My Walls Speak

In the 1800’s William and Helen moved to Central Wyoming to homestead and start a new life. Helen’s brother, Duncan and his Native American wife join them to assist with building a wonderful house that becomes known as ‘The Grand lady .' Little did they know that ‘The lady’ would develop a life of her own. Five generations live happy, productive lives within ‘The Lady ,' before she is abandoned and left to decay with time. Then, after years of loneliness, revolting events occur that bring her to the reality of the modern world. For all who believe a house has personality and a story to tell, The Lady will entertain you with her chronicle. Set in the beauty of the Wind River Mountains, her narrative include historical events of the beautiful state of Wyoming.

About the Book LISTEN TO THE WALLS TALK tells a sweeping story about people and the spaces they live while interacting with one another throughout history. The historical fiction and the tales of intrigue, social discrepancies and adventure, are intertwined in the book narrative, providing voices for nature, man-made spaces and humans. Is it a world’s dominant powers conspiracy? A prediction for the environmental self-destruction? At the center of this story are the spaces we live in and two human characters, who with the support of a quasi-human artificial intelligence, are exploring and reviving thousand years of history.

If the Walls Could Speak focuses on the lives of women in prison in postwar communist Poland and how they took on different roles and personalities to protect themselves and create a semblance of normality, despite abuses and prison confinement, and reveals how life in a Stalinist prison adds to our understanding of coercion and resistance under totalitarian regimes. (source : éditeur).

It’s a beautiful, clear spring day, and soon the cherry blossoms will fall from the trees and blanket the ground like snow. This season promises to be extraordinary, but it won’t be the same without Da, who passed away at Christmastime. Finn O’Brine stares out the window, taking it all in. He can’t believe his father will never spend time with him again. And he can’t believe there’s a bat at his window—talking to him. Before his death, Mr. O’Brine told Finn many stories about colossal dragons, sorcery, and the magic of Wickum Mannor in Ireland—but they couldn’t possibly be real, right? Wrong! Magic runs in the O’Brine family; it’s part of their heritage. Now thirteen, Finn will begin to show signs of his magical inheritance any day now. It’s time for Finn; his twin sister, Neave; his younger brother, Jack; and his mother, Ailish, to leave the comfort of their home in America and journey to Wickum Manor themselves. They expect a summerlong adventure, but the O’Brine children may not be as ready as they think. With all the fantastic things to experience and discover on the four-hundred-acre estate, will Finn want to enroll at the magical Wickum Academy, or will he choose to return to his friends and classes in America at summer’s end?

One of the world’s greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has built—from Habitat in Montreal to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore—and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should play in society Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world’s most influential and memorable structures—from the 1967 modular housing scheme in Montreal known as “Habitat” and the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel, to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas and the Marina Bay Sands development and extraordinary Jewel Changi airport interior garden and waterfall in Singapore. For Safdie, the way a space functions is fundamental; he is deeply committed to architecture as a social force for good, believing that any challenge, including extreme population density and environmental distress, can be addressed with solutions that enhance community and uplift the human spirit. Safdie always refers to the “silent client” an architect must ultimately serve: the people who live in, work in, or experience a building. If Walls Could Speak takes readers behind the veil of an essential yet mysterious profession to explain through Safdie’s own experiences how an architect thinks and works—“from the spark of imagination through the design process, the model-making, the politics, the engineering, the materials.” Relating memorable stories about what has inspired him—from childhoods in Israel and Montreal to the projects and personalities worldwide that have captured his imagination—Safdie reveals the complex interplay that underpins every project and his vision for the role architecture can and should play in society at large. Illustrated throughout with drawings, sketches, photographs, and documents from his firm’s voluminous archives that illuminate his stories, If Walls Could Speak ends with a chapter outlining seven projects Safdie would pursue around the world if resources and will were no issue and the choices were his to make. A book like no other, If Walls Could Speak will forever change the way you look at and appreciate any built structure.

"A beautiful tribute to a man and his art"---Review of Texas Books --

This book is an informative honest true factuality of people that have forfieted something good for instant gratification. Either regretful or grateful each reader can fit these instances somewhere or at sometime in their life. This book is from a perspective of one who is no longer whole, reminiscing or regretting. There is always room for thanks and praise in one mind, not forgetting those who made a difference in who you were and who you've become. Not to emit the special ones who has the faith in us we landed in ourselves. This book brings awareness to the human mind. Use it don't lose it.