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Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The child she hid. Surrounded by society's glitterati, Arden Wills finds herself staring up into the eyes of her first and only love. But Sheikh Idris Baddour has a surprise title and heavy responsibilities -- so she clings to her precious secret even tighter. Time has done nothing to dampen the intense ardor between them. And when their kiss is blasted across the world's front pages, Arden's truth comes to light -- the sheikh has a secret son! To...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Zero to Zillionaire is a scale. We are all on that scale somewhere-some of us are drowning near Zero and some of us are riding the crest of the Zillionaire wave. Why is that? Why do some people sink to the bottom of the ocean, some people float to the peak at the top, and the majority tread water in the middle? After accident of birth places a person somewhere on the scale, what is it that makes some stay where they were born, and others rise on the...
323) Easy virtue
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
John Whittaker is a young Englishman who falls madly in love with Larita, a sexy, glamorous American woman. The two impulsively decide to get married. He takes her home to meet his family, she arrives like a blast from the future. John's mother takes an instant disliking to Larita and undermines her every move. But Larita will blow their entrenched British stuffiness right out the window.
324) L.A. weather
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life...
327) Damage
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Homicide chief Abe Glitsky and attorney Dismas Hardy work to make sure Ro Curtlee, convicted of raping and murdering a family housekeeper, is sent back to prison when he is released after serving ten years of his sentence, pending a new trial ordered by the appeals court under pressure from Curtlee's parents, owners of a major San Francisco newspaper.
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Return to Duckburg in a new generation of adventures featuring Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, and his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie! The incorrigible billionaire is up to his wacky, quacky hijinks, with a cast of characters new and old ready to jump into the mix!" -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Assistant District Attorney Alexa Hamilton reluctantly sends her seventeen-year-old daughter Savannah, to live with her ex-husband and his family in Charleston after she received death threats against Savannah's life for prosecuting serial killer Luke Quentin.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Robbery and brutal murder aboard a luxury transport ensnares the ever-attentive Hercule Poirot in The Mystery of the Blue Train, from Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again -- for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime...
331) The color of law
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Dallas attorney Scott Fenney is assigned to defend a young woman charged with the murder of a Texas millionaire and son of a presidential hopeful; but as the case unfolds, Fenney is pressured to ease up in his defense of the woman.
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Looking for entertaining stories of drama, glamour and passion featuring sophisticated and sensual African American and multicultural heroes and heroines? Harlequin Kimani Romance brings you all this and more with these four new fullfueled fantasy end up as only an affair to remember? LOVE TANGO California Passions J.M. Jeffries For former child star Roxanne Deveraux, the offer to appear on Celebrity Dance is hard to resist -- as is Nicholas Torres,...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Dishy, witty and a ton of fun . . [a] document of everyday life and work in 20th century America from a perspective that is all too rarely seen( Chicago Tribune ). In her memoir, Big Bosses, Althea Altemus vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent-but thinly disguised-employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York during the late teens and 1920s. Alongside her, we rub elbows with movie stars, artists, and high-profile businessmen, and experience...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the hit TV series, a murder at exclusive spa resort leaves a small circle of suspects for the British detective inspector on the case. DI Richard Poole has been seconded from London to the beautiful Caribbean island of Saint Marie. More comfortable in woolen suits than short-sleeved shirts, he's struggling to adapt to his new home. But this paradise is about to get deadly.
When self-appointed guru Aslan Kennedy gets murdered in his...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Completing J. North Conway's widely acclaimed trilogy of Gilded Age New York City Crime-following King of Heists and The Big Policeman-Bag of Bones combines the era's affluence, decadence, and corruption with a gruesome deed fit for the tabloids of today. In 1878, the body of multi-millionaire A. T. Stewart was stolen from St. Mark's Churchyard. The ghoulish crime, the chase for the culprits, the years-long ransom negotiations, and the demise of the...
Author
Series
Danny Ryan volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny...
337) Birnam Wood
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Booker-winning author of The Luminaries delivers a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive"--
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards....
338) Indulgence in death
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lieutenant Eve Dallas, investigating the murders of a limousine driver and a high price escort, is drawn into the small circle in which her husband travels and races against time to save another innocent victim's life.
Series
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Return to Duckburg with the cast of DuckTales in a new generation of adventures featuring Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, and his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie! The incorrigible billionaire is up to his wacky, quacky hijinks, with a cast of characters new and old ready to jump into the mix! -- Amazon.com.
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