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Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Probing behind the "wide-open city" moniker Butte has worn so well, Mining Cultures shows how the western city evolved from a male-dominated mining enclave to a community in which men and women participated on a more equal basis as leisure patterns changed and consumer culture grew. Mary Murphy's engagingly written book is the first serious look at how women worked and spent their leisure time in a city dominated by men's work - mining. In bringing...
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Pompeii's tragedy is society's windfall: an ancient city fully preserved, its urban design and domestic styles speaking across the ages. This richly illustrated book conducts readers through the captured wonders of Pompeii, evoking at every turn the life of the city as it was 2,000 years ago. At home or in public, at work or at ease, the people of Pompeii and their world come alive in Zanker's masterly rendering. It is a provocative and original reading...
403) Around town
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"A new title in our popular First Words and Pictures series highlights places around town. This oversize board book shows words and pictures together, encouraging kids to name objects, begin to recognize categories, and embark on a lifetime of reading and learning"--
"Filled with delightful, full-color illustrations and simple labels for each picture, the book introduces children to basic literacy skills and concepts. This book displays different...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents-gods, kings and emperors, governments, visionaries and madmen-as well as friends and enemies. They have duties and responsibilities. They can endure crises of faith and purpose. They can succeed or fail. They can live. And, sooner or later, they die. In Fallen Glory, James Crawford uncovers...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
This is a story about life in a small town, from the point of view of a pregnant lesbian. Louise A. Blum now tells the story of her own life and her decision to be out, loud, and pregnant. Blum recounts how a quiet, conservative town in an impoverished stretch of Appalachia reacts as she and a local woman, Connie, fall in love, move in together, and determine to live their life together openly and truthfully. The town responds in radically different...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Delving into the heart and soul of more than 225 cities around the globe, The World's Best Cities is a glossy, glorious tribute to cosmopolitan life. In photos and words, this irresistible volume showcases long-established great cities like Paris, Rome, New York, London, and Tokyo, as well as exciting up-and-comers, including Denver, Asheville, Oslo, and Abu Dhabi. As readable as it is beautiful, this expansive travel guide offers a playful, informative...
414) Town Life
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Explores all aspects of life in medieval towns, explaining how and why towns developed as centers of trade and population. It describes who lived in towns, what kinds of work they did, what they ate, the houses they lived in, and how they were entertained.
415) Live, laugh, kidnap
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Three teen girls get caught up in a real estate battle between a commune and an exploitative megachurch in their small Montana town, and they devise a plot to exact revenge and make a profit by kidnapping the pastor's son and demanding ransom money.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Paolo Soleri, architect, philosopher and a citizen of the planet. Fans have gone as far as to compare him to DaVinci and Gandhi, but critics believed him to be an ego driven eccentric with a failed experiment out in the desert A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, Paolo's Utopian vision has been steadfast, urban sprawl is destroying the planet and the answer is to build mega-structure cities a hundred times the size of the Empire State Building. Explore...
417) Catch: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Teenager Tim Temples must decide if he wants to leave his comfortable life in a small town and go to college.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Set in failing small town in central Ohio, [this novel] asks how one manages, in an America of increasing division, to find a sense of family and community. [It focuses] on the members of three families: the Baileys, a white family who have put down deep roots in the community; the Marwats, an immigrant family that owns the town's largest employer; and the Shaws, especially young Anthony, an outsider whose very presence gently shakes the town's understanding...
420) Public anchovy #1
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
While Geneva Bay's upper crust gets ready to party down at a Prohibition-themed fundraiser, pizza chef Delilah O'Leary is focused on seeing her struggling restaurant through the winter slow season. The temperature outside is plummeting, but Delilah's love life might finally be heating up, as hunky police detective Calvin Capone seems poised to (finally) make a move. But Delilah's hopes of perfecting a new "free-from" pizza recipe for a charity bash...