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Series
Calhoun women volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Catherine "C.C." Calhoun is determined to keep her family's estate, known affectionately as the Towers, in the family. She admits the cost of keeping up the crumbling mansion might be quickly exceeding what C.C., her sisters and her aunt can afford, but the only way to save the house can't be to sell it. Especially not to arrogant and handsome hotel magnate Trenton St. James III.
82) The proving
Author
Language
English
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 clientèle expect an Amish hostess! Can Mandy fulfill the terms of her...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[1936]
Language
English
Description
When small-town innocent Longfellow Deeds heads to New York to collect a $20 million inheritance, he ends up a target of ridicule thanks to Babe Bennett, a cynical reporter whose demeaning stories have made him the joke of the city. So when he discovers his sweet and unassuming new girlfriend is actually the hardboiled Bennett in disguise, a disillusioned Deeds decides to give his fortune away, an act of charity his crooked lawyer will stop at nothing...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This brilliantly witty and insightful novel, set in near-future America, follows four generations of a once-prosperous family as they navigate the aftershocks of a devastated U.S. economy brought on by a national debt crisis--one that will seem all too frighteningly realistic. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2012, c1987
Language
English
Description
Katia Morell and Jordan Whyte first met as children, when Katia was the daughter of the Whytes' housekeeper. As adults, they meet again when Jordan's brother dies mysteriously. A full-scale passion soars between them, and though Katia and Jordan know their love will certainly lead to heartbreak, neither can resist its intoxicating allure.
86) Devil in winter
Author
Series
Wallflowers volume 3
Language
English
Description
Easily the shyest Wallflower, Evangeline Jenner stands to become the wealthiest, once her inheritance comes due. Because she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives, Evie has approached the rake Viscount St. Vincent with a most outrageous proposition: marriage! Sebastian's reputation is so dangerous that thirty seconds alone with him will ruin any maiden's good name. Still, this bewitching chit appeared, unchaperoned, on his doorstep...
87) No one can know
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant-right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her parents' house, which she owns jointly with her estranged sisters. They can't sell it, but they can live in it. But returning...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are taken in by a series of oddball relatives and others after their wealthy parents are killed in a fire. The first to take them in is the dastardly and cunning Count Olaf, who is only interested in their inheritance.
Author
Series
Alfie Bloom volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Anticipating a dreadful summer alone, young Alfie Bloom unexpectedly inherits a castle which conceals a centuries-old, dangerous secret that threatens everyone who lives within one thousand miles.
90) Billy Madison
Language
English
Description
He's heir to the Madison Hotel millions, but the only subjects Billy has studied are babes and booze. But when Brian Madison informs his goofball son that he plans to turn over his Fortune 500 company to vice president/weasel Eric Gordon, Billy makes the bet of his life. He's going back to school with hilarious results.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In need of a good scam, a decent hideout, and a nice inheritance, Richie Greene agrees to take care of his long-lost grandmother, only to find out that she's anything but the naive old lady he was hoping to pull one over on.
Author
Series
Treasures of the heart volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Having unexpectedly inherited a remote island mansion, Jessica Thornton moves there with her son, Splinter, hardly suspecting the surprises and danger that await them.
Author
Series
Cape Sanctuary volume 4
Language
English
Description
"As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up--while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a child s life, her mother begs her to return home to help untangle...
Author
Series
Ravenels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Inheriting not only an earldom, but also an estate riddled with debt and the late earl's three sisters and Kathleen, Lady Trenear, a beautiful young widow, Devon Ravenel engages in a sensual battle of wills with this woman whose sharp wit and determination are a match for his own.
96) Orley Farm
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anthony Trollope's novels often explore the ways that wealth—and the promise of it—can impact human behavior. In Orley Farm, a protracted probate case spanning several generations ultimately tears a family apart. A must-read for fans of Trollope's unflinchingly realistic portraits of the dark undercurrents of Victorian life.
97) Distant shores
Author
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance, their lives look perfect. But after the girls leave home, Jack and Elizabeth quietly drift apart.
98) Never let go
Author
Series
Women of Brambleberry House volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
2008, 1988
Language
English
Description
Never let go: As a psychologist Mallory Blake knew there were times when one had to let go. She also knew just how much it hurt. After her husband's death, she'd packed up her belongings and moved to San Francisco, wishing it was as easy to box up her memories and seal away her regrets. But she had her patients at the hospital who helped her move forward--patients like six year old Davey. The broken little boy needed Mallory--not that his doctor agreed....
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Stunning, stubborn, and independent, Philadelphia Fox lost her best friend because of the fabulously rich and powerful Lightfoot family of Washington state. Now she's got her friend's controlling shares in Lightfoot Industries--an inheritance that brings Nick, the family's prodigal and supremely attractive son, knocking at her door.
100) Chances
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Opposites attract: They were like night and day--Ty Starbuck, a man known for his devastating good looks and volatile passions; Asher Wolfe, infamous for her beauty and icy control. Together they'd set the world ablaze. Now, after years apart, Asher discovers to her horror she still wants him--needs him. But she knows if she reveals the truth, she could lost it all again.
A will and a way: She'd inherited $150 million! But all Pandora McVie wanted...
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