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Chesapeake diaries volume 6
Language
English
Description
When her wealthy father's Ponzi scheme is exposed, Ellie Chapman loses everything--including her fiancée--but learns valuable lessons in both life and love when she comes to St. Dennis, Maryland to sell her late mother's house.
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"Times are tough lately, financially and personally, in Betsy Devonshire's life. Her Crewel World needlework shop has been struggling, and she's feeling bad about not connecting with the daughter of her new boyfriend, Connor. So when the Larson family, who bought one of Betsy's cabins, invites her to come and help with renovations, she agrees to go. But their work comes to a chilling halt when they discover a human skeleton under the linoleum -- and...
4) Ocean Beach
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Series
Ten Beach Road novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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After arriving in Ocean Beach to renovate an old home, Avery Lawford, her interior designer mother, and some friends discover a set of unexpected challenges.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Shelby Springfield has spent the last ten years trying to overcome her past. But as a former child star, it's hard to forget a mediocre pop career, a meltdown widely documented by the paparazzi, and a huge public break with her former co-star Lyle Jessup. It's also hard to forget her other co-star and childhood sweetheart, Cameron Riggs -- the one who got away. But when Lyle stirs the pot, getting the two back in the spotlight with a home renovation...
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"Cora Matthews returns to Moonberry Lake to settle her mother's affairs and then get on with her life. What she finds is a strangely enticing inheritance, including a dilapidated lodge, a lot of eccentric neighbors, a handsome stranger, and a whole lot of family secrets to unravel"--
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Scumble River mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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When a hunky contractor, who has a reputation for conning the ladies, turns up dead, Skye Denison, deciding that even bad boys deserve justice, sets out to find the killer while dealing with an overly amorous police chief, a dodgy brother, and a haunted house. Original.
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Thirty-something Gretchen Hanover becomes a first-time house-flipper. As ideas go, it's daring and genius. She'll take out a short-term loan, buy a fixer-upper, renovate it, resell it, and use the profit for an adorable house of her own. But Gretchen's plans to flip quickly flop when the house turns out to be in worse shape than she expected. She is relying on her retired contractor-father, but he wants to draw in his carpenter friend Noah Campbell....
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Holly and Robert Barron are attractive young real-estate investors and contestants in a competition run by To the Manor Build, the nation's most popular home renovation app. With millions in product endorsements and online followers at stake, they're rehabbing a Vermont home they scored at a bargain price into a chic hilltop estate ideal for entertaining. It's all camera-ready laughs and debates over herringbone tile until Holly and Robert go missing...
11) Echo Lake
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Series
Swift River Valley novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Heather Sloan has landed her dream job--the renovation of Vic Scarlatti's stately 1912 country home overlooking the icy waters of Echo Lake in Knights Bridge, Massachusetts. It's the perfect project for the family business, but for once, Heather is in charge. Diplomatic Security Service agent Brody Hancock left Knights Bridge at eighteen, a few steps ahead of arrest and the wrath of Heather's older brothers. Though Brody had never planned to return,...
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In an effort to restore the elegant house her grandmother grew up in, Kate finds herself being drawn to Matt, an ex-hockey player hired to help her renovate. When their stilted, uncomfortable interactions shift into something more, is God answering the longing of her heart—or asking her to give up more than she ever dreamed?
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck have successfully flipped houses, but this is the first time they've attempted to renovate a house of worship. The owner of the horse farm next door has asserted a legal claim to the church property. If that's not bad enough, while rehabbing the church, Whitney's cat Sawdust discovers a bombshell in the bell tower--the body of the man who'd delivered their beautiful new replacement windows"--
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English
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It's love at first sight when Penelope Kite sees the stone farmhouse tucked high in the hills above the Luberon valley, complete with a garden, swimming pool, and sweeping mountain vistas. For years, Penelope put her unfaithful ex-husband and her ungrateful stepchildren first. But having taken early retirement from her job in forensics at the Home Office in England, she's going to start living for herself. She impulsively buys the property, but her...
Author
Series
Patricia Amble mystery volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
17) The ladies' room
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Series
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Secrets told in the church ladies' room are supposed to stay in the ladies' room. But that doesn't mean that what Trudy overhears there during her great-aunt Gertrude's funeral won't change the rest of her life.
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Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
x, 326 pages ; 18-22 cm.
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English
Description
The first title in the new Haunted Home Renovation Mystery series about a woman who owns a construction company in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in historic home repair--and ridding the properties of unwanted ghosts. Original.
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Series
Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Author of the books that inspired True Blood on HBO and Midnight, Texas on NBC
Aurora Teagarden is happily preparing for her wedding to dashing business executive Martin Bartell. As a wedding gift, Martin buys her the house of her dreams: the "Julius house," infamously named after the family who vanished from the house without a trace six years ago. As Roe sets about renovating and decorating her new home, she's never felt...
Aurora Teagarden is happily preparing for her wedding to dashing business executive Martin Bartell. As a wedding gift, Martin buys her the house of her dreams: the "Julius house," infamously named after the family who vanished from the house without a trace six years ago. As Roe sets about renovating and decorating her new home, she's never felt...
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