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Wild houses / by Barrett, Colin,1982-author.;
"The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry. With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish literature's most daring stylists. Praised by Oprah Daily as "a doyen of the sentence," and by the Los Angeles Times as a writer of "unique genius," Barrett now expands his canvas with a debut novel that contains as much grit, plot, and linguistic energy as any of his celebrated short stories. As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, introspective loner Dev answers his door on Friday night to find Doll English-younger brother of small-time local dealer Cillian English-bruised and in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, County Mayo's fraternal enforcers and Dev's cousins. Dev's quiet homelife is upturned as he is quickly and unwillingly drawn headlong into the Ferdias' frenetic revenge plot against Cillian. Meanwhile, Doll's girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Nicky, reeling from a fractious Friday and plagued by ghosts and tragedy of her own, sets out on a feverish mission to save Doll, even as she questions her future in Ballina. Set against Barrett's trademark depictions of small-town Irish life, Wild Houses is a thrillingly told story of two outsiders striving to find themselves as their worlds collapse in chaos and violence"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Black humor.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Kidnapping; Revenge; Siblings; Small cities; Tragedy;
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Beecham House. [videorecording] / by Bateman, Tom,1989-actor.; Berges, Kumiko Kaur Chadha,actor.; Berges, Ronak Singh Chadha,actor.; Carter, Bessie,actor.; Chadha-Patel, Amer,actor.; Chopra, Tisca,actor.; Ghir, Kulvinder,1965-actor.; Kalra, Viveik,actor.; Khamkar, Trupti,actor.; Kottary, Advait,actor.; Nicol, Lesley,1953-actor.; Richards, Dakota Blue,1994-actor.; Warren, Marc,1967-actor.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Tom Bateman, Kumiko Kaur Chadha Berges, Ronak Singh Chadha Berges, Bessie Carter, Amer Chadha-Patel, Tisca Chopra, Kulvinder Ghir, Viveik Kalra, Trupti Khamkar, Advait Kottary, Lesley Nicol, Marc Warren, Dakota Blue Richards.Delhi 1795: John Beecham, a former soldier in the East India Company, is determined to leave the past behind and start a new life. At the grand house, the staff is shocked that their new master has arrived with his infant son, a baby of mixed parentage. John is determined to reunite his family in Delhi and keep the identity of his child secret, but at what cost to himself and those he loves?PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Families; Family secrets;
For private home use only.
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Haunted house / by Avatar, Ari.;
It's time for a spooky adventure for Ari Avatar, your average Roblox kid living in a blocky world! Diary of a Roblox Pro is a must-read for any kid who loves to game. Ari, Zeke, and Jez just can't ignore a challenge from the school bully, Tripp. There can't really be a haunted house in Blockville ... right? When the trio enters the mysterious house on the hill Tripp dares them to explore the creepy top floor. What's the deal with all these doors? And why can't Ari and his friends find a way out? And wait ... is that a giant spider?! Join Ari Avatar in the ninth Diary of a Roblox Pro book!
Subjects: Diary fiction.; Halloween; Haunted houses; Roblox (Computing platform);
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Starling house / by Harrow, Alix E.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306)."Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house--and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling--go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she's never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice: to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares. If Opal wants a home, she'll have to fight for it."--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Authorship; Haunted houses; Missing persons; Working poor;
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Open house : a life in thirty-two moves / by Christmas, Jane,author.;
"Moving house has never flustered author Jane Christmas. She loves houses: viewing them, negotiating their price, dreaming up interior plans, hiring tradespeople to do the work and overseeing renovations. She loves houses so much that she's moved thirty-two times. There are good reasons for her latest house move, but after viewing sixty homes, Jane and her husband succumb to the emotional fatigue of an overheated English housing market and buy a wreck in the town of Bristol that is overpriced, will require more money to renovate than they have and that neither of them particularly like. As Jane's nightmare renovation begins, her mind returns to the Canadian homes where she grew up with parents who moved and renovated constantly around the Toronto area. Suddenly, the protective seal is blown off Jane's memory of a strict and peripatetic childhood and its ancillary damage--lost friends, divorces, suicide attempts--and the past threatens to shake the foundations of her marriage. This latest renovation dredges a deeper current of memory, causing Jane to question whether in renovating a house she is in fact attempting to renovate her past. With humour and irreverence, Open House reveals that what we think we gain by constantly moving house actually obscures the precious and vital parts of our lives that we leave behind. This is a memoir that will appeal to anyone whose pulse quickens at the mere mention of real estate."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Christmas, Jane; Travel writers; Dwellings; Moving, Household;
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Bleaker house : chasing my novel to the end of the world / by Stevens, Nell,1985-author.;
"On a frozen island in the Falklands, with only penguins for company, a young would-be writer struggles to craft a debut novel ... and instead writes a funny, clever, moving memoir that heralds the arrival of a fresh new literary talent. Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel, but somehow life kept getting in the way. Then came an irresistible opportunity: she won a fellowship to spend three months, all expenses paid, anywhere in the world to research and write a book. Did she choose a glittering metropolis, a romantic village, an exotic paradise? Um, no. Nell chose Bleaker Island, a snowy, windswept pile of rock off the Falklands. There, in a guesthouse where she would be the only guest, she imagined she could finally rid herself of distractions and write her 2,500 words a day. In three months, surely she'd have a novel, right? It's true that there aren't many distractions on Bleaker, other than sheep, penguins, paranoia and the weather. But as Nell gets to work on her novel--a delightful Dickensian fiction she calls Bleaker House--she discovers that an excruciatingly erratic Internet connection and 1100 calories a day (as much food as she could carry in her suitcase, budgeted to the raisin) are far from ideal conditions for literary production. With deft humour, this memoir traces Nell's island days and slowly reveals details of the life and people she has left behind in pursuit of her art. They pop up in her novel, as well, as memoir and novel start to reflect one another. It seems that there is nowhere Nell can run--neither a remote island nor the pages of her notebook--to escape herself. A whimsical, entertaining, thought-provoking blend of memoir and travelogue, laced with tongue-in-cheek writing advice, Bleaker House brilliantly captures the hopes, fears, self-torture and humour of being young and yearning to make a creative life. With winning honesty and wit, Nell's race to finish her book emerges as a fascinating narrative in its own right."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Stevens, Nell, 1985-; Stevens, Nell, 1985-; Authors, English; Authorship.;
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Cleaning House : The Fight to Rid Our Homes of Toxic Chemicals. by Dahl, Lindsay.;
Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HOUSE & HOME / Sustainable Living; NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice;
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Two houses / by Bibra, Suleena,author.;
Mixing love and art might end up being an epic disaster ... or the beginning of a beautiful collaboration. If there's one thing Priya Gupta wants, it's to land the collection of the year for her family's NYC auction house, gaining the approval of her father in the process. Running an extremely close second? For a very small sinkhole to open up under the feet of Gavin Carlyle, her childhood rival turned auction-house competitor, so she never has to see his smug, irritatingly handsome face again. Neither of those options seem likely, especially since Gavin is dead set on winning the same collection-and his pockets are as deep as his family's extensive art world connections. Plus, he has charm to spare. Though Priya would walk over hot coals before ever admitting that. When they are both invited to a posh country estate to spend the week wooing the prospective client, their longtime rivalry creates sparks, all right, just not the kind either Priya or Gavin ever expected.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Art auctions; Auction houses; Auctioneers; Man-woman relationships;
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No safe house / by Barclay, Linwood,author.;
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Murder; Murderers; Older people;
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The river house / by Neggers, Carla,author.;
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Businessmen; Homecoming; Man-woman relationships;
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