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FROM: Carleen Huxley <[removed]@bartlesville.lib.ok.us>
REC'D: 4/27/04, 3:04 PM

I have only just signed up for Fiction_L so I hope I'm doing this correctly.
We have a patron who is looking for a book about a man who buys some
property in New England and works to restore it. The only other information
he was able to tell me was that he was pretty sure the author's name was
male and that it may have been sort of semi-authobiographical but he's still
certain that it was a fiction book. He also said it was an old book that was
published about 40 or so years ago.
I have tried searching on Novelist, Books in Print and web searches on
google. I haven't come up with anything promising and wondered if anyone on
this list may have an inkling.

Thanks,

Carleen Huxley

FROM: Cynthia Orr <[removed]@cpl.org>
REC'D: 4/27/04, 3:10 PM

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this may be A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm by Edwin Way Teale--set in Connecticut.

Cindy

Cynthia Orr
Collection Manager
Cleveland Public Library
17133 Lake Shore Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44110
Phone: 216-623-2906
Fax: 216-623-2977
http://www.cpl.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Carleen Huxley <[removed]@bartlesville.lib.ok.us>
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:01 pm
Subject: man restoring home in New England
> I have only just signed up for Fiction_L so I hope I'm doing this
> correctly.We have a patron who is looking for a book about a man
> who buys some
> property in New England and works to restore it. The only other
> informationhe was able to tell me was that he was pretty sure the
> author's name was
> male and that it may have been sort of semi-authobiographical but
> he's still
> certain that it was a fiction book. He also said it was an old
> book that was
> published about 40 or so years ago.
> I have tried searching on Novelist, Books in Print and web
> searches on
> google. I haven't come up with anything promising and wondered if
> anyone on
> this list may have an inkling.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carleen Huxley
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/27/04, 4:48 PM

I wonder if this could be Eric Hodgins's 'Mr.
Blandings Builds his Dream House,' published in
1946?

=====
David Wright - Seattle Public Library Fiction Dept.

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
-G.K. Chesterton



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FROM: "Bookbitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/27/04, 10:40 PM

First thing that springs to mind is MR BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE by
Eric Hodgins. The Cary Grant/Myrna Loy film was based on this book, which
is about 50 years old, and is about a man who buys an old house in
Connecticut and all the trials and tribulations of renovating it.

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Southwest County Regional Library
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On Behalf Of Carleen Huxley
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:02 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: man restoring home in New England

I have only just signed up for Fiction_L so I hope I'm doing this correctly.
We have a patron who is looking for a book about a man who buys some
property in New England and works to restore it. The only other information
he was able to tell me was that he was pretty sure the author's name was
male and that it may have been sort of semi-authobiographical but he's still
certain that it was a fiction book. He also said it was an old book that was
published about 40 or so years ago. I have tried searching on Novelist,
Books in Print and web searches on google. I haven't come up with anything
promising and wondered if anyone on this list may have an inkling.

Thanks,

Carleen Huxley

FROM: Carleen Huxley <[removed]@bartlesville.lib.ok.us>
REC'D: 5/4/04, 1:20 PM

Thank you! He thinks it might be Eric Hodgins's 'Mr. Blandings Builds his
Dream House'.

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