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Series
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Every town has its secrets... In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it's graduation day at the elite Thornton Academy. At Thornton, the students are the worldly and overindulged children who live in gated enclaves with spectacular views. But the class valedictorian is Nikki Graziola, a surfer's daughter who is there on scholarship. To the shock of everyone in the audience, Nikki veers off script...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"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
Series
Avalon Bay volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Mackenzie Cabot has spent most of her twenty years pleasing the other people around her so she is going to Garnet College in the expensive beachside town of Avalon Bay in South Carolina when she would really rather focus on her growing internet business; Cooper Hartley is a local boy who usually tends bar and disdains the rich, spoiled college kids he sees every day--but MacKenzie and Cooper fall for each other, until money and family come between...
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group, Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding requests for money from her beloved children and grandchildren. Thankfully, her new hip hasn't changed her killer tennis game one bit. One night Mrs. Plansky is startled awake by a phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson Will, who desperately needs ten thousand dollars to get out of a jam....
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
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the veritable...
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A blackmailer targeting wealthy members of "Sister" Jane Arnold's club has turned the hunters into the hunted in this thrilling mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. It's the start of fox hunting season and Sister is training a new generation of hounds in eager anticipation of Opening Hunt. But before they make it to that exciting day, several members of the hunt club receive ominous videos in which they appear to be doing...
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Language
English
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Description
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Language
English
Description
"A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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....
15) 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...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Lane takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can't refuse, and an agenda all her own. With everything on the line, once Mike discovers what she truly has in mind, will he, and the roster of hot new dancers he'll have to...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband, a palatial house in the heart of glittering Lagos, Nigeria, and a glamorous group of friends. She left gloomy London and a dark family past behind for sunny, moneyed Lagos, becoming part of the Nigerwives -- a community of foreign women married to wealthy Nigerian men. But when Nicole disappears without a trace after a boat trip, the cracks in her so-called perfect life start to show. As the...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 310 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The final season continues the story of high-spirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, and her friend, Georgiana Lambe. What adventures, scandals, intrigue and above all else - romance - await them?
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