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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
"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
Language
English
Description
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with only her cousin Edmund as an ally. A subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's most profound works.
4) Blank check
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
A kid receives a blank check from a mobster who accidentally hits him with his car, and is surprised when he actually cashes it for a million dollars.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the 'Bomb of Bombay' chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 194 -- and examines a whole people's capacity for carrying inherited myths and inventing new ones."--Publisher's description.
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Language
English
Description
"Historical drama and romance set in Venice and the English countryside of the 1800s. Two lives become intertwined despite the burdens of their past. A place that once seemed only a dreaded detour becomes a sacred venue for the unveiling of God's Providence"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
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Series
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English
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When a hedge fund billionaire hires Stone Barrington to talk some sense into his wayward son, it seems like an easy enough job; no one knows the hidden sins and temptations of the ultra-wealthy better than Stone. But as Stone and his erstwhile protege, Herbie Fisher, probe deeper into the case--and an old one comes back to haunt him---he realizes that even he may have underestimated just how far some people will go to cover up their crimes...and plan...
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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.
11) Holiday wishes
Publisher
Lifetime
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Britney, a rich, spoiled child, and Rachel, an orphan, switch bodies after a visit to the mall with Santa Claus. Each girl wakes up as the other, with Britney in the orphanage and Rachel at Britney's family's mansion. With the magical intervention of a professional party planner Rachel teaches Britney's unloving family the true meaning of Christmas, and Britney learns that giving is better than getting.
12) Ain't she sweet
Author
Language
English
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Description
The tiny town of Parrish, MS, isn't exactly welcoming wild child Sugar Beth Carey home with open arms. Nobody has forgotten the former town princess's selfish and demanding ways or the fact that she had a teacher fired in a bid for her millionaire father's attention. Sugar's penniless return is made worse by her discovery that her former enemies seem to be enjoying the fruits of her old life: Her half-sister has married Sugar Beth's high school
...13) Finding Stefanie
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...
Author
Publisher
Cross Dove Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Sarah Stone and Jared Roberts are both angry at the world. Sarah, though wealthy and seemingly lacking for nothing, is angry because her father is too busy for her. Jared who lives in an inner city and comes from a broken home is angry because life is unfair and hard. Jared determines to do something about it and decides to rob Sarah's house immediately before Christmas. Into the lives of these angry children comes Nicholas, a mysterious little man,...
16) Gun games
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Language
English
Description
LAPD lieutenant detective Decker and his wife, Rina, have willingly welcomed fifteen-year-old Gabriel Whitman, the son of a troubled former friend, into their home. While the enigmatic teen seems to be adapting easily, Decker knows only too well the secrets adolescents keep--witnessed by the tragic suicide of another teen, Gregory Hesse, a student at Bell and Wakefield, one of the city's most exclusive prep schools. Gregory's mother, Wendy, refuses...
17) Taming Rafe
Author
Series
Noble legacy volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House
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
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Novel about an old moneyed family, facing the loss of the youthful talent and storied history that defined them. After suffering a stroke, patriarch William Adair wakes up in his hospital bed and realizes that his family has changed: they are less extraordinary than he had remembered. For more than thirty years, his faith in life was grounded on two indisputable principles: his three daughters' exceptional beauty and talents and the historical resonance...