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Following the end of the 1st World War affordable housing was hard to find and many families rented or built their own houseboats. They had no electricity, running water or proper sanitation. The houseboats were moored near the ancient fishing village of Leigh on Sea, Essex. Although their children attended the local school and there was a sense of community the local council wanted to evict the growing number of people living on the water. This proved...
3) Houseboat
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound., color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.
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245 pages ; 22 cm
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"Local outcast Rigby Sellers lives in squalor on a dilapidated houseboat moored on the Mississippi River. With only stolen mannequins and the river to keep him company, Rigby begins to spiral from the bizarre to the threatening. As a year of drought gives way to a season of squalls, a girl is found trembling on the side of the road, claiming her boyfriend was murdered. The nearby town of Oscar turns their suspicions toward Sellers. Local Sheriff Amos...
7) The beast
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Darkdeep volume 2
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326 pages ; 22 cm.
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Middle-schoolers Nico, Opal, Tyler, and Emma face a more dangerous threat and must uncover the whirlpool's origins, as well as those of that freaky "Thing in a Jar," while fending off paranormal investigators.
8) The Darkdeep
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Darkdeep volume 1
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261 pages ; 22 cm.
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Middle-schoolers Nico, Tyler, Ella, and Opal discover a hidden island in a forbidden cove that appears uninhabited, but something ancient has awakened knowing their wishes, dreams, and darkest secrets.
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xxix, 209 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"The hundreds of photographs of unique homes, including tiny houses, shipping containers, yurts, boathouses, and vans, in unexpected places from all around the world, invite you to slow down, read about the dwellers' experiences and consider a new lifestyle where you truly live by your own rules." -- Back cover.
"In the follow-up to the successful Van Life, Foster Huntington shares his experiences -- and those of others -- living by his own rules...
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6 audio discs (390 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Schoolhouse mystery : The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in a tiny, quiet New England fishing village, and the Alden's are teaching! Caboose mystery : When the Alden's spend the summer riding on a train, they get to live in a train car once again and this time, they're staying in caboose No. 777. Houseboat mystery : The Alden's are spending the summer traveling on a houseboat, but someone is watching them and wants something on the boat.
14) Plunder
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While researching archaeological sites that may soon succumb to the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill, Faye Longchamp helps a young teenager who has lost everything but a dilapidated old houseboat left to her by her murdered grandmother and uncle.
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The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks,...
16) Where we live
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30 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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18) Lethal waves
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218 pages ; 23 cm.
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DI Andy Hortons meal with his old friend, Inspector John Guilbert of the States of Guernsey Police, is cut short when a smartly dressed, affluent woman is found dead in her cabin on the ferry from Portsmouth to Guernsey. There doesnt appear to be any suspicious circumstances. As soon as he returns to Portsmouth, however, he is called to the scene where a vagrants body has been found lying partially covered under one of the rotting houseboats close...
19) The resisters
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301 pages ; 22 cm
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The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica -- governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus," whose jobs have been stripped and whose sole duty now is to consume, living in plastic houses that talk and multi-colored houseboats at the water's...
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