Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
Summary: Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAIGleiter, Jan
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLEHoffman, Alice.
Summary: Presents a series of interlinking stories that capture the lives and fortunes of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over the course of two centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFDelinsky, Barbara.
Summary: Three years after an accident leaves her mother comatose, Casey Ellis loses the father she barely knew and inherits his Boston townhouse, which leads her to discover his harrowing experiences with a mysterious woman named Jenny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINSaul, John.
Summary: A family discover that a house they inherited in Louisiana is haunted. The house, which they are refurbishing to turn into a hotel, was left by an aunt and it is rumored that she smothered her baby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Pub. Group 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAUTishy, Cecelia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TISWillett, Marcia.
Summary: When Maudie Todhunter, the elderly owner of a charming farmhouse in Cornwall, decides to sell the family homestead, a family drama unfolds, with old secrets bubbling to the surface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on CD 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MILMosley, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CLAMiller, Sue
Summary: After being diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1919, a young woman is sent to a sanitarium, where she rediscovers the pleasures of unfettered youth and falls in love with a doomed man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMosley, Walter.
Summary: Charles Blakey, a young man who can't find a job and who has fallen behind on his mortgage payments for the home that's been in his family for generations, cannot say no when a stranger offers to rent the basement for $50,000 in cash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: Starting over in the Appalachian river country after leaving her abusive husband, Opal Sullivan takes refuge in a dilapidated but proud old house while befriending a parade of locals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILRoberts, Nora.
Summary: There was something about the house that called out to Declan Fitzgerald. The dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, rumored to be haunted, and long taken over by spiders and dust, would require countless hours of labor to restore to its former splendor. Perhaps that was part of the appeal. Having finally purchased Manet Hall after dreaming about it for years, Declan left his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Roberts 2001Clark, Mary Higgins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIRoberts, Nora.
Summary: While renovating an old mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, Declan Fitzgerald begins seeing visions of days from a century past. Local legend has it that the house is haunted but he uncovers the reason for the strange sensations of terror and unbearable grief.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2001
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Summary: Kathy, a recovering alcoholic, separated from her husband, fails to open a series of letters from the tax office. The State seizes her house and it is sold to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. For him, the house comes to represent a passport to the American dream, but not for Kathy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1999