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As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, enduring the mistakes of past housing policy. In The Projects, Howard A. Husock explains how we got here, detailing the tragic rise and fall of public housing and the pitfalls of other subsidy programs. He takes us inside a progressive movement led by a group of New York City philanthropists, politicians, and business magnates who first championed public housing as a solution to urban blight.

Emmanuel is a famous playwright. Lillian is his sickly and embittered wife. They have never fully buried the memory of their dead daughter, Sarah. Rich but discontented, they flit from capital to capital in the company of their hero-worshipping young manager; nomads on the international airlines...

From the bestselling author of The Cazelet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Getting It Right, a a touching comedy about a young man trying desperately to get it right. Winner of the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award Gavin - a sensitive, shy, hairdresser in the West End - is, at...

It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last heroic action still affects the lives of the people he left behind. Emma, his youngest daughter, twenty-seven years old and afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a war widow, blindly searching for love in her affairs with married men. Esme...

An unusual love story, but it happened. An undercover Angel meets the figure of Death and they are drawn to each other. Then, an alien hacker finds a weak link into Life's Database and enters to change some dates of death. This gets the Boatman in trouble. When the Devil discovers the hackers abilities, makes plans of his own. Now, both the Boatman and the Hacker are on the run. Finding Angel at a crucial time is a stroke of luck... or is it? Follow the Angel and the Boatman to an unnatural conclusion. Even in the face of death, anything can happen!

Por que as grandes mudanças da vida costumam vir acompanhadas de crise e confusão? Em Os Deuses da Mudança, o renomado astrólogo e psicólogo Howard Sasportas explica como os trânsitos de Urano, Netuno e Plutão agem como forças de transformação profunda, impulsionando crescimento e renovação.

If you could have ANYTHING you wanted, what would you ask for? Would you still want it if you knew the consequences? Would you agree to any price? Angela Seaver entered a candy store and changed her life forever. During an investigation of her husband's unusual death, Detective Phillip Bradley took one step too far and entered the Afterlife. There he learned how the world REALLY works. Enjoy this cosmic thriller written as a fictional story, based on Universal truths. After hearing this short story, ask yourself: Could it be true?

“The real trap isn’t failure; it’s spending your one life building something impressive that never becomes enduring.” You hit the goal. The company is growing. The financial metrics look great. You’re more secure than ever, and yet, something in you didn’t move. Under the applause, a low hum persists: Is this it? Does any of this really matter? If you’ve ever hit a milestone and felt strangely empty, you’re not broken. You’ve just reached a false summit. It looks like the top, but it isn't the destination. The danger isn’t falling short; it’s climbing higher on the wrong mountain.

From the lauded, bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles, After Julius is Elizabeth Jane Howard's funny yet touching story of a family brought together yet falling apart. 'A novel that commands both respect and applause' – Sunday Times It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last...

Brought to life with dual narration by Jonathan Keeble and Emma Gregory From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, The Sea Change is a witty yet heart-rending story of a marriage in crisis. Emmanuel is a famous playwright. Lillian is his sickly and embittered wife. They have never...

Winner of the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award. From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Getting It Right is a touching comedy about a young man trying desperately to come of age. Gavin – a sensitive, shy, hairdresser in the West End – is, at...

May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves home only to drift from one affair to another; his sister Elizabeth follows him, yearning for some kind of secure relationship. While even Alice, Herbert's meek daughter, is...

Life had been distinctly lacking in possibilities - until The Visit. But, ever afterwards, just remembering the smell of the Lancings' house would enrapture her, taking her back to that very first day when Lucy and Gerald had picked her up from the station . . . All the longing, excitement and...

Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll. Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and amoral - and, as they find out, beautiful and loving. With her elegant prose the author traces the web...

With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall. Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Observant and heartbreaking, written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth...

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All is a heartfelt story of love and adulthood in the 1960s. 'Graceful, moving' – Daily Express The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days...

From Edgar nominee and author of critically acclaimed The Whispers comes a tale of friendship, found family, and the knowledge that even in death, those we love never really leave us. Now in paperback! When twelve-year-old Ben Turner’s mom unexpectedly passes away, he's forced into the care of...

“Simenon could produce endless variations, as similar and as different as Shakespeare’s sonnets or Monet’s haystacks.” —Adam Kirsch When the glamorous wife of an American industrialist is murdered at a luxury Paris hotel, her past life as a nightclub dancer is the key to finding the...

Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is? As a boy growing up on the south coast of England, Howard Cunnell's sense of self was dominated by his father's absence. Now, years later, he is a father, and his daughter is becoming his son. Starting...

‘Christ! You guys look like a couple of Feds.’ 1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J. J. Wedick and Jack Brennan, two fresh-faced FBI agents, were about to go undercover. Their target: the charismatic, globe-trotting con man Phil Kitzer, who was responsible for swindling (and spending) millions of...