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English
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Mary Higgins Clarks new novelthe thirtieth and most spine-chilling of her long career as Americas most beloved author of suspense fiction is about the newest and most up-to-date of crimes: identity theft. Who has not read aboutor experiencedwith a sinking feeling the fear that someone else out there may be using your credit cards, accessing your bank account, even stealing your identity. In I'll Walk...
Publisher
Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders. Marion Mahony Griffin passed the architectural licensure exam in 1898 and created exquisite drawings that buoyed the reputation of Frank Lloyd Wright. Her story is one of the many told in The Women Who Changed Architecture, which sets the record straight on the transformative impact women have made...
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English
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Sage McKnight is an ambitious young architect working at her father's firm who takes on her most challenging client in Mason Tucker. The former pro baseball player is still healing from the physical and emotional scars after a plane crash left him a wheelchair-using single dad, and he's determined not to let anyone breach his emotional defenses. Sage knows her work on Mason's new home in Hope's Crossing is her best work yet, and she won't let her...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of Julia Morgan, one of America's first female architects, who, after several rejections, made it into the prestigious all-male École des Beaux Arts in Paris and then went on to design more than eight hundred buildings.
Author
Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Would you still call me a diva if I were a man?" asked Zaha Hadid, challenging as she did so, more than 100 years of stereotypes about female architects. A century in which women were refused entry to architecture schools, were denied degrees when they had completed courses, a century in which even now, women occupy just ten per cent of the highest-ranking jobs in architecture firms. In contrast, Breaking Ground is a pioneering, even essential, celebration...
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Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 16
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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In small-town Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her feline sleuthing partners, Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, investigate when her friend, local architect Tazio Chappers, becomes the prime suspect in the killing of his most difficult client, Mrs. Carla Paulson.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Bernadette Fox, a loving mom, becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Bernadette's leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.
14) 666 Park Avenue
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Darkness lurks behind the gilded halls of New York high society, and the elite Upper East Side Witches who rule Park Avenue.
15) The middle ages
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Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
When you least expect it, life can turn you around. Take forty-something Jane Larson. Although she views her situation with wry humor, her life feels frozen. An architect, she's had the same job for eighteen years, designing chain banks, grocery stores, and dry cleaners instead of the beautiful houses she craves to create. Living in Brooklyn with her difficult teenage daughters, she's lost all hope for the possibility of love or excitement. Then she's...
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Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
From folk art to photography, architecture to painting, sculpture to music, female Cuban artists have long gone unnoticed on a global scale. This poetry collection highlights the lives and legacies of eight Cuban women who have redefined art in their communities.
17) Hearts of oak
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The buildings grow, and the city expands. And the people of the land are starting to behave abnormally, or perhaps they've always behaved that way, and it's normality that's at fault. Our hero, close to retirement, finds that the world she has always known is nothing like she always believed it to be. There are dark forces ... wait, not dark. There are uncanny forces ... no, not uncanny either. There are forces, anyway - mostly slightly odd ones...
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. is one of the most famous memorials in the world. But most people are not as familiar with the college student who won the design competition to build it. This carefully researched volume chronicles Maya Lin's childhood, her battle to create the memorial as she envisioned it, and the incredible body of work she has produced since then. More than simply an art book, this compelling biography of a young...
19) Gray matters
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Explore the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design, and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the twentieth century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought-after designer and decorator before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she labored...
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