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21) Night music
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this contemporary novel, widowed orchestral violinist Isabel Delancey finally finds true serenity and love only when she loses what she thought she needed most"--
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Language
English
Description
Unexpectedly inheriting her late husband's reclusive grandmother's home in South Carolina, widow Merritt Heyward investigates the Heyward family's shattering history while navigating the challenges of a young stepmother and ten-year-old half-brother.
Author
Language
English
Description
"After the death of her US senator father, Marlow Madsen travels to the small island off the coast of Florida where she spent summers growing up to help her mother settle the family estate. For Marlow, the trip is a chance to reconnect after too long apart. It's also the perfect escape to help her feel grounded again--one she's happy to share with friends Aida and Claire, who are hoping to hit reset on their lives, too. A leisurely beachfront summer...
Author
Series
Two Dukes of Wyndham volume 1
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Highwayman Jack Audley has never wanted to be responsible for an ancient heritage and the livelihood of others. But when he is recognized as the long-lost son of the House of Wyndham, his carefree life is over. If his birth proves to be legitimate, Jack will find himself with the one title he has never wanted: Duke of Wyndham. Grace Eversleigh has spent the last five years toiling as the companion to the dowager Duchess of Wyndham. It is a thankless...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England. Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a position back home, she jumps at the opportunity. The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of a baroque composer have been discovered....
Author
Series
Family upstairs volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's...
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When he loses his job, his reputation, his fianc�ee and his favorite chair, Benny Catspaw gets a strange inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of - a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world.
Author
Series
Wind-up Garden volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Argyros siblings have lost everything. With their father dead and their family home captured, they're no longer the rulers of their fractured kingdom--and no longer bound to each other. In the frozen north, Rhea struggles to wield her newly inherited command over death and to find her place in an increasingly distrustful rebel group. Chrysanthi travels to a distant, war-torn land in search of her elusive brother Nitsos, certain that he is there...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of The Wife Between Us and Something in the Water, a debut thriller about beautiful identical twin sisters sailing a luxury yacht and racing toward a one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this exciting thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Times bestselling "Queen of Suspense," a news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband. Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the six p.m. news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire...
Author
Series
Bella Vista chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set to inherit half of Bella Vista, a one hundred-acre apple orchard in a town called Archangel, along with a half-sister she's never heard of, Tess Delaney, who makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners, discovers a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family.
33) Fancy Dancer
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Finding himself in an awkward position when he is sentenced to community service--with his newly-found half-brother, Alex, as his parole officer--Jake St. Cloud decides to make the most of his work with Angelica Dancer and her daughter, Fancy, at their foundation for neglected children.
Author
Series
Inheritance Games volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
35) The proving
Author
Language
English
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Description
After five years as an Englisher, Amanda Dienner is shocked to learn her mother has passed away and left her Lancaster County's most popular Amish bed-and-breakfast. What's more, the inn will only truly be hers if Mandy can successfully run it for twelve months. Reluctantly, Mandy accepts the challenge, no matter that it means facing the family she left behind--or that the inn's clientele expect an Amish hostess! Can Mandy fulfill the terms of her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xviii, 342 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jessica Thornton is ready for a fresh start for herself and her irrepressible son, Splinter. An unexpected, unusual inheritance-a remote island mansion-seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. But when she arrives, she stumbles into a dangerous web of deception, greed, and murder. Even worse, she runs into the one person she never wanted to lay eyes on again: her long-lost husband, the man who coldly deserted her before their son was born. And the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two sisters go into the family business they didn't know they had--catching killers. Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted. During...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"My Dark Vanessa meets The Queen's Gambit in this new novel of suspense about the bonds of family, the limits of talent, the risks of ambition, and the rewards of revenge. When former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis returns home to Milwaukee after her mother's unexpected death, she expects to inherit the family estate, the Elf House. But with the discovery that her mother's will bequeathed the Elf House to a man that Saskia shares a complicated history...
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Language
English
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Description
"Laid off, cheated on, mugged: what else can go wrong in Maeve Stephens' life? So when she learns her birth mother has left her a house, a vintage VW Beetle, and a marauding cat, in the small town of Timber Creek, Washington, she packs up to discover the truth about her past. She arrives to the sight of a cheerful bulldog abandoned on her front porch, a reclusive but tempting author living next door, and a set of ready-made friends at the St. Francis...