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22) Endless night
Author
Language
English
Description
Gipsy's Acre was a beautiful upland site with views out to sea. Michael Rogers planned to build a house there, find a wonderful girl, and live happily ever after. Perhaps he should have heeded the locals' warnings about the place's dark menace.
Author
Language
English
Description
In these ten stories, Rash spins a haunting allegory of the times we live in-- rampant capitalism, the severing of ties to the natural world in the relentless hunt for profit, the destruction of body and soul with pills meant to mute our pain. Yet within this world he illuminates acts of extraordinary decency and heroism. The novella, In the valley, is based on his 2009 novel, Serena. -- adapted from jacket
25) Even in paradise
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Retiring in Barbados, widower Peter Ducksworth concludes he must divide his land between his three daughters. Feeling snubbed by his youngest daughter, he declares that she receive hers only after his death and so sets in motion a discord in the family.
Author
Series
Aviary Gate trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After escaping a harem, Celia is reunited with her wealthy merchant fiance in 1611 London and is befriended by a widow who has a strange hold over her and an obsession with a rare blue diamond brought back from the Middle East.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Only his thirst for blood equals his lust for wealth and power. In his vicious seizure of the coveted land around Taos, high among the Rocky Mountains in the New Mexico Territory, plenty of innocent blood will be spilled. Robber Baron Clifton Satterlee's plan is twofold and simple: to wrest the timber-thick hills from the Tua Pueblo and then populate the town with his own labor force.
29) Little thieves
Author
Series
Little thieves volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Irreverent retelling of "The Goose Girl" about stolen lives, thorny truths, and the wicked girst at the heart of both."--
"Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja...
30) Vicious circle
Author
Series
Hector Cross novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The master of action-adventure returns with the follow-up to his New York Times bestselling novel Those in Peril starring Hector Cross Wilbur Smith has won fans the world over for his heart-racing novels that span continents and centuries. For nearly fifty years, his books have hit bestseller lists in the United States --and everywhere else -- and sold millions of copies. As a writer of action-adventure and the African continent, Smith is without...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Talented, successful, blessed with a loving wife and daughter, Edward Darby has everything a man should hope for. With a rising career as a partner at an esteemed gallery he strives not to let ambition, money, power, and his dark past corrode the sanctuary of his domestic and private life. Influenced by his father, a brilliant Romantics scholar, Edward has always been more of a purist than an opportunist. But when a celebrated artist controlled by...
32) Sinful
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As Chandelle and Marvin Hutchins deal with growing financial and emotional pressures in their marriage, Cousin Dior comes to visit. Beautiful but irresponsible, Dior loves excitement and will use anyone--even Chandelle and Marvin--to get it. As difficulities grow, Chandelle and Marvin realize they need divine intervention to save their marriage.
33) The amateurs
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Alex is failing as a father. Ian keeps dangerous secrets. Jenn is pining for adventure; Mitch is pining for Jenn. Four friends just scraping by, finding comfort in each other and the hope that things will get better. But as their twenties fade in the rearview mirror, none of them are turning out to be who or where they hoped. In a time when CEOs steal millions while their employees watch savings dwindle, these four are tired of the honest approach....
34) Little century
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, Esther Chamber is met by her distant cousin, a laconic cattle rancher named Ferris Pickett. But this town on the edge of civilization is in the midst of a very real range in a story of dispossession, greed, and ecstatic visions of America.
35) Cari Mora
Author
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
xlviii, 442 pages : portrait ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A couple's life and love are destroyed when they win the lottery in this tragic tale of turn-of-the-century San Francisco. McTeague and Trina are in love, and with the modest income from McTeague's dentistry office, their needs are few. But when Trina wins a small fortune from a lottery ticket, jealousy and distrust begin to unravel their happy home. As tension erupts between McTeague and Trina's cousin Marcus, Trina's impulse to save her winnings...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
vii, 363 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tristram St. Lawrence has not been home for years--ever since he missed his mother's deathbed in favor of going on a bender, the thirteenth Earl of Howth is not welcome in the family castle. Now sober, he lives an itinerant life in self-imposed exile, and his main confidant is his sponsor, a mysterious businessman who Tristram knows only as M. Deauville. One day, when his plane is unexpectedly diverted to Dublin, Tristram ends up where he started,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
At the center of Martin Chuzzlewit is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of his close and distant relations, now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of his great fortune. Having unjustly disinherited his grandson, young Martin, the old fellow now trusts no one but Mary Graham, the pretty girl...
39) Stop them dead
Author
Series
Roy Grace novels volume 19
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
455 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a young farmer confronts intruders in the middle of the night he has no idea that just minutes later he will be left dying in a pool of blood. What's more chilling is what the perpetrators were willing to kill for. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realizes this is no isolated robbery gone wrong but the tip of the iceberg of a nationwide crime wave. A trade which pits him against some ruthless people who will kill anyone who gets in their...
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