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Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When Marshall Becker arrives in Lamorlaye, France, to begin the massive renovation of a Renaissance-era castle, he unearths a dark World War II history few in the village remember. The project that was meant to provide an escape for Becker instead becomes a gripping glimpse into the human drama that unfolded during the Nazi occupation and seems to live on in midnight disturbances and bizarre acts of violence.
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A modern-day Faust embarks on a wild romp through the peculiar and preposterous American landscape When the Devil shows up in Wakefield's living room to announce that his time is up, the bookish "de-motivational" speaker tries to strike a deal. The Devil agrees to prolong Wakefield's life-for now-on the condition that within the next year he finds a more authentic existence. For Wakefield, who is estranged from his family, nearly friendless, and excellent...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Auction house appraiser Jude leaves London for her dream job at Starbrough Hall, an estate in the countryside, examining and pricing the manuscripts and instruments of an eighteenth-century astronomer. She is welcomed by Chantal Wickham and Jude feels close to the old woman at once: they have both lost their husbands. Hard times have forced the Wickham family to sell the astronomer's work, their land and with it, the timeworn tower that lies nearby....
Author
Publisher
Serres
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Español
Description
Antón y su papá están en la playa de Sitges, población cercana a Barcelona, y levantan castillos de arena. Son casi tan bonitos como las casas del verdadero arquitecto Gaudí en Barcelona! Le gusta Gaudí a papá?, se pregunta Antón. Quién era? Háblame de él!, y de sus casas!"--Cover p. [4]
6) Hawksmoor
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Crime and Detective. Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor was first published in 1985. Alternating between the eighteenth century, when Nicholas Dyer,...
7) Return to me
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Always following her parents' wishes and ignoring her psychic inner voice takes eighteen-year-old Rebecca Muir from her beloved cottage and boyfriend on Puget Sound to New York City, where revelations about herself and her family help her find a path to becoming the architect she wants to be.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages
Author
Publisher
Talonbooks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From Maylis de Kerangal comes this story of a dozen men and women éngineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers áll employees of an international consortium charged with building a bridge somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California. Their collective effort to complete the megaproject recounts one of the oldest of human dramas, to domesticate ánd to radically transform óur world through built form, with all the dramatic tension...
Author
Series
Happily ever after (Jenn McKinlay) volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Ryder Copeland is an accomplished architect and one heck of a father...not to mention tall and sexy. He's everything a hero should be, and Lord knows, Maisy Kelly has read enough of her great-aunt Eloise's romance novels to recognize one when she sees one. But like all fairy tales, Maisy can't help but wonder if this Prince Charming is too good to be true.... Ryder is drawn to the shy, curly haired professor who hires him to convert the Victorian...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates events in the childhood of architect Secundino Fernandez, who left his beloved Havana, Cuba, with his parents, first to spend a year in Spain, and later to move to New York City.
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A young brick goes on a journey to find her place in the world by visiting ten celebrated brick structures around the globe. Brick's observations begin at home and then extend globally as she travels to a diverse list of brick structures? Malbork Castle in Poland, Mahabodhi Buddhist Temple in India, Grosvenor Estate apartments in England, and more ? all the while pondering where she may end up.
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