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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A whip-smart debut that follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love ... Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father's massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin. Kitty has never been one to back down from a challenge, so she leaves home...
Author
Publisher
Cash Money Content
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
In the multi-billion-dollar-a-year entertainment industry there is a secret society of women that few are privy to. All of these women are vying for one thing {u2013} an opportunity to live a luxurious, lavish lifestyle by snagging a rich and famous singer, rapper or athlete. Betty Blaise, or Fly Betty to those who truly know her, was not in it to be a wife or even the baby momma of a wealthy public figure {u2013} she had her sights set higher, much...
3) Big money
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2007, c1958
Language
English
Description
"T. Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American financier, loves every cent of his twenty million dollars. Lady Vera Mace loves T. Paterson Frisby whose secretary, Berry Conway, loves Frisby's niece, Ann Moon. Meanwhile, Lady Vera's nephew, 'Biscuit' Biskerton, begins by loving Frisby's niece but ends by loving Frisby's niece's friend, Kitchie Valentine. At the story's conclusion everyone is happy-- except, of course, Captain Kelly and Mr. Hoke-- but...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The people of Meridian, Colorado, live and die by coal mining, and when the railroad bypasses them, their livelihood is in peril. However, they discover that for a hefty sum of money they can create a spur line and save the town. A hefty sum that the town does not have. Their only hope is former gambler Asa Newcombe. The townspeople pool their money so Newcombe can enter the big poker game in Golden Junction, and as much as he wants to leave his past...
Author
Series
Black widow clique volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Best friends and blood sisters for life Melonee and Fiona have one goal in life; to get rich and live comfortably. But growing up in the inner city of Los Angeles, CA wasn't helping in obtaining that goal. That is, until Fiona comes up with the plan to marry for money and murder for even more. The girls seek out older, established, and wealthy bachelors, drawing them into their web of deception with their good looks, sexy bodies, and loving personalities....
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
©2022.
Language
English
Description
"A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world's most devious family, for fans of The Nest and Succession. When Alana Shropshire's seventy-six-year-old father, Ed, starts dating Kelly, a saucy twenty-eight-year-old, a flurry of messages arrives from Alana's brothers, urging her to help "protect Dad" from the young interloper. Alana knows that what Teddy and Martin really want to protect is their father's fortune, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Preacher and Jamie MacCallister search for a hidden fortune that might be just a legend-but the bandits, bullets, and bloodshed they find are all too real ... Jamie MacCallister remembers the Alamo-especially one brave frontiersman who died fighting there. Now the fallen veteran's granddaughter needs Jamie's help. She's found a letter written by her grandfather with a map to the spot where Alamo legend Jim Bowie supposedly hid a fortune in silver...
Publisher
Santa Rita Film Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Iron Orchard is the story of Jim McNeely (Lane Garrison), a young man thrust into the vibrant and brutal West Texas oilfields in 1939. The formidable path before him is riddled with obstacles but he finds hope with his first loves: new wife Lee Montgomery (Ali Cobrin) and drilling for oil. While McNeely stumbles upwards, he in turn jeopardizes his longing to conquer influence and wealth"--Amazon.
9) Gold digger
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On her 60th birthday, Julia hits it off with handsome young Benjamin. But their whirlwind romance is marred by the disapproval of Julia's adult children. Does Benjamin truly love her, or is he the gold digger her family believes him to be?
10) Fading gigolo
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Murray talks his friend Fioravante into becoming a gigolo as a way of making some much needed cash after an out-of-the-blue request from his dermatologist. With Murray acting as Fioravante's 'manager,' the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
11) Gold
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman...
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