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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"From the award-winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us, an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune--and its bearings. Labor Day, 1976, Martha's Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coast of New England, Fern and Edgar--married with three children--are happily preparing for a family birthday celebration when they learn that the unimaginable has...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross has Washington, D. C. The Women's Murder Club has San Francisco. Detective Michael Bennett has all of New York City, chaos capital of the world.
The son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. But this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he quizzes his prisoner on the price others pay for his life of luxury . . . and wrong answers are fatal.
Detective Michael Bennett heads...
The son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. But this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he quizzes his prisoner on the price others pay for his life of luxury . . . and wrong answers are fatal.
Detective Michael Bennett heads...
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Blue Sargent, the daughter of the town psychic in Henrietta, Virginia, has been told for as long as she can remember that if she ever kisses her true love, he will die. But she is too practical to believe in things like true love. Her policy is to stay away from the rich boys at the prestigious Aglionby Academy. The boys there--known as Raven Boys--can only mean trouble.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Forced into a humbler life with relatives in Ireland after the sudden death of her father, spoiled sixteen-year-old Tamara Goodwin discovers a diary of future entries written in her handwriting that she hopes will reveal the truth about her mother's troubling health.
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When the body of a boy from one of Greece's prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens' worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of the special crimes division is certain there's a message in the murder. Who sent it and why?
Author
Series
Noble legacy volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Everyone around Stefanie Noble is content, but it seems that her happily ever after has passed her by. Then two troubled girls and their older brother, Gideon, show up in town and clearly need help. Could they bring the fulfillment that Stefanie has been searching for? Hollywood hotshot Lincoln Cash has made a life playing the role of an action hero, basking in the laurels of his fame, fortune, and adoring fans. But when he's diagnosed with a debilitating...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the inner circle of New York s richest families, where academia is an obsession, wealth does nothing to soothe status anxiety, and parents will try just about anything to gain a competitive edge in the college admissions rat race. When Blythe Grossberg first started as a tutor and learning specialist, she had no idea what awaited her inside the high-end apartments of Fifth Avenue. Children are expected to be as efficient and driven as CEOs,...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Bettina wants nothing more than to win her mother{u2019}s affection and approval, both of which prove elusive. When she escapes to an elite New Hampshire prep school, Bettina finds that her unorthodox upbringing makes it difficult to fit in with her peers, one of whom happens to be the son of her mother{u2019}s lover. As she struggles to forge an identity apart from her mother, Bettina walks a fine line between self-preservation and self-destruction....
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Oil magnate J. Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, is the patriarch of an extraordinary cast of sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. While some have been brought low by mental illness, drug addiction, and one of the most sensational kidnapping cases of the 20th century, many of Getty's heirs have achieved great success. In addition to Mark Getty, a cofounder of Getty Images, and Anne G. Earhart, an award-winning environmentalist,...
10) Sons
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Series
Language
English
Description
The second installment in Pearl S. Buck's acclaimed Good Earth trilogy: the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruin
Sons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of his fathers, and his three sons stand ready to inherit his hard-won estate. One son has taken the family's wealth for granted and become a...
Sons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of his fathers, and his three sons stand ready to inherit his hard-won estate. One son has taken the family's wealth for granted and become a...
11) Crush
Author
Series
Crush novels (Phoef Sutton) volume 1
Publisher
Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Caleb Rush, a. k. a. Crush, is the toughest, coolest bodyguard/bouncer in Los Angeles, a man who lives strictly by his own moral code, which doesn't exactly hew to the standards of US law. When Amelia Trask, the wild daughter of a scruples-free billionaire tycoon, comes to Crush for help, his quiet life roars into overdrive, and he has to use his wits, brawn, martial-arts training, and knowledge of the Russian mafia to stay alive and clean up the...
12) Taming Rafe
Author
Series
Noble legacy volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In less than eight seconds, he lost his title, his career, and his best friend--all on the dirt floor of a noisy rodeo arena.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Dubbed a cruel nickname for his plus-sized body, obedient eighth grader Seymour resigns himself to a lonely life before meeting an arrogant heir who uses his considerable resources to transform Seymour's image, with unexpected results.
15) Diablo guardián
Author
Series
Publisher
Océano de Mexico
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Soy el cordero que le saca lo cerdo al buen pastor, pero también lo buen pastor al cerdo. ¿No te parece lógico que a mi Diablo Guardián le digan Pig? Huyó de casa: pasó a llamarse Violetta, se puso a hablar inglés, dejó de ser rubia, renegó de la insaciable clase media, aprendió a desnudarse por dinero, robó cien mil dólares a sus padres y aterrizó en Nueva York para vivir el sueño mal habido. Nada mal para una dulce quinceañera. Pero...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""Wake up, you filthy beasts!" Wendy Hamill would shout to her children in the mornings before school. Startled from their dreams, Kirk and his two brothers couldn't help but wonder--would they find enough food in the house for breakfast? Following a rancorous split from New York's upper-class society, newly divorced Wendy and her three sons are exiled from the East Coast elite circle. Wendy's middle son, Kirk, is eight when she moves the family to...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Jane Silverlake, a young woman from the wild heath regions of Victorian England, uses her paranormal ability to see the souls of handcrafted objects to infiltrate a mysterious dream-manipulation cult into which the man she loves has gone missing.
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