The best castles, historic houses, royal palaces, and stately homes to visit in Scotland. Contains detailed entries with locations, description, ownership, plan, and drawings. 64 pages of color photographs.--Amazon.com.

Melanie Trenholm is less than thrilled to leave her new husband and infant twins to return to work, especially when she's awoken by a phone call with no voice on the other end. She has the uneasy feeling that the ghostly apparitions that have stayed silent for more than a year are about to invade her life once more. New client Jayne Smith is eager to sell the home she recently inherited on South Battery. But whenever Jayne is near, spirits-- both...

"The 'great house' of the South inhabits a place of the imagination as much as it does any particular geographic terrain. Margaret Mitchell's Tara from 'Gone with the Wind', though fictional, stands even now for many Americans as the epitome of the type, with its stately white-columned porticos, shady verandahs, and elegant interiors with graceful proportions. Yet the Southern great house is much more than this. From the bookish if slightly irregular...

Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she's determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home's conservation...

This booklet is the third in the Minnesota Historic Sites Pamphlet Series. It contains the texts that appear on 110 markers dealing with historic events of state-wide interest, 23 state monuments, and 33 markers describing Minnesota's geology.

Minnesota’s Own welcomes readers into twenty-two of these homes through over two hundred color photographs and Millett’s captivating stories of their construction, original owners, and restorations. Larry Millett is an architectural historian and award-winning writer whose books include Lost Twin Cities, AIA Guide to the Twin Cities, and Twin Cities Then and Now. St. Paul native Matt Schmitt has enjoyed a three-decade career in advertising, commercial,...