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3) Train Dreams
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Pub. Date
2011.
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Denis Johnsons Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions.Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century-an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.Suffused...
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Gallow and ragged volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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"Jeremy Gallow is just another construction worker, and that's the way he likes it. He's left his past behind, but some things cannot be erased. Like the tattoos on his arms that transform into a weapon, or that he was once closer to the Queen of Summer than any half-human should be. Now the half-sidhe all in Summer once feared is dragged back into the world of enchantment, danger, and fickle fae - by a woman who looks uncannily like his dead wife....
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Hope's Crossing volume 4
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If you build it, love will come --to Hope's Crossing. Alexandra McKnight prefers a life of long workdays and short-term relationships, and she's found it in Hope's Crossing. A sous chef at the local ski resort, she's just been offered to Hope's Crossing. her dream job at an exclusive new restaurant being built in town. But when it comes to designing the kitchen, Alex finds herself getting up close and personal with construction foreman Sam Delgado......
10) On the job
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Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"Rubble knows that teamwork can get any job done. So, when city hall needs a new roof, he calls on Mix, Charger, Wheeler, and the rest of his pup family for help"--
12) Construction
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Construction offers opportunities for hands on work and the chance to build structures from the ground up. This industry is composed of workers who build residential, industrial, and commercial buildings; contractors who build sewers, highways, bridges and other infrastructure projects. It includes people who perform skilled activities such as carpentry, painting, plumbing and electrical work. If you enjoy working with your hands, collaborating on...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"In The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor returns to the critically acclaimed world of Maggie D'arcy with another atmospheric mystery so vivid readers will smell the salt in the air and hear the wind on the cliffs. For the first time in her adult life, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D'arcy is unemployed. No cases to focus on, no leads to investigate, just a whole summer on a remote West Cork peninsula with her teenage daughter Lilly...
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Todd Lewis's fatherly fury was explosive enough to make steel girders tremble. How dare some tight-tipped schoolmarm call his little boy disruptive! Prepared to do battle with the formidable Elizabeth Gentry, he was jolted when brainy, beautiful Liz stormed his construction site with the passion of a she-cat defending her cub... and with womanly curves suggestive of very adult education. The brawny builder's intelligence was obvious, his innuendos...
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[2005]
Description
"Scoop the disco digger": Scoop is busy helping Bob and doesn't have time to learn to dance for a special dance display. "Spud's statue": Bob is busy building a pavilion for the flower show where a new statue will be unveiled. "Skip's big idea": Scoop suggests renovating the Old Mill for an art exhibition prompting Skip to come up with an idea of his own. "Muck's surprise": Mr. Bentley asks Bob to build a summer house so he can surprise Mrs. Bentley...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"Can Rubble and his family of construction pups create a new car wash in time for the Builder Cove Vroom-Vroom Car Race?...Just down the road from Adventure Bay is Builder Cove, a town where Rubble and his family work together on construction challenges of all kinds." --publisher's website.
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"Janet Rossi is very smart and unusually attractive, an aide to the governor of Massachusetts, but she suffers from an illness that makes her, as she puts it, "not exactly a good long-term investment." Jake Entwhistle is a few years older, a carpenter and portrait painter, smart and good-looking too, but with a shadow over his romantic history.
After meeting by accident - literally - when Janet backs into Jake's antique truck, they begin a love affair...
20) Ghost train
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A young Chinese girl sails to North America after her dead father asks for her help in a dream.