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1223) Fire on the water
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A novel based on a true tale of heroism and invention in the tunnels beneath Lake Erie in 1916. This original graphic novel imagines the lives of blue-collar workers involved in the real-life Lake Erie tunnel disaster of 1916 in Cleveland. Author Scott MacGregor and illustrator Gary Dumm tell the intersecting stories of a brilliant African American inventor, Ben Beltran (based on the real-life Garrett Morgan, Sr.), desperate immigrants tunneling beneath...
Author
Publisher
Zenith Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, Los Angeles was the ultimate boom town. By the end of the war, the L.A. area had produced 17 percent of all of America's war needs. North American Aviation, Inc. (NAA), operating out of their main Inglewood, California, plant, which is south of and adjacent to the city, was a key player in that work. From 1938 to 1944, NAA built over 40,000 aircraft, more than any other company in the United States. The bulk of them were of three...
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 115-499
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Author
Series
Stinky Cecil volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After Cecil the toad discovers that a new freeway project is aimed right at his pond, he and the other pond creatures resolve to stop the construction.
1227) The race underground: Boston, New York, and the incredible rivalry that built America's first subway
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers--Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York City--pursued the dream of his city being the first American metropolis to have a subway and the great race was on. The competition...
1229) Amazing landmarks
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This accessible nonfiction compendium explores the creation of 10 global landmarks, from the first spark of an idea to the final layer of paint. Acclaimed educator Rekha S. Rajan encourages readers to see themselves as the engineers, builders, architects, and more through interactive stories and a unique structure"--
1231) The arsenal of democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and their epic quest to arm an America at war
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 1863, America is divided not just by the civil war but by months of travel over thousands of miles. Two railroad companies, one each from East and West, are given the task of connecting the nation by rail. Building this railroad will be a monumental undertaking, difficult and dangerous. The work falls to immigrant laborers from the lowest economic classes. They accomplish astounding feats of engineering while waiting for an answer: Will those...