Summary: 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 FLI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flight 2003

Ng, 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 NG

Harper, 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 HAR

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HAR

Manushkin, 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 MAN

Zusak, 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 ZUS

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 STE

Peter, 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 PET

Summary: 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 HAL

Summary: 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 WIN

Eggers, 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 EGG

Goodnight, 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 GOO

Cleary, 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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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DIS

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 MIL

Brooks, 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 BRO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRO

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 MIL

Whelan, 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 Whe

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WHE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHE

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHE

Waller, 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 Fiction, Call number: FIC WAL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WAL

Summary: Now married to Suzanne, Nick buys a suburban house to escape the rat race of the big city and to provide more space for his new wife and kids Lindsey and Kevin. But when his new home quickly becomes a costly "fixer upper," he finds himself at the mercy of an eccentric contractor, Nick's suburban dream soon becomes a nightmare.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD A

King, Jonathon.

Summary: "It begins with an eighty-year-old mystery. Three men - a father and his two sons - vanished without a trace while working as labourers on a dangerous project to build the first road through the Florida Everglades. Now, years later, a series of letters are unexpectedly discovered by a descendent of these men. Driven by the need to know what happened to these lost members of the family, he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

Summary: What enables a simple arch bridge to support such great weight? What holds up a suspension bridge? Bridge the world with award-winning author-illustrator, and captivating storyteller, David Macaulay, and meet the brilliant designers who dared to extend roads and railways with ingenious but sometimes flawed designs. From the Golden Gate Bridge to some of the world's groundbreaking spans, you'll...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BRI

Cather, Willa

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAT

Peterson, Tracie

Summary: "In 1869, Gloriana Womack's family is much smaller since scarlet fever killed her mother and two of her siblings. She lives in a modest cottage in Duluth, Minnesota, with her father and young brother, and she has dedicated her life to holding her tiny, fractured family together--especially as her father is frequently gone on long fishing trips. Their livelihood may come from the waters of Lake...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PET