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Free Download Judy Blankenship, "Our House in the Clouds: Building a Second Life in the Andes of Ecuador"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0292739036, 0292745273 | PDF | pages: 241 | 9.8 mb
While many baby boomers are downsizing to a simpler retirement lifestyle, photographer and writer Judy Blankenship and her husband Michael Jenkins took a more challenging leap in deciding to build a house on the side of a mountain in southern Ecuador. They now live half the year in Cañar, an indigenous community they came to know in the early nineties when Blankenship taught photography there. They are the only extranjeros (outsiders) in this homely, chilly town at 10,100 feet, where every afternoon a spectacular mass of clouds rolls up from the river valley below and envelopes the town.

Free Download Alonzo Fields, "My 21 Years in the White House"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1951682807 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.4 mb
My 21 Years in the White House, first published in 1960, is the fascinating account by Alonzo Fields of his service as head butler under 4 presidents: Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower. Fields (1900-1994) began his employment at the White House in 1931, and kept a journal of his meetings with the presidents and their families; he would also meet important people like Winston Churchill, Princess Elizabeth of England, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, presidential cabinet members, senators, representatives, and Supreme Court Justices. He would also witness presidential decision-making at critical times in American history-the attack on Pearl Harbor, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the desegregation of the military, and the outbreak of hostilities in Korea. As Fields often told his staff, "…remember that we are helping to make history. We have a small part … but they can’t do much here without us. They’ve got to eat, you know." Included are sample menus prepared for visiting heads-of-state and foreign dignitaries.

Free Download Mr. Churchill in the White House: The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents by Robert Schmuhl
English | July 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1324093420 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 18.00 MB
Well into the twenty-first century, Winston Churchill continues to be the subject of scores of books. Biographers portray him as a soldier, statesman, writer, painter, and even a daredevil, but Robert Schmuhl, the noted author and journalist, may be the first to depict him as a demanding, indeed exhausting White House guest. For the British prime minister, America’s most famous residence was "the summit of the United States," and staying weeks on end with the president as host enhanced his global influence and prestige, yet what makes Churchill’s sojourns so remarkable are their duration at critical moments in twentieth-century history.

Free Download In France Profound: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People by T.D. Allman
English | August 13th, 2024 | ISBN: 0802127843 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 8.52 MB
From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author’s life and discoveries in an ancient town in "Deep France," from nearby prehistoric caves to medieval dynastic struggles to the colorful characters populating the area today

Free Download Allison Levy, "House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo"
English | ISBN: 1788313607 | 2019 | 248 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
This book tells the remarkable story of Palazzo Rucellai from behind its celebrated façade. The house, beginning with its piecemeal assemblage by one of the richest men in Florence in the fifteenth century, has witnessed endless drama, from the butchering of its interior to a courtyard suicide to champagne-fueled orgies on the eve of World War I to a recent murder on its third floor. When the author, an art historian, serendipitously discovers a room for let in the house, she lands in the vortex of history and is tested at every turn―inside the house and out. Her residency in Palazzo Rucellai is informed as much by the sense of desire giving way to disappointment as by a sense of denial that soon enough must succumb to truth. House of Secrets is about the sharing of space, the tracing of footsteps, the overlapping of lives. It is about the willingness to lose oneself behind the façade, to live between past and present, to slip between the cracks of history and the crevices of our own imagination.

Free Download House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France, UK Edition by Justine Firnhaber-Baker
English | March 28th, 2024 | ISBN: 024155277X | 448 pages | True EPUB | 17.38 MB
An exuberant account of the rise and fall of a mighty French dynasty… The breadth and depth of Firnhaber-Baker’s research are evident throughout, yet the narrative zings along at an enjoyable and very readable pace – HistoryExtra

Free Download House of Bone and Rain: A Novel by Gabino Iglesias
English | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0316427012 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 1.8 MB
In this "stunningly visceral" (New York Times Book Review) novel, a group of young men seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered in a Puerto Rican slum; STAND BY ME with a haunted, obsidian-dark heart.

Free Download House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget (Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating, Beautiful Wedding Gift and House Warming Gift) by Myquillyn Smith
English | April 23, 2024 | ISBN: 0800744748 | 240 pages | MOBI | 68 Mb
Finally, a decorating book that transcends trends and applies to every style! You want to create a beautiful, livable home, but you feel stuck. House Rules is your guide to understanding why some rooms look great and other rooms don’t look quite right.

Free Download House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget by Myquillyn Smith
English | April 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0800744748 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 73.50 MB
Finally, a decorating book that transcends trends and applies to every style! You want to create a beautiful, livable home, but you feel stuck. House Rules is your guide to understanding why some rooms look great and other rooms don’t look quite right.

Free Download History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft by Richard Davenport-Hines
English | 20 Jun. 2024 | ISBN: 0008285721 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 6.5 MB
History in the House pulls back the curtains on Christ Church, Oxford and reveals its great and lasting historical significance.