homes and haunts

Ved Mehta chronicles his efforts to set down roots and build a home on Islesboro, a narrow, thirteen-mile-long island off the coast of Maine.

Katy Lederer chronicles her childhood experiences as the daughter of two professional gamblers, discussing how her parents addictions impacted her life.

Rosecrans Baldwin discusses the complications he had staying in Paris while working at an advertising agency.

"The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology--railways, street-lighting, and sewers--transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction"--Jacket flap.

Looks at Charles Dickens in his domestic context, examining the places he lived in London and throughout England, his attention to the details of domestic arrangements, and the links between his homes and the settings of his novels.

The author, a nearly forty emergency medical responder in a small Wisconsin town, chronicles humorous, hapless, and rewarding events from one year of his life, focusing on his repair of a 1951 International Harvester pickup truck and a hopeful new romance that followed several failed ones.

Describes the daily labors of managing a seventy-two-acre orange grove in Florida from bouts with runaway pigs to a session of unruly farmhands.

Traces the history of the Rockefellers' Kykuit estate along the Hudson River, describing how the estate was designed and built, what the house has come to symbolize for the family and American society, and how it represents the family's wealth and dreams.