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Author
Series
Sullivan's Crossing volume 5
Language
English
Description
Hannah Russell's carefully crafted plans for her life have been upended without warning. When her best friend died suddenly, Hannah became guardian to a five-year-old named Noah. With no experience at motherhood, she's terrified she's not up to the challenge. She and Noah need time to get to know each other, so she decides to rent a country house with stunning views on a lake in rural Colorado. When they arrive at the house, they are greeted by the...
Author
Publisher
ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Let's learn about going green! This positive title presents the different ways we use energy and resources in our homes. This easy-to-read book also includes fun, kid-friendly ways to care for the earth. From electricity to recycling, readers can discover some easy ways to have a green home! Super SandCastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company."--
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Language
English
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Description
"Today, a minimum-wage earner can afford a one-bedroom apartment in only 28 out of 3,140 counties in America. The single worst place in the United States to look for affordable housing is Osceola County, Florida. Once the main approach to Disney World, where vacationers found lodging on their way to the Magic Kingdom, the fifteen-mile Route 192 corridor in Osceola has become a site of shocking contrasts. At one end, absentee investors snatch up foreclosed...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (16 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Inspiring portraits of grassroots activists in communities of color who are using a community land trust to preserve affordable housing and promote development without the displacement of longtime residents. By combining community ownership of land with individual ownership of homes, the CLT gives communities a powerful way to shape and secure their future, while opening the door to affordable homeownership for low-income residents.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 84 min.)
Language
English
Description
It began as a housing marvel. Built in 1956, Pruitt-Igoe was heralded as the model public housing project of the future, "the poor man's penthouse." Two decades later, it ended in rubble - its razing an iconic event that the architectural theorist Charles Jencks famously called "the death of modernism." The footage and images of its implosion have helped to perpetuate a myth of failure, a failure that has been used to critique Modernist architecture,...
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English
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Description
Across the country, a level of unaffordable housing that once seemed unique to global cities like New York and San Francisco has become the norm, with nearly a third of all US households considered housing cost burdened. This situation has been abetted by the direct actions of developers, politicians, and existing homeowners who have sought to drive up the cost of housing. But it's mostly happened due to a society-wide refusal to see housing as anything...
7) Rabbit housing: planning, building, and equipping facilities for humanely raising healthy rabbits
Author
Language
English
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Description
"This is the definitive guide to safe, sanitary, and efficient facilities for your rabbits. Bennett provides clear, step-by-step instructions for building all-wire hutches and the necessary accessories, including feeders, watering systems, nest boxes, and surrounding shelters and fencing. He includes building plans for both small- and large-scale facilities, as well as guidelines for making your rabbit housing as attractive as it is functional....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 63 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Sixty years ago, the "projects" were considered to be the most desirable housing stock for low-to-low-middle-income Americans. Today, this same housing has become stigmatized, beset by financial and social problems, and may be phased out. This film, made in the 1980s, remains the classic portrait of a government program besieged on all sides. In two 30-minute sections, the film presents a concise social history of a housing movement and its opponents,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 52 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to be, Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance have retained something of the area’s seedy reputation for poverty, prostitution, drugs and violence. But who really knows the projects and the people who live there? Delving beneath the prejudices and stereotypes, director Isabelle Longtin ventured inside the buildings...
10) House
Series
Publisher
Xist Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"This simple book teaches children to identify common household items.Professionally photographed household items with simple titles pop from each page of this book. Designed with young children in mind, this book is a perfect way to introduce your baby or toddler to the world around them. Used as a jumpstart for interaction, Discover Series Picture Books are a great way to introduce new images, words and concepts to kids."--
Author
Language
English
Description
"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched...
13) Home
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home, which edges onto an abandoned highway. Almost entirely cut off from society at large, they forge their own Utopia, but everything changes when city trucks roll in to complete the road's construction, allowing rush hour traffic to start rumbling by. Stars Isabelle Huppert (The piano teacher).
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Language
English
Description
Willa Knox has always prided herself on being the embodiment of responsibility for her family. Which is why it's so unnerving that she's arrived at middle age with nothing to show for her hard work and dedication but a stack of unpaid bills and an inherited brick home in Vineland, New Jersey, that is literally falling apart. The magazine where she worked has folded, and the college where her husband had tenure has closed. The dilapidated house is...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 80 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A must for health care workers in assisted living facilities. Understand Alzheimer's disease through the family's eyes with interviews from family members and staff.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
La historiadora Trinidad Simó visita de nuevo el Cabanyal, 40 años después de dedicarle en su tesis doctoral el apartado «El modernismo valenciano popular». Tal y como hizo en los años 70, en este recorrido la acompaña el fotógrafo Francesc Jarque. A través del texto y las imágenes, el volumen pretende dejar constancia de cómo está el barrio en la actualidad, teniendo en cuenta todos los cambios producidos en 40 años. Sin duda el barrio...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Este libro es el resultado de investigación del proyecto "Feminización de la migración venezolana en Colombia: análisis regional con enfoque de derechos humanos, 2014-2018". Presenta una serie de reflexiones en torno al rol de la mujer dentro de la dinámica de los procesos de movilidad humana provenientes de Venezuela. En este texto los investigadores se concentran en analizar la doble situación de vulnerabilidad de las mujeres migrantes, toda...
Author
Language
English
Description
Information on Single-family Subdivisions, Townhouse and Cluster Developments, Mobile Homeowners Associations, and Master Community Associations.
A homeowners association is designed to preserve the common welfare and the property values of the community. In a properly operated community, it does. In a poorly run community, it does not. The proper operating procedures are not difficult, but they are often overlooked or misunderstood. This manual provides...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 58 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This program is a must for healthcare workers in assisted living facilities. Join us as we explore various strategies for managing AD residents with patience and respect, all the while reducing the stress level of each healthcare professional. Meets Florida state requirements for Alzheimer's training. Facilitators guide included.
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Language
English
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Description
Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. It?s December, and she?s taking a room in a crumbling, but grand, Notting Hill house-share with four virtual strangers. On her first night, Jess meets Alex, the guy sharing her floor, at a Christmas dinner hosted by her landlord. They don?t kiss, but as far as Jess is concerned the connection is clear. She starts planning how they will knock down the wall between them to spend...
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