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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Take a fascinating visit through the fabulous homes built by America's most eccentric tycoons. Includes: the home of renowned mining engineer John Hays Hammond; Henry Chapman Mercer's 44-room castle; and the Gold Coast home of banking wizard Otto Hermann Kahn, who built the second largest private estate in America, modeled after a French chateau.
82) The companion
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, Agatha....
83) Cutting Loose
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Susan Andersen, a classic tale of a good girl, a bad boy and the chemistry they can't resist...
Jane thinks nothing can make her lose her cool. But the princess of propriety blows a gasket the night she meets the contractor restoring the Wolcott mansion. Devlin Kavanagh's rugged sex appeal may buckle her knees, but the man is out of control! Jane had to deal with theatrics growing up—she won't tolerate...
Jane thinks nothing can make her lose her cool. But the princess of propriety blows a gasket the night she meets the contractor restoring the Wolcott mansion. Devlin Kavanagh's rugged sex appeal may buckle her knees, but the man is out of control! Jane had to deal with theatrics growing up—she won't tolerate...
Author
Series
Magnolia brides volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jenni Beth Beaumont has a dream. She leaves her career as a wedding planner in Savannah for the small Southern hometown whose glory days are long past. She is determined to breathe new life not only into her family's once beautiful antebellum mansion, but also into the town itself. And so she sets out to create a premier wedding destination the likes of which this small town can't even begin to envision, and few want. But Cole Bryson can...and it's...
86) Winterset
Author
Series
Mad Morelands volume 3
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
As mysterious dangers beset a country estate, a heartbroken man is determined to save the woman he never forgot in this enchanting Victorian romance.
Ever since Anna Holcombe inexplicably refused his proposal, Reed Moreland has been unable to set foot in the home that was the backdrop to their romance-Winterset. Yet the beauty and mystery of the Gloucestershire mansion continue to captivate him. He can neither continue living there, nor give it...
89) Mrs. God
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub, the tale of a literary sojourn that turns into something far more sinister.
Esswood House. Home and estate of the Seneschal family, aristocratic patrons of the literary arts for well over a hundred years. D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, and Henry James were privileged to call themselves guests. There was always talk of a hidden secret in Esswood's past, and the Seneschal children...
92) Killing Adonis
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently lying in a coma amidst an armada of premium machinery. The...
Author
Series
Austen volume 4
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Northpointe Chalet: A Contemporary Retelling of Northanger Abbey. When a lively group of customers visit Kathy Moore's cafŽ, new friendships--and romance--ensue. When she learns of a mystery in their past, Kathy takes on the role of amateur detective, but will her digging do more damage than good?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Archivist Merle's dream job in an abandoned mansion on New Zealand's Waiheke Island gives her the isolation she craves and the freedom to delight in its extravagance. Then infamous owner Ash arrives without warning. Used to women falling at his feet, Ash is ever so intrigued when he interrupts virginal siren Merle in his bath--and she tries to conceal her shock...then her red-hot reaction! He's back for one week only to lay his tarnished past to...
95) A will to kill
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For fans of Knives Out, a book that embodies all the things we love about Agatha Christie -- a haunted manor house, estranged relatives a will, and a murder -- set in modern-day India, and the first in a series from author RV Raman. Aging and wheelchair-bound patriarch Bhaskar Fernandez has finally reclaimed his family property after a bitter legal battle, and now wants to reunite his aggrieved relatives. So, he invites them to remote Greybrooke Manor...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Revised edition.
Language
English
Description
"The great houses of London represent one of the marvels of English architecture and yet they are almost entirely unknown. They are for the most part disguised behind sober facades but their riches within are astonishing. There are many architectural wonders, among them Robert Adam's 20 St James's Square and William Burges's Tower House. Several--including Bridgewater House with its Raphaels and Titians--have held great art collections. These are...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The once-grand house is now home to two very different families. Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown up girls, live and work on the estate and do their best to keep everything running smoothly. Social structure is vital. Everyone...
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