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Girl in the walls : a novel / by Gnuse, A. J.,1990-author.;
"A mesmerizing and suspenseful coming-of-age novel about an orphan hiding within the walls of her former family home--and about what it means to be truly seen after becoming lost in life"--Elise knows every inch of the house. She knows which boards will creak. She knows where the gaps are in the walls. She knows which parts can take her in, hide her away. It's home, after all. The home her parents made for her, before they were taken from her in a car crash. And home is where you stay, no matter what. Eddie is a teenager trying to forget about the girl he sometimes sees out of the corner of his eye. But when his hotheaded older brother senses her, too, they are faced with the question of how to get rid of someone they aren't sure even exists. And as they try to cast her out, they unwittingly bring an unexpected and far more real threat to their doorstep. Written with grace and enormous heart, Girl in the Walls is a novel about carrying on through grief, forging unconventional friendships, and realizing, little by little, that we don't need to fear what we do not understand.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Ghost stories.; Orphans; Spirits; Haunted houses; Teenagers;

The girl behind the wall / by Robotham, Mandy,author.;
aWhen the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she's trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta. Karin and Jutta lead parallel lives for years, cut off by the Wall. But Karin finds one reason to keep going: Otto, the man who gives her hope, even amidst the brutal East German regime. When Jutta finds a hidden way through the wall, the twins are reunited. But the Stasi have eyes everywhere, and soon Karin is faced with a terrible decision: to flee to the West and be with her sister, or sacrifice it all to follow her heart?
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit; Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; Man-woman relationships; Twin sisters;

If walls could speak : my life in architecture / by Safdie, Moshe,1938-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures-from the 1967 modular housing scheme in Montreal known as "Habitat" and the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel, to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas and the Marina Bay Sands development and extraordinary Jewel Changi airport interior garden and waterfall in Singapore. For Safdie, the way a space functions is fundamental; he is deeply committed to architecture as a social force for good, believing that any challenge, including extreme population density and environmental distress, can be addressed with solutions that enhance community and uplift the human spirit. Safdie always refers to the "silent client" an architect mustultimately serve: the people who live, work in, or experience a building. If Walls Could Speak takes readers behind the veil of an essential yet mysterious profession to explain through Safdie's own experiences how an architect thinks and works-"from thespark of imagination through the design process, the model-making, the politics, the engineering, the materials." Relating memorable stories about what has inspired him-from childhoods in Israel and Montreal to the projects and personalities worldwide that have captured his imagination-Safdie reveals the complex interplay that underpins every project and his vision for the role architecture can and should play in society at large. Illustrated throughout with drawings, sketches, photographs, and documentsfrom his firm's voluminous archives that illuminate his stories, If Walls Could Speak ends with a chapter outlining seven projects Safdie would pursue around the world if resources and will were no issue and the choices were his to make. A book like no other, If Walls Could Speak will forever change the way you look at and appreciate any built structure"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Safdie, Moshe, 1938-; Architects;

The girl in the walls / by Kuyatt, Meg Eden.;
Sent to spend the summer with her seemingly critical Grandma Jojo, neurodivergent and artistic V discovers a ghostly girl in the walls and must uncover the ghost's desires and her grandmother's secrets before their relationship is irreparably damaged.
Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; Horror fiction.; Novels in verse.; Neurodivergent people; Ghosts; Grandparent and child; Grandmothers; Secrecy;

The Wolf of Wall Street [videorecording] / by Belfort, Jordan.Wolf of Wall Street.Videorecording.; DiCaprio, Leonardo.; Hill, Jonah,1983-; McConaughey, Matthew,1969-; Robbie, Margot.; Scorsese, Martin.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm); Paramount Pictures Corporation.;
Leonardo Dicaprio, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, Rob Reiner, Joanna Lumley, Jon Favreau, Kyle Chandler, Christine Ebersole, Jean Dujardin, Margot Robbie, Jon Bernthal, Shea Whigham.Martin Scorsese directs the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort. From the American dream to corporate greed, Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption in the late '80s. Excess, success and affluence in his early twenties as founder of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont warranted Belfort the title "The Wolf of Wall Street."Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Belfort, Jordan; Belfort, Jordan.; Corruption; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Nineteen eighties; Stockbrokers; Success; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2014., Paramount Home Entertainment,

