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1) The choice
Author
Series
The dragon heart legacy volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The conclusion of the epic trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening and The Becoming. Talamh is a land of green hills, high mountains, deep forests, and seas, where magicks thrive. But portals allow for passage in and out-and ultimately, each must choose their place, and choose between good and evil, war and peace, life and death... Breen Siobhan Kelly grew up in the world of Man and was once unaware of her true nature....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head–thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she has a murdered father to avenge—if she can survive the killers all around her.
An unforgettable family drama by two writers at the top of their craft
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 420 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland-a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up. New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There's a reason: she's living under an assumed identity, having outrun a tragic past....
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the story of Jane Austen's mysterious character depicts a rejected young heiress who fights a life-long addiction before discovering health and passion in the London home of her cousin, Colonel John Fitzwilliam.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An epic reimagining of the remarkable life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress and trailblazing leader of the twentieth century, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sisi. Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. Such is Marjorie Merriweather Post's average evening. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Covered in diamonds and deemed American royalty, Marjorie nevertheless remains...
7) Costalegre
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Berkley hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1934, the ultimate vacation becomes a fight for survival as the secrets of two women's pasts collide aboard a luxury cruise liner on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the tragedy of the SS Morro Castle. New York heiress Catherine Dohan seemingly has it all. There's only one problem. It's a lie. As soon as the Morro Castle leaves...
Author
Series
Sarah Booth Delaney volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 340 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Winner of both the Harper Lee Award and the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, Carolyn Haines has thrilled countless readers with her Sarah Booth Delaney mysteries. Here, Sarah investigates when two wealthy heiresses claim a four-million-dollar family necklace was stolen. All the evidence points to insurance fraud, but when Sarah starts poking into the family's dark secrets, one of the heiresses disappears.
10) Notorious
Author
Series
Long tall Texans volume 53
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gaby Dupont knows some men shouldn't be trusted. Ever. Especially not high-profile lawyer Nicholas Chandler. How can she trust the man who might be helping one of her horrible relatives weasel out of the consequences for their bad behavior? To get the inside scoop on Nicholas's dealings - and protect herself and her beloved grand-mère - Gaby must take a job with the devil himself. Of course, she can't tell him who she really is . . . Nicholas...
11) Deadly assets
Author
Series
An Allison Campbell mystery volume 2
Publisher
[Tantor]
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
[8 sound discs (approximately 9.5 hours)] : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An eccentric Italian heiress from the Finger Lakes. An eighteen-year-old pop star from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Allison Campbell's latest clients seem worlds apart in every respect, except one: Both women disappear on the same day. And Allison's colleague Vaughn is the last to have seen each. Allison's search for a connection uncovers an intricate web of family secrets, corporate transgressions and an age-old rivalry that crosses continents. The closer...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, American women began to reject Victorian propriety in favor of passion and livelihood outside the home. This alarmed authorities, who feared certain "over-sexed" women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects. Set against this backdrop, THE UNFIT HEIRESS chronicles the fight for inheritance, both genetic and monetary, between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her mother Maryon. In 1934,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world--she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star--in the make-believe world of the movies ... But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping new stand-alone novel from USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble" --
"A wealthy hotel heiress. Even though Torie Bergstrom hasn't been back to Georgia since she was ten, she's happy to arrange a job for her best friend at one of the family properties on Jekyll Island. A suspicious death. But when Torie learns that her bestfriend has drowned, she knows it is more than a tragic accident: Lisbeth was terrified of water...