Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Occupied from around 7500 BC to 5700 BC, the large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk in Anatolia is composed entirely of domestic buildings; no public buildings have been identified. First excavated in the early 1960s, the site was left untouched until 1993. During the summers of 1997-2003 a team from the University of California at Berkeley (the BACH team) excavated an area at the northern end of the East Mound of Catalhoyuk. The houses there date predominantly to the late Aceramic and early Ceramic Neolithic, around 7000 BC. Last House on the Hill is the final report of the BACH excavations. This volume comprises both interpretive chapters and empirical data from the excavations and their materials. The research of the BACH team focuses on the lives and life histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in documenting and sharing the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities.

The four popular Bondi Beach books in one boxed set. Beach House: Rosie Pemberton has her life mapped out, and her tarot cards agree. The cards take a turn, though, when her aunt leaves the old house on the hill above Australia’s Bondi Beach to champion surfer Taj Brown. Three months sharing a house with a pinup would test any woman’s self-control… Beach Music: Sally Smith is content with her life despite her twin sister, Sonia, telling her she doesn't have one. One dose of heartbreak was enough to do her for a lifetime, so she plays it safe. Until her twin meddles and then takes off to Hawaii leaving Sally to deal with the fallout. The tarot cards told Sonia it would bring Sally her happy-ever-after, and the cards don't lie. Beach Walk: Sonia Smith lives in the haunted house on the hill above Bondi Beach. Well, maybe it’s not haunted, but the hint of a ghost in the old house where she reads tea leaves and tarot cards is good for business. When fashion designer, Dave Harris, turns up on Christmas Day, the last thing Sonia needs is a slick businessman telling her what to do. Sorry We're Closed: Rosie, Sally and Sonia have all found their happy ever afters in the house on the hill..but what will become of Aunt Agatha and the house now that it has been sold? Property developer, Greg Tindall, has big plans to turn the graceful mansion into an apartment block. But Greg is thwarted as Ginny Silver, retro shop proprietor, joins forces with Aunt Aggie. Can Ginny convince Greg that the house and its contents are too beautiful to be revamped...but even more problematic...can she avoid falling in love with a man who is totally unsuitable for her?

The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Philip is in despair at the thought of having to stay with 'stuck up old aunt Jane' in her vast gloomy mansion. Worse still, his awful cousin Susan is living there too. At first Susan and Phillip dislike each other intensely, but form an uneasy alliance when they discover the secret room upstairs. If it has been empty for several years, why is there a light on there every night? Intrigued, the two cousins start to investigate. As they dig deeper and deeper into the past the terrible secrets of The House on the Hill start to unfold...

Home is where the heart fits . . . Summer Murray is ready to shake things up. She doesn’t want to work in risk management. She doesn’t want to live in Hartford, Connecticut. So she plans a grand adventure: she’s going to throw out all the stuff she doesn’t want and travel the country in her very own tiny house house shaped like a train caboose. Just Summer, her chihuahua-dachshund Shortie, and 220 square feet of freedom. Then her take-no-prisoners grandmother calls to demand Summer head home to the Pacific Northwest to save the family bakery. Summer has her reasons for not wanting to return home, but she’ll just park her caboose, fix things, and then be on her way. But when she gets to Cat’s Paw, Washington, she’s shocked by her grandmother’s strange behavior and reunited with a few people she’d hoped to avoid. If Summer is going to make a fresh start, she’ll have to face the past she’s been running from all along . . . Praise for Celia Bonaduce and her novels “A bingeworthy trilogy about smart, quirky women who feel like friends. In Much Ado About Mother she shows us just how strong (and funny) the mother-daughter bond can be. Loved it!” —Clare O'Donahue, author of The Kate Conway Mysteries “Celia Bonaduce writes well rounded, real life characters straight from the heart. I loved this book!&rdquo —Phyliss Miranda, New York Times bestselling author on A Comedy of Erinn “The Merchant of Venice Beach has a fresh, heartwarming voice that will keep readers smiling as they dance through this charming story by Celia Bonaduce.” —Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author

'Pavese's novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings' Italo Calvino June, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing Turin; fascist Italy is on its knees. Every evening, after a day's teaching in the city, Corrado returns to the safety of the hills and the care of his two doting landladies. He has no attachments, no obligations. Yet against his better judgement he is drawn to the easy warmth of a circle of anti-fascists who congregate at a nearby tavern, and confronted with a painful choice: emotional and political commitment, with all its dangers - or devastating retreat. Pavese's extraordinary semi-autobiographical novel is a lucid portrayal of missed opportunities and human weakness, set against the seductive intensity of the Italian countryside. Translated with an introduction by Tim Parks Shortlisted for The Society of Authors Translation Award 2022

"Jack and Doris Oliver meet real estate agent Nancy Flesch to complete the purchase of a house on Huntington hill next door to the mansion owned by the mysterious J. Pierson-Grenville. On the way home they discuss their thirteen-year-old son David, whom they have sent to a psychiatrist because of an imaginary friend. David recalls meeting this friend, Joseph, five months before they moved to Blainesville and how Joseph predicted their move. Their first evening in the new house, Jack reviews what he has learned about J. Pierson-Grenville from Nancy Flesch and newspaper clippings. Doris suggests they visit the mansion, but Jack says the gate is closed. When David says it isn´t, Jack makes a bet with him. To his surprise, they find the gate open. They proceed to the terrace in back for a better view. David, wakened from sleep in the middle of the night, sees Joseph on the lawn below, He joins him, until his parents, make him to return to the house. The next day, the Olivers recall what Nancy told them about Joseph. They learn more about him from the local bank manager. David, sitting in a park across the street, meets Lester, who reveals that he, too, has David´s " "gift."" Mowing the lawn the next day, David and his father have an altercation over the tractor mower and David runs into the woods. For the first time, Jack and Doris realize that something serious is wrong and that they are up against forces beyond their belief. They take David to the psychiatrist, Dr. Barkley, and confer with their local physician, Dr. Stone. David´s next session ends in the death of the psychiatrist and leaves David in a coma. Jack reads a book of poems by Joseph in the local library that thoroughly frighten him. He and David almost drown in the pond behind the mansion. The Olivers learn about other drownings in the pond under mysterious circumstances. Jack researches the drownings in the local library while David, supposedly wandering around town, pays a visit to Lester. He is punished for visiting Lester without his father´s permission and runs away again. Jack finds him in the mansion under Joseph´s spell. Lester, receiving psychic messages, seeks the aid of Father Martin, who prepare´s an exorcism. As they break into the mansion, Jack disappears through a mirror into a hell Joseph has prepared in the basement. Escaping at last, he finds the exorcism has cost the lives of Lester and Father Martin, not to mention Joseph. Some months later, when Joseph´s will is read, the Olivers find they have inherited the house on Huntington hill as well as Joseph´s fortune. But there are strings attached."