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Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Description
Casey Ellis has arrived at a lonely place in her life. Her mother remains in a comatose state several years after a terrible accident - and now her father has died. Although Casey never met him, she held an oblique hope that someday her father might acknowledge her. She watched from afar as the illustrious Dr. Cornelius Unger became a celebrated psychologist and teacher. Through it all, she clung to the illusive dream that someday he might take notice...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Description
While renovating an pld New Orleans manor house, Delcan Fitzgerald experiences haunting visions of the past and bizarre feelings of terror. Local legend says the house is haunted. As Delcan looks into the house's past and as his passion grows between his companion Angelina, he discovers the real mystery behind the haunting.
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Series
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Opportunity knocks for an Iranian immigrant in California when the county offers for sale a seized house at a bargain price. It will serve as a launching pad for his real-estate business. When the county discovers it made an error, the drug-addicted woman who owned the house demands its return, but the Iranian refuses. Unfortunately for him, the woman's lover is a policeman who takes the law into his hands.
A recent immigrant from the Middle Easta...
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Language
English
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Description
After she decides to sell her beach house, a widow must decide whether to risk trusting a romantic new man in her life with deep, dark secrets — and possibly her heart.
It's been two years since the mysterious accident took Sandra Winslow's politician husband, Victor — the favorite son of a town called Paradise — and left Sandra under a cloud of suspicion. She decides to sell her beach house on the edge of town and hires Mike Malloy,...
It's been two years since the mysterious accident took Sandra Winslow's politician husband, Victor — the favorite son of a town called Paradise — and left Sandra under a cloud of suspicion. She decides to sell her beach house on the edge of town and hires Mike Malloy,...
Author
Series
Annie's Attic mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2013].
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Annie Dawson is accustomed to dealing with old houses. She has spent nearly two years trying to patch up Grey Gables, the home of her beloved grandmother, Betsy Holden. Betsy left her entire estate to Annie, but she also died leaving a string of mysteries buried in the cavernous attic of Grey Gables. This secret, however, is more than Annie wants to deal with. A trunk needed for storing her needlecraft supplies opens a door she comes to wish she...
7) New mercies
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Sandra Dallas, best-selling author of The Persian Pickle Club, weaves an intricate and sophisticated tale in New Mercies. Nora Bondurant is divorced-unfathomable for a woman in 1933-and has inherited a house from a dead aunt she never even knew existed. But when she travels to Mississippi to claim her inheritance, she finds her eccentric neighbors would rather help her acquire a new husband than reveal the secrets surrounding her aunt's death.
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Language
English
Description
"Bree Leake doesn't want to be tied down. She's had more jobs than she can count, and she plans to move as soon as the curtains fall on her less-than-minor stage role at The Barter--the oldest live performance theater in the US. But just when it's time to move on again, Bree's parents make her an offer: hold steady for a full year, and they will give her the one thing she's always wanted--her grandmother's house. Her dreams are coming true... until...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For most Americans, our homes are our biggest single asset. In this book, real-estate and finance adviser Gerri Willis sets out twelve key rules for becoming “home rich.” From buying to renovating to selling, Willis tells listeners how to get the best return on their investment. Home Rich is Gerri Willis' essential guide for new and current homeowners on how to make your home the most lucrative investment of your life.
12) The money pit
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Evicted from their Manhattan apartment, Walter and Anna buy what looks like the home of their dreams, only to find themselves with a bank-account-draining nightmare.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a tumultuous childhood, Carley has fashioned an orderly life for herself in San Francisco. Unexpected news arrives of a large inheritance and a house in Tallulah, Mississippi. But Carley finds more than she bargained for in Tallulah: along with faith, self-worth, romance: a murder mystery that threatens her newfound happiness"--Provided by publisher.
14) Blackbird House
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Description
Weaving a web of tales all set in the Blackbird House on Cape Cod, the author traces the lives of the various occupants of that old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.
15) Julia's hope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Like countless others in 1931, Samuel Wortham lost his job. And he lost his wife's inheritance, their home, and much of his self-respect. Samuel, his wife, Julia, and their two young children hitchhike from Pennsylvania to Illinois in hope of work. Caught on the road by a sudden storm, the Worthams take shelter in an abandoned farmhouse out of desperation. Feeling oddly at home, Julia insists on finding the owner of the property, despite Samuel's...
Author
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
A House for Mr. Biswas, by Nobel and Booker-Prize winning author V.S. Naipaul, is a powerful novel about one man's struggle for identity and belonging. Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own. He loathes his wife and her wealthy family, upon whom he is dependent. Finding himself a mere accessory on their estate, his constant rebellion is motivated by the one thing that...