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21) The marvelous
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Chosen to compete in a mystery treasure hunt at the private estate of the creator of a massively popular video-sharing app, three girls soon realize that they are playing for more than just money--they are playing for their lives.
Author
Series
Callahan-Warren volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey takes you on a captivating adventure in 1880s Montana where passions and gold fever run high as an American heiress turns to a rugged mountain man to help her locate her father's fortune. Summoned back to Philadelphia from the social whirl in London, Violet Mitchell never expected to find her brothers living on the edge of financial ruin while their father seeks new wealth in Montana's gold fields....
Author
Series
Wild Wynchesters volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A master of disguise, Thomasina Wynchester finds more than her mission at stake when her new client turns out to be the highborn lady she's secretly smitten with.
24) Born to be Wilde
Author
Series
Wildes of Lindow Castle volume 3
Language
English
Description
For beautiful, witty Lavinia Gray, there's only one thing worse than having to ask the appalling Parth Sterling to marry her: being turned down by him. Now the richest bachelor in England, Parth is not about to marry a woman as reckless and fashion-obsessed as Lavinia; he's chosen a far more suitable bride. As usual, there's no problem Parth can't fix. But when he learns of Lavinia's desperate circumstances, he offers to find her a husband. Even better,...
25) Gallows court
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An atmospheric historical mystery that reveals 1930s London in all its violence and intrigue"--
"London, 1930. A headless corpse; an apparent suicide in a locked room; a man burned alive during an illusionist's show in front of thousands of people. Scotland Yard is baffled by the sequence of ghastly murders unfolding across the city and at the centre of it all is mysterious heiress Rachel Savernake. Daughter of a grand judge, Rachel is as glamorous...
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Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface . Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth.Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset with trauma and despair. Before the 20th century a wife's...
Author
Publisher
Terciopelo
Pub. Date
2014, ©2009
Edition
Primera edición en este formato.
Language
Español
Description
"El futuro de la escuela de la señorita Charlotte Harris está en peligro. Un encantador español, el mago mas famoso del mundo, Diego Montalvo, llega al límite de la osadía cuando propone adquirir la propiedad para convertirla en un jardín del placer. Con valentía, y haciendo caso omiso de su flirteo, Lucinda Seton se enfrenta a Diego y jura echar por tierra sus proyectos y salvar la escuela, sin ser consciente de que la verdadera misión de...
30) The heiress
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Criterion edition.
Language
English
Description
A graceful drawing-room drama and piercing character study driven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, William Wyler₂s film, starring Montgomery Clift and Olivia de Havilland (in an Oscar-winning turn), is classic Hollywood filmmaking at its most psychologically nuanced.
31) Hard justice
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Series
Body Armor novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Playing it safe has never felt so dangerous ... Justice Wallington knows how to harness his strength and intimidating size--skills he put to good use first in the MMA cage, and now as a bodyguard at the Body Armor agency. But no opponent has ever left him feeling as off balance as his new client, heiress Fallon Wade. Far from a spoiled princess, she's sweet and intriguingly innocent. It's a risk-free assignment, until he's required to fake a relationship...
32) Mogul
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Series
Language
English
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Mogul: The owner of a well-respected national newspaper, Calvin Cabot, who has the power to bring the upper crust of society to its knees, agrees to help a desperate heiress from his past find her brother who has disappeared, and in the process, finds a love to last a lifetime.
Tycoon: Banker Ted Harper suddenly finds himself sharing his private railroad car with shopgirl Clara Dobson, who is on the run after witnessing a crime.
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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...
34) Empty mansions: the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
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Language
English
Description
"When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled into one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empty Mansions is a rich tale of wealth and loss, complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, and backdoor politics. At its heart is a reclusive 104-year-old heiress named Huguette Clark. Dedman...
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Series
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English
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"New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city's top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won't marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. Sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known for busting up organized crime--but the next day, Viviana...
36) La otra Isabel
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
1521, el imperio azteca se derrumba. Tecuixpo, la hija favorita de Moctezuma, es hecha prisionera por los conquistadores españoles, quienes son responsables de la muerte de su padre y la sangrienta derrota de su pueblo. Ahora, bautizada como Isabel, se ve obligada a vivir según las costumbres y la religión de sus captores. Inmersa en un mundo de intriga, traición y muerte, la vida le tiene reservado un golpe final: su primera hija le será arrebatada...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1915, “missing” heiress Victorine Berryman, aka “Bella Mae Goodwin,” along with her film star best friend, arrives in Hollywood where she experiences the magic of the movie business as well as its dark side as she figures out who she truly wants to be.
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Series
Language
English
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"After an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of one of the guests, a sometime actress trying to pass herself off as the mysterious heiress and world traveler Estella Lamar. Each small discovery, however, leads to more questions. Was the intended victim Miss Lamar or the imposter? And who would want either of them dead? As Emily and Colin try to make sense of all this, a larger puzzle...
Author
Series
Jack Lennon investigations volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In Belfast, Northern Ireland, memories of the city's troubled history haunt every street corner, but for one tortured soul, the incredible violence in his past is also his most cherished legacy. Rea Carlisle--daughter of influential Stormont politicianGraham Carlisle--has inherited a house from an uncle she never knew. It doesn't take her long to clear out the dead man's remaining possessions, but one of the upstairs rooms remains stubbornly locked....
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Lady Emily retreats to her villa on the island of Santorini for a brief respite from London. But when she arrives, the housekeeper informs her that the master of the house has returned--Emily's first husband who died a decade earlier.."--
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