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2) Castle
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this first-ever standalone full-color edition, Castle is lavishly reborn in digitally finished drawings rendered with felt-tip markers and colored pencils. Factual and artistic details shine in light of newly researched information. With characteristic zest and wit. Architecture enthusiasts of all ages will marvel at the staggering possibilities of human imagination and ingenuity
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
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Description
During the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, the ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through 40 years of social and political upheaval as internal church politics affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists.
7) Houses
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Pub. Date
©1998, ©1995.
Description
Illustrations with transparent overlays describe the different kinds of houses used in various places around the world as a result of people adapting their dwelling to their environment.
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Surveys the work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, providing photographs of the buildings and designs that characterized six different periods of his career, from 1887 to 1959, each prefaced by an explanatory essay; and includes a section devoted to Wright's personal collection of Asian art.
18) The Fountainhead
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 53
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Description
The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of...