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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life - boating, swimming , and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies -- he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door.
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Series
Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries volume 14
Three Pines mystery volume 14
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
Chief Inspector Gamache volume 14
Three Pines mystery volume 14
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
Chief Inspector Gamache volume 14
Language
English
Description
When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. The will is so odd and...
Author
Series
Perveen Mistry novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's legal rights. Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a dispute over her parents' will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders, it is a quarrel about property and favoritism. But Bergljot, who has borne a horrible secret since childhood, understands the gesture...
Author
Series
Jake Brigance novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Physical Desc
447 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
We return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid,...
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Language
English
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Description
Handsome, widowed, sophisticated, utterly charming, Paul Parker won the heart of a wealthy young Frenchwoman — the daughter of an American financier, the granddaughter of a major French art dealer — as his second wife. In two marriages, he fathered a challenging son and three very different daughters. But as irresponsible as he was irresistible, he ultimately shrugged off the demands of marriage and parenting to pursue life as an international...
Author
Series
(Victoria E.).Counterfeit lady volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Miles finds herself in a position no con can help her escape. Her beloved fianc�e, Gideon Bates, is awaiting his turn in the draft to fight in the Great War. Elizabeth is finding it hard to think of anything else, but Gideon has thrown himself into his work, preparing wills for soldiers before they ship out. Corporal Tom Preston is part owner of Preston Shoes, a company that is making footwear for the army, so he has a rather large estate....
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