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Everyone assumes Rosa Lee Altman lived a life without passion. But buried secrets are meant to be revealed. And no one is prepared for what they discover beneath Rosa Lee's overgrown roses--or how her legacy will change their lives with love.
The once--beautiful Altman home sits empty, its gardens overgrown, its windows boarded up--an old lady, now silent, surrounded by what passes for progress in Clifton Creek, Texas. But if some of...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"A house sits in a field under the ever-changing sky. For a while the house was full of laughter and children and the sounds of lives being lived under its roof. And then, for a long time, it was empty and quiet. New people came to look, but they always left. Will anyone come to stay?"--Jacket
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Portuguese
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In this audacious debut feature, Joao Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam, an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the white world. Upon discovering an abandoned house...
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A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son—beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill—vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark’s inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law’s funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns...
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Facing financial ruin, Abigail Foster and her father receive an astounding offer: the use of a distant manor house abandoned for eighteen years. They journey to Pembrooke Park and are startled to find it entombed as it was abruptly left: tea cups encrusted with dry tea, a doll's house left mid-play. The handsome local curate welcomes them, and offers a warning: beware trespassers drawn by rumors that Pembrooke Park contains a secret room filled with...
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Nell West and Michael Flint novels volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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A haunted house holds past secrets that endanger present visitors.
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English
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USA Today bestselling mystery maven Mary Daheim brings us another intriguing tale in her cherished Bed-and-Breakfast mystery series in which a trip down memory lane brings Judith and Renie back to their old neighbourhood, and they are drawn to a seemingly deserted house that is much more than meets the eye.
On a trip to Renie's old neighbourhood, the cousins' curiosity is piqued by a mysterious brick Tudor house that always looked deserted
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"It's the summer of 1996 and school's out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em. When Andy's alcoholic mother predicts the apocalypse, the four teenagers decide to see out the end of the world at a deserted manor house, the site of a historic unsolved mystery. There they meet David - charming and unreliable, he seems to have appeared out of nowhere. David presents an irresistible lure for both Andy and Peter and complicates...
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Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura's charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow.
12) The house
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English
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With the generous inheritance from an elder client, estate lawyer Sarah Anderson buys a majestic old house that was build in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. Taking the biggest risk of her life, Sarah enlists the help of architect Jeff Parker, who shares Sarah's passion for bringing the exquisite old house back to life. As she and Jeff work to restore the home's every detail, as one relationship shatters and another begins, Sarah makes...
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Focal Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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If you are a photographer who sees the beauty in abandoned buildings, crumbling facades, and preserving a fading history, and who also has a love of urban exploration, you have stumbled on a must-have for your photographic library. Urban and Rural Decay Photography offers expert tips and techniques for capturing breathtaking photographs of your favorite decay scenes, whether in urban or rural settings.?Author J. Dennis Thomas guides you through the...
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Running Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband had been priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decide to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for $35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy. As she and her husband restore the 1914 Georgian Revival, a stately brick house with no plumbing, no heat, and no electricity, Amy finds a community of Detroiters...
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