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Gallow and ragged volume 1
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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....
4) Dig!
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Follows Mr. Rally and his dog, Lightning, as they travel the town on a big yellow digging machine, taking care of five important jobs.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Workers in the building trade are in demand in nearly every part of the country-and they are earning good wages. The construction industry is booming, generating more than $60 billion nationwide in 2018"--
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Maggie D'Arcy novels volume 3
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...
10) On the job
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"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"--
11) Western
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet featuring essay by Dennis Lim inserted in container (4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
An intense, slow-burning thriller, this film follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. The foreign land awakens the men's sense of adventure, but tensions mount when, Meinhard, the strong, silent, and newcomer to the group, starts mixing with the local villagers. The two sides speak different languages and share a troubled history. Can they learn to trust each other, or is the stage being...
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Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad—the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Five men are hired to paint the lines of a road. Painting one kilometer per hour is slow enough to learn the lines between good and evil, laughter and despair, life and death. The challenges they face will change their lives forever.
14) Breathe the sky
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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Two strangers start out saving animals and end up rescuing each other in this heartwarming romance from the author of Unbreak Me. Mari Tucker is a wildlife biologist who scoops bunnies and endangered tortoises out of harm's way on construction sites. Still haunted by her past, she takes the most remote jobs in the Mojave Desert to avoid people and hide from her ex. It's a simple, quiet life filled with sweet animals and solar-powered baking until...
17) Blood mountain
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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
335 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"One man ruled the mountainside - and made a deal with the would-be railroad's competitors. If Simon Striker could stop the steel tracks, he could earn a fortune. Now a brawling, quarrelling crew of immigrant railroad workers - Chinese, Irish and Polish - are about to be swept into a death trap in the mountain. And as Striker unleashes his landslide of terror, treachery and murder, a tough Irishman and sword-wielding Chinese fighter are going after...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations, music ; 24 x 29 cm + 1 audio disc (digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
"Johnny Works with One Hammer, but then he adds another worker to his crew. And another and another! Learn basic addition in this Sing-along Song, and see what Johnny and his crew are building with their hammers"--Page 4 of cover.
19) Smashy town
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"With a turn of his crane and a swing of his wrecking ball, Mr. Gilly knocks down the old buildings. He smashes through brick and wood. He crashes through stone and glass. Then, with a push from his bulldozer, Mr. Gilly cleans it all up to make room for something brand-new!"--Amazon.
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"After promising a town he'd find them water and then failing, Sullivan Harris is on the run; but he grows uneasy when one success makes folks ask him to find other things-like missing items or sons. When men are killed digging the Hawk's Nest Tunnel, Sully is compelled to help, and it becomes the catalyst for finding what even he has forgotten-hope"--
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