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82) Just rewards
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From New York Times blockbuster bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the astonishing final episode of the Harte family saga. Just Rewards is the dramatic conclusion of the extraordinary tale of Emma Harte's great granddaughters. In this sweeping novel, the Harte women find themselves in the midst of weddings and intrigue. Linnet O'Neill, great-granddaughter of Emma Harte, finds herself following in the footsteps of the original woman-of-substance...
83) The nest
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[2016]
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Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
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The Whitbys: a dynasty akin to the Astors, once enormously wealthy real-estate magnates who were considered "the landlords of New York." There was a time when the death of a Whitby would have made national news, but when the family patriarch, Roger, dies, he is alone. Word of his death travels from the longtime family lawyer to his clan of children (from four separate marriages) and the news isn't good. Roger has left everything to his twenty-one-year-old...
86) Flight: a novel
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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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"--
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2001
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From the author of While I Was Gone, a stunning new novel that showcases Sue Miller's singular gift for exposing the nerves that lie hidden in marriages and families, and the hopes and regrets that lie buried in the hearts of women.
Maine, 1919. Georgia Rice, who has cared for her father and two siblings since her mother's death, is diagnosed, at nineteen, with tuberculosis and sent away to a sanitarium. Freed from the burdens of caretaking,...
Maine, 1919. Georgia Rice, who has cared for her father and two siblings since her mother's death, is diagnosed, at nineteen, with tuberculosis and sent away to a sanitarium. Freed from the burdens of caretaking,...
88) Mr. Joab's will
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Sabougla Press
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[2018].
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"A frugal, old man with no known heirs dies a lonely, tragic death in a freak snowstorm in a rural area of the South. Although he had lived a reclusive life, his community had secretly discovered that he had been making large anonymous cash donations to a distant charity hospital. After his death, neither his will nor his wealth can be located. As he lay dying, Joab McMath left a dim clue to his hidden treasure's location. Deputy Sheriff Wade Sumrall,...
89) Strands of fate
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Creative woman mysteries volume 1
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Annie's
Pub. Date
[2012]
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Shannon McClain has been mourning since the tragic death of her husband three years ago. With two children to raise and her money running out, she receives a mysterious letter from the United States, informing her she has just two weeks to claim a large inheritance-- part of which is a fortune in jewels that can only be found by solving cryptic clues stitched into a needlepoint by her late grandmother. Shannon uses the last of her late husband's insurance...
90) Whisper my name
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
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Photographer Samantha Blakely is stunned when her dear friend leaves her the controlling interest in her family business, a magazine conglomerate: the same one that owns the magazine where Sam has just landed her dream job. Then she meets her new boss, Christian Delaney, and his mere gaze leaves her wanting more. How can she tell him that she's 'the' Sam Blakely who inherited the legacy he'd thought was his? If he discovers the truth, he'll probably...
92) Rooms
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His estranged family--bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna--have arrived for their inheritance. But the Walkers are not alone.
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Tressa Harlowe's father did not trust banks, but neither did he trust his greedy extended family. He kept his vast fortune hidden somewhere on his estate in the south of England and died suddenly, without telling anyone where he had concealed it. Tressa and her ailing mother are left with a mansion and an immense vineyard and no money to run it. It doesn't take long for a bevy of opportunists to flock to the estate under the guise of offering condolences....
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"When it comes to walking the mean streets, Dickens could give modern genre authors the tour of their lives." -Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
When a corpse is found in the Thames River and identified as John Harmon, many lives will be forever changed. John, who had been abroad and estranged from his miserly father for years, will no longer collect his inheritance. It will instead go to the miser's employees, Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, transforming...
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Tarnished crown volume 1
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
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A royal son, falsely believed to be dead, fights for his father's stolen throne against a bastard-born lord and a duke's widow.
98) It's in his kiss
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"Meet Our Hero... Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to ruin his inheritance. The sole key to Gareth's future lies in an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past. But it's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word. Meet Our Heroine... All the ton agreed: there was no one quite like Hyacinth Bridgerton. She's fiendishly smart, devilishly outspoken, and according to Gareth,...
99) Rushlights
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[2013]
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Billy and Sarah are two delinquent young lovers from the suburbs of Los Angeles, traveling to a small Texas town to falsely claim a dead friend's inheritance. The two teens, haunted by their own dubious pasts while pursuing their scam, wind up in a nightmare of greed and betrayal when confronted with the twisted and bizarre underworld of Tremo, TX - population 2870.
100) The inheritance
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Secrets of the Shetlands volume 1
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Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
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"Despite her business success in Washington, DC, a woman troubled by questions about her roots and identity receives a surprising letter from a solicitor's firm; meanwhile, the death of a clan patriarch in Scotland's Shetland Islands paralyzes the economy of an entire community"--
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