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Haven Point volume 12
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"This New Year will bring widowed nurse Abigail Powell a fresh start in a different city. Excited about the chance to create an unforgettable Christmas for her young son in picturesque Silver Bells, Colorado, Abby has been hired to take care of her dear friend’s recuperating grandmother. But sprightly senior Winnie insists she doesn’t need looking after. What she does need is help decorating her historic mansion, Holiday House, for a seasonal...
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Pub. Date
c2010
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So begin Annie Dawson's breathtaking adventures as she leaves her home in Brookfield, Texas and drives 2,000 miles to Stony Point, Maine to settle her grandmother's estate. Ever since Annie's husband died just a year ago; she'd felt she was lacking direction and purpose. Might Grey Gables be the beginning of a new chapter in Annie Dawson's life?Just one look at the rambling old Victorian house she's inherited from her grandmother transports her back...
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Series
Robinswood Story volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
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"The once grand house is now home to two very different families. Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children, live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown up girls, live and work on the estate and do their best to keep everything running smoothly. Social structure is vital. Everyone...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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Diana Cook, born at the turn of the nineteenth century, the only daughter of Virginia gentry, agrees to marry a rich captain to save her family's land. Luckily for Diana, her union with the captain is brief and gives her a beautiful son. But after the son is grown is when the real tragedy begins.
46) House of shadows
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Sophie's world is shattered when disaster bankrupts her family. Marrying the mysterious Mr. Argenton may restore her family's fortunes and save them from scandal, but it condemns Sophie to a life in Northwood, a vast and unnaturally dark mansion situated hours from civilization. Still, she must do her duty. As time passes, Sophie struggles to adjust to her new position as mistress over the desolate house. Mr. Argenton's relatives are cold, and Mr....
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From USA Today bestselling author and Christy Award Hall of Fame inductee Tamera Alexander comes the story of two women from different centuries living in the same house who share strikingly similar journeys. Claire Powell's life is turned upside down when her beloved husband admits to a "near affair." But when Stephen accepts a partnership with an Atlanta law firm without consulting her and buys a historic Southern home sight-unseen--it pushes their...
48) House of secrets
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Sophie and Joseph Argenton have survived the impossible...for now. Desperate, they travel to meet an ally at Kensington, a long-abandoned mansion that overlooks a dead town. The house offers a small hope: its original owner had dedicated her life to researching the monster that possesses Elise. Here they hope to find a way to kill the creature without harming their young friend. But Kensington is a dangerous building. Once the carriage leaves, they're...
49) Winterset
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Series
Mad Morelands volume 3
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Description
As mysterious dangers beset a country estate, a heartbroken man is determined to save the woman he never forgot in this enchanting Victorian romance.
Ever since Anna Holcombe inexplicably refused his proposal, Reed Moreland has been unable to set foot in the home that was the backdrop to their romance-Winterset. Yet the beauty and mystery of the Gloucestershire mansion continue to captivate him. He can neither continue living there, nor give it...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During a family visit to a mansion his father has just inherited, Luke learns about a curse placed on the house--just in time, hopefully, to save his family from being imprisoned (or worse) inside the mansion forever.
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"The USA Today bestselling author of The Au Pair returns with another delicious, twisty novel--about a grand estate with many secrets, an orphan caught in a web of lies, and a young woman playing a dangerous game. 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...
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Corduroy mansions volume 2
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In the elegantly crumbling four-story mansion block in Pimlico called Corduroy Mansions, the comings and goings of the wonderfully motley crew of residents continue. And our small, furry, endlessly surprising canine hero, Freddie de la Hay, has been recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring.
53) The Trespassers
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Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
It all starts the summer Neely and her little brother, Grub, accidentally find a way to sneak into Halcyon House. It's a magnificent mansion that was deserted years ago. Inside they discover a playroom full of wonderful old-fashioned toys. Despite the spookiness of the house and the rumors about the ghost that haunts it, and despite the fact that they don't belong there, the playroom becomes their secret hideaway.
54) Ghostly mansions
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes twelve mansions that are believed to be haunted, including Loftus Hall in Ireland, Borley Rectory in England, and Ann Starrett Mansion in Washington.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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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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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When timid Elizabeth's father takes her and her fearless friend, Zenobia, to his family home, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost there, and then Elizabeth learns she had an aunt who disappeared from the house years ago.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America’s most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America’s gilded class—famous for the lavish “summer cottages” of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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A enthralling novel of secrets, a tumultuous war of ideas, and murder as classes collide in the shadow of Biltmore House. Biltmore House, a palatial mansion being built by the Vanderbilts, American "royalty," is in its final stages of construction in North Carolina. The countrys grandest example of privilege, it symbolizes the aspirations of its owner and the dreams of a girl, just as driven, who lives in its shadow. Kerry MacGregors...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Inheriting a love of photography, an old camera and countless questions years after the disappearance of her mother, 16-year-old Gretchen returns to a decaying family mansion, where ancestral photos and letters dating back centuries reveal her family's haunted past"--
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"Crashing with a friend and her husband is more intimate- and dangerous-than anyone could imagine in this provocative new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here. When the pandemic first hits, thirty-one-year- old Kelly tries to make the best of quarantine-but it soon becomes clear there are some lemons you just can't make into lemonade. She loses her job and her boyfriend in one fell swoop,...