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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Jack Travis leads the uncomplicated life of a millionaire Texas playboy. He makes no commitments, he loves many women, he lives for pleasure. Until one day, a woman appears on his doorstep with fury on her face and a baby in her arms. It seems Jack is the father and this woman is the baby's aunt.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Former U.S. Senator Quintrell is dead.
His son, New Mexico's governor, is preparing his
run for the highest political office in the land. And dark family secrets are about to explode with the
devastating force of a Southwestern earthquake. An eccentric Quintrell aunt has invited genealogist Carolina "Carly" May to their Taos compound to compile a record of the illustrious family. But digging into the past is raising troubling questions about a would-be...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons attorney Brooke Trappnell to her 20,000 acre barrier island home, Brooke is puzzled. Everybody in the South has heard about the eccentric millionaire mistress of Talisa, but Brooke has never actually met her. Josephine's cryptic note says she wants to discuss an important legal matter, but why enlist Brooke and not the prestigious Atlanta law firm she has used for years? Brooke...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In Archer Mayor's Marked Man, the death of a local millionaire becomes suspicious when Joe Gunther learns that he was not who he claimed. A year ago, local philanthropist and millionaire Nathan Lyon died a natural death in his sprawling mansion, a 150,000 square foot converted mill, surrounded by his loving, attentive family. Or so it seemed at the time. Now Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team has discovered that almost nothing...
Author
Language
English
Description
Describes what the author calls the "financial blueprint" that he believes determines whether a person is destined for wealth or for a life of struggle, outlines four key strategies for setting that blueprint for success, and identifies seventeen attitudes and actions that can lead to permanent changes in a person's financial life.
11) In a heartbeat
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
When Melba Eloise Merrydew's lover is shot, she fears for her own life, and as she learns the dark secrets her lover was hiding, she finds herself drawn to the detective trying to find the shooter.
12) The unknowns
Author
Publisher
Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After spending high school in the solitary glow of a computer screen, Eric Muller becomes a Silicon Valley millionaire and falls for the beautiful Maya Marcom, who miraculously returns his affection.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation.
Author
Publisher
Putnams
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Change is in the air in Pickax City, Michigan, when local philanthropist and columnist Jim "Qwill" Qwilleran's girlfriend leaves for Paris, Jim's converted apple barn home burns down, and a museum worker dies, alerting Qwill's psychic cat Koko that trouble is afoot.
18) Prince of darkness: the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire
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Language
English
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In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. He was reportedly the richest African American man in the United States, possessing a fortune of $2 million, or in excess of $250 million in today's currency. In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time. He wheeled...
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