Miss Small is off the wall! / by Gutman, Dan.; Paillot, Jim.;
A.J. and the other second graders do everything except play sports when they go to "fizz ed" class with their new teacher, Miss Small.LSC
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; A. J. (Fictitious character from Gutman); Physical education and training; Play; Elementary schools; Teachers; Learning;
© 2005., HarperCollins,

Bud finds her gift / by Kimmerer, Robin Wall,1953-; Stoop, Naoko.;
Includes bibliographical references."When young Bud sees people bustling around, intent on their chores and their screens, she is certain they must be doing important things--and she wants to be included. But wise Nokomis, her grandmother, shows her that there is a different way to find belonging, one that relies on stillness and observing the natural world. As Bud discovers the freely given gifts of the Earth, she wonders if she has something important to give back: What is her gift? Infused with warmth, humor, and insight, and beautifully illustrated by Naoko Stoop, the first picture book by renowned author and Indigenous ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer inspires readers to treasure nature's generosity and the gifts each one of us can share with the Earth"--
Subjects: Picture books.; Nature fiction.; Grandparent and child; Indigenous peoples; Belonging (Social psychology); Grandmothers; Gifts; Nature;

And the walls came down / by Da Costa, Denise(Author of And the walls came down),author.;
"Just before the demolition of her childhood home in east Toronto, Delia Ellis returns to retrieve her beloved diary. Using it as a compass, she rediscovers life as a precocious teen growing up in the nineties. Delia's writings reveal her anxieties following a move to Don Mount Court, a Toronto government housing complex, where she struggles to navigate life with an overprotective Jamaican mother and her father's inept replacement, "Neville the nuisance." Delia's troubles compound when she enlists her naive younger sister in a scheme to reunite their parents and recapture the idealistic life she yearns for. Yet, through the lens of adulthood, Delia's entries take a wrecking ball to the perception of her parents' love story she'd long built up in her mind, uncovering a child's internalization of a failed marriage, poverty, and a mother come undone."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Children's diaries; Diaries; Families; Interpersonal relations; Marriage; Parent and child;

The age of walls : how barriers between nations are changing our world / by Marshall, Tim,1959-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index."Tim Marshall ... analyzes the most urgent and tenacious topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populations. The globe has always been a world of walls, from the Great Wall of China to Hadrian's Wall to the Berlin Wall. But a new age of isolationism and economic nationalism is upon us, visible not just in Trump's obsession with building a wall on the Mexico border or in Britain's Brexit vote but in many other places as well. China has the great Firewall, holding back Western culture. Europe's countries are walling themselves against immigrants, terrorism, and currency issues. South Africa has heavily gated communities, and massive walls or fences separate people in the Middle East, Korea, Sudan, India, and other places around the world. In fact, at least sixty-five countries, more than a third of the world's nation-states, have barriers along their borders. There are many reasons why walls go up, because we are divided in many ways: wealth, race, religion, and politics, to name a few. Understanding what is behind these divisions is essential to understanding much of what's going on in the world today"--
Subjects: World politics.; Geopolitics.; Walls.; Boundaries.; Border security.;

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In. by Cheang, Soi,film director.; Koo, Louis,actor.; Lam, Raymond,actor.; Jen, Richie,actor.; Kam-Bo Hung, Sammo,actor.; Well Go USA (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Louis Koo, Raymond Lam, Richie Jen, Sammo Kam-Bo HungOriginally produced by Well Go USA in 2024.Kowloon Walled City is a lawless haven for gangs and refugees. When a skilled fighter angers the most feared Triad boss, a bounty is placed on his head, despite his connections to the enclave's leader.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; War films.; Crime.; Motion pictures--China.; Nineteen eighties.; Martial arts.; Motion pictures--Asia.; Action films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures).; Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong.; Action and adventure films.;

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