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Bridal Veil Island volume 1
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"When Audrey Cunningham's father proposes that they move to Bridal Veil Island, where he grew up, she agrees, thinking this will help keep him sober and close to God. But they arrive to find wealthy investors buying up land to build a grand resort on the secluded island--and they want the Cunninghams' acreage. Contractor Marshall Graham can't imagine why the former drinking buddy of his deceased father would beckon him to Bridal Veil Island. And when...
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When D.C. lawyer Hannah McCrae heads home for a wedding, she is dragging a lot of baggage along with her--and she does not mean suitcases. Betrayed personally, and humiliated professionally, the last thing she wants is a new man. That is fine with contractor Calder Blue. He and Hannah may be wildly attracted to one another, but all he wants is to build the hotly contested new yacht club and mend a family feud.
3) End of story
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End of story volume 1
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"When Susie Bowen inherits a charming fixer-upper from her aunt, she's excited to start living her best HGTV life. But when she opens the door to find that her contractor is none other than her ex's best friend, Lars -- the same man who witnessed their humiliating public breakup six months ago -- she isn't exactly eager to have anyone around whose alliance is with the enemy. But beggars can't be choosers, and the sooner the repairs are done, the sooner...
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Fixer-upper mystery volume 8
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"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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"Sexy Southern romance with a charming plus-size heroine and a gruff, grumpy hero. Rose Barnes feels best when she's invisible--so when she wins the lottery and is suddenly thrust into the spotlight where everyone wants something, hiding out in a small town in North Carolina makes perfect sense. Rose has got curves for days--and to Angus, the big, burly, bearded contractor working on her new house, she's just plum perfect. Rose is surprised to learn...
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Haunted home renovation mystery volume 2
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General contractor Melanie Turner's latest restoration is a historic Queen Anne Victorian in San Franisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood. Trouble is, she'll have to work around the owners, the Daley family, who refuse to leave during the construction. But when eerie things start happening around the site, the Daleys threaten to call off the renovation for fear that the work is disrupting ghosts who live on the property. But the ghosts aren't the only ones...
7) The locals
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"Mark Firth is a home builder in Howland, Massachusetts in the early 2000s who, after being swindled by a finanical advisor, feels opportunity passing him by. In the paranoid days after 9/11, a New York money manager, Philip Hadi, moves his family to Howland and hires Mark to turn his his house into a "secure location." When Howland's first selectman passes away suddenly, Hadi runs for office, and begins subtly transforming the town in his image....
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Haunted home renovation mystery volume 3
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"word has spread that contractor Mel Turner can communicate with the spirits of the dead, it's been difficult to maintain a low profile. She embraces her new reputation for the chance to restore an historic house that calls to her. The new owners, who hope to run a haunted B&B, want Mel to encourage the ghosts that supposedly roam the halls to enhance the paranormal charm. The catch: Mel has to spend one night in the house to win the project. But...
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"For Pippa Turner there's only one place to go when her life self-destructs on national TV--home to Ghost Falls, and her heavily perfumed, overly dramatic, but supremely loving grandmother, Philomene. If anyone will understand how Pippa's hit makeover show was sabotaged by her vengeful ex, it's Phi. But she's not the only one who's happy to see her--and Pippa can't help but wonder if Matt Evans, her gorgeous high-school crush turned Phi's contractor,...
10) Mulberry Hollow
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Riverbend romance volume 2
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"Avery Robinson decided to be a physician after helplessly watching her mother lose a battle with a terrible disease. Now at risk of developing the same illness, Avery guards her heart from love. She's driven to protect her loved ones as a workaholic doctor in the tiny mountain town of Riverbend Gap, North Carolina. Contractor Wes Garrett is hiking the Appalachian trail, in memory of the man who died saving his life, when an illness racks his body....
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Central Park Pact volume 2
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"It's Primates of Park Avenue meets Lauren Weisberger in this second installment of the delightfully fun, witty, extravagent Central Park Pact series from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne."--
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Lakeshore chronicles volume 1
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When Olivia Bellamy leaves Manhattan for a summer in the Catskills, an old flame awaits.
13) Restoring love
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"Mitch, a contractor and house-flipper, and Angela, working to overcome past mistakes, discover they have something unexpected in common-- a young mom who is fighting to give her children a better life after her husband's incarceration. While helping this young mother survive, they are drawn to each other, but have their own regrets to overcome"--
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Haunted home renovation mystery volume 1
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The first title in the new Haunted Home Renovation Mystery series about Melanie Turner, 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. At her newest renovation project, a run-down Pacific Heights mansion, Mel is visited by the ghost of a colleague who recently met a bad end with power tools. Mel hopes that by tracking down the killer, she can...
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Shannon Hammer, owner of a successful home renovation and repair business in the seaside town of Lighthouse Cove in northern California, is the prime suspect in the murder of real estate agent Jerry Saxton. After the two of them go on a disastrous blind date, Jerry's body is found in a run-down Victorian home that Shannon has been hired to restore. The town's attractive new police chief suspects Shannon, who, with the help of her friends, her eccentric...
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Plenty of young men had noticed Emma's smooth auburn hair and her quick intellect, but at twenty-six years of age, she was still single, much to the bewilderment of her Amish community. "She's just too picky," they said, and she supposed they were right. Most did not know that she had been in love once, and had wound up brokenhearted. When she becomes a nanny for an English (non-Amish) family along the coast of North Carolina, her world opens up in...
17) Aloha with love
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"After a tough week that includes losing a big job opportunity and being dumped by her long-term boyfriend, Jenna Burke receives word that her beloved Aunt May passed away. Traveling back to her Hawaiian hometown for the reading of the will, Jenna discovers she and her sister have inherited May's dilapidated Victorian home on desirable beachfront land. The sisters can do whatever they want with the property, but there's one catch: the house must...
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"The final days of the American presence in Afghanistan bring Adam Hayes a summons he can't ignore in the latest electrifying thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. Adam Hayes has stepped away from the field for the last time. He's promised his wife that he won't put his life on the line any more, and there's nothing that will make him break a promise to his wife. Well...almost nothing. With America withdrawing from Afghanistan and the Taliban...
19) The Red Room
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"In the newest international thrill ride from New York Times-bestselling author Ridley Pearson, John Knox and Grace Chu, the incomparable and often incompatible duo, team up again, this time in the exotic 'city between two worlds, ' Istanbul. What's it like to see yourself in a picture you never knew was taken? John Knox is an expert at surveillance and delicate, international dealings. So he is understandably thrown when David 'Sarge' Dulwich, his...