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Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"To Lady Wilhelmina Bettesford, the "game" of finding a husband is a competitive sport she wants no part of...until her much-younger step mama forces her to play it. So when her stepmother asks sexy barrister Bram Townsend to pretend to woo the amateur astronomer to boost Wilhelmina's popularity, it's up to Wilhelmina to navigate a fake courtship that will keep the family from forcing her into a marriage--any marriage--before she finally receives...
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Stephen and Bloom are brothers who have been con artists since they were kids. Stephen is the mastermind, while Bloom is the main character of Stephen's stories. As adults, they travel the world and never enlist the same people twice in their cons, except for their consistent sidekick, the mysterious and primarily silent Bang Bang, a Japanese woman who just appeared in their lives one day and happens to have a penchant for blowing things up. As Bloom...
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Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Upper East Side heiress Pomona Afton's paranoid grandmother is murdered and her will mandates freezing her assets, so Pomona and Gabe, son of Pomona's former nanny, must solve the murder so his mom gets her retirement money and Pomona can return to luxury"-- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Du Bells volume 3
Publisher
Dell Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Hathor Du Bell is on her own path to find love in the third installment of J. J. McAvoy's Regency romance series, following Aphrodite and the Duke and Verity and the Forbidden Suitor. Hathor Du Bell has always fought to break free from the shadow left by her revered older sister, Aphrodite. It has been two years since Hathor's debut, and while Aphrodite is a duchess, Hathor has been left with the most boring, incomparable suitors of the ton. With...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world--she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star--in the make-believe world of the movies ... But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
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English
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"Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue, The Collaborators delivers a gut-punch answer to the biggest geopolitical question of our time: how, exactly, did post-Soviet Russia turn down the wrong path? Crisscrossing the globe on the way to this shocking revelation are disaffected millennial CIA officer Ari Falk, thrown into a moral and professional crisis by the death of his best asset; and brash, troubled LA heiress...
Author
Series
All the Duke's sins volume 2
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Whisked away to the English countryside after a major faux pas, new heiress Cailin Audley wants nothing to do with the ton or the Duke of St. James, a notorious rogue and fierce protector of his family, until scandal unites them.
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English
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"2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer on Makeover Mansion, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historical houses. Andie's latest project features the once glorious but now crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport ... But the mansion's reclusive owner, Lucia 'Lucky' Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse....
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Smart, capable heiress Emmeline Pershing will do anything to keep her beloved home; and all it takes is an arranged marriage and a teeny white lie to fulfill her family's silly inheritance rules! But now her little fib means that she and her completely unsuspecting husband are going to inherit big - and very messy! -trouble in this spicy, sexy delight from bestseller Suzanne Enoch, Something in the Heir"-- Provided by publisher.
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Criterion collection volume 1194
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
The unknown: An unrequited infatuation leads a circus knife-thrower on the run from the law into a troubled state, but when the circus owner discovers the desperate man's secret identity, things become markedly worse.
The mystic: A confederacy of unsavory characters conspire to cheat an heiress...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, American women began to reject Victorian propriety in favor of passion and livelihood outside the home. This alarmed authorities, who feared certain "over-sexed" women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects. Set against this backdrop, THE UNFIT HEIRESS chronicles the fight for inheritance, both genetic and monetary, between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her mother Maryon. In 1934,...
92) Titans
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping new drama from the beloved, bestselling author of Roses. Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth. In the midst of this transformative time in Southern history, two unforgettable characters emerge and find their fates irrevocably intertwined:...
93) Brides of London
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Series
Advertisements for love novels volume 2
Publisher
Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Bittersweet Bride: Widow Theodosia Cecil needs a husband to help protect her son. The former flower seller turned estate owner posts an ad in the newspaper, and no one is more surprised than she when her first love, the man she thought dead, reappears. Ewan Fitzwilliam has been at war for six years. Now, the second son of a powerful earl is back but his beloved Theo needs a husband and will not consider him. She believes Ewan left her--in desperate...
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Series
League of scoundrels volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rafe Davies might seem like just another charismatic rake, but in reality, he is one of the crown's most valuable agents. As relentless as he is reckless, Rafe has never come upon a mission he couldn't complete. But when he encounters the intriguing-yet-prickly lady's companion Miss Sylvia Sparrow while on assignment at a Scottish house party, he finds himself thoroughly distracted by the secretive beauty"-- Provided by publisher
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Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Claire Cavendish is in search of a duke, but not for the usual reasons. The man she seeks is a mathematician; the man she unwittingly finds is Lord Fox: dynamic, athletic, and as bored by the equations Claire adores as she is by the social whirl upon which he thrives. As attractive as Fox is, he's of no use to Claire... or is he? Fox's male pride has been bruised ever since his fiancée jilted him. One way to recover: win a bet that he can transform...
96) Double exposure
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Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Four years ago, a young heiress survived an attack that claimed the lives of both her parents. The crime made headlines all over Los Angeles, both for the vicious nature of the killings and the seemingly random nature of the attack: nothing was stolen, and the van Aust family had no obvious enemies. Melia van Aust fled the city soon after the murders, which were never solved, but her brother Jasper has not been seen since. After a childhood spent...
97) Black dog
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Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 62
Language
English
Description
"After returning home from a treacherous adventure, Stone Barrington is all too happy to settle back down in his New York City abode. But when he's introduced to a glamorous socialite with a staggering inheritance, Stone realizes his days are about to be anything but quiet. As it turns out, Stone's intriguing new companion has some surprisingly familiar ties and other far more sinister ones--including a nefarious enemy who gets too close for comfort....
98) The heist
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Detective Isaac Bell faces an attack on the Federal Reserve in this all-new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler"-- Provided by publisher.
"Detective Isaac Bell faces an attack on the Federal Reserve in this all-new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler." 1914: As America's century of dominance dawns, the country's greatest detective, Van Dorn agent Isaac Bell, is pitted against...
99) Empty mansions: the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled into one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empty Mansions is a rich tale of wealth and loss, complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, and backdoor politics. At its heart is a reclusive 104-year-old heiress named Huguette Clark. Dedman...
100) I am made of death
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Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Following the death of his father, Thomas Walsh had to grow up quickly, taking on odd-jobs to keep food on the table and help pay his gravely ill mother's medical bills. When he's offered a highly paid position as an interpreter for an heiress who exclusively signs, Thomas . . . jumps at the opportunity. But the job is not without its challenges. Thomas is expected to accompany Vivienne wherever she goes. . . She is not to go anywhere without express...
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