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2181) Fast & furious 6
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Following their successful Rio heist, Dom and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam has left their lives incomplete. Hobbs asks Dom and Brian to help him take down an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers. In return, their crew will receive full pardons and be allowed to return home.
Publisher
TLC
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Examination of the engineering, construction and design of the World Trade Center and the reasons for its collapse in the attack of September 11, 2001. Includes historical footage of construction and the attacks in 1993 and 2001, and computer simulations of the structure. Also includes commentary from architects, structural engineers, and the project manager, Guy Tozzoli.
2184) Watershed
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Amidst construction of a federal dam in rural Tennessee, Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, meets Claire, a small-town housewife struggling to find her footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South. As Nathan wrestles with the burdens of a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she hadn't known she possessed. The arrival of electricity...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A story of friendship, encouragement, and the quest to design a better world, A Man Apart is the story--part family memoir and part biography--of Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow's longtime friendship with Bill Coperthwaite (A Handmade Life), whose unusual life and fierce ideals helped them examine and understand their own. Coperthwaite inspired many by living close to nature and in opposition to contemporary society, and was often compared to Henry...
2186) 12 seconds of silence: how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II - and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war."--
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Marmalade and her crew of construction kittens are in high demand! Their latest assignment (and biggest job yet) is to build the new Mewburg bridge. But with the bridge comes the one thing that cats hate most of all--water! As the team struggles to face their fears and do their jobs, they are forced to get help from some unlikely allies...slobbery, car-chasing dogs.
2188) A bridge too fur
Author
Series
Kitten Construction Company volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Marmalade and her crew of construction kittens are in high demand! Their latest assignment (and biggest job yet) is to build the new Mewburg bridge. But with the bridge comes the one thing that cats hate most of all--water! As the team struggles to face their fears and do their jobs, they are forced to get help from some unlikely allies ... slobbery, car-chasing dogs."--Provided by publisher
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this professional project was to develop a guide for program design and function of a natural play space off the Schiele Museum Nature Trail. Research was conducted for one month. Multi-modal questionnaires and focus group interviews were used to collect information. Data were gathered from visitors and stakeholders both on-site and online. Data about how the Museum is used, the Nature Trail, opinions about the play space and play values...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Building the Brooklyn Bridge was no simple feat. Despite a brilliant plan from a father-son team of engineers, the process was a dangerous and grueling one. Construction workers developed a mysterious illness (now known as the bends), several died, and the project had devastating effects on the engineers' lives. Still, after fourteen years, the Brooklyn Bridge was finished and became the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time and is still...
2195) The teacher of Cheops
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This is the history of the time of Pharaoh Snefru and Queen Hetepheres, the parents of Cheops, who built the largest and most impressive pyramid of all. It is also the story of Sedum, a slave who became Cheops' teacher, the high priest Ramosi, and how the first pyramid came to be built. Sebekhotep, the great wise man of that time, said, "Everything is written in the stars. Most of us live our lives unaware of it. Some can read the stars and see their...
2197) Appointment in Bath
Author
Series
Somerset stories volume 4
Publisher
Perfectly Proper Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A chance meeting between the sheltered daughter and the forward-thinking son of rival Victorian families sparks a forbidden romance. Shy and stammering Meg Burton-Smythe has spent the whole of her life living on the fringes of local society. She's more comfortable with her daydreams than she is with people. But when a dashing, golden-haired hero rides to her rescue one morning, she dares to hope that her dreams might finally come true. There's only...
2198) In the shadow of the sun
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1661 France, seventeen-year-old Henriette of England must navigate her arranged marriage to Louis XIV's brother while keeping her magical abilities a careful secret from all at the Sun King's court. Includes historical note.
