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Novella Carpenter loves cities-the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents' disastrous mistakes, yet drawn to the idea of backyard self-sufficiency, Carpenter decided that it might be possible to have it both ways: a homegrown vegetable plot as well as museums, bars, concerts,...
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Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Studies the ecological, economic, aesthetic, and social impact urban sprawl has on society and offers a variety of solutions that could end sprawl and replace the automobile settlement patterns that became popular in the last half of the twentieth century.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In this new take on "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," the farmers are city dwellers and the farms consist of rooftops, empty lots, hydroponic labs, patios, and other urban nooks and crannies. No matter where you live, you can grow food! The book includes a link to a free downloadable song.
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English
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"Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and a brutal custody battle, is on holiday in Ireland when he falls in love with Claudette, a world famous sexual icon and actress who fled fame for a reclusive life in a rural village. Together, they make an idyllic life in the country, raising two more children in blissful seclusion until a secret from Daniel's past threatens to destroy their meticulously constructed and...
12) Night shift
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Series
A novel of midnight Texas volume 3
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels--"the Mark Twain of things that live under your bed"*--comes a new novel of Midnight, Texas, the town where some secrets will never see the light of day... At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves--only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town. Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire...
13) Home
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A wordless picture book that observes the changes in a neighborhood from before a girl is born until she is an adult, as it first decays and then is renewed by the efforts of the residents.
14) Coyote moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction picture book about coyotes hunting in suburban neighborhoods at night."--
16) Hungry Coyote
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Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From winter hunts to picnic foraging, Coyote makes his deliberate way through the seasons in his urban habitat"--
19) Black buck
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Sorry to Bother You and Wolf of Wall Street: a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime-a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems"--
20) The Unsettled
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama—about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival
"Emotionally propulsive ... Through a chorus of distinctive...
"Emotionally propulsive ... Through a chorus of distinctive...
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