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After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left almost broke, unemployed, and homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help refurbish Birdsong, the old family place he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia. All it will take, he tells her, is a little paint and some TLC to turn the fading Victorian mansion into a real-estate...
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2015.
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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Grieving and guilty over a friend's death, Penny is not surprised when her mother sends her to live with her father and stepmother, April, but when April takes her to help restore an old house in a dense forest, weird occurences connected to missing children threaten Penny's safety and fragile mental health.
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2009.
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"When Sarah McKinley is finally able to buy and restore the historic Florida mansion that she has always loved, she dismisses the horror stories of past residents vanishing and a long-dead housekeeper who practiced black magic. Then, in the midst of renovations, she makes a grim discovery. Hidden within the walls of Sarah's dream house are the remains of dozens of bodies, some dating back over a century."--p. [4] of cover.
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Crosslyn Rise trilogy volume 2
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2019.
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Gideon Lowe has a unique vision: to develop the once-majestic estate of Crosslyn Rise into one of the finest condominiums on the Eastern seaboard. The only thing he cannot see is working with the interior designer, Christine Gillette, who is famously difficult to deal with. Maybe they can find a way to see eye to eye . . . and heart to heart?
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[2001]
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Professional mountaineer Lily Harper is building a new life for herself in the lush river country of the deep South, where she is busy restoring an old Natchez, Mississippi house, and discovering happiness with Matt Starr, the man she's always loved. But Lily's dreams for the future are suddenly threatened when Matt disappears without a trace, and she must use her wits to find him.
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[1998]
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Don Lark, still grieving the death of his daughter, buys a gorgeous old shell of a house in Greensboro, North Carolina which he plans to renovate and resell, but Don finds that the house holds a lot of secrets and when he discovers a tunnel in the cellar of the house, the entire project turns ominous.
9) Ocean Beach
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[2012]
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After arriving in Ocean Beach to renovate an old home, Avery Lawford, her interior designer mother, and some friends discover a set of unexpected challenges.
10) Ten Beach Road
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[2011]
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"Madeline, Avery, and Nikki are strangers to each other, but they have one thing in common. They each wake up one morning to discover their life savings have vanished, along with their trusted financial manager- leaving them with nothing but co-ownership of a ramshackle beachfront house. Throwing their lots in together, they take on the challenge of restoring the historic property. But just as they begin to reinvent themselves and discover the power...
11) The sea gate
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2020.
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One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets... Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked from Cornwall. In it is a letter that will change her life forever. A desperate plea from her mother's elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home. Becky arrives at Chynalls to find the beautiful old house crumbling...
13) Tumbledown Manor
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[2016]
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"The windows rattle. The roof leaks. Every surface cries out to be stripped, painted, or polished. But for writer Lisa Trumperton, the dilapidated manor house that once belonged to her great-grandfather is far more than the sum of its battered parts. It's the chance for a new start on her own terms. The fact that it's in the Melbourne countryside of her Australian homeland, far from the deceitful ex-husband she just left behind in New York...well,...
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[2009]
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Rita Brooks lands her dream project: transforming an 18th-century rectory in Avignon into a summer home. But the client insists on hiring local furniture artisan Philippe Beaulieu--young, eccentric, and irritatingly French. Includes the bonus book "What Happens in Paris (Stays in Paris?)."
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