Basement makeover
An old basement is transformed into a perfect hideaway for kids. Zac (8), Jackson (6) and Madison (4) share a bedroom and as yet don't have a designated play room to put all their things. The storage basement under the kitchen is perfect and Tara ... [... more]
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Marina Warner
Marina Warner is a novelist, cultural historian and critic. Her fiction includes Indigo, The Lost Father (winner of a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), as well as a collection of stories, Mermaids in the Basement. ... [... more]
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Ken Silverstein
Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments-building homemade fireworks, brewing moonshine, and concocting his own self-tanning lotion-were more ambitious than those of other boys. While ... [... more]
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Debbie Travis
Debbie Travis' Facelift offers fantastically innovative solutions for the decorating doldrums-and a fresh, simple approach to revitalizing any room of your home. Transforming a dark basement into a lively entertainment center or a restful retreat ... [... more]
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Jacob Slichter
After years of working day jobs and making music in his basement, Jacob Slichter wondered if his dreams of rock stardom were... Jacob Slichter [... more]
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Victor La Valle
Anthony James weighs 315 pounds, is possibly schizophrenic, and he's just been kicked out of college. He's rescued by his mother, sister, and grandmother, but they may not be altogether sane themselves. Living in the basement of their home in ... [... more]
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Takuya Fujima
Cyan is a teenage cat (in cat years!), and when his beloved young master falls ill, the parents abandon Cyan in the basement of a luxurious apartment building. Now Cyan finds himself smack-dab in the middle of the biggest feline territorial ... [... more]
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Eldon Henson
Meet Maxwell Kane, narrator of The Mighty. He's a timid soul stuck in the body of a teenage giant with size 14 shoes. Hounted by a dark secret in his past, he hides out in his basement room, avoiding the world. When a new kid... click for ... [... more]
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Peter Jeswald
Basement Ideas that Work Peter Jeswald Trade Paperback, 184 pages [... more]
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Hong Kong shopping
Jodhi tackles the task of finding Hong Kong's bargain basement and the ultimate shopping guide. Nothing much has changed in Hong Kong since it was handed back to China by the British in 1997. It is still busy and bustling, full of hotels, stalls, ... [... more]
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Rock room
A bright and modern update for this subterranean family room. Originally an open hole under the house, Ursula and Chris transformed this basement room into an entertaining area in the '70s. In its glory days it was the "party room" but is now .. [... more]
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David Spalding
David Spalding's first dinosaur discovery was a Lambeosaurus, which he found in three separate packing cases in a museum basement. In 1967, he assumed the position of Head Curator of National History at the Provincial Museum of Alberta. There, he ... [... more]
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