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3) Train Dreams
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Pub. Date
2011.
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Denis Johnsons Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions.Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century-an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.Suffused...
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Hope's Crossing volume 4
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If you build it, love will come --to Hope's Crossing. Alexandra McKnight prefers a life of long workdays and short-term relationships, and she's found it in Hope's Crossing. A sous chef at the local ski resort, she's just been offered to Hope's Crossing. her dream job at an exclusive new restaurant being built in town. But when it comes to designing the kitchen, Alex finds herself getting up close and personal with construction foreman Sam Delgado......
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Gallow and ragged volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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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....
6) On the job
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Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
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) Construction
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Construction offers opportunities for hands on work and the chance to build structures from the ground up. This industry is composed of workers who build residential, industrial, and commercial buildings; contractors who build sewers, highways, bridges and other infrastructure projects. It includes people who perform skilled activities such as carpentry, painting, plumbing and electrical work. If you enjoy working with your hands, collaborating on...
13) Mater 2-10
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"International Booker-nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story -- an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history. In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-story factory chimney. During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on the meaning of life, on wisdom passed down the generations. Through the lives of those ancestors, three generations...
14) Ninja on the job
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Series
Moby Shinobi volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Told in rhyme, Moby Shinobi tries to help out the construction workers building a house, but as usual his ninja skills just create chaos--until he saves a puppy that has gotten stuck in wet concrete.
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Todd Lewis's fatherly fury was explosive enough to make steel girders tremble. How dare some tight-tipped schoolmarm call his little boy disruptive! Prepared to do battle with the formidable Elizabeth Gentry, he was jolted when brainy, beautiful Liz stormed his construction site with the passion of a she-cat defending her cub... and with womanly curves suggestive of very adult education. The brawny builder's intelligence was obvious, his innuendos...
17) Alaskan catch
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A dream job it's not. But for Emily Prentice, working as a seafood inspector in Ketchikan, Alaska, takes her one step closer to becoming a marine biologist. And it'll give her a first taste of independence from her overprotective mom and the doctor boyfriend she's pushing into Emily's arms. Emily's certainly not looking for romance . . . until a huge dog knocks her down and sends her flying into fish goo. It's love at first sight for Emily and Bear,...
18) Ghost train
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A young Chinese girl sails to North America after her dead father asks for her help in a dream.
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Ly-San-Ter family saga volume 3
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Follows the star-crossed romance of a strong-willed woman who vows that no man will ever capture her heart and the powerful warrior who is equally determined to fight for what he wants.