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Author
Series
Raines of Wind Canyon volume 2
Language
English
Description
You can't fight what you can't see. And Gabriel Raines can't be sure just who's setting the fires in his new real-estate development. When two fires hit back-to-back, he knows it's personal, but any number of competitors or ex-employees could be the arsonist. The police suspect Angel Ramirez, a local teen who's been in trouble before. But Mattie Baker, a volunteer at the Family Abuse center, just can't believe the kid she's been working with would...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
An unscrupulous husband fights his wife when she tries to divorce him and keep their child Noelle realizes it is time to move on when, rubbing lotion on her leg, she cuts herself with her wedding ring. The cut is slight, but it makes her realize that her marriage to Robert Van Doren is causing her nothing but pain. Although successful, wealthy, and boyishly handsome, her husband is a heartless man, who cheats on his wife and makes a living at the...
Author
Publisher
KCP Loft
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Summer is here and Julia Ducharme is ready for another season at the campground her family owns and runs. But when a wealthy developer wants to turn the only home she's ever known into a casino, Julia is desperate to find a solution that doesn't mean leaving behind the lake or the business her family has nurtured for decades. Afraid for the future, Julia looks to the stars to give her some perspective. Taking her telescope down to the dock one night,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
Los Angeles detective Peter Decker tackles a homicide case involving a billionaire real estate developer, his wife, and four employees. With Decker leads his homicide team throughout California and into Mexico, he thinks his own wife is on jury back at the courthouse. But a chance encounter with a court translator who needs her help leads Rina into the heart of the murder investigation, and straight into the path of a gang of ruthless killers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
On Jeep Reed's Wings Ranch near Reno, Jeep, her great-niece, former Wall Street banker Magdalene "Mags" Rogers, and their two dogs King and Baxter investigate a pump company employee's disappearance, along with an environmentalist's shooting "suicide" and the identity of a really cold corpse.
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Series
Language
English
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"Peace and quiet are hard to find in bustling Key West, so Hayley Snow, food critic for Key Zest magazine, is taking the afternoon off for a tranquil lunch with a friend outside of town. As they are enjoying the wild beach and the lunch, she realizes that her husband Nathan's dog, Ziggy, has disappeared. She follows his barking, to find him furiously digging at a shallow grave with a man's body in it. Davis Jager, a local birdwatcher, identifies him...
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Arthur sets out to save his family's home from real estate developers when his grandfather mysteriously disappears. When he finds his grandfather's ancient clues of treasure, he unlocks a passageway that leads to a spectacular world with little people.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In one way or another, Donald Trump has been a topic of conversation in America for almost forty years. No one in the world of business-not Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Warren Buffett-has been as famous as Trump for as long. First associated with high-profile real estate development in 1970s Manhattan, his name has since become synonymous with success defined by wealth and luxury. What does one make of a grown man who, when he argues with women, stoops...
11) Life of crime
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When two criminals kidnap the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer, things take a sudden turn when they learn that he has no intent of paying her million dollar ransom.
12) True love blooms
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An urban gardener tries to save her community garden when a real estate developer seeks to acquire the land for a different use.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a powerful husband-and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and dinners hosting her husband's wealthy friends, clients, and associates in his successful land-developing conglomerate. To escape her stifling routine, Caro drinks a little too much. But her true solace is the Lowcountry island her beloved Granddaddy left her-an oasis of breathtaking...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Paradise is rocked by the mayor's untimely death in the latest novel starring police chief Jesse Stone"--
The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in a shallow grave on a property on the lake. It's ostensibly suicide, but Jesse's has his doubts... especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal. Two powerful moguls are fighting...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Love him or hate him, Trump's influence is undeniable. A man of great media savvy, entrepreneurial spirit, and political clout, Trump's career has been plagued by legal troubles and mounting controversy. Johnston tells the full story of how a boy from a quiet section of Queens, NY would become an entirely new, and complex, breed of public figure. Drawing on decades of interviews, financial records, court documents, and public statements, Johnston...
17) The rum diary
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Freelance journalist Paul Kemp, writing for a run-down Puerto Rican newspaper, finds his work challenging amidst a dissolute group of expatriates and his obsession with the fiancée of a shady American real estate developer.
Author
Series
Goddesses Anonymous volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Charlotte Hale faces her own mortality, she realizes that her ambition has almost destroyed her chance at happiness and vows to make amends.
19) Simple riches
Author
Series
That second chance volume 3
Publisher
[Create Space?]
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Alexandra "Alex" Chamberlain is a big city girl who knows nothing about close-knit families, sibling rivalry, or receiving an unsolicited opinion in the name of family. She's been raised by an aunt and uncle who've provided her with a wealthy lifestyle and a fancy education, but have withheld what she craved most--love and acceptance. Her uncle has taught her to disregard everything but the bottom line on a balance sheet and she'll do anything to...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"An environmental history of Freeborn County, Minnesota's Big Marsh, which was tilled and drained 130 years ago at public expense for agricultural purposes. Told from a personal point of view, this story shows the enduring value of wild places and the importance of the fight to preserve them, both then and now"--
"A rural community is changed forever when moneyed interests conspire to transform a treasured wetland"--
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