setting in motion a tragedy that has haunted her ever since. Now, as one of Denver's most successful architects, Deborah has avoided love at all...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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 Reeling...
10) I'll walk alone
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tessa Young, an up-and-coming landscape architect who specializes in the design and creation of labyrinths, has immersed herself in the mythological, spiritual, and healing aspects of the elaborate structures. She also is searching for God and hoping to make sense of the nightmares that have plagued her since childhood. When Smith Chandler, an estranged colleague--with whom she'd half fallen in love a dozen times before catching herself every time--calls...
12) Fearless
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In late seventeenth-century England, eleven-year-old Digory, forced to leave his hometown after his father is lost at sea, becomes an apprentice to the architect Henry Winstanley, who built a lighthouse on the treacherous Eddystone Reef -- the very rocks that sank Digory's grandfather's ship years before.
13) The house
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel’s 66th bestselling novel, the story of a young woman’s dream, an old man’s gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door….
Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense and overlook...
Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense and overlook...
14) Butterfly Cove
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
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....
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money-- and maybe get him killed. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't resist. When one of his hiding spaces fails horribly,...
16) Wyoming proud
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It takes one night for Erianne Mitchell to fall heart-first for architect Ty Mosby. But when a devastating mistake tears them apart, Erianne flees to Wyoming with a secret she hopes Ty never discovers. She'll support herself... and the baby growing inside her. How can she be with a man who doesn't trust her? Ty knows exactly what he's lost and he'll do anything to beg for her forgiveness and win back her trust. When he finds her, she's just as proud...
17) A beauty so rare
Author
Series
Belmont Mansion novel volume 2
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
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
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021
“Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch.”
—The Wall Street Journal
Now Featuring an Interview with Elvis Costello
In this moving, immersive, and...
“Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch.”
—The Wall Street Journal
Now Featuring an Interview with Elvis Costello
In this moving, immersive, and...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent.
Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic father did not stop four-year-old Akiane Kramarik from finding God. This girl's dreams began a conversation in the home that has eventually brought them all to Christianity and the world's attention. Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry is a collection of...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wise and ebullient . . . . Gefter takes the reader inside so many of Avedon's photo shoots, and so deftly explicates his work, that you're thirsty to sate your eyes with Avedon's actual images . . . . One of the achievements of Gefter's biography is to argue persuasively for Avedon's place, as a maker of portraits, as one of the 20th century's most consequential artists." - Dwight Garner, New York Times
"Gefter weaves the particulars of Avedon's...
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