More than 125 gorgeous photographs showcase the beauty of award-winning stonemason Lew French's work in eight different homes, illustrating how rounded fieldstone, gray slate, rough granite, and even curvy driftwood can be incorporated into stunning pieces of functional art.

Lew French is a master stonemason who finds and gathers hundreds of individual stones to create a single fireplace or an outdoor stone wall that looks like it had been there for hundreds of years. Rather than use a chisel, his stones have to fit together naturally; he remembers and fits them together in his mind’s eye. From a huge outdoor water feature at an office building near Boston, to a residential landscape on Chappaquiddick, to his own retreat home in the mountains of Brazil, each c...

Die Vertonung des sozialdemokratischen VORWÄRTS (Berliner Morgenausgabe) erinnert an den Moment das Scheiterns der Demokratie in Deutschland in der Nacht zum 28. Februar 1933. Der Reichstagsbrand war der NSDAP-dominierten Regierung willkommener Anlass zum Verbot aller missliebigen Presse. So auch des letzten offiziell erschienenen VORWÄRTS der Weimarer Republik. Welche Stimmung mochte vor dem Verbot in der Redaktion des VORWÄRTS geherrscht haben? Was war zu hören in den Büros, den Fluren u...

Beginning in the Kalahari Desert in Africa, Etched in Stone tells the story of Jodie, a biochemist whose life is fundamentally altered by a powerful, mystical rock unearthed in a scientifically inexplicable biochemical dead zone in the desert. Her possession of the stone sets her scientific training (what's possible and what isn't) and her actual, physical experience (what's real) on a collision course.With the help of two men, Jodie must maneuver through ...

Winner 2021 Reader's Favorite Silver Award for Children's AudiobooksHunted, stranded, shipwrecked, sold, and betrayed… all to find an old book and realize who you really are.After discovering a mysterious stone pillar, Isaac, Zac, and Breezy find themselves fighting for their lives in a strange and perilous world, unaware of the disruption they bring. Hunted by the immortal Lord Sasson, the teens forsake all to pursue an ancient quest in hopes of r...