homes and haunts

The Great Plains Guide to Buffalo Bill follows the life of one of the Wild West's most legendary heroes, taking readers on a unique, informative tour of the residences, forts, battlefields, and other sites that interpret Cody's life on the Great Plains. Each chapter focuses on a period in Cody's life and includes a "Trail Today" section.

When Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money?.

Collects annotated reprints of "Walden," "Civil Disobedience," "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Walking," and "Wild Apples," with sections from Thoreau's "Journal" and reactions to the author by Ralph Waldo Emerson and others with criticism by nineteen contributors, including E.B. White and Barbara Johnson.

An autobiography in which author Robert Newton Peck recalls his childhood and the people who influenced him the most, and discusses his writing career.

The author describes how she and her husband came to purchase the celebrated Palladian villa outside of Venice, and relates its history, former inhabitants, and the architecture of one of Italy's national treasures.

Anne Rice reflects on her life, focusing on her religious transitions which went from Catholicism to atheism and back to Catholicism, but also discussing her childhood, years in Berkeley, writing career, family, and other related topics.

Adam Gopnik recounts the experiences he had after moving his family from Paris to Manhattan, describing the family's struggle to adapt to urban life in the hectic city and rebuild once more after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Adam Gopnik describes the experiences he, his wife, and their infant son had while traveling through Paris in the late 1990s.

A description of the island and people of Antigua in the British West Indies.