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Airplanes Design and construction Drama Board books Bridges Design and construction Fiction City and town life Fiction Construction equipment Fiction Construction equipment Juvenile fiction Dwellings Design and construction Fiction Large type books Roads Design and construction Roads Design and construction FictionSummary: A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FLICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flight 2003Ng, Yvonne
Summary: "A boy walks home one day, only to find his street under construction! As he enjoys watching the excavators, bulldozers, dump trucks, pavers, and more, he gets a sense of the building process from start to finish. From blueprints to demolition to fresh, new asphalt, friendly, bright illustrations show the construction machines and workers up close"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amicus 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NGZusak, Markus
Summary: Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZUSManushkin, Fran
Summary: Katie's class is invited to see a new house a classmate's father is building, where they learn the steps to building a house and even who the new homeowner is. Includes glossary, discussion questions, and an interview.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE MANHarper, Charise Mericle.
Summary: "Little Green only knows one word: 'Go!' It's the perfect thing to get the construction site moving, but how will they stop?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HARRinker, Sherri Duskey
Summary: Told in rhyming text, seven new road-building machines set out on a job--building, rolling, paving, and painting a brand new road.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Steggall, Susan.
Summary: Uses rhyming text to follow different construction vehicles, including bulldozers, diggers, and trucks, as they build a group of houses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE STEPeter, Gareth
Summary: A boy and his mothers build a treehouse fit for a prince.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PETSummary: The sophomore season of the hit tech-centered drama hits the ground running. It's March 1985. More than a year has passed since Joe MacMillan set fire to a truck full of Cardiff Giant PCs, the last in a long string of destructive acts that burned the people that made the machine possible. The Giant is about to go the way of the dinosaur, like any number of personal computers to enter the market...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HALSummary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world's most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2014
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3 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME WINGoodnight, Linda
Summary: "Grayson Blake has come home to Honey Ridge, Tennessee, to convert an historic gristmill into a restaurant, but his plans crumble like clay when the excavation of a skeleton unearths a Civil War mystery...and leads him back to a beautiful and familiar stranger"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GOOEggers, Dave
Summary: "From the best-selling author of The Monk of Mokha, a suspenseful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country that questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EGGCleary, Rhona
Summary: Joining Prince Eric on his trip to the Arctic to oversee the construction of a new port, Ariel discovers the project is endangering the coral reefs below and must convince the team to stop before the merfolk take matters into their own hands.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Mills, Magnus.
Summary: "The tale of a man who lives in a house made of tin, set in a remote corner of the world where the wind howls and the sand blows. It is a bleak landscape but, the man assures us, he is content enough."--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILBrooks, Malcolm
Summary: "In 1937 Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston "Huck" Finn finds a dead body in a local creek and steals the man's rare Lindbergh flight watch. Huck is an aspiring aviator, working to build his own airplane--a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother.His cousin, Annelise, arrives from Los Angeles for a long stay with his family, and Huck is initially wary until he learns she has had flight...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROSutton, Sally.
Summary: Big machines and their drivers work together to build a road. On board pages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Mills, DiAnn
Summary: "On the family's Brazos River Ranch in Texas, Avery Elliott helps run her grandfather's commercial construction business. Raised by Senator Elliott, Avery has never doubted her grandfather is the man of integrity and faith she's always believed him to be . . . until the day she finds him standing with a gun over the body of a dead man. To make matters worse, Avery's just discovered a billing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILBiggs, Brian
Summary: "When there is a traffic jam on the Tinyville Town bridge, the residents decide to work together to build a new one"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: E BIGFalcones de Sierra, Ildefonso
Summary: Set in 14th century Barcelona, the 80-year construction of the Church of Santa Maria affects the lives of the citizens, those who devoted their lives to building it, and those who were sheltered there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FALMurkoff, Bruce
Summary: Their lives and dreams dramatically compromised by the Great Depression, three individuals journey to the vast construction site of the Hoover Dam in Nevada in the hopes of starting their lives over or exacting revenge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MURWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: Although it will mean that their father can no longer make a living running a ferry boat, thirteen-year-old Mark and his brother Luke are excited about the building of a five-mile bridge across the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan in 1957.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WheCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MI Whelan 2006Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHEWaller, Robert James
Summary: A young drifter with a passion for solitude and carpentry, Carlisle McMillan purchases some land near Wolf Butte, South Dakota, a region considered sacred by the Sioux, and sets out to build a life for himself among the locals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WALSummary: Dom Toretto is a former street racer who, along with his crew, hijacks an oil truck out on the highway. Dom is living the life of a fugitive in the Dominican Republic, but after suffering a devastating personal loss, he is driven by revenge to return to Los Angeles to bring down an elusive drug smuggler. He is reunited with undercover FBI agent Brian O'Connor who let him go eight years earlier....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Fa 4Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FASSummary: Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the worlds most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2013