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1) Smitten
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Language
English
Description
Hired as a construction worker by the virile Matt Hallahan, single mom Lizabeth Kane finds herself falling in love with her boss, in spite of their many differences.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
"People expect big things from Alexis Montgomery. She's a thirty-seven-year-old doctor from a wealthy and prestigious family full of world-renowned surgeons. Only, Alexis is tired of living up to her family's dreams for her. Now she's about to take her bravest step yet: start living her life for herself. Daniel Grant is a twenty-eight-year-old small-town carpenter with a heart of gold and a legacy of his own. He may not have gone to college, but he's...
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English
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In the charming rural town of Trail Stop, Idaho, accessible to the outside world by only a single road, young widow Cate Nightingale lives peacefully with her four-year-old twin boys, running a bed-and-breakfast. Though the overnight guests are few and far between--occasional hunters and lake fishermen--Cate always manages to make ends meet with the help of the local jack-of-all-trades, Calvin Harris, who can handle everything from carpentry to plumbing....
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The actor known for roles in such productions as Parks and Recreation shares whimsical musings on a range of topics from love and manliness to grooming and eating meat, offering additional discussions of his life before fame and his courtship of his wife, Megan Mullally.
7) Adam Bede
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English
Description
Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur's seductive charm and they begin to meet in secret. The relationship is to have tragic consequences that reach far beyond the couple themselves, touching not just Adam Bede, but many others, not least, pious Methodist Preacher Dinah Morris. A tale of seduction, betrayal,...
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English
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One look at his warm brown eyes and Kate Jackson knows she's found her husband. It's been twenty years since Daniel went missing in a refinery explosion and was finally declared dead, but Kate never gave up hope, convinced he was somewhere out there, suffering from amnesia. Then, on a trip to Buckhorn, Montana, she sees him--working as a carpenter, scarred, but still her Danny. Yet Jon Harper, as he calls himself, insists he's a stranger. Jon is certain...
9) Miracle
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English
Description
It is New Year's Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm's wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wife's death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs it most. And for Jack Adams, a carpenter who will repair Quinn's and Maggie's...
10) The journey
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English
Description
Titus Fisher, an Amish carpenter, journeys into a Kentucky Amish community where he seeks a new beginning and meets the beautiful and unique Suzanne Yoder. She can't cook but can do woodworking, and she painfully resembles Phoebe, Titus's ex-girlfriend.
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Publisher
Silhouette Books
Language
English
Description
Wealthy businessman Vance Banning, looking for a simpler life, buys a cabin in a small, rural town where he passes himself off as an out-of-work carpenter, but his cover is blown--and his heart lost--when his lovely neighbor, antique store owner Shane Abbott, keeps trying to help by finding him work.
12) Banishing Verona
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Language
English
Description
Zeke, a beautiful but socially backward house painter, and Verona, a very pregnant radio host, share less than twenty-four hours together, but it is enough to sustain them when family and other complications pull them apart.
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Language
English
Description
From a master carpenter, Making Things Right is a celebration of good craftsmanship and a tribute to manual labor in the story of a loft renovation.Making Things Right is the simple yet fascinating story of a loft renovation. It is also a book about work and identity, about collaboration and pride in skilled craftsmanship, and about what it means to make things with your hands in a consumerism-driven world. From the moment carpenter and contractor...
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English
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"From star-crossed matches to unexpected love triangles, summer on Nantucket always holds the promise of romance in this sensational novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Lisa Hudson feels more alive than she has in a long time after hiring hunky carpenter Mack Whitney to renovate her old Nantucket home. There's no denying the spark growing between them--despite the fact that Mack is ten years her junior. But her twentysomething...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The top-secret CIA Black Ops program Operation Treadstone trained Adam Hayes to be an all-but-invincible assassin, but it also cost him his family and any chance at a normal life. Now working as a carpenter in rural Washington state, Adam thinks he has left Treadstone in the past. Then he receives a mysterious email from a former colleague, and is attacked by an unknown hit team at his job site. Are his pursuers enemies from a long-ago mission? Rival...
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English
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"A solitary sort, forty-two-year-old Atle Petersheim spends his time hard at work in his wood shop. But as the days get long, he realizes just how lonely he's become. When his longtime crush, Sadie Mast, a widow and mother of three, asks him to help her build a room in their barn for her son Cale, Atle can't say no. Eager to pursue Sadie at last, he turns to bookmobile librarian Sarah Anne Miller for courting advice. More than happy to help, Sarah...
17) Tango down
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English
Description
When a colleague in the building trades is arrested for murder, it will take both Sam Acquillo and defense attorney Jackie Swaitkowski to defend the defenseless.
18) Head wounds
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English
Description
Ex-boxer and former corporate executive Sam Acquillo, living in a rundown waterfront cottage on Little Peconic Bay in Southampton, New York, while working as a part-time carpenter, enlists a group of misfit friends to help him investigate when the local police chief targets him for the murder of Robbie Milhouse, a local builder and bully who has disturbing links to Sam's girlfriend, Amanda Battiston.
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