Like the house built by Ann Peters’s father on a hill in eastern Wisconsin, House Hold offers many views: cornfields and glacial lakes, fast food parking lots and rural highways, Manhattan apartments and Brooklyn brownstones. Peters revisits the modern split-level where she grew up in Wisconsin, remembering her architect father. Against the background of this formative space, she charts her roaming story through two decades of New York City apartments, before traveling to a cabin in the mountains of Colorado and finally purchasing an old farmhouse in upstate New York. More than a memoir of remembered landscapes, House Hold is also an expansive contemplation of America, a meditation on place and property, and an exploration of how literature shapes our thinking about the places we live. A gifted prose stylist, Peters seamlessly combines her love of buildings with her love of books. She wanders through the rooms of her past but also through what Henry James called “the house of fiction,” interweaving personal narrative with musings on James, Willa Cather, William Dean Howells, Paule Marshall, William Maxwell, and others. Peters reflects on the romance of pastoral retreat, the hazards of nostalgia, America’s history of expansion and land ownership, and the conflicted desires to put down roots and to hit the road. Throughout House Hold, she asks how places make us who we are.

House Hold: A Memoir of Place

Peters, Ann

Religion & Spirituality

University of Wisconsin Press

This easy-to-read guide to baby care covers all the skills you will need from the moment your child is born up through their first, formative year. Babycare: Everything you need to know teaches you the proper ways to hold, feed, carry, change, dress, bathe, comfort, and soothe your newborn. With clear photographs, simple, informative captions, and step-by-step sequences throughout, this book is perfect for first-time and time-starved parents. Being a parent has never been easy. You’ll need to master a whole host of skills in a very short period of time. Although the task may seem daunting, Babycare: Everything you need to know gets straight to the point, thoroughly demonstrating what other books only tell you. This book has answers to every question you might have, as well as information on techniques you never thought you needed to get you through those first important moments, days, weeks and months. If your baby came with an instruction manual, this would be it.

Babycare: Everything you need to know: Feeding, Sleeping, Changing, Bathing, Crying, and Comforting

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House Hold: A Memoir of Place

Babycare: Everything you need to know: Feeding, Sleeping, Changing, Bathing, Crying, and Comforting