"Modern homes are filled with conveniences often taken for granted. But many of these appliances and creature comforts took years to grow into the forms we find so familiar today. Bill Nye explains the technology of the house and home. From plumbing and paints to microwave ovens and frozen foods, these advances have made life as we know it easier to manage."--Container.

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Now that Cory and his dad are settled into life in the White House, Cory is cooking up even zanier schemes with his friends Newt and Meena. Cory and Meena come up with a clever plan to help Newt in the 'romance department' and get his first kiss. The guys clash when they have to write a hot new song for their band - before sundown. Things really heat up when Cory almost destroys the cherished Presidential Seal. All this, and they still have to pass...

Manny and the tools go to the movies until the projector breaks down.

A heartwarming father-son story set in glorious Tuscany about bohemian London artist Robert, who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife. Neither expects to find the once beautiful villa in such a state of disrepair. Renovations go badly, with father and son soon finding themselves at odds. Robert's comical lack of DIY experience leads him to seek help from some colorful locals....

A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its newest resident, a frustrated architect. When they discover that they're living two years apart, they try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.

In postwar Germany in 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity...

When Melody's neighbor, Nina, learns that her illness has returned, Melody promises to keep Nina's kids, Holly & Ivy, together. To adopt the children, she must renovate her new fixer-upper, which she does with the help of contractor, Adam.