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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714,the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel...
Author
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 870L
Language
English
Description
Profiles ten of the world's most distinctive bridges.
What is the longest bridge in South America? When did the Golden Gate Bridge open? Could a bridge ever connect Russia and Alaska? To find out the answers to these questions and more, open this book and go on an exploration of the world's most amazing bridges!
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Series
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In Who Built That? Bridges, illustrator Didier Cornille presents ten of the most important bridges in the world, from the world's first cast-iron bridge (The Iron Bridge) to the longest pre-stressed concrete bridge in the southern hemisphere (The Rio-Niteroi Bridge) to the tallest bridge in the world (the Millau Viduct). Introducing each engineer or architect, the main concepts of their work, as well as some of their most important projects in charming...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One of the most important things about living in today's modern world is the ability to travel. Bridges are one of the most important aspects of our modern transportation system. Since the beginning of civilizations, simple bridges have been used to get people over rivers, across valleys, and even across mountains. Today, technology allows engineers to design the most amazing architectural marvels in the world. This resource explores the fascinating...
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Robert Kincaid, a world-class photographer, and Francesca Johnson, an Iowa farm wife. Given to nomadic ways, Kincaid is a strange, almost mystical traveler, a man who feels displaced and out of harmony with his time. Francesca, once a wartime bride from Italy, lives with the flickering memories of her girlhood dreams. They are joined in an experience that will haunt them forever.
Author
Series
The Firm volume 2
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham delivers high-flying international suspense in a stunning new legal thriller that marks the return of Mitch McDeere, the brilliant hero of The Firm. What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Pub
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Arizona was once just a passage for pioneers headed west for gold, religious freedom, and cheap land. Native Americans had lived in and explored the territory for years, but it was Manifest Destiny and the western expansionist philosophy of the burgeoning US government that created the impetus for better and faster routes across the vast territory with its topographical challenges. In the 1880s, the railroads first booted their way across the landscape,...