The House That George Built takes readers through the process of how the president's house came to be--starting with the contest George held to choose the perfect design for this legendary landmark, all the way to President John Adams's move into the grandiose home. Cleverly written in the familiar format of "The House That Jack Built," author Suzanne Slade supplements her rhyming verse with lively conversational prose, describing how George was involved...

Profiles fifty unusual structures, include a fire-breathing octopus sculpture, a giant skateboard ramp, a Costa Rican treehouse community, and a life-sized X-Wing Starfighter built of LEGO bricks.

"An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today. America's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades--celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths long-lost threads of the urban past, telling the...

"After her fiancé's brother convinces him to break up with her before the wedding, Athena Greydon moves into a ten-foot-wide Spite House between the two and engages in some well-deserved payback"-- "When Athena Greydon's fiancé ends their engagement, she has no choice but to move into the Spite House she recklessly bought him as a wedding gift. This is a problem, for several reasons: The house, originally built as a brick middle finger to the neighbors,...

"It was time for the three little wolves to go out into the world so they set off and built themselves a splendid brick house. But they hadn't reckoned on the big bad pig coming along..." -- goodreads.com "En esta divertida versión del cuento tradicional, ocurre una genial inversión de personajes: esta vez, el malvado es un cochino feroz que sopla y resopla hasta derribar las casas de los tres lobitos, recurriendo a medidas drásticas cuando la...