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21) Cari Mora
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to...
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Language
English
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Description
Meg Langslow was actually looking forward to renovating the old Victorian mansion she and her boyfriend Michael bought. But she wasn't thrilled by the lifetime of junk accumulated by the house's eccentric previous owner, Edwina Sprocket. The easiest solution: hold the end-all and be-all of gigantic yard sales. But when the event attracts the late Miss Sprocket's money-hungry heirs, the over-enthusiastic supporters of some endangered barn owls, and...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Presents a collection of photographs and stories about the people who built and lived in the mansions and estates in various districts of Minneapolis and St. Paul that have since disappeared. Discusses the reasons that these luxurious homes were razed or replaced in the twentieth century. Includes black-and-white photos, chapter notes, and an index.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 322 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Katherine Hamilton's goal in high school was to escape from her dead-end hometown of Asheford, Maryland. Fifteen years later she's got a degree in hospitality management and a great job supervising every aspect of the day-to-day operations of a high-end boutique hotel on the Baltimore waterfront. Then her high school best friend asks her to come talk with the town leaders of Asheford, but she won't say why. Kate can't cut her last link to her past,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Join Annie Dawson and the members of the Hook and Needle Club of Stony Point, Maine as they track down mysteries connected with the contents found in the attic of Annie's ancestral home, Grey Gables. There can be danger, adventure, and heart warming discoveries in the secrets Annie unearths--secrets about her own family as well as the townspeople of this charming seacoast town in central Maine"--Publisher's description.
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Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her 'honorary grandson' Jack. It's a convenient arrangement given the Medlar Three, as they've become known, are often working closely together to solve mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. But when real estate agent Kate announces she's been given the listing for the town's storied Lachlan House, it sets off alarm bells for Sara...
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 270 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kate Hamilton's plans for recreating Asheboro, Maryland as a Victorian village and tourist attraction are progressing nicely, and most of the townspeople have become supporters. There's only one problem: money. Kate had laid out what she thought was a reasonable plan and had built in a financial cushion in her estimates, but the over-runs had exceeded everybody's expectations, and the town coffers are empty, while the opening date looms closer and...
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following the runaway success of her first novel, Chase Harrington is hiding in Manhattan. Assuming the visions from her past are behind her, Chase takes an assignment that lands her in the center of a new mystery surrounding a mansion known as Briarcliff Manor and deceased millionaire Sebastian Winthrop. A letter, left by Sebastian, reveals three secrets surrounding the mansion where Chase is now living. Silent messages begin to appear, urging her...
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Language
English
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Description
"After a whirlwind romance, a young woman returns to Asherley, the opulent, secluded Long Island mansion of her new fiancé Max Winter, a wealthy senator and recent widower, and a life of luxury she's never known. But all is not as it appears at the Asherley estate. The house is steeped in the memory of Max's beautiful first wife, Rebecca, who haunts the young woman's imagination and feeds her uncertainties, while his very alive teenage daughter,...
Author
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"1980: Beth Soames is fourteen years old when a kind couple finds her playing the violin at her orphanage's yearly fund-raiser. The Averills take her home with them to Raven Hall, a rambling manor on the Norfolk coast. There she runs wild with their daughter, Nina, and they become fast friends. At times, Beth even dreams she's truly part of the family...until she's asked to take part in what seems like a harmless game--and nothing is ever the same....
32) All my secrets
Author
Series
A gilded age novel volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"New York, 1898. The only thing more shocking than Arthur Stanhope III's unexpected death is the revelation that his will bestows his company--and most of the vast fortune that goes with it--to the nearest male heir, leaving his mother, wife, and daughter nearly impoverished. His widow, Sylvia, quickly realizes she must set aside her grief to ensure their daughter, Adelaide, is launched into society as soon as the appropriate mourning period passes....
Author
Series
Georgia Coast romance volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ben Thornton catches Millie Sullivan snooping at the mansion where he is a security guard, he joins her in her search for a lost diary she hopes will reveal a hidden treasure and the identity of her great-grandfather.
34) The marvelous
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Publisher
A Swoon Reads Book, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone thinks they know Jewel Van Hanen. Heiress turned actress turned social media darling who created the massively popular video-sharing app, Golden Rule. After mysteriously disappearing for a year, Jewel makes her dramatic return with an announcement: she has chosen a few lucky Golden Rule users to spend an unforgettable weekend at her private estate. But once they arrive, Jewel ingeniously flips the script: the guests are now players in an...
Author
Series
Victorian village mystery volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kate Hamilton is feeling good about her plans to recreate Asheboro, Maryland, as the Victorian town it once was. The town is finally on her side, and the finances are coming together. Even two recent murders aren't enough to discourage her: after she helped to solve them, she put them behind her. Now comes the time to make real plans, and her first goal is to renovate the Barton Mansion on the outskirts of town. Luckily, it's been maintained in good...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Whitaker family Connecticut mansion, Muses by the Sea, has always been a haven for artists, but things change. Leo, the matriarch, lives in the rambling mansion crammed with artwork and junk. Her sister-in-law Fae, is desperate to keep a secret she has been hiding for years. Jillian, a jet setting actress down on her luck, thinks selling The Muses will make life easier for Leo and Fae-- by moving them into assisted living. Issy, Jillian's daughter,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a group of rich twenty-somethings plan a hurricane party at an isolated family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.
38) Mrs. God
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub, the tale of a literary sojourn that turns into something far more sinister.
Esswood House. Home and estate of the Seneschal family, aristocratic patrons of the literary arts for well over a hundred years. D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, and Henry James were privileged to call themselves guests. There was always talk of a hidden secret in Esswood's past, and the Seneschal children...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has...
40) The last castle: the epic story of love, loss, and American royalty in the nation's largest home
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of the Gilded Age mansion Biltmore, tracing George Vanderbilt's construction of his European-style estate and the efforts of his bride, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, to become its protector in the face of changing fortunes and times.