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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
James A'bair, whose father is the author of the popular series "The Bear Boy," has taken in the eccentric Mitwisser family and the orphaned Rose Meadows, who must resist the pull of the actual Bear Boy, in a novel of Depression-era New York.
442) A hellion in her bed
Author
Series
Hellions of Halstead Hall volume 2
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
After his grandmother rescinds her ultimatum that he marry or lose his inheritance when he agrees to run the family brewery, Lord Jarret Sharpe accepts a wager from Annabel Lake who needs help in saving her family's failing brewery.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
1918: America is at war with Germany, and, for the first time in history, the US Navy has allowed women to join up alongside the men. Ten thousand of them rush to do their part. German-American Marjory Kunwald enlists in the Navy to prove her patriotism. Suffragette Blanche Lawrence to prove that women are the equal of men. And shy preacher's daughter Viv Weston in a desperate attempt to hide from the police. Even as the US military pours into France...
444) His lessons on love
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Earl of Marsden--has lived his life by his own rules...until he is presented with a very big problem in a very tiny package--a baby girl, his daughter cast off by his ex-mistress. Panicking, he turns to a woman for help...Clarissa Taylor, village spinster, matron-in-training, and Mars's greatest critic. Clarissa desperately wishes not to be beholden to anyone. Her plan is simple--to use what the intolerable earl will pay her to become her own...
445) The flirt
Author
Series
Regency intrigue volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Tongues were set wagging when Elizabeth Markham's glamorous young parents were killed, sinking their only child to the unspeakable class of poor relation. Forced to live with her cruel, miserly uncle Julius, Elizabeth is forbidden to partake in the season's festivities. Marriage is her only escape, and she enacts a daring plan to trick her way into the Duke of Dunster's exclusive house party, to snare one of the eligible dandies sure to dance attendance...
446) Flight: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Want, told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate-a novel about art, grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net. It's December 22nd and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. This is the...
Author
Publisher
Mindy's Book Studio
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desai inherits a million dollars, she's astounded--and horrified. The windfall threatens to expose a shameful mistake from her youth. Desperate to keep the secret, Bindu quickly spends it on something unexpected: a condo in a posh retirement community in Florida. The impulsive decision blindsides Bindu's daughter-in-law, Aly. At forty-seven, Aly still shares a home with Bindu even after her divorce from Bindu's son....
Author
Series
Tudor legacy volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Andersen explores the thrilling possibility of a Tudor heir, the daughter of Elizabeth I, in her new trilogy, a captivating continuation of the alternate history of the Tudors launched in the award-winning Boleyn King trilogy. With her originality and imagination, Andersen breathes fresh life into this ever-fascinating epoch. Peppered with realistic period-details and genuine historical figures to add dimension and texture to her captivating story,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's business-the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke's has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn't been an easy journey. Seven years after her father's death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young girl. She may be the owner of Brooke's, but she's also...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This Norton Critical Edition is based on the Folio text of King Lear (carefully corrected prior to its printing in 1623). The editor has interpolated the best-known and most-often discussed passages from Quarto I (including the “mock-trial” scene) as is fully explained in both “A Note on the Text” and the annotations that accompany the play.
Author
Series
Summer beach volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the exclusive black beach community of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, the three unofficial "goddaughters" of Amelia Vaux Tanner, successful women from different backgrounds, gather for one last summer together before Amelia moves to the south of France and gives her home to one of them.
456) The inheritance
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence pointing to his son, Stephen, who was about to be disinherited from the family fortune. When Stephen's fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, his guilt seems undeniable--but then the revelation that the deceased man was involved in a deadly hunt for a priceless relic in Northern France at the end of World War II lends credence to Stephen's innocence.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this mesmerizing debut, a young American discovers he may be heir to the unclaimed estate of an English World War I officer, which launches him on a quest across Europe to uncover the elusive truth. Just after graduating college, Tristan Campbell receives a letter delivered by special courier to his apartment in San Francisco. It contains the phone number of a Mr. J.F. Prichard of Twyning & Hooper, Solicitors, in London -- and news that could...
Author
Series
Cornwall volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Liam Twethewey inherits the ancient Wyndcliff Hall in Pevlyn, Cornwall, he sets a goal of fulfilling his late great-uncle's dream of opening a china clay pit on the estate's moorland. When he arrives, however, a mysterious shipwreck on his property - along with even more mysterious survivors - puts his plans on hold. Evelyn Bray has lived in Pevlyn her entire life. After her grandfather's fall from fortune, he humbled himself and accepted the...
Author
Series
Yona of the Dawn volume 34
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Princess Yona lives an ideal life as the only princess of her kingdom. Doted on by her father, the king, and protected by her faithful guard Hak, she cherishes the time spent with the man she loves, Su-won. But everything changes on her 16th birthday when tragedy strikes her family! As Yona continues to read Su-won's mother's journal, she uncovers secrets about the Crimson Dragon King's bloodline! What's more, Yona discovers the series of events...
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