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"Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya's last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside...
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Lonely Planet Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet's bestselling The Cities Book is back. Fully revised and updated, it's a celebration of 200 of the world's most exciting urban destinations, beautifully photographed and packed with trip advice and recommendations from our experts - making it the perfect companion for any traveller deciding where to visit next. - Highlights and itineraries help travellers plan their perfect trip - Urban tales reveal unexpected bites of history and local...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program looks at the role, character and functions of Australian cities with an emphasis on the State and Territory capitals. The first section shows the general features of these cities and then the main functions are examined. The importance of forms of transport to expansion of cities is shown together with discussion on the growth of cities and associated issues. Australia is one of the most urbanised nations on earth, and this program looks...
25) Radiant city
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Surrealist filmmaker Gary Burns (Waydowntown, A problem with fear) joins journalist Jim Brown on an outing to the burbs. Amidst the fresh foundations of monster homes, the two explore the dark side of suburbia and create a provocative reflection on why we live the way we do. Playing off sitcoms and reality TV, Burns and Brown turn the documentary genre inside out, crafting a vivid account of life in The late suburban age.
26) Dead astronauts
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Borne volume 2
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English
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A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against a ruthless corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. ...A...
27) Needful things
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Viking
Pub. Date
1991
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English
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Leland Gaunt opens a shop called Needful Things where there is something for everyone, but of course there is always a very high price to pay.
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English
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"In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will...
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Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives it is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the Dao, the latest occupiers, and the two must somehow work together if the City is to survive.
32) Down river
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
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IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Each day, the world's urban population swells by almost 200,000. With every passing week, more than a million people new to cities face unexpected realities and challenges of urban life. Just like the sheer volume of people in the city, these challenges can be staggering. As with the height and breadth of our metropolises, the wonders of urban life can be breathtaking. Like the city itself, the questions and challenges of urban life are both sprawling...
34) The rabbit hutch
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2022.
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English
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"A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest"--
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck....
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Chief of detectives Captain Carmine Delmonico investigates a string of twelve murders in Holloman, Connecticut in 1967 and is drawn into a complex web of deceit involving an armaments company, a student from Chubb University, and a spy selling secrets to the Russians.
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Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Return to Virgin River with four uplifting and emotional stories available together for the first time in a premium box set, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr. Now a Netflix Original Series. Hidden Summit When Connor Danson witnesses a violent crime, he must leave Sacramento and keep a low profile until the trial is over. Leslie Petruso didn’t want to leave her hometown, either. But she can’t stand another minute of listening...
39) Met her match
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Series
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English
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Terri Rayburn is a small-town girl with a reputation she doesn't deserve. Terri ignores the gossip and focuses on running a summer resort on Lake Kissel. Upon returning home from a trip, she finds a handsome stranger living in her house. She's convinced someone is trying to fix her up--and admittedly, Nate Taggert is just her type. Although Nate is engaged and strictly off-limits, he and Terri become unlikely friends. When Nate hears the rumors about...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of American Eden , a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities-from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and "sustainable" developments-that allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects, and movements that inspired, created, and shaped them. Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way-as expressions of ideas, often...
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