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"Thea Mottram is having a bad month. Her husband of nearly twenty years has just left her for one of her friends, and to top it off, she is let go from her office job - on Valentine's Day, of all days. Bewildered and completely lost, Thea doesn't know what to do. But when she learns that a distant great uncle in Scotland has passed away - leaving her his home and a hefty antique book collection - she decides to leave Sussex for a few weeks. Escaping...
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Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Governess Juliana Ashbourne has dreams reaching far beyond the confines of her current position, hoping to someday establish her own school for girls. When she inherits a fortune from her late grandfather, she is shocked to learn that "someday" may soon be within reach. However, there is one condition: she must spend a month at the estate of Havenfield--with the very family who disowned her mother. Intent on securing the money she needs to start...
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Sunrise Cove volume 5
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English
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"Luna Wright is a lot of things, but sweet and trusting aren't on the list. However, she's a sucker for the underdog and a hard-luck story. Adopted at birth, with scant knowledge of her biological family, she's created her own inner circle--a motley crew that includes her bestie, Willow--to help her run the struggling but charming Apple Ridge Farm. With a farm-to-table cafe as well as a menagerie of rescued animals (complete with a baby goat who keeps...
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Blue bloods volume 3
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Schuyler Van Alen's blood legacy has just been called into question: Is the young woman in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins? When one of the Gates of Hell is breached by the Silver Bloods, the Blue Bloods will need Schuyler on their side.
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Series
Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
©2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"After Lucy P. Simmons's parents drown, Lucy must find a way to keep her greedy aunt and uncle from taking her family's house. A mysterious woman who seems to come from the sea, as well as the house itself, come to Lucy's aid"--
146) The beach trap
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2022.
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English
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"Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. They have one summer to set the record straight. When twelve-year-olds Kat Steiner and Blake O'Neill meet at Camp Chickawah, they have an instant connection. But everything falls apart when they learn they're not just best friends-they're also half-sisters. Confused and betrayed, their friendship instantly crumbles. Fifteen years later when their father dies suddenly, Kat and Blake discover he's...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019
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Unabridged
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English
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Get swept away to the enchanting South of France with this "exquisite and shimmering" (Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone) suspenseful historical novel, where perilous secrets lurk under the glitz and glam of seaside wealth.
She didn't have an enemy in the world...until she inherited a fortune.
London 1948: Eve Forrester is stuck in a loveless marriage, isolated in her...
She didn't have an enemy in the world...until she inherited a fortune.
London 1948: Eve Forrester is stuck in a loveless marriage, isolated in her...
148) Flight: a novel
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English
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"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"--
150) The vibrant years
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[Brilliance Audio]
Pub. Date
[2022].
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
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"Living on their own terms means being there for one another. 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...
151) The heiress: a novel
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
152) Isabel
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Families of Dorset volume 1
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English
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A lady intent on refusing the fortune she desperately needs. A gentleman caught up in a smuggling scheme. Kate Matcham needs a fortune or a husband. She wants neither. With a tainted inheritance in the balance, she receives one offer to become a scoundrel's mistress and another offer of a marriage of convenience. Before resigning herself to a choice, she accepts the invitation to visit a childhood friend, considering it a last hurrah before embarking...
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Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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When tragedy strikes Southbridge plantation, young Clayton and his brother, Travis, are forced from the only home they’ve ever known. Fleeing the drunken rage of their grandfather, with bounty hunters and horse thieves thick on their trail, the boys and their father try to eke out a lonely life as fugitives and cowboys. As Clayton nears adulthood, his greatest desire is for a strong and stable family, but his father’s death and his brother’s...
154) Cinders & sparrows
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In a witch's house, nothing is as it seems. When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a letter saying she has inherited a distant castle, she jumps at the chance of adventure. But little does she knowthat she is about to be thrust into a centuries-old battle between good and evil. Blackbird Castle was once home to a powerful dynasty of witches, all of them now dead under mysterious circumstances....
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"Some of us are more equal than others.... Meet Stanley Huang: father, husband, ex-husband, man of unpredictable tastes and temper, aficionado of all-inclusive vacations and bargain luxury goods, newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. For years, Stanleyhas claimed that he's worth a small fortune. But the time is now coming when the details of his estate will finally be revealed, and Stanley's family is nervous. For his son Fred, the inheritance Stanley...
156) The apple orchard
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English
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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.
157) Square-shooter
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
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English
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Cole Sanborn had never killed anybody who didn't need killing. Sprawled idly in a chair on the porch of the Jonesboro House, he appeared to be half-asleep, but if you looked closely, you would notice his hawk-like eyes glancing swiftly up and down the deserted, dusty road. The air was tense. Something was going to happen soon. Behind his chair, tacked to the wall, was a poster announcing a $1500.00 reward for the capture of a desperate train robber,...
158) As time goes by
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English
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" 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...
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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
Language
English
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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.
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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"In 1931, Lilly Blackwood was sold to the circus. More than two decades later, nineteen-year-old Julia Blackwood inherits her parents' estate and returns home hoping to erase painful memories of strict rules and forbidden rooms. Instead, she becomes immersed in a mystery involving a hidden attic room and circus photos featuring a striking young girl"--
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