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Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Modern Architecture, Modern 20th century Architecture, Modern 21st century Black lives matter movement Grief in literature Mourning customs in literature Protest movements History 21st century Pictorial works Juvenile literature United States Women BiographyWinter, Jeanette
Summary: A biography of architect Zaha Hadid, who grew up in Baghdad and went on to design buildings all over the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Winter 2017Summary: "In this new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine, the authors look at houses both new and remodeled, traditional and modern, urban and rural, by the water and in the mountains. The houses exude as much style as homes many times their square footage, and all are as big as they need to be to fit the lifestyles and aspirations of the people who live in them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press, Inc. 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Newbold, Amy
Summary: Introduces a variety of nineteenth and twentieth century painters--including Picasso, O'Keefe, Seurat, and Jacob Lawrence--and their distinctive styles, through paintings of snowmen as each artist might have portrayed them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759 NEWBahamón, Alejandro.
Contents: Houses : Gama-Issa House / Marcio Kogan -- City Hill House / John Wardle Architects -- House in Honda / Guillermo Arias + Luis Cuartas -- Beach house / Christoff:Finio archtiecture -- Casa Larga / Daniele Claudio Taddei -- House in Miravalle / Wood + Zapata -- Castor Packard House / Callas Shortridge Architects -- May Residence / Jonathan Levi Architects -- C-House / Toshimitsu Kuno, Nobuki...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Könemann 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720 BAHJoseph, Lauren John
Summary: "It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it's February 29th - the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago. Ten years earlier, and our young narrator and a boy named Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSCutright, Patricia J.
Summary: "Twelve biographies of Indigenous women who, as modern-day warriors, have infused their communities with strength and leadership. The women overcame unimaginable hardships--racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty--only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation Native Voices 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 CUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 973 CUTHarris, Duchess
Summary: What started as a hashtag in 2013 quickly grew into the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Lives Matter examines the police shootings that fueled the movement, the events that led up to racial tensions in the United States, and the goals the movement has set for the future. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J305.8960 HARChambers, Veronica
Summary: This timely book covers the rise of Black Lives Matter and how it has been shaped by United States history, telling the story of how a hashtag became a movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1196 CHA1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 CHA
Rusch, Elizabeth
Summary: "Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 MOLBrown, Don
Summary: A graphic novel account of the giant dust storms in the Midwest in the 1930s discusses the ecological and agricultural damage caused by the storms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.032 BROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC BROFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design International 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Sasek, M. (Miroslav)
Summary: Presents a history of Cape Canaveral and the American space program, discussing the space missions that were launched from there, the various types of rockets used, and the successful landing of two astronauts on the Moon in 1969.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universe 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: So long McMansions and rambling square footage small homes are in! Easier to maintain and more affordable in hard economic times, small houses are gaining popularity in the housing market after nearly 60 years of trending up in size. Small Houses capitalizes on this shift with an all new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine. The featured writers, well respected authors in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 662 TAUMcMahon, Peter
Summary: In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. Thus began a chapter in the history of modern architecture that has never been told _until now.The area was a hotbed of intellectual currents from New York, Boston, Cambridge and the country's top schools of architecture and design. Avant-garde homes began to appear in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolis Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 MCMMann, Charles C.
Summary: "1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909.08 MANSummary: Architect David Rockwell draws on his love of drama and spectacle to create fantastic, high-impact spaces ranging from restaurants, malls, and airline terminals to theater sets and playgrounds. In this emotionally charged TEDTalk interview with journalist Kurt Andersen, Rockwell discusses the process of building a viewing platform at Ground Zero shortly after 9/11. Says BusinessWeek: "To...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Richardson, Phyllis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universe 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 RichardsonTarshis, Lauren.
Summary: "From the author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series come five harrowing true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of epic disasters. From a group of students surviving the 9.0 earthquake that set off a historic tsunami in Japan, to a boy nearly frozen on the prairie in 1888, these unforgettable kids lived to tell tales of unimaginable destruction -- and,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.34 TARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 363.34 TARKrohn, Katherine E.
Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in the American West from the 1840s to the 1890s, examining the clothing and accessories of Native Americans, early pioneers, and the men and women of different social classes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-first Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 KRORodríguez, Patty
Summary: "Inspired by one of the oldest traditional games of chance, this book will introduce your little one to their first English and Spanish words"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Libros 2014
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: JE ROD Board BookSummary: "We can bear almost anything when it is worked through collectively. Grief is generally thought of as something personal and insular, but when we publicly share loss and pain, we lessen the power of the forces that debilitate us, while at the same time building the humane social practices that alleviate suffering and improve quality of life for everyone. Addressing tragedies from Fukushima to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Vincent Scully is arguably the best-known living art historian in the United States today. This program explores the phenomenon of Scully, tracing his connection to New Haven, where he was born, and to Yale from the time he entered as a freshman in 1936 to the present. It follows the arc of his interests in classical art and architecture to American architecture, historic preservation, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Brown, Monica
Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021