The account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad-the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and...

New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer offers a story about falling in love, and finding the courage to follow your dreams…
Lee Walker knows it won’t be easy to start a new life in a new city. But she is on a mission: to prove to everyone, and to herself, that she can make it here, working in the masculine world of the construction industry. When contracting rival Sam Brown offers her a job, Lee is...

Pete the cat gets construction workers and equipment to build the coolest playground ever.

A class visits Mr. Moore's building site in order to learn what it is like to be a construction worker.

Katarina Berthoff's well-planned life gets complicated when Alex MacIntyre, her teenage crush, comes back to town. He's only going to stay for a short time--or is he?

"Construction workers have very physically demanding jobs, and their days can be very different depending on the project they are working on at the time. Come explore the world of demolition, building, designing, and creating in this engaging text that details the job of construction. Defined vocabulary words help to make this text easily accessible for all readers, and exciting pictures show what it is really like to work in construction. You won't...

"Wedding bells are ringing in Fool's Gold, but not for Nevada Hendrix. Her triplet sisters are engaged, and even her mother has a more active love life than she does. Determined to make a fresh start, she applies for her dream job, only to discover that her new boss is her first love. Maybe she could overlook the fact that they have seen each other naked, but she will never forget the way he broke her heart. Tucker Janack agrees to Nevada's "business...

Learn about what construction workers do and how they provide for their community.

"In The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor returns to the critically acclaimed world of Maggie D'arcy with another atmospheric mystery so vivid readers will smell the salt in the air and hear the wind on the cliffs. For the first time in her adult life, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D'arcy is unemployed. No cases to focus on, no leads to investigate, just a whole summer on a remote West Cork peninsula with her teenage daughter Lilly...

"HGTV's Property Brothers meets The Marriage Bargain in this third volume in the Billionaire Builders series, an all-new, heart-wrenching, and sexy contemporary romance from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst. Tristan Pierce left the family business to carve out a life of his own, but never forgot his passionate affair with the much younger, inexperienced Sydney Greene, or the hurtful breakup that tore him apart. When he's forced to...