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"The sun beamed down on Melissa Henderson's shining dark hair, pinned up on her head in a loose knot, as sweat ran down her face, and the muscles in her long, lithe arms were taut with effort as she worked. She was lost in concentration, sanding a door of the house in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts that had been her salvation. She had bought it four years before. It had been weather-beaten, shabby and in serious need of repair when she found...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist--a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret. When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive... As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating...
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English
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Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill.; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having worked all summer at keeping bunnies out of his garden, Mr. McGreely looks forward to a peaceful winter--if only he can keep those naughty bunnies from invading his home.
8) Igloo
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Photographs, illustrations, and simple text describes how to build an igloo.
10) Ten Beach Road
Author
Series
Beach volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Berkley trade pbk ed.
Physical Desc
423 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Madeline, Avery, and Nikki are strangers to each other, but they have one thing in common. They each wake up one morning to discover their life savings have vanished, along with their trusted financial manager-leaving them with nothing but co-ownership of a ramshackle beachfront house.Throwing their lots in together, they take on the challenge of restoring the historic property. But just as they begin to reinvent themselves and discover the power...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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After being dumped, Gretchen Hanover decides to become a house flipper, buying houses and fixing them up to sell, but when the house that she buys has more problems than she anticipated, carpenter Noah Campbell steps in to help.
13) Igloos
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
24 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception. Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive--and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. EMMA...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Magnolia Story is the first book from Chip and Joanna, offering their fans a detailed look at their life together. From the very first renovation project they ever tackled together, to the project that nearly cost them everything; from the childhood memories that shaped them, to the twists and turns that led them to the life they share on the farm today.
18) Blackbird House
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
225p. 21cm.
Language
English
Description
With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod...