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'Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life.' The request seems odd, even intrusive -- and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. Reeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live. But none of the apartments she sees are affordable or feel safe. Until One Folgate Street. The house is an architectural masterpiece: a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass, and soaring ceilings....

A simple discussion of different kinds of houses and what makes them homes.

A screen adaptation of the Broadway hit about a city-dwelling family that buys a Pennsylvania farmhouse.

"What makes a home the space that keeps you? Interior designer and television host Jeremiah Brent takes readers on a deeply personal jouney to answer that question because a home isn't just where we live; it reflects who we are. Through candid conversations with nine individuals and families from a range of backgrounds, lifestyles, and geographic locations, Jeremiah gets to the heart of how and why the spaces we inhabit can feel like they truly belong...

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. Now the popular twins have at last collected their expertise on buying, selling, and renovating houses into this beautiful book, packed with hundreds of photos, for eager fans around the world. Dream Home is comprehensive yet addictively readable. It covers topics such as deciding which...

When Joey and Chloe and their family are getting ready to move, their house decides it wants to go too.

Asks readers to think about ways in which the natural world has provided for them, by exploring all the different elements of a house and where each came from, once.

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. 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...

"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...