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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Out of school, out of work, and out of motivation, Abby Rose is contemplating her life and wondering what to do next. It's the kind of situation that would get some girls down, but luckily Abby's got a heart the size of Texas--and a bank account to match. But when she discovers the gardener dead in her greenhouse, Abby realizes what she needs to do with herself: she needs to solve a murder ...
23) One wish
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
She was the only child of a rich and powerful rancher. He was the son of a drunken ne'er-do-well. But when eleven-year-old Luke Shardlow rescued eight-year-old Charity Barham from drowning, she promised him one wish ... any wish his heart might desire. Fifteen years later, Charity and Luke meet once more, but the gulf between them seems wide as ever. Charity is engaged to a neighoring rancher her father has chosen for her. Luke still seems to he a...
24) Primitive people
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Young Simone flees the chaotic violence of Haiti only to land in a world no less brutal or bizarre--the world of upstate New York's Porter family. Here, dead sheep swing from trees, light bulbs are ceremoniously buried, a fur-clad mother carves terrifying goddesses from pumice, and learning to lie is the principle rite of passage into adulthood.
25) Bulls Island
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
It has been two years since Elizabeth 'Betts' McGee has returned to her once-adored Bulls Island in the Carolina lowcountry - ages since tragic fate coupled with nasty rumer ended her engagement to fabulously wealthy Charleston golden boy, J.D. Langely. Having successfully reinvented herself as a top New York banking executive, Betts is now heading up the most important project of her career. But it'll transform the untouched island she loved so much...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At an elite private school in Massachusetts, a wide circle of lives will be forever changed by a devastating series of events in Danielle Steel's riveting new novel. Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When the Little Nugget, alias 13-year-old Ogden Ford, "bulgy, rude, chain-smoking son of an American millionaire," arrives at Sanstead House School, the fun begins. Mr. Peter Burns, a none-too-dedicated schoolmaster, engaged by snobbish Mr. Abney to educate his hand-picked pupils, soon finds himself and his enraptured class at the mercy of an American gunman ... and at the beginning of a series of truly mind-boggling adventures in a delicious Wodehouse...
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