The Making of Home The 500-year story of how our houses became homes

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The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it.But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, 'home' is a relativel More

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Maggie wants a house with lots of light. I need one with character. And what we do have in common doesn't help either - we're both stubborn.When Derek and his partner Maggie decide to escape to the country, they don't opt for the simple li More

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"Shows us why the actions that prepare us for emergencies and energy descent are the right things to do no matter what the future brings." -Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden Other books tell us how to live the More

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Our House tells the story of a child who has experienced something that children should never have to experience. It introduces the reader to the people who arrived to help them cope with the bad things, in the house that they all share.Accompanied by... More

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The heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me! After Miss Debbie's death in 2000, her husband, Ron formed an even stronger bond with Denver, a homeless ex-con. Ron's touching memoir chronicles how their shared devotion t More

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Revival 2.0 tells the dramatic inside story of how President Obama and his team have regained their footing and learned to fight for their political survival.Bestselling Obama biographer Richard Wolffe (author of More

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As a pioneer in Canada in the early 1800s, Catharine Parr Traill was one of the first writers to record the Ontario wilderness in literary and scientific detail, and her stories for young people became part of a new focus on young people. Her book More

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The sequel to the award-winning From Our Side of the Fence-personal stories of life after the WWII internment camps from twelve Japanese Americans.Many books have chronicled the experience of Japanese Americans in More

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A powerful and inspiring story of self-realization and legal victory that upends our basic assumptions about sexual identity.In 1966, a male baby, Chris, was adopted by an upper-middle-class Toronto couple. From early chil More

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In The Untrue Story of You, Bryan Hubbard presents a powerful, groundbreaking theory explaining who we really are, how our relationship to our past affects us and how we can finally find true healing.**In the pag More

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We either think our lives are so special that everyone should be interested in what's happened to us, or so ordinary that we can't imagine anyone would care. The truth lies somewhere in between: yes, we are all special, and no, people wil More

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Are you considered a "dingbatter," or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?Have you ever noticed a picture in your house hanging a little "sigogglin," or crooked?Do you enjoy spending time with your "buddyrow," or close friend? More

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This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better.Over More

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The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination brought Greta Thunberg's family back from the brink This is the story of a happy family whose life suddenly fell apart, never to be the same again. Of two devoted parents plunged into a... More