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1) The kingdom
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
English
Description
The cities of Asia have been known for their mysterious beauty and charm. Mysterious Cities of Asia explores those factors that have kept the city alive, in other words, the "enchantment" behind these cities that have been in existence for over one thousand years and looks to both the present and the past to find the keys to the cities' secrets. By examining the various customs and ceremonies that remain in practice today, the mysteries of each city...
5) Steel Town
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Steel Town, it's always raining, freight trains come and go, the big furnace roars, and the steel mill never sleeps.
6) Shadow grave
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Arlo is afraid of fire, creepy TV shows, and even his own shadow...During a Thanksgiving road trip, a sudden collision with a strange beast in the middle of the road totals the family's car, and Arlo, his mom, and his sister end up stranded in a small town. There's something off about Livermore...When he stumbles upon a dark secret that the town's inhabitants will kill to keep, getting out of Livermore becomes a matter of life or death"--
7) La ciudad
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Describes the sights and sounds to be found in any large city.
9) Black snow
Publisher
Sundance Now
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1994, seventeen-year-old Isabel Baker was murdered. The crime shocked the small town of Ashford and devastated Isabel's Australian South Sea Islander community. The case was never solved, and the killer was never found. But 25 years later the opening of a time capsule unearths a secret that puts cold-case Detective James Cormack on the trail of the killer. Suspicion is cast over the entire town, fracturing the harmony they have spent years rebuilding.
In...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An illustrated examination of the forces that help cities grow and eventually cause their destruction is told through the histories of ancient American civilizations, documenting the rise and fall of booming cultures that once thrived on the sites of well-known modern cities.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner offers everything a weary traveler needs-- a cozy diner, a handy service station, a cluster of motel rooms-- and the Harmony family homestead presiding over it all. But when Odd Thomas and company stop to spend the night, they discover that there's more to this secluded haven than meets the eye-- and that between life and death, there is something more frightening...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It offers three whirlwind tours of America's architectural treasures: the ten homes, ten parks, and ten towns that changed our country. Explore American houses through the ages, enjoy a lively history of landscape architecture and our most beloved parks, and discover the story of how we have planned our cities over time.
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. Mairead Small Stead's debut, The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the...
Author
Series
Siege volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of how the City was saved, by Notker the professional liar, written down because eventually the truth always seeps through. The City may be under siege, but everyone still has to make a living. Take Notker, the acclaimed playwright, actor and impresario. Nobody works harder, even when he's not working. Thankfully, the good citizens of Classis appreciate an evening at the theatre even when there are large rocks falling out of the...
Author
Series
Most likely to volume 3
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.In the final book in Amazon Charts bestselling author Catherine Bybees Most Likely To trilogy, River Bends rebel follows in her fathers footsteps to become sheriff. But it might be time to forge her own path "Some kids inherit a family business; Jo Ward inherited a badge. Once voted Most Likely to End Up in Jail, the town wild child has become sheriff-- hell-bent on uncovering the truth about her father's mysterious...
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