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361) Tiny little thing
Author
Series
Schuler sisters volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
One half of a political power couple struggles to keep up her perfect life despite the unwelcome arrival of her unpredictable sister, Pepper, and an incriminating photograph.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As a cop-turned-bodyguard, Quinn Delaney is the perfect candidate to track down the restless Shelby Taite, who, instead of walking down the aisle with her perfectly bred, perfectly dull groom, has apparently hopped a bus and gone off to see how the other half lives. Though he has little patience for the idle rich, Quinn can't help admiring Shelby's spirit ...among other things. Posing as a footloose writer, Quinn befriends the unsuspecting, slumming...
363) Overboard
Publisher
distributed by Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
364) The nest
Publisher
IFC Films/Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur, and former commodities broker persuades his American wife, Allison, and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the '80s. Sensing an opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison's horses and plans to build a stable. Soon the promise of a lucrative new beginning starts to unravel, the couple has to...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Wealth, power, deception, and double-dealing ... what does it take to build a dynasty? A modern re-imagining of the iconic primetime soap, centering on the powerful Carrington family as they defend their throne against the Colbys, new rivals and threats, and even each other.
366) Entry Island
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a murder rocks the isolated community of Entry Island, insomniac homicide detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at St. Hubert airfield bound for the small, scattered chain of Madeline Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as part of an eight-officer investigation team from Montr�eal.
367) Death and honesty
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Victoria Trumbull, the ninety-two-year-old poet/sleuth, discovers a neighbor's body in the home of one of the three town assessors. The assessors have been skimming off tax money from wealthy landowners and stashing it in their own special retirement funds. Then the private pilot of the not-so-holy clergyman husband of one of these landowners is found dead, floating in his employer's pond, his face gnawed by snapping turtles. Finally, searching for...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new. A wide-eyed young scion of a conservative family, Marian, embarks on a mission to infiltrate the wealthy neighboring clan or her aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook, dominated by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell, his rakish son, Larry, and his ambitious wife, Bertha. In this exciting new world that is on the brink of the...
373) Roommaid: a novel
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Madison Huntington is determined to get out from under her family's wealth and influence by saying no to the family business, her allowance, and her home. But on a teacher's salary, the real world comes as a rude awakening. Madison accepts a position as a roommaid: in exchange for free room and board: all she needs to do is keep her busy roommate's penthouse clean and his dog company. So what if she’s never washed a dish in her life. She can...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A suspenseful novel about friendships steeped in obsessions, lies and duplicity, with shocking twists that hurtle towards a devastating conclusion."--
When Ruth, a wealthy divorcée, offers to host the Hillside Academy kindergarten meet-and-greet, she hopes this will be a fresh start for her and her introverted daughter, Marley. Finally, they'll be accepted into a tribe. Marley will make friends and Ruth will be welcomed by the mothers....
375) Good rich people
Author
Language
English
Description
"A destitute woman deceives her way into the guesthouse of a Hollywood Hills mansion and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs. Lyla has always believed that life is a game she is destined to win, but her husband, Graham, takes the game to dangerous levels. The wealthy couple invites self-made success stories to live in their guesthouse and then conspires to ruin their lives. After all, there is nothing...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily, while others are destined for a life of financial struggle? Is the difference found in the education, intelligence, skills, timing, work habits, contacts, luck, or their choice of jobs, businesses, or investments? The shocking answer is : none of the above! In his groundbreaking Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Eker states:" Give me five minutes, and I can predict your financial...
Author
Series
Skye's West volume 15 & 17
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The Canyon of Bones: "Mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work guiding wealthy Englishman Graves Mercer on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys. Mercer has come to the American wilderness seeking thrilling, preferably salacious, material for British tabloids. He takes an ancient bone that's sacred among certain tribes--and the act may cost the party their lives." -- Amazon.com.
North Star: "Barnaby Skye faces radical change as...
Author
Series
Hollywood Station volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon an art heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands.
380) Only you
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In "Boundary Lines," Jillian and Aaron are torn between the demands of a family feud and their own feelings for each other, and in "The Right Path," Morgan is attracted to a Greek tycoon she suspects of criminal behavior.