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The little house

Author: Virginia Lee Burton
Published: 1978-04-26
book: 40 pages
ISBN:0395181569
ISBN:9780395181560
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

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Round Trip

Author: Ann Jonas
Published: 1990-10-26
book: 32 pages
ISBN:0688099866
ISBN:9780688099862
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

Silhouettes illustrate a family's trip to a large city and their return trip home to the country.

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The pushcart war

Author: Jean Merrill
Published: 1987
book: 222 pages
ISBN:0440471478
ISBN:9780440471479
Publisher: Yearling Books
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

The outbreak of a war between truck drivers and pushcart peddlers brings the mounting problems of traffic to the attention of both the city of New York and the ...

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Down River

Author: John Hart
Published: 2008-09-30
book: 384 pages
ISBN:0312945663
ISBN:9780312945664
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Subject: Fiction

Five years after fleeing to New York in the wake of a murder acquittal, Adam Harston returns to North Carolina and to a hostile family, only to find himself ...

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The Lost Continent

Author: Bill Bryson
Published: 2002-08-13
book: 352 pages
ISBN:0385658613
ISBN:9780385658614
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Subject: Travel

"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back.

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Hollowing Out the Middle

Author: Patrick Carr
Published: 2009
book: 224 pages
ISBN:0807042382
ISBN:9780807042380
Publisher: Beacon Press
Subject: Social Science

Watch the book trailer for Hollowing Out the Middle In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved ...

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Dodsworth in Paris

Author: Tim Egan
Published: 2008-09-22
book: 48 pages
ISBN:0618980628
ISBN:9780618980628
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

When Dodsworth and the duck vacation in Paris, they have a grand time despite running out of money and accidentally riding their bicycles in the Tour de France.

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Everybody bakes bread

Author: Norah Dooley
Published: 1996
book: 40 pages
ISBN:087614864X
ISBN:9780876148648
Publisher: Lerner Pub Group
Subject: Cooking

A rainy-day errand introduces Carrie to many different kinds of bread, including chapatis, challah, and papusaa. Includes recipes.

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A boy of good breeding

Author: Miriam Toews
Published: 2006
book: 237 pages
ISBN:1582433402
ISBN:9781582433400
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Subject: Fiction

When life in Winnipeg does not go as planned, Knute Corea-McCloud returns to her parents' home in tiny Algren, Manitoba, with her daughter, Summer Feelin', and ...

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Uptown

Author: Bryan Collier
Published: 2000-05-16
book: 32 pages
ISBN:0805057218
ISBN:9780805057218
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

Vibrant illustrations enhance this bright introduction to the people and places of Harlem as seen and experienced by a young boy from the community. 12,500 ...

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The book of Joe

Author: Jonathan Tropper
Published: 2004-03-30
book: 338 pages
ISBN:0385337418
ISBN:9780385337410
Publisher: Delacorte Pr
Subject: Fiction

After writing a novel that lampooned nearly everyone in his hometown, he is forced to return to that same town to care for his father and discovers that people ...

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The image of the city

Author: Kevin Lynch
Published: 1960
book: 194 pages
ISBN:0262620014
ISBN:9780262620017
Publisher: The MIT Press
Subject: Architecture

The classic work on the evaluation of city form.

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Suburban nation

Author: Andrés Duany
Published: 2001-04-01
book: 293 pages
ISBN:0865476063
ISBN:9780865476066
Publisher: North Point Pr
Subject: Architecture

Three members of the Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism give voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to ...

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The city in history

Author: Lewis Mumford
Published: 1961
book: 657 pages
ISBN:0156180359
ISBN:9780156180351
Publisher: Mariner Books
Subject: History

An examination of Cities of the Western world tracing their development from Egypt through the Middle Ages to the present

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Underground

Author: David Macaulay
Published: 1983-02-23
book: 112 pages
ISBN:0395340659
ISBN:9780395340653
Publisher: Graphia
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

Text and drawings describe the subways, sewers, building foundations, telephone and power systems, columns, cables, pipes, tunnels, and other underground ...

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The discovery of France

Author: Graham Robb
Published: 2007
book: 454 pages
ISBN:0393059731
ISBN:9780393059731
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Subject: History

A narrative exploration of France's lesser-known landscapes and inhabitants celebrates the country's ancient tribes, prehistoric networks, and early religions, ...

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Shake Dem Halloween Bones

Author: W. Nikola-Lisa
Published: 2000-08-26
book: 32 pages
ISBN:0618070346
ISBN:9780618070343
Publisher: Sandpiper
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

A rhythmic tale follows different updated fairy tale characters--including Goldilocks, Tom Thumb, and Li'l Red Riding Hood--as they attend a hip-hop Halloween ...

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Jahrbuch Dt Archaeologischen Instituts Bd 110

Author: null
Published: 1996-04-11
book: 472 pages
ISBN:3110145235
ISBN:9783110145236
Publisher: null
Subject: History

ZUR ERNÄHRUNG UND DEM GEBRAUCH VON PFLANZEN IM HERAION VON SAMOS IM 7, JAHRHUNDERT V. CHR. vonDusanka Kucan I. EINLEITUNG In Anknüpfung an die langjährigen ...

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1996.

Author: null
Published: 1996
book: book
ISBN:0160485096
ISBN:9780160485091
Publisher: null
Subject: Technology & Engineering

INSTANT INFORMATION In an effort to facilitate the rapid dissemination of information and publications on minerals and materials, two electronic document ...

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Madlenka

Author: Peter Sís
Published: 2000-10-04
book: 48 pages
ISBN:0374399697
ISBN:9780374399696
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese ...

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