At Home
A Short History of Private Life
Written by Bill Bryson

Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $12.99

From one of the most beloved authors of our  time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home.

“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
 
Bill Bryson and his family... Read more >

A Place of My Own
The Education of an Amateur Builder
Written by Michael Pollan

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $11.99

At a turning point in his life, writer Michael Pollan found himself dreaming of a small wood-frame hut in the woods near his house--a place to work, but also a "shelter for daydreams." Weaving the practical with the philosophical, this book presents a captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture... Read more >

The Architecture of Happiness

Written by Alain De Botton

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $17.99

The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs... Read more >

740 Park
The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
Written by Michael Gross

Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99

For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day... Read more >

The President's House
1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home
Written by Margaret Truman

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99

As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized... Read more >

Fallingwater Rising
Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Written by Franklin Toker

Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $22.99

Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told.

When he got the... Read more >

Pushing the Limits
New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99

Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along... Read more >

The Artful Garden
Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design
Written by James van Sweden and Tom Christopher

Format: eBook
On Sale: February 1, 2011
Price: $21.99

“I want to put the mystery back into the heart of garden design, where it needs to be. It’s what lures you in through the gate, keeps you moving through the landscape, and fills you with excitement along the way. The sense of mystery is what turns a mere display of... Read more >

The Church
Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home
Written by Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99

From the bestselling authors of The Mass, an insightful and practical guide that explores the architectural and spiritual components of the Catholic Church.

Your local church is not only a physical place, but a spiritual home. In this through-provoking book, Wuerl and Aquilina illuminate the importance of the Church in its many... Read more >

Wrestling with Moses
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $11.99

The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But... Read more >