Aims to help homeowners live self-sufficiently, including growing their own food, cooking meals from scratch, keeping animals, making homemade cleaning and skin-care products, and making homemade gifts.
Aims to help homeowners live self-sufficiently, including growing their own food, cooking meals from scratch, keeping animals, making homemade cleaning and skin-care products, and making homemade gifts.
This is an exquisitely realized and wholly original memoir of growing up in blue-collar 1950s Lakewood, California, the quintessential post-World War II American suburb and the prototype for the countless tract developments that would follow. At once a portrait of the author's c…
"A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It is high summer, the early 1960s. Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island teenagers, share an intense, all-consuming love. But Sheryl's widowed mother steps between them, and one moonlit night Rick and a gang of hoodlums…
"A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It is high summer, the early 1960s. Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island teenagers, share an intense, all-consuming love. But Sheryl's widowed mother steps between them, and one moonlit night Rick and a gang of hoodlums…