Household Words: A Novel

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Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award: "Unqualified praise goes to this rarity: an extraordinary novel about ordinary people."--Chicago Tribune

The year is 1940, and Rhoda Taber is pregnant with her first child. Satisfied with her comfortable house in a New Jersey suburb and her reliable husband, Leonard, she expects that her life will be predictable and secure. Surprised by an untimely death, an unexpected illness, and the contrary natures of her two daughters, Rhoda finds that fate undermines her sense of entitlement and security. Shrewd, wry, and sometimes bitter, Rhoda reveals herself to be a wonderfully flawed and achingly real woman caught up in the unexpectedness of her own life.

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Christmas Household Textiles

Christmas Household Textiles Review

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Steeped in traditions and memories, holiday textiles have long been a part of the magical fabric of Christmas. Grandma's festive tablecloth or Mom's holiday apron are vivid reminders. Greeting cards in a special Santa Claus mailbag, or presents on a felt-trimmed tree skirt can bring glowing holiday memories flooding back. Illustrated with over 440 festive color photos, this book captures the beauty, charm, and whimsy of a wide-range of Christmas textiles, both mass-produced and handmade, from the 1920s to 1970s. Included are handkerchiefs, tablecloths, tree skirts, tea towels, table runners, and aprons. Some packaging is shown and values for each item are provided in the captions. If you love Christmas fabrics, as well as poinsettias, Santa Claus, candles, and Christmas trees, this book is for you!

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Mar 28, 2012 19:08:05

Household Gods: The British and their Possessions

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At what point did the British develop their mania for interiors, wallpaper, furniture, and decoration? Why have the middle classes developed so passionate an attachment to the contents of their homes? This absorbing book offers surprising answers to these questions, uncovering the roots of today’s consumer society and investigating the forces that shape consumer desires. Richly illustrated, Household Gods chronicles a hundred years of British interiors, focusing on class, choice, shopping, and possessions.

Exploring a wealth of unusual records and archives, Deborah Cohen locates the source of modern consumerism and materialism in early nineteenth-century religious fervor. Over the course of the Victorian era, consumerism shed the taint of sin to become the preeminent means of expressing individuality. The book ranges from musty antique shops to luxurious emporia, from suburban semi-detached houses to elegant city villas, from husbands fretting about mantelpieces to women appropriating home decoration as a feminist cause. It uncovers a society of consumers whose identities have become entwined with the things they put in their houses.

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House Church and Mission: The Importance of Household Structures in Early Christianity

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For nearly three hundred years, early Christians met almost exclusively in private homes initially built only for domestic use. In this study, Roger Gehring investigates the missional significance of house churches from the time of Jesus through Paul in light of both theological and socio-historical considerations.

All church structures take shape in the tension between preestablished theological requirements and the concrete social situation. Even in the New Testament, the emergence of separate house churches involved the potential danger of splintering the Christian movement. Nevertheless their essential family-based foundation has proven to be the life-generating cell and fundamental core of the missional church.

The development of early Christian ethics, the emergence of leadership structures, and the growth of ecclesiological concepts were all noticeably influenced by the households in which believers lived and gathered. In the last twenty-five years the house church phenomenon has generated a great deal of interest among New Testament scholars and church practitioners. Research has focused primarily on the architecture of these homes and on its corresponding social and theological implications.

House Church and Mission offers scholars the first comprehensive summary of evidence concerning home churches in the New Testament and supplies pastors and lay leaders with a well-crafted discussion of the nature of "church" that explores the practical implications of house churches on outreach.

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Good Housekeeping The Complete Household Handbook, Revised Edition: The Best Ways to Clean, Maintain & Organize Your Home

Good Housekeeping The Complete Household Handbook, Revised Edition: The Best Ways to Clean, Maintain & Organize Your Home Review

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For more than 100 years, the professionals at The Good Housekeeping Research Institute have helped Good Housekeeping readers keep their homes in top shape. That’s why the original edition of The Complete Household Handbook offered the best home advice available, on everything from cleaning a floor to fixing a leaky gutter. Now, this stunningly comprehensive volume includes an expanded section on keeping your yard looking great and a new chapter on car care, along with revised information, sidebars, illustrations, and boxed features throughout. Such diverse topics as fixing a driveway, cell phone safety, battery disposal, cleaning collectibles, and busting kitchen clutter are all added or updated. Every page contains ingenious, practical, and simple-to-implement advice.
No one’s home should be without it!

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Mar 17, 2012 00:46:15

Poems - Household Edition

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Poems - Household Edition is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Ralph Waldo Emerson is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

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Mar 14, 2012 13:28:34

Joyful Momma's Guide to Quiet Times in Loud Households

Joyful Momma's Guide to Quiet Times in Loud Households Review

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Are you burdened to raise your children for Christ? Do you desire to have a stronger walk with the Lord yourself? Do you struggle with finding time for the Lord, with all of the other responsibilities you have?
Start a Devotional Life Worth Passing On!

Many Christian women understand the need to have a quiet time with God, and to proactively raise their children for Christ, but understanding how to incorporate a quiet time with God into an already busy day is a difficult matter. As Christian mothers we need our quiet times with God as we raise our children for Christ.

That’s where Joyful Momma’s Guide to Quiet Times in Loud Households comes in. This 2nd Edition of Quiet Times in Loud Households will show you not just how to carve out a quiet time with God, but how to live a devotional life, walking with the Lord throughout the day.

Learn how to:

Lay the proper foundation in your life: Jesus Christ
Start living a devotional life, walking all day long with God
Spend time in the Bible
Study the Bible more in depth, using online or printed Bible Study Tools
Know that you can trust the Bible as God’s Holy Word
Lead your children to Christ
Serve the Lord as a family
Teach your children how to have a quiet time with God
Deal with questions your children bring up

…and more!

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Mar 09, 2012 00:00:36

Medieval Households (Studies in Cultural History)

Medieval Households (Studies in Cultural History) Review

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Traces the history of family life during the Middle Ages and examines medieval marriages, childhood, motherhood, and fatherhood.

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Household And Farmers' Cyclopedia: Or One Hundred Thousand Facts For The People (1873)

Household And Farmers' Cyclopedia: Or One Hundred Thousand Facts For The People (1873) Review

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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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Mar 06, 2012 00:52:37

Family and Household in Medieval England (Social History in Perspective)

Family and Household in Medieval England (Social History in Perspective) Review

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Family and Household in Medieval England discusses the history of family life in England from c. 1066 to c. 1530, drawing upon both primary sources and a wide range of secondary literature. After a discussion of the family in theory and law from late classical times, the book traces the development of the family in this period by following a "life-cycle" approach, from marriage, through childbirth, to the dissolution of marriage by death or separation.

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