Winterizing
The acorns are beginning to fall thick and fast here in the Ozarks, beating a staccato rhythm on the roof. The nights are crisp and cold, the days a glorious swan song to summer. While enjoying the last notes of the season I begin to lay the ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Karen Wallace
Follow a goggle-eyed octopus as she jets through the shadows, tentacles flying behind her. Finally she finds a well-hidden den in which to lay her eggs, which will dangle from the roof like grapes on a string. In silky verse, Karen Wallace ... [... more]
Random House |
House of the Turquoise Roof
 House of the Turquoise Roof: A Bird's Eye View: "House of the Turquoise Roof" is a fascinating look into Old Tibet. Customs and religious rituals are described and explained in a detail that provides a clear picture of life as it was for the [... more]
CDN$16.95
Amazon CA |
Footprints on the Roof: Poems About the Earth
From Amazon.com: She treads gently over "mazy metropolises" of rabbits and worms. She chooses the ooze of mud. She contemplates "dormant dragons," natural disasters, and tadpoles born in the "sudden pools" of desert rain. [... more]
CDN$22.95
Amazon CA |
Raise the Roof
From Amazon.com: It seems fitting that the most successful college basketball coach since John Wooden is named Summit, because that's exactly where she's taken the women's program at the University of Tennessee. In Raise the Roof, she recounts the Lady [... more]
CDN$22.95
Amazon CA |
A Roof Cutter's Secrets: To Framing the Custom Home
Aviod this Book: Common, Will. You obviously know your roof cutting, but that doesn't mean you can write. In fact I found this book so poorly illustrated and worded that it took me hours to recover. Anyone with experience in carpentry will certainly [... more]
CDN$41.50
Amazon CA |
The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
In the wake of Katrina redemption is found...: Burke is the best around and he proves it again in the 16th Detective Robicheaux novel. He is able to capture the spirit of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast while telling a captivating story, and also [... more]
CDN$32.00
Amazon CA |
Tin Roof Blowdown
Katrina in New Orleans Reveals the Hearts of the Pure, the Corruption of the Flesh, and the Twisted Psyches of the Evil Doers: The fictional parts of The Tin Roof Blowdown pale in comparison with the factual references in the book to the horrible [... more]
CDN$26.04
Amazon CA |
Rainwater Collection
Rainwater collection systems allow you to store the water that falls on a roof during heavy rains. This water can then be used to irrigate plants when rains are light or non - existent. But how much water can one expect to store in a cistern? I ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Roof Construction Manual: Pitched Roofs
Essential information for builders: I never would have guessed one could write a whole volume on pitched roofs, but, now that I've seen it, I see how specialized roof construction is. This being a European book, there's far more coverage of various types [... more]
CDN$173.72
Amazon CA |
A Roof Over My Head
Very Important Book! Ignore the "New Right" Criticism: "A Roof Over My Head" is an extremely important book! Williams not only delineates the indemic problems of the shelter industry and many of the myths surrounding the cultural [... more]
CDN$35.07
Amazon CA |
Tibet: The Roof of the World Between Past and Present
From Amazon.com: In a coffee-table book that will likely take up half the table, Maria Sironi Diemberger gathers some of the most fabulous photographs of Tibet into an encyclopedic collection. Unlike many books of this kind, the text accompanying the [... more]
CDN$42.00
Amazon CA |
