Andrew Dunn
Author
Language
English
Description
Backpackers on Wheels is a manual for travel organizing, essentially a "how-to" guide. It is directed at first-time travelers and experienced travelers alike. First-time travelers will benefit from this book by avoiding potholes in organizing their travel. Experienced travelers will benefit from this book by streamlining their travel arrangements and perhaps widening their travel horizons. This book is a practical guide to contemporary travel in a...
5) Dams
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the design and construction of various kinds of dams, the benefits gained from them, and some of the negative consequences of damming. Includes several related projects.
7) Heat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Explains how heat works and the functions it serves in our world, discussing such areas as conduction, expansion, and evaporation.
8) Bridges
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Explores the methods and materials used in building bridges, as well as the environmental impact of bridge building. Includes some projects.
9) Skyscrapers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the aesthetic and practical values of skyscrapers and the technology used to build them.
13) Book club
Language
English
Formats
Description
Diane (Diane Keaton) is recently widowed after 40 years of marriage, Vivian (Jane Fonda) enjoys her men with no strings attached, Sharon (Candice Bergen) is still working through her decades-old divorce, and Carol's (Mary Steenburgen) marriage is in a slump after 35 years. The lives of these four lifelong friends are turned upside down after reading the infamous "50 Shades of Grey," catapulting them into a series of outrageous life choices.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Holly is an up-and-coming caterer and Messer is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, all they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly and Messer must set their differences aside. Juggling career ambitions and competing social calendars, they'll have to find common ground while living under the same roof....
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
With a good job, a nice house, great kids, and marriage to his high school sweetheart, fortysomething Cal Weaver is living the dream. But when he learns that his wife has cheated on him and wants a divorce, Cal's "perfect" life quickly unravels and, not having dated in decades, he needs help from his professional bachelor friend, Jacob Palmer, to navigate the singles scene.
17) Stage beauty
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the 17th century stage, where Ned Kynaston's performace of Desdemona in Shakespeare's 'Othello' brings the house down nightly. Ned is the "most beautiful woman on the London stage". That is, until the King renounces the royal edict that only men can play women on stage. Enter Maria, Ned's seemingly loyal dresser, who becomes an instant star, leaving Ned to suppress his ardent feminine traits and make a man of himself.
18) The company
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A behind-the-scenes look at the world of dance as seen through the eyes of a talented young dancer on the brink of success.
19) The Children Act
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both.
20) Ithaca
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as Spring turns to Summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one...
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