Home

Author: Marilynne Robinson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9781554681228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with torment and pain. A troubled boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. He is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Reverend Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, beguiling, lovable and wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with John Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is arguably Marilynne Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.

Happier at Home

Author: Gretchen Rubin
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0385670834
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Tolstoy wrote, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This is the statement that inspired bestselling author Gretchen Rubin to wonder whether she could foster an even greater happiness in her home. During The Happiness Project, the same questions kept tugging at her. How can I raise happy children? How can I maintain a tender, romantic relationship with my spouse--after fifteen years of marriage? How do I keep my Blackberry from taking over my private life? How can I foster a well-ordered, light-hearted atmosphere in my house, when no one else will lift a finger to cooperate? This book is Gretchen's account of her second journey in pursuit of happiness. Prescriptive, easy-to-follow, and anecdotal, Happier at Home offers readers a way of thinking and being that is positive and life-affirming. With specific examples following the calendar year, an intimate voice, and drawing from science and pop culture, this book will resonate with anyone looking to strengthen the bonds of family.

The Home Book

Author: Glen Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692691694
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Homeowner maintenance reference manual including 380 residential workmanship guidelines covering conditions and maintenance for topics including: floors and ceilings; roofs and gutters; foundations and basements; interior/exterior components; grounds; utility systems; and walls. Homeowner and builder maintenance responsibilities are stated along with the performance guideline and additional information for each topic. Green home construction is also covered.

At Home with Books

Author: Estelle Ellis
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 9780517595008
Category : Books in interior decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
At Home with Books is a visual delight, a helpful resource, and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library. Includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring, and storing rare books; finding out-of-print books; and choosing furniture, lighting, and shelving. Full-color photographs.

The Home Place

Author: J. Drew Lanham
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571318755
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description
“A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on nature…wise and beautiful.”—Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk A Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today. “When you’re done with The Home Place, it won’t be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.”—Star Tribune “A lyrical story about the power of the wild…synthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.”—National Geographic

The New Solar Home Book

Author: Bruce Anderson
Publisher: Brickhouse Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Solar energy
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The New Solar Home Book has been for hundreds of thousands of readers the work that ushered in a new consciousness about how our culture uses and lives with energy. Provides the moral, philosophical, economic, and environmental rationale for solar energy.

Home

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Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481426060
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
When aliens invade the earth, Tip, a human girl, and Oh, a banished alien, become friends and begin a search for Tip's mother.

Hungry for Home

Author: Ruth Mckeaney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578734545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Finding Home

Author: Emilia Finn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781723886461
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Finding Home is Emilia's DEBUT novel, and the first of a 6-book saga jam packed with sexy fighters and strong heroines. Unhappy, and feeling older than her mere 25-years, Kit Reilly is trying to live a quiet life. When tragedy strikes and she's thrust into the role of motherhood to her unruly teenage brother, her life quickly transforms from quiet to chaotic. Overwhelmed, underappreciated, and unhappy, she's drowning in responsibility, and bogged down with life.*Bobby Kincaid is living his dream. Co-owner of a local gym, and successful professional fighter, Bobby's in the prime of his life. When a much-deserved girls night out throws Kit right in Bobby's path, he discovers his dream might now include a feisty mystery woman he can't get enough of. Fighting in the ring is one thing, but the universe has other plans for this couple, and he may have to fight for much more than a title to keep his new dream alive. What are reviewers saying about Finding Home? "Emilia Finn made me swoon, and tear up and literally clutch at my pillow. Her pain was my pain. I felt her swoon. I felt everything. Finding Home isn't just about love, it's about family, it's about finding your own and surviving life." "I loved every single minute finding new nuances of each character. Every single soul in the book left their footprint in my heart. Thank you, Emilia Finn." About the Author Emilia is a real life martial arts enthusiast. She's competed in full contact tournaments for years, and has a fancy display shelf full of pretty trophies to show for it. She's a mom to two littles who still keep her up at night, and she married her real life fighter, as well. Between changing diapers and cooking food her children refuse to eat, she writes her books, submerging herself in the world of Kincaid. It's a wonderful place to be. She hopes to see you there. Please Note This book is a republication of the 2017 version of Finding Home. It's rewritten, recovered, re-edited, and contains extra content and bonus scenes.

Log Home Living

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Log Home Living is the oldest, largest and most widely distributed and read publication reaching log home enthusiasts. For 21 years Log Home Living has presented the log home lifestyle through striking editorial, photographic features and informative resources. For more than two decades Log Home Living has offered so much more than a magazine through additional resources–shows, seminars, mail-order bookstore, Web site, and membership organization. That's why the most serious log home buyers choose Log Home Living.