Catherine House

Author : Elisabeth Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062905805
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catherine House written by Elisabeth Thomas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] delicious literary Gothic debut.” –THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, EDITORS' CHOICE “Moody and evocative as a fever dream, Catherine House is the sort of book that wraps itself around your brain, drawing you closer with each hypnotic step.” – THE WASHINGTON POST A Most Anticipated Novel by Entertainment Weekly • New York magazine • Cosmopolitan • The Atlantic • Forbes • Good Housekeeping • Parade • Better Homes and Gardens • HuffPost • Buzzfeed • Newsweek • Harper’s Bazaar • Ms. Magazine • Woman's Day • PopSugar • and more! A gothic-infused debut of literary suspense, set within a secluded, elite university and following a dangerously curious, rebellious undergraduate who uncovers a shocking secret about an exclusive circle of students . . . and the dark truth beneath her school’s promise of prestige. Trust us, you belong here. Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world’s best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance comes with a price. Students are required to give the House three years—summers included—completely removed from the outside world. Family, friends, television, music, even their clothing must be left behind. In return, the school promises a future of sublime power and prestige, and that its graduates can become anything or anyone they desire. Among this year’s incoming class is Ines Murillo, who expects to trade blurry nights of parties, cruel friends, and dangerous men for rigorous intellectual discipline—only to discover an environment of sanctioned revelry. Even the school’s enigmatic director, Viktória, encourages the students to explore, to expand their minds, to find themselves within the formidable iron gates of Catherine. For Ines, it is the closest thing to a home she’s ever had. But the House’s strange protocols soon make this refuge, with its worn velvet and weathered leather, feel increasingly like a gilded prison. And when tragedy strikes, Ines begins to suspect that the school—in all its shabby splendor, hallowed history, advanced theories, and controlled decadence—might be hiding a dangerous agenda within the secretive, tightly knit group of students selected to study its most promising and mysterious curriculum. Combining the haunting sophistication and dusky, atmospheric style of Sarah Waters with the unsettling isolation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Catherine House is a devious, deliciously steamy, and suspenseful page-turner with shocking twists and sharp edges that is sure to leave readers breathless.

Author : Catherine Armsden
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0990537064
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream House written by Catherine Armsden and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “vividly written” novel, an architect returns to her childhood home on the coast of Maine—where startling family secrets come out of the woodwork (Kirkus). Gina Gilbert has designed an ideal life for herself in San Francisco. But when a car accident takes her parents’ lives, she finds herself drawn back to the New England home where she was raised. Facing grief and painful memories of the past, Gina turn to her skills as an architect—dissecting her old home, and the generations of secrets it conceals. The Gilbert family’s story unfolds room by room: from the darkroom where Gina’s gentle but passive father ran his photography business to the kitchen where her volatile mother toiled under the weight of dashed dreams. But when Gina and her sister Cassie discover that a trove of historically significant letters have gone missing, long-buried truths are revealed, and family myths begin to unravel. To find the healing she needs, Gina must search the recesses of her heart, and reawaken her understanding of what makes a house a home.

Author : Catherine Wanek
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781586852030
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Strawbale Home written by Catherine Wanek and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume compiles floor plans and images from 40 cutting-edge homes across North America, showcasing a spectrum of regional styles and personal aesthetic choices. 150 color photos.

Author : Catherine Poag
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039100147
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ferryman's House written by Catherine Poag and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, a quiet township in rural Ontario might seem picturesque, but in the early decades of the twentieth century, that image couldn’t have been farther from the truth. With an obscure cult, unexplained disappearances, and a series of murders, the dark rumours of what really went on in those early days have cast long shadows on this humble setting. Back in the day, the residents of this township—which straddled a stretch of water connecting two larger lakes—relied heavily on the services of the local ferryman to cross this wide channel. But their ferryman had an ominous reputation and a chilling secret. Almost fifty years later, ferryman Luther Neville is haunted by his memory of those long-ago days and menaced by echoes of obstructed justice and a mystery yet to be unravelled. A fictional adaptation inspired by the real-life legend of Ontario’s Rideau Ferry Man, The Ferryman’s House—Book One of the Ferryman’s Tales—is an eerie tale that imagines the truth behind the legend and brings back to life all those lost to history ... and to the Ferryman.

Author : Catherine Wanek
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423603168
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hybrid House written by Catherine Wanek and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2010 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hybrid House highlights real people who have used a combination of design strategies to reduce their energy use - sometimes by as much as 90 percent! Author and photographer Catherine Wanek showcases sustainable new and renovated houses that incorporate natural building materials like straw bales, adobe and real wood, with renewable energy systems, that will minimize a modern home's carbon footprint, while ensuring a healthy environment for residents. See inspiring contemporary examples from the United States, Canada and Europe.

