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Eisner, Peter Jones, Cherie Koones, Sheri Mooney, Chris (Chris C.) Smith, Sherri L.Koones, Sheri
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.0472 KOOKoones, Sheri
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2010
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.0472 KOOKoones, Sheri
Summary: "This book presents an international look at sustainable home design, it explores a compelling range of design styles and cutting-edge green technologies. The rising cost of fuel and the growing commitment to protect the environment have sparked exciting innovations in prefab home construction around the world. Showcasing many of the unlimited possibilities offered by prefabrication to build...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.047 KOOKoones, Sheri
Summary: Smaller, more environmentally-friendly houses seem to be the wave of the future. As people chose to move out of cities, finances and life style will limit the size of the houses these new home owners will choose. One or both people in the home may have lost their job or the jobs may not be as secure as they were before the pandemic. Even with a future vaccine, people are aware that social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728 KOOKoones, Sheri
Summary: "Prefabricated housing is a practical solution since it is faster to build, less expensive than site-built houses, and potentially more energy efficient -- all aspects that are attractive to homeowners. According to manufacturers, they are seeing the trend for house size coming down but with higher quality amenities. Sheri Koones has authored a series of five prefabulous books; this one is her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.37 KOOKoones, Sheri
Summary: "Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are good for people and communities. An inside look at 25 charming, ultra-functional, extra living spaces will inspire you to build one of your own! An Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) is a smaller housing unit built on the same lot as a primary dwelling (also known as Additional or Auxiliary Dwelling Units) ― think granny flat, in-law unit, laneway house). It has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Gibbs Smith] 2024
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Summary: "The 25 small houses presented in Downsize are owned by people who have made a conscious decision to downsize from a larger home to a smaller home--or who just decided to build small in the first place. Some of the houses are new (site-built or prefab), others are remodels. All are 2,000 sq. ft. or less. The featured houses show how to use space efficiently through such strategies as: -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press, Inc. 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2012
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2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.0472 KOOSummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCEisner, Peter
Summary: The true story of three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese in Manila for more than two years, sabotaging enemy efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur's return. One was a debonair polo-playing expatriate businessman who was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Another was a defiant enlisted American soldier. And the third was a wily American woman, an intinerant torch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 EISSummary: At an Army base in 1941 Hawaii, the lives of enlisted men and officers are troubled by spiteful commanders, sadistic military police, and forbidden love. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie From 2001Summary: Trading Christmas: Emily Springer is disappointed in her daughter, Heather, won't make the cross-country trip from Harvard to visit at Christmas. Emily decides to surprise Heather and trades houses with Charles Brewster, a college professor. Emily is the one who is surprised when she finds out her daughter left for Florida with her boyfriend and has only Charles' brother for company. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALSummary: Based on a true story, twelve-year-old Tom and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZoSummary: England during the English Civil War. A small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by two men: O'Neil and Cutler. O'Neil, an alchemist, forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONSmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Harry Potter, an orphaned child that has spent the first ten years of his life living under the stairs of his aunt and uncle's house, is invited to join the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He learns his destiny lies in the realm of magic and fantasy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAR RATED PGSummary: Harry Potter, an orphaned child that has spent the first ten years of his life living under the stairs of his aunt and uncle's house, is invited to join the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He learns his destiny lies in the realm of magic and fantasy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HMooney, Chris (Chris C.)
Summary: Journalist and bestselling author Mooney and scientist Kirshenbaum offer an impassioned polemic about the dangers of America's scientific illiteracy. They go on to propose a broad array of initiatives that could lead to a greater integration of science into the national discourse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509.73 MOOSummary: Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BADSummary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: Based on a true story of British women working as undercover agents in France during WWII, this compelling series comes to a thrilling close in these final eight episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WISSummary: A heartwarming look at family and friendship, and the poignant story of high school student Homer Macauley and the lives he touches while delivering telegrams throughout his small California town during the troubling years of World War II. Moving and timeless, a masterful celebration of the American way of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010