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Summary: Stella the Mouse, Nico the Toad, Delilah the Spider, and Bo the Parakeet are upset by the construction going on at school, especially when Goldie goes missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019
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Summary: "Rabbi Ruben loves his synagogue. But he doesn't love the creaking floorboard, leaking sink, or drafty windows. Surely, he thinks, he can fix it up so it feels cared for, like a happy home! But Rabbi Ruben doesn't know much about home repair, so when his creative fixes--challah dough plugging a drippy faucet, tablecloths blocking a window draft--make things humorously worse, it'll take his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCGMcLaren, Kaya
Summary: "In Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping, during one unforgettable summer, three generations of one family receive the best gift of all time: a second chance ... The day her doctor says the one word that no one wants to hear, Amy Bergstrom discovers a secret that her husband of 25 years has been keeping from her. Now that the months of treatment and surgeries are behind her, she escapes her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: In 1928, the Bonaventure Circus has become a refuge for many, but Pippa Ripley was rejected from its inner circle as a baby and is no longer content to leave the reason for that rejection unquestioned. When she receives mysterious messages from someone called the "Watchman," she is determined to find him and the connection to her birth. As Pippa's search leads her to a man seeking justice for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIFreed, Eric Corey.
Summary: "Want to build responsibility and help preserve the environment? This friendly, step-by-step guide introduces you to every facet of green building and remodeling, from sizing up construction sites and selecting materials to working with green professionals, reducing energy and water use, and weighting the pros and cons of popular green building methods"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home Build FreedSummary: 2015 Michigan Rehabilitation Code for Existing Buildings is a fully integrated Michigan-specific building code based on the 2015 International Existing Building Code.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth, Bureau of Construction Codes 2016
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1 available in Reference Desk, Call number: RDK 343 MICYates, Maisey.
Summary: "When Lark Ashwood's beloved grandmother dies, she and her sisters discover an unfinished quilt. Finishing it could be the reason Lark's been looking for to stop running from the past, but is she ever going to be brave enough to share her biggest secret with the people she ought to be closest to? Hannah can't believe she's back in Bear Creek, the tiny town she sacrificed everything to escape...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [HQN] 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction YatesVogel, Steve.
Summary: The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds, creating an institution that ranks with a handful of other structures as symbols recognized around the world. In July 1941, the Army construction chief sprang the idea of building a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.6097 VOGRoss, Barbara
Summary: "When the Russian demo team clearing out the mansion discovers a room that's been sealed off for decades, Julia's baffled as to its purpose and what secrets it might have held. Tensions are already simmering with the crew, but when one of the workers is found murdered, things come to a boil. With the discovery of another body--and a mysterious diary with Cyrillic text in the hidden room--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROSEngler, Nick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690.89 ENGCorbett, Judy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ebury Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.9 CORHunter, Denise
Summary: After her estranged father dies and leaves her in custody of three siblings she's never met, Meridith travels to Nantucket to care for them and becomes attracted to the handyman of her father's bed-and-breakfast. Can she trust God with the details and relish the adventure?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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Summary: A construction crew rebuilds an old clock tower that has become home to rats, bats, mice, and an assortment of birds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: "Josie Prescott's discovery of a mysterious antique trunk leads to a disappearance-and murder-in the next installment of this beloved cozy series set on the rugged New Hampshire coast, Jane K. Cleland's Hidden Treasure. Josie Prescott, owner of Prescott'sAntiques & Auctions, and her new husband Ty have finally found their dream home-a Victorian beauty on the beach, known in the town of Rocky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLELee, Laura Piper
Summary: "Hannah Tate can hardly believe her sleep-deprived eyes when she finds an engagement ring hidden in the closet. Killian, her super responsible, incredibly attractive boyfriend--and the father of her new baby, Bowie--is finally going to propose. But a romantic night out goes horribly wrong when Killian reveals he's dumping Hannah, not proposing. Furious and heartbroken, Hannah takes Bowie and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square and Co. 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEEWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: When the Alden children join a group of volunteers to fix up an old house for senior citizens, they try to explain the puzzling behavior of their coworkers as well as investigate some unusual events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARBrady, Ali
Summary: "Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. They have one summer to set the record straight. When twelve-year-olds Kat Steiner and Blake O'Neill meet at Camp Chickawah, they have an instant connection. But everything falls apart when they learn they're not just best friends-they're also half-sisters. Confused and betrayed, their friendship instantly crumbles. Fifteen years later...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRASummary: This year, Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor pulls out all the stops as he attempts to break Bob Vila's steamroller record, and things at home get out of hand when Jill's wild sisters visit to plan their parents' 50th anniversary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV HoLennon, J. Robert
Summary: Formal and a little defensive in his encounters with curious locals, Eric Loesch starts renovating a rundown house in the small, upstate New York town of his childhood. He discovers there is a parcel of land in the middle of his woods that he does not own. What's more, the name of the owner is blacked out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENShalvis, Jill
Summary: When Alice receives a call about an unexpected windfall, she's stunned to learn the gift is a falling-apart-at-the-seams old Wild West B&B she once considered home -- and she's inherited it along with two strangers. Except they weren't always strangers. Once upon a time, they were friends. One is her ex-BFF Lauren. The other is Knox, the only guy to ever break her heart, all while never even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAMiller, Kirsten
Summary: People say the house is cursed. It preys on the weakest, and young women are its favorite victims. Bram wanted was to disappear from her old life and the scandal that continues to haunt her. She ends up in Louth, a tiny town on the Hudson River where her uncle, James, has been renovating an old mansion. Months earlier his beloved wife died in a fire that people say was set by her daughter. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILSummary: The magazine for people interested in restoring and preserving older homes. It provides practical, step-by-step articles for the professional renovator and serious homeowner, as well as lifestyle features about living in older homes, and reviews of architectural books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Old-House Journal Corp. , etc. 1973
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Kiernan, Stephen P.
Summary: One month after the end of World War II, amid the jubilation in the streets of France, there are throngs of people stunned by the recovery work ahead. Every bridge, road, and rail line, every church and school and hospital, has been destroyed. Disparate factions--from Communists, to Resistance fighters, to federalists, to those who supported appeasement of the Nazis--must somehow unite and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023