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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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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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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Frank Conroy
In the dim light of a basement apartment, six-year-old Claude Rawlings sits at an old white piano, picking out the sounds he has heard on the radio and shutting out the reality of his lonely world. The setting is 1940s New York, a city that is ... [... more]
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Jacob Slichter
How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful Of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life After years of working day jobs and making music in his basement, Jacob Slichter wondered if his dreams of rock stardom were a vain illusion. Then he ... [... more]
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Eugenia Bone
Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods Most of us remember our mothers or grandmothers painstakingly canning tomatoes on a sweltering summer day, so they'd be able to grab them from the basement pantry come winter. ... [... 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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Alan Corey
How to Overcome a Crap Job, Stingy Parents, and a Useless Degree to Become a Millionaire Before (or After) Turning Thirty At twenty-two, Alan Corey left his mom's basement in Atlanta and moved to New York City with one goal in mind: to become a ... [... 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 Freak the Mighty. He's a timid soul stuck in the body of a teenage giant with size 14 shoes. Haunted by a dark secret in his past, he hides out in his basement room, avoiding the world. But when a new kid moves in ... [... 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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