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81) Swimming pool
Pub. Date
c2003, c2002
Description
Sarah is a famous British murder mystery author. Tired of London and seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher to stay at his home in the south of France. Sarah finds that the beautiful country locale and unhurried pace is just the tonic for her - until late one night, when John's sexy and provocative daughter, Julie, unexpectedly arrives. Sarah's English reserve is jarred by Julie's lifestyle. An increasingly...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"It's long been accepted that the 1950s and 1960s were a period of steady decline for the British stately country home. In Noble Ambitions, celebrated historian Adrian Tinniswood shows that the postwar history of family seats and great houses is much more nuanced. Tinniswood proves that the country house is not only an iconic symbol, but a lens through which to understand the shifting fortunes of the British élite. Twinned with the orthodox narrative...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Young writer Olive Wellwood, her sister Violet and husband, Humphry, live in a charmed home in the countryside with their seven children, though we follow most closely the older two, Tom, who is a sort of "lost" child more at home in the woods, and his more practical and determined sister Dorothy. Olive is a famous writer of children's books, in the golden age of fiction about children, inventing fairy tales drawn from her reading of folk tales and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"In early 1923, the young Honourable Daisy Dalrymple has made a decision that shocks her social class-instead of living in the Dower House with her mother and being supported by her relatives, she's decided to make her own living as a writer. Landing an assignment for Town & Country to write a series of articles on country manor houses, Daisy travels to Wentwater Court to research her first piece. There she finds a household in turmoil, filled with...
89) Casa Rossa
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"A crumbling farmhouse in Puglia, Casa Rossa was bought by Alina Stradas grandfather at a time when no one else wanted it. Now busy preparing it for sale, Alina endeavors to recover the memories it still harbors-in particular of three women whose passions indelibly shaped her familys dark past. Theres grandmother Renee, whose love of novelty won over everything else. Alinas mother, Alba, whose marriage to a screenwriter inspired both great art and...
90) Roman villa
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Describes the Roman country homes called villas, including how and why they were built, and Roman customs and culture at the height of the Roman Empire"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2011, c2008
Description
Spinster Miss Dido Kent travels to be by her niece Catherine's side after her fiancé breaks off their engagement and disappears, and decides to investigate the breakup while also looking into the murder of a woman whose body was found on the missing man's family estate.
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
Author
Pub. Date
2013, c2008
Description
ESPANOL: Cuando era una nina pequeÃأa, Nell fue abandonada en un barco rumbo a Australia, con sÃçlo unas pocas ropas y un libro de cuento de hadas en su poder. Criado por la Dockmaster y su esposa, ella viaja a Inglaterra cuando ella tiene veintiún aÃأos donde espera encontrar algo acerca de su verdadera identidad. Las piezas del rompecabezas se ensamblan después de su muerte, después de que su nieta Cassandra descubre el jardÃn...
Author
Series
Dido Kent mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Visiting Bellfield Hall to comfort her niece, who has been seemingly abandoned by her wealthy fiancé, Miss Dido Kent investigates the possibly related death of a young woman, a situation that is complicated by surprising secrets.
99) Jane Slayre
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Another entry in the growing genre of horror mashups (ranging from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter), this volume takes Brontë's classic and turns the Reed family into vampires, Jane Eyre's classmates at Lowood into zombies, and Bertha Rochester into something far more dangerous than a madwoman. While Jane herself remains much the same, the supernatural additions prove highly amusing, turning the gothic elements of...
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
On a dark and foggy night, amateur sleuth Ellie Haskell, her husband Ben, and her sidekick Mrs. Malloy find themselves stranded at a grand estate on the Yorkshire moors. Lord Belfrey of Mucklesfeld Manor has decided to save his crumbling establishment by offering himself as the prize on a TV reality show titled "Here Comes the Bride." Thrilled at the prospect of marrying a lord, Mrs. Malloy eagerly joins the competition. But after one of the potential...
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