Author : Catherine Stock
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618003891
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gugu's House written by Catherine Stock and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kukamba loves helping her grandmother decorate her mud home in a dusty Zimbabwe village, but when the annual rains partially destroy all her art work, Kukamba learns to see the goodness of the rains.

Author : Catherine Rogers Arthur
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801879876
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homewood House written by Catherine Rogers Arthur and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-12-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2005 Heritage Book Award given by the Maryland Historical Trust. Baltimore's Homewood was a wedding gift from Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, to his son Charles Jr. and his bride, Harriet Chew Carroll. Located on 130 acres of rolling meadow and forest, it afforded picturesque view to the harbor. The couple built a "full and genteel establishment," a grand yet intimate summer house that exemplifies the work of the most skilled Baltimore craftsmen of the Federal period. Construction began in 1801 and incorporated a classical five-part Palladian plan, with two hyphens flanking the main block and connecting it to two wings, or dependencies. Spending far more than his father had anticipated, Charles Jr. used only the finest materials then available and included extraordinary architectural details throughout the house. Homewood endures today as one of the finest examples of Federal-period domestic architecture in the United States. Sold by the Carroll family in 1838, the house and grounds eventually became the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University. In 1971, Homewood received National Historic Landmark status, and five years later—through the generosity of Robert G. Merrick, an alumnus and university patron who developed a love for Homewood as a student in the 1920s—Johns Hopkins University began a major restoration effort. Today, open to the public as a museum, the house reflects the height of early-nineteenth-century style and the tastes of the Carroll family. In a lavishly illustrated yet scholarly study of this exquisite American residence, Catherine Rogers Arthur and Cindy Kelly explore Homewood's history, detailing its construction, reliving the Carroll family's experiences here, and recounting the expert restoration that preserves this home for generations to come. The book includes more than one hundred full-color photographs of the house's graceful exterior, its elegant rooms and furnishings, and the many architectural details that have made Homewood so beloved.

Author : Nicholas Royle
Publisher : Myriad Editions
ISBN 13 : 1912408589
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother written by Nicholas Royle and published by Myriad Editions. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A tender and graceful study of parents and children, and a finely judged and measured attempt to capture the flitting, quicksilver shapes of what we keep and what we lose: the touch, the tone, the gaze of the past as it fades. It is a moving and beautifully achieved memoir, and a testament to the writer's skill and generosity of spirit.' —Hilary Mantel Before the devastating 'loss of her marbles', Mrs Royle, a nurse by profession, is a marvellously no-nonsense character, an autodidact who reads widely and voraciously, swears at her fox-hunting neighbours, and instils in the young Nick a love of literature and of wildlife that will form his character and his career. In this touching, funny and beautifully written portrait of family life, mother-son relationships and bereavement, Nicholas Royle captures the spirit of post-war parenting as well as of his mother, whose dementia and death were triggered by the tragedy of losing her other son—Royle's younger brother—to cancer in his twenties. At once poetic and philosophical, this extraordinary memoir is also a powerful reflection on climate crisis and 'mother nature', on literature and life writing, on human and non-human animals, and on the links between the maternal and memory itself.

Author : Catherine Foster
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 : 9780143783619
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small House Living Australia written by Catherine Foster and published by Viking. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small House Living Australia features 21 small, inspiring Australian homes. Some are clever additions onto tight urban sites: others are tranquil weekenders in deep countryside - what all have in common is a shared belief that good architectural design principles make even the smallest of architectural and ecological footprints possible. With land ever more expensive, growing environmental pressures and an increasing number of small households, architects and designers are responding with great ingenuity to produce both practical and cost-effective buildings, and all the while never sacrificing the most essential of human needs - a beautiful home. The houses you will discover in Small House Living Australia are celebrations in built form of lives lived well, with less.

Author : Catherine Ryan Hyde
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446487806
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walk Me Home written by Catherine Ryan Hyde and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Jodi Picoult, Mitch Albom and Alice Sebold will love this truly captivating story, written with such depth of emotion and full of both heartbreak and hope by Richard & Judy bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde. 'A work of art...enchanting' -- San Francisco Chronicle 'Surprisingly wonderful' -- Mirror 'Well written and compelling' -- ***** Reader review 'I could not put it down. Absolutely loved it' -- ***** Reader review 'Absolutely wonderful' -- ***** Reader review 'Loved it - and I want more...!' -- ***** Reader review *********************************************************************** ONE SUMMER - ONE LIFE CHANGING JOURNEY... Carly and her little sister Jen are walking. Something terrible has happened. Something that has left Carly in charge, her faith in humanity shattered. She knows they need help but she is terrified of her sister being taken away from her. All they have is each other. Carly wants them to find their way back to the last person she knew she could trust - their stepfather. But Jen holds a secret about him which, if she's telling the truth, will put them both at far more risk than they could imagine...