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"One sultry summer, Maureen Haddaway arrives in the wealthy town of Opal Beach to start her life anew -- to achieve her destiny. There, she finds herself lured by the promise of friendship, love, starry skies, and wild parties. But Maureen's new life just might be too good to be true, and before the summer is up, she vanishes. Decades later, when Allison Simpson is offered the opportunity to house-sit in Opal Beach during the off-season, it seems...
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After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy--or very, very dangerous--in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense and terror from the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and Hairpin Bridge. Emma Carpenter lives in isolation with her golden retriever Laika, house-sitting an old beachfront home on the rainy Washington coast. Her only human contact is her enigmatic...
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2019.
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English
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No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Taken in by the splendor of her surroundings Jules accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind. She is drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who reminds...
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2018.
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"She can run... Libby Hall needs to hide, to escape from a personal and public tragedy. Which is why the house swap with the Heywoods is a godsend. Libby can't believe her and her husband, Jamie's, good fortune in exchanging their tiny city flat for a beautiful haven on the English coast. But she can't hide... But before they can begin to relax and work to heal their fragile marriage, Libby makes some disturbing discoveries about the house. The peace...
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"A charmingly quirky seaside town offers a recently separated restaurateur a fresh start and possibly a new lease on love in A Season for Second Chances, by the author of The Twelve Dates of Christmas"--
Annie Sharpe's spark for life has fizzled out: her kids are grown, her restaurant is doing fine on its own, and her marriage has come to an unceremonious end. She finds a winter guardian position in a historic seaside home and decides to leave her...
7) See for me
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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A group of thieves break into the luxurious, secluded mansion Sophie is house-sitting. Sophie, a visually impaired former skier, must rely on Kelly, an army veteran living across the country, to help her fight back.
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44 Scotland Street volume 16
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"It's the most anticipated event of the decade -- Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding -- and everyone is invited! But the relative peace and tranquillity of 44 Scotland Street is about to be disrupted. Domineering Irene is set to return for a two-month stay, consigning young Bertie to a summer camp. Not content with that, she somehow manages to come between the enigmatic nun, Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori di Montagna, and her friend, the hagiographer, Antonia...
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"Maybe this Christmas can thaw his frozen heart--and heal hers. Hollywood starlet Tia Beckett knows one moment can change your life. Her career had been on the fast track before a near-fatal accident left her with a debilitating facial scar. Certain her A-lister dreams are over, she agrees to house-sit at her producer's secluded estate in Silver Springs. It's the escape from the limelight Tia's been craving, until she discovers she's not the only...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Sandra Hurst has left her husband. Again. After dropping out of college to marry Trent, divorcing him, then remarrying him, she's shown up on her parents' doorstep nursing her wounds. But her parents refuse to help this time - emotionally or financially. Desperate to earn money and determined to start over, she accepts an offer from her aunt to house-sit at the old family home, Cub Creek, in ruggedly beautiful rural Virginia. But when Sandra arrives,...
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Gale, Cengage Learning
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[2015]
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English
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Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses. Presents sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries which serve as examples of how to approach, structure and compose business plans.
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"Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers-characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. In "The White Cat's Divorce," an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which will become his heir. In "The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear,"...
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Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LCC
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Escaping to Australia, commitment-shy Cora Cabot, while housesitting along with contractor Trent Williams, finds herself attracted to the man--and him to her, despite the fact that she flooded the house and destroyed a handmade anniversary gift intended for his parents.
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"With few other options, African-American classical musician Gethsemane Brown accepts a less-than-ideal position turning a group of rowdy schoolboys into an award-winning orchestra. Stranded without luggage or money in the Irish countryside, she figures any job is better than none. The perk? Housesitting a lovely cliffside cottage. The catch? The ghost of the cottage's murdered owner haunts the place. Falsely accused of killing his wife (and himself),...
15) Family Life
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Visit Films
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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While house-sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival.** Nominated for the Big Screen Award at the **Rotterdam International Film Festival.** *"A sharply observed and poignant parable." - Jonathan Holland, **Hollywood...
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Harlequin presents volume 4164
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Jemima Friday came to Bermuda to heal after a gut-wrenching betrayal. House-sitting an idyllic beachside villa gives her the solitude she craves, so when she runs into charismatic stranger Chase, their instant heat is a complication she doesn't need! Yet his magnetism is powerfully compelling... Billionaire Chase Farrar is the king of keeping his distance. Since the devastating loss of his wife, his one rule is keeping his emotions strictly off-limits....
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Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Thea Osborne and Drew Slocombe have been married for a year and are settled in the beautiful Cotswold village of Broad Campden, but Thea is chafing at the domestic routines she is expected to devote herself to, missing the novelty and adventure that house-sitting used to bring. When a routine burial exposes the secrets of the deceased, Drew finds himself caught in the middle of a family feud in which he feels he is on the wrong side, and Thea's inquisitiveness...
18) Serpent's point
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Wesley Peterson mysteries volume 26
Publisher
Piatkus
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Serpent's Point in South Devon is the focus of local legends. The large house on the headland is shrouded in an ancient tale of evil, and when a woman is found strangled on the coastal path DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate. The woman had been house-sitting at Serpent's Point and Wesley is surprised to discover that she was conducting an investigation into unsolved missing persons cases. Could these enquires have led to her murder? While...
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