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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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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...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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"From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. The essays soon turned into a newsletter and, spread by word...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"It's the week before her wedding, and all of Eliza's meticulous planning is about to pay off. She's become the exact type of woman who would marry into the prominent, blue-blood Walker family--Ivy League credentials, a high-powered PR job, and a designerlabel wardrobe. But as the big day approaches, secrets from Eliza's past attending an Evangelical college start to throw her true motives into question. Who exactly is Eliza Bennet and what does she...
Author
Series
The Ravenels volume 6
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Avon Books massmarket printing
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everything has a price...Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything--or anyone--is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife--and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he's determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra is equally determined to marry for love--the one thing he can't give. Everything except her... Severin is...
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English
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San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown. His patronage offers the women the chance of a lifetime, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 322 pages, 16 leaves of plates : genealogical table, illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention -- and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire through real estate that enriched him at the expense of...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate onBiscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
8) Calamity
Author
Series
Uncharted hearts volume 1
Publisher
Bramble, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The captain of a ragtag mercenary ship is given an offer she can't refuse by the ruthless head of an intergalactic noble family. The only catch? She'll have to team up with his son--an upsettingly competent hardbody with his own agenda--to get her reward. She's got a ramshackle spaceship, a misfit crew, and a big problem with its sexy newest member... Temperance Reed, banished from the wealthy and dangerous Fifteen Families, just wants to keep her...
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