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"The sun beamed down on Melissa Henderson's shining dark hair, pinned up on her head in a loose knot, as sweat ran down her face, and the muscles in her long, lithe arms were taut with effort as she worked. She was lost in concentration, sanding a door of the house in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts that had been her salvation. She had bought it four years before. It had been weather-beaten, shabby and in serious need of repair when she found...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
When its owners leave, a summer house comes alive with the sounds of a mouse nibbling crumbs in the fall, a cat taking shelter in the winter, and rain falling on the roof in the spring.
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Three little mice. Three very different houses. But which is the happiest home? A tale about discovering true happiness-with flaps to lift and peep-through pages." --Page 4 of cover.
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Language
English
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"Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews, in this delightful summer read about flipping houses, and finding true love. Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen; married the boss's son at twenty; and was only twenty-five when her husband, Hank, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Broken hearted, but determined to continue the business of their dreams, she takes the life insurance money,...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 14
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house, they soon discover that renovations may not be worth the effort.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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As this year's summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threaten their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
525 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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,...
13) The little house
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
Picture Story
Language
English
Description
A Bird, a monkey, and a snake lose their home in a tree and go looking for a new home, encountering various jungle animals on the way.Features rebuses, which are identified with labels in the margins
17) A willing murder
Author
Series
Medlar mystery volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
503 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She...