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21) Tis the Season
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It's time Matthew admitted he has bitten off more than he can chew by purchasing the old house on the hill… After all, it was just going to be a side project. Having his new brother-in-law fix up the place had been easy enough. Spending the first night in the old place, he'd gotten a little more than he'd bargained and now the interior decorated he'd hired was the only one who could corroborate his crazy stories.Interior decorator, Blake Shelby...
22) Hope Harbor
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The handsome single dad might end up mending her heart as well…
When Eve inherits the family business, Candlewood Inn, she leaves her controlling ex and her job in Seattle behind to head to her childhood home on a small island on the Canadian border. She arrives to find that her family is in an uproar over her grandfather's very legal dying wishes. After all, the group of sniveling babies had been living rent-free in the luxurious outdated hotel...
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Plans are in place to move the Gorillas from their old habitat to a new one on the other side of the Zoo, but for now, the old place is going to get one last radical overhaul. While zookeeper James prepares their food and gets their indoor habitat ready, curator of horticulture Stephen Butler has grand plans to move an enormous poplar tree into the habitat for the Gorillasí enjoyment.
24) Carrow haunt
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"Remy is a tour guide for Carrow House, a notoriously haunted building. When she's asked to host guests for a week-long stay, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous. At first, it's everything they hoped for. Then a storm moves in, cutting off their contact with the outside world, and things quickly become twisted. But it isn't until one of the guests dies under strange circumstances that Remy is forced to...
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Hold on to your hats for another crazy ride in the Belchester Chronicles!!A Lady Amanda Golightly Murder Mystery from the author of The Falconer Files - the second in the series featuring an outrageously ill-assorted pair of amateur sleuths. A delightful outpouring of English upper class eccentricities with the odd murder thrown in.Cringe with embarrassment, as Lady Amanda Golightly acts like a bad-tempered five-year-old in the face of a family crisis....
26) The Lesson
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When I arrived at the plantation, I had no idea how my world was about to change. It seemed like the old place was waiting on me to get here. I have come back to my childhood home to sell it. It has been many years since I was last at the plantation. Coming back opened a Pandora's box of memories, and it seems that all the demons I had never faced were waiting on me also. The events that followed my arrival would turn my world upside down.
"Learning...
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Caeli-Amur is a city-state where magic and technology are interchangeable; where minotaurs and sirens are real; where philosopher-assassins and seditionists are not the most-dangerous elements in a city alive with threat. During the day, the ordinary citizens do what they must to get along. But, at night, the spirit of the ancient city comes alive, to haunt the old places.
"Nighttime in Caeli-Amur" is not about minotaurs or sirens, but about a family...
28) Dropwort Hall
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When the mysterious Mr. Sallow and his companion Crowfoot the Ape arrive at the neglected Dropwort Hall, they soon cure the old place of its ills, from smoky chimneys to the moping sickness in the sheep flock. Everything is running like clockwork until a series of unexplained deaths strikes the household. Is the ancient Curse of Dropwort Hall responsible, or is it murder? The ever-efficient Mr Sallow sets out to discover the truth. But is he being...
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Madison Palmer, along with her 5-year-old daughter Sophie, is hoping to escape her past life in the city and make a fresh start in the quiet little town of Port Belle. She moves into her cousin's century-old Victorian rental house on the outskirts of town. The townsfolk give the house a wide berth, for there is something not quite right about the old place, "Has a bad history," the locals say. It isn't long before strange things start happening. The...
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Shadow Valley is an isolated farming community known to few, but in one of its ramshackle farmhouses dwells a power that threatens death and destruction to any who walk within its walls. Now, Lila Ellis arrives to make the final arrangements for a project that will flood Shadow Valley for a reservoir-and the house is not happy. When she enters the old place, she alone must face its terrors-beginning with a pile of seventy boxes of chocolate, one piece...
31) Wicked Ways
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He'd Have His Wicked Way With Her!
