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1) The switch
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Pub. Date
2020.
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After Leena and Eileen, her seventy-nine year old grandmother, decide to switch homes for two months, they each discover that love can be found in the most unlikely places.
2) Tara Road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 27
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Two women--one American, the other Irish-- trade houses for the summer and the resulting change of scenery helps them remake their lives. The American is Marilyn of Connecticut, mourning the death of her son, the Irish woman is Ria of Dublin, a mother of two, whose husband had an affair and made the woman pregnant. By the author of The Glass Lake.
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"Ginny Masters manages a popular boutique hotel in Seattle, but the daily challenges and irritations of a fast-paced job and a demanding boss are starting to get to her. Jacqueline Potter manages her grandfather's fishing lodge in Idaho because it was the only job she could find after graduating with her hospitality degree. She's grateful for the work but longs for a more sophisticated and cosmopolitan life she's just not going to find in this backwoods...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The Parent Trap meets The Holiday in this heartwarming and funny story of two girls, one American and one British, who become friends and confidantes when their families swap houses, from the acclaimed author of Glitter Gets Everywhere. Allie is British and dreams of being a spy. Sage is an only child from sunny California. They meet when their families swap houses for the summer. Though they’re polar opposites, Allie and Sage quickly realize that...
5) The Holiday
Pub. Date
[2007]
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Dumped and depressed, English rose Iris agrees to swap homes with similarly unlucky in love Californian Amanda for a much-needed break. Iris finds herself in a palatial Hollywood mansion while Amanda navigates the lanes of a picture-perfect English village. Soon enough, both lovelorn ladies bump into local lads perfect for a romantic pick-me-up.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Greta Russakoff needs some space from her overbearing family. Truman Belvedere needs a place to heal after a devastating heartbreak. The solution is obvious: Truman and Greta decide to swap houses for the month of December. Can a change of scenery be the start of something new?"--
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
She can run... As much as Libby Hall needs a vacation, shes never considered taking one until she sees the note for a house swap. Suffering a miscarriage was a personal turning point. Saving a child from a burning school was a public one. Just as the emotional fallout of both incidents takes its toll, along comes her lifesavers-the Heywoods, a couple in need of a getaway of their own. But she cant hide... Libby and her husband Jamie cant believe their...
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Emily Springer, a widowed mother of one living in Leavenworth, Washington, travels to Boston to be with her daughter for Christmas. When she arrives, she discovers that her daughter has gone to Florida. Charles Brewster, who traded houses with Emily for the holiday, has a surprise visit from one of Emily's friends. Then Charles' brother shows up in Boston, only to find Emily living there.
10) Twisted river
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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Kate and Mannix O'Brien live in Limerick, in an unusual house they can barely afford. Their son Fergus is bullied at school, and their daughter Izzy wishes she could protect him. Kate decides that her family needs a vacation, and is convinced her luck's about to change when she spots a elegant Manhattan apartment on a home-exchange website. Hazel and Oscar Harvey and their two children live in Manhattan. Though they seem successful and happy, Hazel...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"A hypnotic domestic noir novel in which a house swap becomes the eerie backdrop to a crumbling marriage, a torrid affair, and the fatal consequences that unfold Be careful who you let in. When Caroline and Francis receive an offer to house swap--from their city apartment to a house in a leafy, upscale London suburb--they jump at the chance for a week away from home, their son, and the tensions that have pushed their marriage to the brink. As the...
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