To the New Owners is Madeleine Blais's charming, evocative memoir of a house that holds a special place in her heart, and of Martha's Vineyard itself-from the history of the island and its famous visitors to the ferry, the pie shops,...
Homes
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Author:Blais, MadeleineSummary: -
Author:Humphreys, HelenSummary:A breathtaking mix of observation, prose, natural history, and art. We tend to look at landscape in relation to what it can do for us. Does it move us with its beauty? Can we make a living from it? But what if we examined a landscape on...
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Author:Whitehead, ColsonSummary:Whitehead lays out the city of New York from the perspective of an inhabitant in 13 parts.
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Author:McLean, Maria ColettaSummary:Escape to Italy with this heartwarming memoir. Every summer Maria and her husband, Bob, went to their little house in the Italian village of Supino, and every year it was a new adventure. Only in Supino would you find a pizzeria in a...
- Author:Haig-Brown, Roderick L.Summary:
Roderick L. Haig-Brown welcomes us onto his lush farm for a year of insights and observations. In this eloquently written account, Haig-Brown, his wife Ann and their four children tour us through each season, and teach us the ways in...
- Author:Mabanckou, AlainSummary:
Un texte puissant et poignant, une plongée dans le passé et un constat sur l’évolution de l’Afrique. Vingt-trois ans après avoir quitté le Congo pour aller étudier en France, Alain Mabanckou retourne pour la première fois dans son pays...
- Author:Whyte, JackSummary:
Best known for his original series of Arthurian novels, A Dream of Eagles (called The Camulod Chronicles in the US), and his Knights Templar trilogy, Jack Whyte has authored 10 international bestsellers in the past 15 years. Jack's...
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Author:Powning, BethSummary:Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people, other homes, are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky, share the same memories, survive the same storms. After twenty-five years on a New Brunswick farm, Beth Powning came to...
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Author:Pickering, SamSummary:Part travelogue, part psychological self-study, Sam Pickering's Edinburgh Days, or Doing What I Want to Do is an open invitation to be led on a walking tour of Scotland's capital, as well as through the labyrinth of the guide's swerving...
- Author:Myers, MikeSummary:
Comedy superstar Mike Myers writes from the (true patriot) heart about his 53-year relationship with his beloved Canada. Mike Myers is a world-renowned actor, director and writer, and the man behind some of the most memorable comic...
- Author:Marty, SidSummary:
A finalist for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fiction. Winner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book Festival. Leaning on the Wind is a love song of the west,...
