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Thirty-two year old Alexandra Moreland is a rising star in the architectural world and lives in Manhattan. But when she is plagued by identity theft, her successful life is turned upside down. Someone has gained access to her bank accounts, credit cards, personal background, and is now impersonating her. Then, with overwhelming circumstantial evidence stacked against her, Alexandra is arrested for the murder of a woman she claims she's never met....
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
240 pages
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Julia Morgan was a lifelong trailblazer. She was the first woman admitted to study architecture at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first licensed to practice architecture in California. Over the first half of the 20th century, she left an indelible mark on the American West. Of her remarkable 700 creations, the most iconic is Hearst Castle. Morgan spent thirty years constructing this opulent estate on the California coast for the newspaper...
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Publisher
NAHB BuilderBooks
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"The House that She Built educates young readers about the people and skills that go into building a home. One by one, we learn about the architect, framer, roofer and many more as they contribute their individual skills needed to complete the collective project -- a new home. With illustrations that connect and empower and words that build upon each other with each page, this book will leave all kids (she, he, and they) excited about their own skills...
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Pub. Date
2010
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Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand, until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.
6) Zaha Hadid
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Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019] ©2019
Physical Desc
32 pages.
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"Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, surrounded by music. She was a curious and confident child, who designed her own modernist bedroom at nine years old. As a young woman studying at University in Beirut, she was described as the most outstanding pupil the teacher had ever met. With her spectacular vision and belief in the power of architecture, she founded her own firm and designed some of the most outstanding buildings in the world-including the...
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Publisher
Rizzoli Electa, a division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm.
Description
Julia Morgan was truly a pioneer of her time--among other accomplishments, she was the first woman architect to be licensed in California, in 1904. Through her remarkable life and legacy, this book celebrates the Beaux-Arts architecture of California. Focusing on Morgan's most famous project in the state, Hearst Castle, to which she devoted more than 30 years of her life, this volume also examines, for the first time, Morgan's fabulous early buildings...
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Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 21 cm
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"A Head Full of Ghosts meets Mexican Gothic in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist Leopoldo Gout. They were worshiped by our ancestors. Now they are forgotten. Soon, they will make us remember. It was supposed to be the perfect summer. Carmen Sanchez is back in Mexico, supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey. Her daughters Izel and Luna, too young to be left alone in New York, join her in what Carmen hopes is a chance...
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Series
666 Park Avenue volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 21 cm.
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Darkness lurks behind the gilded halls of New York high society, and the elite Upper East Side Witches who rule Park Avenue.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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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.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; cm
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"Sarina Mahler has finally settled into life. She has a successful career as an architect, a perfect, loving boyfriend, and a close group of friends. But when an old crush moves to town - Eamon, a former Olympic swimmer and the only man she never truly got over - everything flips upside down. Haunted by the death of her mother, Sarina uses her passion for design, inherited from her beloved step-father, to escape from emotional entanglements. With...
12) All is bright
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Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 24 cm.
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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...
13) Maya Lin
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Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
59 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Presents a biography of Maya Lin, the creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., shows how she overcame many obstacles to share her creations, which were always connected to surrounding landscapes and nature. She has become an inspiration to many who are following in her footsteps and are following their creative dreams.
14) True love
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" ... first book in a ... new series--the Nantucket Brides trilogy. Set on the magical Massachusetts island, True Love introduces characters from a new generation of Montgomery-Taggerts, the beloved family from Deveraux's classic novels. Just as Alix Madsen is finishing up architectural school, Adelaide Kingsley dies and wills her, for one year, the use of a charming nineteenth-century Nantucket house. The elderly woman's relationship to the Madsen...
17) Zaha Hadid
Author
Series
Peque?a and grande volume 37
Publisher
Alba
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
Zaha Hadid naci? en Bagdad en una familia art?stica y liberal. En 1980, fund? su propio estudio de arquitectura, Zaha Hadid Architects, en Londres. All? obtuvo un gran reconocimiento internacional con trabajos que desafiaban la forma de los edificios convencionales. Construy? lo imposible, como el Centro Acu?tico de Londres, la ?pera de Guangzhou o el Centro Cultural Heydar Aliyev en Bak?, Azerbaiy?n. Ganadora de m?ltiples premios y reconocimientos,...
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