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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"S.C. Perkins's Fatal Family Ties is the captivating second mystery in the Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster deals with murders in both the past and present. Lucy is just about to tuck into a plate of tacos at her favorite Austin joint, Big Flaco's, when she gets an unexpected visit from her former-and least-favorite-co-worker. Camilla Braithwaite hasn't gotten much friendlier since the last time Lucy saw her, but...
Author
Series
Edilean series volume 5
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years -- and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking. Because in the wrong hands, no one named Frazier will ever be safe.
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, 1995.
Edition
Gold Crown collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a dream for the future. The Charles family clashes over the fate of a magnificent, carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano to buy a farm--the same fields their family worked as slaves. But his sister, Berniece, refuses to part with it. For her, the piano is their very soul, a legacy of pride...
Author
Series
Secrets of the manor volume 1
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beth is excited for her twelfth birthday, when she will receive her great-grandmother's heirloom necklace as a gift, but when the necklace goes missing, Beth must learn the secrets of her manor house in order to clear the name of her maid and friend, Shannon.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Judith inherited all the Kratt family had to offer -- the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder that no one talked about. She's presided over the house quite well, thank you very much, admittedly with some help from her companion, Olva. But her wayward younger sister suddenly returns home after decades, sparking an inventory of all that belongs to them. Set in the hard-luck cotton town of Bound, South Carolina -- which the Kratts used to rule but...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two strangers unite to save an innocent child—and perhaps the world—in this romantic thriller by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of No Way Out.
When Manhattan editor Dani Arnold she impulsively comes to the aid of a lost child, she finds herself plunged into a mystery more dangerous than anything she's ever read—or anything on the city streets—with an enigmatic stranger who threatens
10) Island of deceit
Author
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm
Language
English
Description
In his attempt to make this the best Christmas ever, Jack accidentally breaks a very old ornament, releasing a tiny fairy, who teaches him something about the true Christmas spirit!
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
65 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An heirloom purple ribbon winds its way through the tale of Spring, a field mouse, who grows up in her grandmother's nest in a thorn tree on top of a hill, leaves to bear her own family, and yearns to return home.
Author
Language
English
Description
A young woman discovers a cache of heirlooms in an abandoned safe deposit box: bundles of handwritten letters, photographs, expired passports, both American and Italian, and twenty-two leather boxes, each holding a priceless piece of jewelry. Drawn to the mysterious woman in the photographs, Jane digs deeper into the woman's luxurious, golden life and the older, dashing man who occupies her pictures and letters. The details are both glamorous and...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
One rainy day while his father listens to his old records, his mother polishes a silver platter, and his brother enjoys his baseball card collection, Little Bill discovers his own treasure, a talent for storytelling.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Julia Baxter's wedding veil, bequeathed to her great-grandmother by a mysterious woman on a train in the 1930s, has passed through generations of her family as a symbol of a happy marriage. But something tells her that even the veil's good luck isn't enough to make her marriage last forever. Panicked, she escapes to the Virgin Islands to clear her head. Her grandmother Babs, still grieving her husband's death, decides to move into a retirement community--...
16) The imperfects
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Millers are far from perfect. Estranged siblings Beck, Ashley and Jake find themselves under one roof for the first time in years, forced to confront old resentments and betrayals, when their mysterious, eccentric matriarch, Helen, passes away. But their lives are about to change when they find a secret inheritance hidden among her possessions--the Florentine Diamond, a 137-carat yellow gemstone that went missing from the Austrian Empire a century...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
On leave from his Highland regiment, Captain Liam Lockhart heads for London in order to reclaim his family's ancient treasure, a stolen heirloom that could save his ancestral estate, and meets beautiful socialite Ellen Farnsworth.
18) Going to pot
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Margo's niece becomes a runaway bride --taking with her a family heirloom--her mother offers Margo fifty grand to retrieve her spoiled daughter and the invaluable property she stole. Together with the jilted and justifiably crabby fiancé, Margo sets out in a borrowed 1955 red MG on a cross-country chase and finds herself along the way"--
20) Saving stuff: how to care for and preserve your collectibles, heirlooms, and other prize possessions
Author
Publisher
Fireside
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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