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Language
English
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"From one of our most beloved authors, a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home--now richly illustrated with almost four hundred images. A national bestseller, At Home is Bill Bryson's epic chronicle of domestic history. In this lavish new edition, his riveting room-by-room journey of discovery around his house--a Victorian parsonage in southern England--is enhanced by some four hundred carefully selected full color and...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jonathan and Drew Scott have taken HGTV by storm with their four hit shows, Property Brothers, Property Brothers at Home, Buying & Selling, and Brother vs. Brother. The talented duo's good-natured rivalry, playful banter, and no-nonsense strategies have earned the popular twins millions of devoted fans who have been anxiously waiting for a Scott Brothers book. Dream Home is a comprehensive source, covering the ins and outs of buying, selling, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hampton Court Palace has been the locus of monarchy, revolution, religious fundamentalism, sexual scandals, and military coups. Russell moves through the rooms and the decades to focus on the people who called Hampton Court their home. From the Tudors to the present, he captures the stories of the many sovereigns and servants who lived and worked in its halls. In doing so, Russell reveals the personal tragedy and political importance of this extraordinary...
Author
Language
English
Description
Aternates between two time periods. Back ?then, ? there is Emma, looking for the perfect flat. Her agent suggests One Folgate Street, built by architect Edward Monkford. In present day, Jane, a single thirty-something also ends up on Folgate Street. Both women learn the sinister history of the property.
Author
Publisher
Boston
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Features detailed, bas-relief collage spreads of dwellings in other world regions and historical times to explain how different people live and have lived, from a village house in South Africa to a floating green house in the Netherlands.
7) Remodel
Publisher
[Special Interest Publications]
Pub. Date
[2006-]
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
8) Piranesi
Author
Language
English
Description
"Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Janine Brown of Cedar Falls, Iowa, is this year's lucky winner of a brand-new, fully loaded dream home! Problem is, which Janine Brown? Janine "Janey" Brown is at first reluctant to give up the safety and sanctity she finds in her tiny kitchen. Across town, Janine "Nean" Brown knows that this house promises an escape from the latest in her revolving door of crappy jobs and drunk boyfriends. Both Janine Browns head for Christmas Cove, Maine, to claim...
10) Do it yourself
Publisher
Special Interest Publications
Pub. Date
19uu
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Shelby Springfield has spent the last ten years trying to overcome her past. But as a former child star, it's hard to forget a mediocre pop career, a meltdown widely documented by the paparazzi, and a huge public break with her former co-star Lyle Jessup. It's also hard to forget her other co-star and childhood sweetheart, Cameron Riggs -- the one who got away. But when Lyle stirs the pot, getting the two back in the spotlight with a home renovation...
13) Belle Meade Park
Author
Publisher
O.C. Tidwell
Pub. Date
[1983]
Physical Desc
viii, 127 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
14) The fixer upper
Author
Language
English
Description
In the crosshairs of a political bribery investigation, Dempsey Jo Killebrew suddenly finds herself unemployed and the victim of a sleazy smear campaign by her former boss. Dempsey decides to take up her father's offer of flipping a recently inherited family home in Guthrie, Ga., where she quickly slides into the renovation groove, fits in with the locals, and embarks on a romance.
19) Death by demo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After discovering her husband having an affair, Jaime receives only a single thing in the ensuing divorce, a run-down historical house where she discovers a dead body in the wall once starting her renovations"--
20) My house
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jim the cat describes his favorite places inside and outside his house"
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