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21) On the hustle
Author
Series
Dating in Dallas volume 2
Publisher
Carina Press
Language
English
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Description
As the eldest daughter in her crisis-prone family, Alba Duarte has always stepped up to help. Her favorite gig is doing Instagram-worthy, bookish-themed bedroom makeovers for friends. Her most hated? Working as the assistant to the most gorgeous—and most infuriating—man on earth. When opportunity knocks, she decides to put herself first for once...which means leaving her demanding boss—and relatives—behind. Her new life in Dallas seems like...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Carpenter Whitney Whitaker, her cousin Buck, and guard-cat Sawdust just scored a hot property near downtown Nashville in a tax sale. While the Music City Motor Court might not be much to look at now, the two plan to transform the motel's twelve units into six one-bedroom condominiums with popular mid-century styling. But surprises await when Whitney discovers a squatter living in Room 9 and her cat Sawdust uncovers a body in the bed next door"--Back...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Whitney Whitaker has scored the perfect piece of real estate: a ramshackle white Colonial at the top of a hill with views of downtown Nashville. What more could a self-taught home-improvement maven and occasional house-flipper ask for? Ideally, the property of Whitney's dreams would not have come with a dead body blocking the entrance to the foyer. But Whitney, always quick to take heavy-duty matters into her own hands, also happens to be a skilled...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"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"--
Author
Series
Patricia Amble mystery volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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...
27) The ladies' room
Author
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.
29) Maggie moves on
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
x, 326 pages ; 18-22 cm.
Language
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.
31) Don't tempt me
Author
Series
Guthrie brothers volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While a handyman with family and community responsibilities endeavors to overcome the defenses of a beautiful new neighbor, a martial arts teacher puts a wayward past behind him to pursue a party girl.
Author
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...
33) If you were here
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
"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...
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Series
Silver Springs (Brenda Novak) volume 4
Language
English
Description
"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...
35) Seabreeze summer
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Series
Language
English
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"While renovating an old beach house, Ivy and her sister, Shelly, suddenly have full occupancy after fire forces Summer Beach residents from their homes. Even the mayor, Bennett Dylan, who was Ivy's high school crush, moves in. As the summer heats up, attractions simmer and feuds erupt. Living in the house Bennett had hoped could be a community center, he finds himself at odds with Ivy's campaign for a bed-and-breakfast zoning change. And when valuable...
36) Seabreeze Inn
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"A widowed artist. An old crush. One summer to get her life back ... Ivy Marin's life implodes after discovering that her late husband had spent their life savings on a beach house. Strapped for cash as an art teacher and with nowhere to go, Ivy and her recently jilted sister head to Summer Beach to recreate their lives. If only renovating a historical home didn't unveil a host of hidden secrets in the beachside community--and the mayor wasn't her...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Shannon Hammer is about to embark on one of the biggest projects of her career. Her best friend Jane Hennessey has purchased one wing of the Gables, formerly the old state insane asylum, located on a bucolic hillside two miles northeast of Lighthouse Cove. Jane plans to turn her section into a small luxury hotel complete with twenty ocean-view rooms, a spa, and a restaurant. Shannon is raring to get started on the enormous project and is shocked...
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Language
English
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Description
In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer. As he sinks his teeth into his new project, Lark's new neighborhood starts to work its charms on him. He strikes up a romance with the real estate agent who sold him the house. His neighbors, two charming, chatty old...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
x, 325 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The renovation of a Queen Anne Victorian in San Francisco is disrupted by ghosts who live on the property and a dead body found near the job site. General contractor Melanie Turner is accused of the crime and has to restore both the home and her reputation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Hannah and her husband buy a new house the mummified body of an infant is found in the chimney, and Hannah immediately starts researching the house to find out who the girl might be, but powerful forces are trying to stop her.
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