Year House

In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half-century, America's core values - meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself - have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction.

A través de recuerdos dejados por los acontecimientos, las palabras y las cosas, Annie Ernaux nos hace sentir el paso de los años, desde la posguerra hasta hoy. Al mismo tiempo, inscribe la existencia en una nueva forma de autobiografía, impersonal y colectiva.

Have you ever thought about combating rising food costs by growing fresh fruit, products, and even herbs? Have you thought about it, but you are not an expert on greenhouse gardening? If the thought of saving grocery costs by growing your own products and then eating them fascinates you, then you are in the right place! Greenhouse gardening keeps your plants sheltered from the elements even when temperatures drop. There are various types, sizes, and materials; keep on reading, and you will discover how to find the one that best suits your needs. Greenhouse Gardening for Beginners is for you...

Disfruta de este regalo navideño: Mis galletas crujientes de Nochevieja, una de las recetas de Días de Navidad, de Jeanette Winterson. Puedes escuchar su original punto de vista sobre el significado de Año Nuevo mientras cocinas.

In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Over the next five decades of reporting, he often returned to scenes of racial tension. Now, for the first time, the best of Trillin’s pieces on race in America have been collected in one volume.

Este libro memorable ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. En él, la escritora Joan Didion, una de las autoras norteamericanas más reputadas de finales del siglo XX, narra con una fascinante distancia emocional la muerte repentina de su marido, el también escritor John Gregory Dunne. Este libro tan breve como intenso es, por consiguiente, una reflexión sobre el duelo y la crónica de una supervivencia.

This hot cougar means business...and her neighbor’s eighteen year old son had better watch out! Natalie Bales is a lonely, bored housewife, ignored by her husband. She wants to write exciting romance novels, but keeps getting rejected. One boring night, after yet another rejection, she decides that living her novels would be far more fun... She becomes Alexis Striker, a bored housewife by day and hot, adventurous vixen by night. She decides her first scenario will be breaking into her neighbor’s house and taking the innocence of their sexy eighteen year old son. Will she be able to turn...

No matter what the world says, embracing the seasons doesn't require endless bins of factory-made decor or loads of time. In fact, your home can be festive, stylish, and cozy with minimal effort and a limited budget.

In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer. He shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life—with relevant flashbacks to provide context—to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of Holiday’s artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of her drug abuse, relationships with violent men, and run-ins with the law.

In this highly anticipated conclusion to his trilogy the spiritual classics, The Holy Longing and Sacred Fire, and with characteristic attentiveness and care, Father Rolheiser accompanies listeners on a spiritual journey through life's final years and its "mellowing of souls." In these years, bitterness can give way to forgiveness, mere imagination to profound and subtle faith, wishful optimism to virtuous hope, and control to surrender. Listeners will learn to see in Jesus a model for a spirituality of passivity, and find in him the courage to overcome the darkest nights of faith.

Experience the beauty of your dream indoor garden escape! Have you ever dreamed of creating your own beautiful garden? Imagine growing everything yourself and enjoying the fruits of your labor, only to have these dreams crushed by the climate you live in. What if your dream is within your grasp, no matter where you live?

The Golden Years Compass is your ultimate guide, designed to empower you with confidence and clarity—no matter your current financial standing. Whether you've faced setbacks or are navigating your financial journey independently, this book offers the strategic insights you need to ensure a stable and rewarding retirement. Here's a glimpse of what this vital resource covers: Key strategies you need to recover from financial setbacks and strengthen your economic foundation How to optimize Social Security benefits to boost your retirement income significantly Innovative investment ...

Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is one of the most influential figurative painters of the 20th century. His paintings are in every major museum and many private collections here and abroad. William Feaver's daily calls from 1973 until Freud died in 2011, as well as interviews with Freud's family and friends, were crucial sources. Freud's circle was broad, including not just other well-known artists but writers, bluebloods, royals in England and Europe, drag queens, fashion models, gamblers, bookies, and gangsters like the Kray twins.

Siguiendo los pasos de Theodor W. Adorno, Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault y Paul K. Feyerabend, Espíritus del presente crea un amplio panorama de las ideas de la posguerra en Occidente. Wolfram Eilenberger ofrece un relato cautivador de los albores de una nueva ilustración que conduce directamente a las fallas de nuestro tiempo.

George Arliss (1868-1946) was an actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who decided to spend his retirement years during World War II in London, literally Ground-Zero for German bombers. He took care of his blind and seriously ill wife amidst nightly aerial assaults from Nazi planes, V-1 and V-2 rockets flying over their home. Throughout the bombardments, Arliss maintained a lively correspondence with his American friends who were safely located in the states. Now for the first time, the George Arliss wartime letters have been published and vividly echo the 21st century trauma endured by ...

Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje’s long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed.

La familia que formará Cósima en Veracruz, casada con Felipe, cuya madre era francesa, estará formada también por otras tres mujeres: Hilda, Virginia y Leticia, la madre de Laura. La historia de la protagonista es narrada al tiempo que la historia del país. La intención del autor es recuperar la parte femenina que ha quedado diluida en la historia de un país fundamentalmente masculino, donde la herencia azteca, árabe y española la ha marginado del acontecer histórico.

Greenhouse Gardening 101 is packed with plenty of research and detailed tips, tricks, and advice from professional and experienced gardeners who have more than 25 years of experience. As you listen and gain more knowledge, you will take a step forward toward becoming more self-reliant and a confident greenhouse gardener.

Greenhouse Gardening is a complete introduction to gardening under controlled conditions. Keep tomato plants going all year, enjoy strawberries from December through March, and grow colorful flowers any time you want! This audiobook is filled with step-by-step instructions and the knowledge you need to garden successfully in a greenhouse or sun porch. Whether you want to grow vegetables or flowers, this audiobook will help get you started.

The New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox. For a hundred years, no two teams have locked horns as fiercely or as frequently, and no two seasons frame the colossal battle more perfectly than 2003 and 2004. Now, with incredible energy and access, leading sports columnist Mike Vaccaro chronicles the history of the greatest rivalry in sports, and the two stunning American League Championship Series that define a century of baseball.