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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive.... As Alice is getting to know her neighbors, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before. Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened two years before....
3) Nail biter
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Nail Biter" opens with a group of self-styled "witches" that has taken over an Eastport, Maine waterfront resort for Halloween. Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree is called on to answer her new tenants' multiple demands-many dealing with supernatural moaning-but she would rather be excavating an unusual discovery she made in the foundation of her 1823 Federal-style home. Instead, when a fundamentalist preacher turns up dead and all eyes turn to the witches,...
4) Trap door
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When Jacobia Jake Tiptree leaves Wall Street for the charming town of Eastport, Maine, she expects a quiet life fixing up her 1823 Federal-style house. However, the perils of the stock market pale in comparison to the murder, mayhem, and mystery of remodeling.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Six years after murderer Randy Dodd was thought to have drowned, a true- crime writer and her assistant come to Eastport to investigate what they're convinced is a faked death and soon have their suspicions confirmed. Meanwhile, Jacobia 'Jake' Tiptree has problems of her own, including her home remodeling project and anonymous death threats. Nothing could have prepared her for the news that Dodd had been discovered alive and was now holding her son...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild - selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nola Trenholm is hopeful for a fresh start in the Big Easy but must deal with ghosts from her past--as well as new ones--in this first book in a spin-off series of Karen White's New York Times bestselling Tradd Street novels. After a difficult detour on her road to adulthood, Nola Trenholm is looking to begin anew in New Orleans, and what better way to start her future than with her first house? But the historic fixer-upper she buys comes with even...
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After her father loses the family fortune in an insider-trading scheme, single mom Parker Welles is faced with some hard decisions. First order of business: go to Gideon's Cove, Maine, to sell the only thing she now owns - a decrepit house in need of some serious flipping. When her father's wingman, James Cahill, asks to go with her, she's not thrilled, even if he is fairly gorgeous and knows his way around a tool box. Having to fend for herself financially...
9) Unhinged
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her friend Ellie search for proof that the town busybody's disappearance involved foul play, but their sleuthing turns frightening when a series of "accidents" afflicts Jake's family.
Author
Series
Finfarran Peninsula volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland's West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. Like the sophisticated lifestyle she abandoned after finding her English barrister husband in bed with another woman. Or that she's back in Lissbeg, the rural Irish town she walked away from in her teens, living in the back bedroom of her overbearing mother's retirement bungalow. Or, worse yet, her nagging fear that,...
Author
Series
Home repair is homicide mysteries volume 11
Home repair is homocide mystery volume 11
Home repair is homicide mystery volume 11
Home repair is homocide mystery volume 11
Home repair is homicide mystery volume 11
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Former Manhattan money manager Jacobia Tiptree, having moved to Eastport, Maine, to restore a nineteenth-century house, is entangled in a series of murders centered around an old book she found which had her name writte in blood on it.
12) Blackberry Beach
Author
Series
Hope Harbor volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Katherine Parker is on the cusp of having everything she ever wanted - fame, money, and acclaim. So why isn't she happy? In search of answers, she comes incognito to Hope Harbor on the Oregon coast for some R&R. Maybe in her secluded rental house overlooking the serene Pacific she'll be able to calm the storm inside. Coffee shop owner Zach Garrett has found his niche after a traumatic loss - and he has no plans to change the life he's created. Nor...
13) Wrecking ball
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 14
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house. But they soon find that home improvement isn't all it's cracked up to be"--|cProvided by publisher.
14) Falling for you
Author
Series
Sapphire Springs volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 332 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Just when recently evicted yoga instructor Faith Rotolo thinks her luck has run out, she inherits a historic mansion in quaint Sapphire Springs. Though Faith never imagined putting roots down anywhere, small-town life is growing on her, as is her fixer-upper house. If only her handsome new contractor, Rob Milan, would stop spoiling her daydreams with the realities of a major rehab ... and his generally grouchy vibes. A single dad of two, Rob doesn't...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nola Trenholm may not be psychic herself, but she's spent enough time around people who are to know when ghosts are present, and there are definitely a few lingering spirits in her recently purchased Creole cottage in New Orleans. Something, or someone, is keeping them tethered to this world. And not all of them are benign. But with the sudden return of Sunny Ryan, Beau Ryan's long-lost sister, Nola has plenty to distract her from her ghostly housemates....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer on Makeover Mansion, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historical houses. Andie's latest project features the once glorious but now crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport ... But the mansion's reclusive owner, Lucia 'Lucky' Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse....
17) The beach house
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Forever edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When her gram passes away, Melanie Simpson feels utterly lost. But her grandmother's will gives her a purpose: an inheritance to buy a crumbling house in Rosemary Bay. Returning to the village where she'd spent summers with Gram and walking the beach where they'd had so many fun-filled days brings Melanie comfort as well as hope. On her first night in her new hometown, Melanie meets local contractor and landowner Josh Claiborne, whose eyes match...
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