The English Manor House
 From the archives...: "From the archives of Country Life" almost says it all. Jeremy Musson does a wonderful job of applying fresh commentary to these outstanding photographs of some of England's most beautiful manor architecture. This book and [... more]
CDN$70.17
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The Open House
Allusive, melodramatic English Manor mystery: "The Open House" (1972) is one of my favorite Sir John Appleby mysteries--a slightly hallucinatory murder mystery set in what at first appears to be a fully furnished, but abandoned English manor. [... more]
CDN$13.49
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Arts & Crafts Houses
The origins of the Arts and Crafts movement: These are three of the major works of the Arts and Crafts Movement beginning with the fabulous Red House which brought together many of William Morris' ideas in shaping this movement. Philip Webb worked with [... more]
CDN$40.00
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The Day Of The Storm
Very Disappointing: After reading September and Coming Home, this was a real letdown. The characters were not well enough defined to show the motivation for their behavior. I never believed anything they said or did. It read, to me, like a Reader's [... more]
CDN$9.99
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Faked To Death
Pleasant but Predictable: Jumping directly into the second book in a series without having read the first can sometimes be a handicap. In FAKED TO DEATH, the second book in the Simon Kirby-Jones mystery series, the author Dean James quickly and [... more]
CDN$22.92
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Once Upon A Kiss
Disappointed: I really enjoy the Once Upon collection. . . However was really disappointed with this books. The stories lack substance and characters. In addition, I was expecting more romance in the sense that the kiss in each story would almost be soul [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Collected Stories
The real deal.: I was dubious. Not of the quality of Chandler's writings, but of the veracity of this book's claim to collect ALL of his short fiction. But it does. From Blackmailers Don't Shoot to The Pencil, with everything in between, this has them [... more]
CDN$34.00
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Faked To Death
Pleasant but Predictable: Jumping directly into the second book in a series without having read the first can sometimes be a handicap. In FAKED TO DEATH, the second book in the Simon Kirby-Jones mystery series, the author Dean James quickly and [... more]
CDN$6.24
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Paradise Transformed: The Private Garden for the ...
From Amazon.com: This survey of contemporary landscape architecture may come as a surprise to those who imagine that the high art of garden design, which reached its zenith in the classically former gardens of 19th-century English manor houses, is an [... more]
CDN$57.50
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Onward and Upward in the Garden
From Amazon.com: These 14 pieces by Katharine White first appeared in the pages of the New Yorker and were posthumously collected by her husband, E. B. White. They are at once as formal as an English manor house garden, as sensible as the Burpee seed [... more]
CDN$17.95
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Burglar In The Library
From Amazon.com: Bernie, if you recall, is that likeable young New Yorker who has tempered his passion for stealing classy works of art with the more staid vocation of selling books. But his passion always reigns. In this eighth Bernie Rhodenbarr caper, [... more]
CDN$8.99
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The Burglar in the Library
From Amazon.com: Bernie, if you recall, is that likeable young New Yorker who has tempered his passion for stealing classy works of art with the more staid vocation of selling books. But his passion always reigns. In this eighth Bernie Rhodenbarr caper, [... more]
CDN$8.99
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