Summary: A romantic drama following Sabine, a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is selected to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape artist Andre Le Notre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Little 2015Brookes, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 BrookesThomsen, Amanda.
Summary: Don't worry about making perfect landscaping choices; find the path that suits your style and leads to a beautiful yard that couldn't be created by anyone but you! Amanda Thomsen considers all the important questions and lays out the gardening options in her witty, choose-you-own-adventure approach to designing a yard that will suit you, wow the neighborhood, and make the whole process...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9 THOSummary: Provides advice for designing landscaping and choosing plants for the temperatures, amount of sun, and shade available; explains how to prepare the soil; and includes sections on trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and vines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meredith Corp. 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANHolmes, Roger.
Summary: Midwest Home Landscaping, Including Southern Canada, third edition, shows how to beautify 23 common landscape situations, such as front and back entries, walkways, borders, slopes, and patios. Each situation is presented with a variation, for a total of 46 designs. In addition, the book explains how to install and care for the plants, ponds, walls, and fences involved in the landscape designs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Homeowner Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.6 HOLHoagland, Clayton.
Summary: Presents master drawings depicting the basic principles of composition and perspective as well as exercises to develop observational powers and technical style
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 743.8 HOAThallon, Rob.
Summary: "Here for the first time is a complete visual handbook designed for architects, builders, students, and anyone else interested in wood-frame construction. Inside you'll find hundreds of meticulous drawings illustrating every detail you might ever want to know about when building wood, whether you're building basement walls or framing a chimney opening. This wealth of visual information is mined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Adams, Katharina
Summary: Grasses are filigree plants of particular beauty, with a great richness of colours, shapes and textures. Including more than 180 stunning colour photographs, Grasses in the Garden: Design Ideas, Plant Portraits and Care celebrates the versatility of ornamental grasses year-round. It illustrates how to plant grasses for both subtle and explosive colour effects. A section on garden design with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Garden Art Press 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.964 ADAMcCullough, Nick
Summary: "McCullough is on a mission to debunk thinking that American gardens are simply picket-lined lawns or copy-cats of esteemed European and Japanese cousins. After road tripping from sea to shining sea, he has carefully curated a list that undoubtedly proves the point. American garden designers are creating distinctive gardens with an All-American flair. They embrace the industrial grit of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.0973 MCCKingsbury, Noël
Summary: A stunning exploration of one of the hottest trends in garden design, nature-based planting with an eco-aware approach, featuring the work of leading designers such as Sean Hogan, Piet Oudolf, and Dan Pearson.0Forget the mild, manicured gardens of the past: planting today is undergoing a revolution in taste and aesthetics. This is the first comprehensive overview of a new planting approach that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 KINRingstad, Arnold
Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the building of the Hoover Dam. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World, Inc. 2017
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 609 RINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOMSummary: Changing the course of rivers has changed the course of history. Award-winning author/illustrator, and captivating storyteller, David Macaulay goes to extremes to bring you an unprecedented look at the power of dams. From the banks of the Nile to the top of the Hoover Dam, you'll meet the courageous and ambitious builders, relive the deadly disasters, and discover the little-known personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBS Boston Video 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DAMSummary: The legend of the most infamous bandit in the history of the West. Jesse James is the bold bandit whose name became synonymous with train hold-ups, daylight bank heists and every other daredevil crime associated with the lawless West of the 1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JESRainer, Thomas
Summary: An "alternative to traditional horticulture: designed plantings that function like naturally occurring plant communities. Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, two leading voices in ecological landscape design, reveal how plants fit together in nature and how to use this knowledge to create landscapes that are resilient, beautiful, and diverse."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 RAISummary: Offers advice, techniques, and instructions on the process of designing a home garden, including layouts, illustrated listings of plants, and simple construction projects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 712.6 ENCReed, Sue
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 ReedSmith, Marny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635 SMIClausen, Ruth Rogers
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 ClausenNagelhout, Ryan
Summary: Text and photographs look at how to build bridges in Minecraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J STEM NagelhoutLangdon, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grayson Publishing 2012
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 712.6 LANWallington, Jack
Summary: "Not all weeds are ugly uncontrollable brutes. Yes, they can be difficult and intimidating, but by learning how to grow weeds in unexpected ways you will become a better gardener with a more interesting garden. This book profiles over 50 weeds and shows you surprising ways to grow them, no matter what your garden type: from borders to boxes, sunny to shady, poor soil to rich, tropical to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laurence King Publishing 2019