Innkeeper Hallie Tyler's life is in chaos. The old place is filled to capacity, thanks to her two imaginative aunts' decision to resurrect-and embellish-an old family legend. Now she's overrun with vampire chasers. But what's worse, Hallie finds herself falling for the sexy, enigmatic Tristan Montgomery, whose nocturnal habits have the whole town wondering...
Horror novelist Tristan Montgomery is struggling...
32) Missing Family
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Johnny Dane, the heir, got knocked off the throne. Augie isn't his daddy. He hasn't a clue what to do now. With no relationship with the other Dane children, Johnny is hanging out in a cave in the woods.Royce doesn't want the old place, Gentry lives in Alaska and Crystal married the sheriff. She doesn't need the land. Winter is on the way. The only family he has left is his momma, but he can't live with her. Momma is at the old Reynolds home place...
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The house remembers him. And wants his son.Braden's got a wonderful wife, darling three-year-old son, nominal success as a novelist - and no contact with his parents for years, with very good reason.Then a box of his books is accidentally-and mysteriously-delivered to his childhood home. Against his own best judgment, Braden swings by the old place with his son, Josiah, to pick up the box. In and out, super fast, no big deal.The house has other ideas.Infected...
34) A Normal Midlife
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Something's gone wonky in Shipton Harbor . . .
Widow, author, and mother Ava Harper should've never moved back to Shipton Harbor.
After her husband Clay died, Ava couldn't stay in the house she'd shared with him, so she packed her old Hyundai and drove home. The plan is to fix the old place up and sell it, all while trying to figure out where the next chapter of her life will take her.
Wait a minute . . . Hasn't she already done this?
Her life...
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If Katie Bonner's late husband hadn't invested all their savings in the craft fair Artisans Alley-which Katie is now responsible for keeping in the black-the Webster mansion could have been hers to remodel. For years she dreamed of renovating the old place on Victoria Square into a bed and breakfast. Now that dream belongs to another young couple. But their dream becomes a nightmare when a skeleton is discovered, sealed in one of the walls of the...
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Believing the remote Black Swan Inn, with its idyllic waterside location, could provide a romantic feature for her Cornish magazine, editor Loveday Ross, accepts an invitation to interview Marika Sweet. But the inn is not the idyllic creak-side hostelry Loveday had imagined.It's a dirty, derelict, boarded up building - and there is no sign of Marika. A friendly neighbour, Millicent Sproat, reveals the inn is now in the hands of notorious local criminals,...
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WHERE'S THERE'S A WILL...THERE'S A WAY – TO LOVE!Malcolm and Serena Saint James fell in love when they were school kids, and thought it would last forever. But a hasty marriage at eighteen led to an even quicker divorce...and a lifelong friendship dissolved into bitterness. Even though the two clash whenever they meet, it's obvious to everyone--especially Malcolm's grandmother, Olivia Saint James-that they still strike sparks as well. And Mama James...
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This is Seabury - where everyone knows everyone, the average tourist hasn't got a clue it even exists, and that's just how the locals like it! A cosy, Christmas listen full of community, romance and friendship! For fans of Holly Martin, Polly Babbington and Heidi Swain.
Kate Hardy's world seems to be making some kind of sense at last. The Sardine's finally safe from her idiotic ex, things seem to be going well with Mike and she's looking forward...
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You never forget your first love...When Katie Harris got pregnant as a senior in high school, the explosion of gossip drove her away from her hometown of Brookview, Ohio. Seventeen years later, an unexpected divorce lands her back in town to live in her grandparents' former home. The old place isn't like she remembers and as her teenaged son puts it, "It's ready to cave in." Fortunately, there's someone in town who's more than willing to lend Katie...
40) Thump Thump
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Graphic blood, gore, and violence. 17+From the Tales of Horror series, we find little Tommy playing in the basement...Excerpt: Tommy wasn't like normal kids, the cellar didn't hide anything from him. To him it was a cozy, dark, cool space where he escaped his parents for a little while and had his own adventures zooming around, fighting space creatures, winning games of chance, and trying to figure out why all those storybook people cared so much...
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