The Big House

  • The Big House
    The Big House
    By James

    Inmate Howard Melton was another. Melton was a classic felon who lived a life devoted to lawlessness. Yet the first time I met him, I felt empathy for him. It's a good thing, too, as our careers—his of crime, mine of corrections—were ...

  • The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
    The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
    By George Howe Colt

    One of them was a Harvard sophomore named Larrie Austin, whom she met ... “You must be tired of having me say so often how beautiful everything is, but I can't possibly describe France in spring so I won't try,” he wrote to her from the ...

  • The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family
    The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family
    By Christopher Simon Sykes

    Please note that some images were unavailable for the electronic edition. The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years.

  • The Big House
    The Big House
    By Helena McEwen

    Elizabeth can hardly accept that her brother James, her nursery soulmate and partner in crime, committed suicide, so when her sister Kitty dies too it is more than she can comprehend.

  • The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison
    The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison
    By Stephen D. Cox

    This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them: problems of control and discipline, maintenance and reform, power and sexuality.

  • The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison
    The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison
    By Stephen D. Cox

    This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them : problems of control and discipline, mainenance and reform, power and sexuality.

  • The Big House
    The Big House
    By Carolyn Coman

    When their parents are sent "up the river" for embezzlement, Ray and Ivy are left to live in the lap of luxury with Marietta Noland and her ancient husband, Lionel. But life at the big house is not all it's cracked up to be.

  • The Big House
    The Big House
    By Aine Greaney

    ... A great shuffle of boots , wellingtons , stools scraping off the wooden floor as the four whipped back around . Suddenly , O'Brien pointed up at the telly , let out a purposeful , screeching laugh at Lucille Ball typing a letter in an ...

  • The Big House: Story of a Southern Family
    By J. Keck

    By late 1936, the worst years of the Great Depression are over.

  • The Big House
    The Big House
    By Carolyn Coman

    When Ivy and Ray are left in the custody of the accusers who send their parents to jail, they decide to look for evidence that will "spring" Mom and Dad.

  • The Big House: The Story of a Country House and Its Family
    The Big House: The Story of a Country House and Its Family
    By Christopher Simon Sykes

    'The Big House' is the biography of an archetypal great house and the lives of the family who lived there for over 250 years.

  • The Big House: Fielding H. Yost and the Building of Michigan Stadium
    The Big House: Fielding H. Yost and the Building of Michigan Stadium
    By Robert M. Soderstrom

    University of Michigan Head Football Coach, Lloyd H. Carr sums it up best, If you have an interest in the history of college football and especially University of Michigan Football,...

  • The Big House: Story of a Southern Family
    The Big House: Story of a Southern Family
    By J Keck

    Book III of the ongoing saga erupts against the backdrop of historical characters and places when the Arkansas Delta seethed with strife and violence during the Great Depression.