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2022.
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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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Hot and hammered volume 3
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English
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Meticulous real-estate designer Bethany Castle is invited to compete against her brother on a house-flipping reality television show with the assistance of a brash but attractive Texas cowboy construction team leader.
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2022.
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"Ready for her next challenge, house flipper and YouTube sensation Maggie Nichols arrives in Kinship, Idaho, with only a cot and a coffeemaker, to bring a crumbling eighteen-room Victorian mansion back to life in four months, five tops. At least, that's the idea until she meets tall, charming landscaper Silas Wright. Maggie hates distractions from her mile-long to-do list. Even if the distraction looks really good shirtless. Now not only does she...
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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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2019.
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English
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"Adie Lou Kruger's ex never understood her affection for what her parents called their Cozy Cottage, the charming, ramshackle summer home--complete with its own set of rules for relaxing--that she's inherited on Lake Michigan. But despite the fact she's facing a broken marriage and empty nest, and middle age is looming in the distance, memories of happy childhoods on the beach give her reason for hope. She's determined not to let her husband's affair...
6) The hideaway
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After her grandmother's death, Sara Jenkins discovers she's been left her run-down B&B in Alabama and tasked with renovating it and uncovers a box in the attic that reveals a mysterious side of her grandmother's life that ultimately impacted her own destiny.
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Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, but 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. 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 accepts immediately, but with so little saved up, she'll have to approach her estranged yet incredibly famous aunt for a place...
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Chesapeake diaries volume 6
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English
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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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2022.
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After a disastrous accident derails stage magician Tempest Raj's career, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather's Indian home-cooked meals. She resists working for her father's company. Secret Staircase Construction, which specializes in transforming clients' homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, and hidden reading nooks. When Tempest visits her dad's latest renovation project, her former...
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Rachel Simon's historic home on a charming tree-lined street was hardly ideal. It was too small, too dark, and there was a gaping hole in the dining room ceiling. So when the house is burglarized, Rachel and her husband, Hal, agree it's time to sell. But in a difficult housing market, and with Hal being an architect, they soon realize: Why leave when they can renovate? Rachel prepares herself for the disagreements and disasters that can accompany...
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Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 4
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English
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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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Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen; married the boss's son at twenty; and was only twenty-five when her husband, Hank, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Broken hearted, but determined to continue the business of their dreams, she takes the life insurance money, buys a small house in a gentrifying neighborhood, flips it, then puts the money into her next project. But that house...
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Sixth-grader Jules is used to moving into old houses. Her dad, who specializes in historical renovation, restores them to their former glory. This time, she's worried their new old house, a crumbling Virginia mansion, is haunted. Though she is staying in a modern addition, she has visions of the past from the point of view of a girl named Lily. Nightly, Jules hears a ghostly reenactment of angry men storming the home and Lily barricading herself in...
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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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2022
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English
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When Josiah Burkhalter, the man who once broke her heart, insists on helping her open a tea shop, Leah Beiler, as Christmas approaches, finds herself confused by her feelings for Josiah as they work closely together, forcing her to confront her fears and reach for the love she deserves.
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Silver Springs (Brenda Novak) volume 4
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English
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"Savanna Gray needs a do-over. Her 'perfect' life unraveled when, to her absolute shock, her husband was arrested for attacking three women. With her divorce settled, she takes her two children to Silver Springs to seek refuge between the walls of a farmhouse her late father had planned to renovate. It needs a little TLC, but she's eager to take control of something. Gavin Turner understands the struggle of starting over. Abandoned at a gas station...
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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...
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Hope Harbor volume 9
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"Buying a supposedly haunted house wasn't in Ashley Scott's plans, but when an intriguing opportunity drops into her lap, she's ready to launch a new life. But she can't do it alone, and her reclusive new neighbor Jonathan Gray may be just the person to help--if only there were room in his life for romance"--
19) If you were here
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2011.
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"If You Were Here follows Amish-zombie-teen- romance author Mia and her husband Mac (and their pets) through the alternately frustrating, exciting, terrifying-but always funny-process of buying and renovating their first home in the Chicago suburbs that John Hughes's movies made famous. Along their harrowing renovation journey, Mia and Mac get caught up in various wars with the homeowners' association, meet some less-than-friendly neighbors, and are...
20) The raven thief
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2023.
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Taking part in a mock seance to remove any trace of her cheating ex-husband, famous mystery author Corbin Colt, from her life, Tempest Raj is stunned when his dead body crashes the party, and when suspicion falls on her beloved grandfather, she must conjure up the real killer.
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