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"PI Mac Reilly, the star of TV's Mac Reilly's Malibu Mysteries, and his fiancée, Sunny Alvarez, are looking forward to spending June at Chez La Violette, a villa they've rented in St. Tropez. Sunny arrives first, only to discover that they've been scammed, along with a number of others who thought they were renting a fancy house on the French Riviera, among them Belinda Lord, the estranged wife of a Russian mobster, and widower Billy Bashford, a...
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Now married to Suzanne, Nick buys a suburban house to escape the rat race of the big city and to provide more space for his new wife and kids Lindsey and Kevin. But when his new home quickly becomes a costly "fixer upper, " he finds himself at the mercy of an eccentric contractor, Nick's suburban dream soon becomes a nightmare.
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The novel that defined Mercè Rodoreda's most prolific period is finally available in English for the first time. Set in 1920s Spain, Garden by the Sea takes place over six summers at a villa by the sea inhabited by a young couple and their beautiful, rich, joyous friends. They swim, drink, tease each other, and fully enjoy themselves. All the while, the guests are observed by the villa's gardener, a widower who's been tending the garden for several...
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"Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers" "Winner of the 2016 Historic Preservation Book Prize, University of Mary Washington's Center for Historic Preservation" "Winner of the 2015 Athenaeum Literary Award (for Art and Architecture), The Athenaeum of Philadelphia" Barbara Miller Lane is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritusin the Humanities and Research Professor in Growth and Structure of...
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"The 1913 publication of Hermann von Holst's collection of country and suburban homes of the Prairie School period represents one of American architecture's finest primary sources of residential design. It is an outstanding visual survey of the emerging domestic architectural styles of the era and includes the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Lawrence Buck, Walter Burley Griffin, Charles E. White, Jr., and many, many others."--Back cover.
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Follow eight Home Haunters in their pursuit to transform their suburban homes into visions of the macabre. Their obsession with Halloween has led them to spend thousands of dollars and dedicate countless hours and resources to create their horrific attractions. Meet all sorts of different haunters from basic yard haunts to some so extreme they go beyond their property lines.
11) Chicagoland dream houses: how a mid-century architecture competition reimagined the American home
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"Sponsored by the Chicago Tribune, the 1945 Chicagoland Prize Homes competition solicited designs by mostly unknown architects. The goal: to provide beautiful yet practical houses for returning WWII veterans and middle-class residents of the city and suburbs. In-depth and extensively illustrated, Chicagoland Dream Houses revisits this overlooked chapter in Chicago and architectural history. Organizers conceived the competition to help remedy the postwar...
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