Author: Brad Weston
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ISBN: 9781613464670
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Secrets come in all sizes, forms, and severities. Some secrets are simply a nuisance, like an old boyfriend or girlfriend you are trying to forget. Some are embarrassing, like a mouse running through your kitchen on Thanksgiving Day in front of the whole family. Others are like a hand grenade in your toilet; eventually they just blow the lid off! What would you do if you found out you inherited a castle in England? What if you were promised a million dollars to visit, if only for a week? Is it worth leaving the comfortable life you have now? Is it worth your very life itself? Mika Cosgrove is an American school teacher, but also the heir of Moinster castle in northern England. Mika is caught in a life-changing adventure through a foreign land, thrust into the role of proprietor and perpetuator of his family name and grandest possession. His youthfulness and pride are at once his greatest virtue, as well as his costliest vice. His only salvation may lie with a local newspaper reporter with whom he has fallen in love. Have his actions really resulted in destroying his family legacy? Can he manage to preserve the dignity of his family name, as well as his own life? Moinster doesn't pay taxes and isn't under the authority of the Queen. A four hundred and fifty year old secret lies at the heart of the ninety-two hundred acre estate, a secret that draws in the Royal Crown of England and the president of Germany. Who really owns Moinster, and what will it cost them to keep it?
Author: Bob Nienaber
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532068646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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Charlie seems like a normal, modern guy, and up to now he didn’t even know about his amazing bloodline, which reaches back to the lost tribe of Benjamin. After the Benjamins defeated the Romans, they left Israel and wandered through northern Germany. Charlie is astonished to learn that his ancestors played a role in Charlemagne’s ascension, William the Conqueror’s rule over Normandy and England, and the founding of the American colonies. But the family’s place in history isn’t just impressive—it’s otherworldly. Along the way, there was a dose of the divine from Poseidon himself, injecting powers of mythical proportion into the bloodline. Now Charlie’s own powers have awakened as he finds himself heir to wealth beyond his wildest dreams. He’s always thought he was on the outside looking in, but now he learns that those set apart can become leaders, heroes, and world changers. Armed with his new knowledge, Charlie discovers that the very traits that made his family “different” also gave them strength and tenacity.
Author: Gina Robinson
Publisher: Gina Robinson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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THE AMERICAN HEIR is book 4 of the Billionaire Duke series. This series needs to be read in order. If you haven’t read the other books, now’s a good time to go back and see what you missed. Start with THE BILLIONAIRE DUKE. Does their marriage stand a ghost of a chance? Seattle billionaire and reluctant new duke Riggins Feldhem is going to be a father, whether he likes it or not. And he's deeply in love with his duchess. How much is he willing to sacrifice to make his temporary marriage permanent and find his happily-ever-after? The Duchess of Witham is ready to fight to keep her duke. But old ghosts have a way of haunting the present and one of them is gunning for her future with Riggins. Scroll up and grab your copy today!
Author: Philip Jett
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 125011182X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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The Death of an Heir is Philip Jett's chilling true account of the Coors family’s gilded American dream that turned into a nightmare when a meticulously plotted kidnapping went horribly wrong. In the 1950s and 60s, the Coors dynasty reigned over Golden, Colorado, seemingly invincible. When rumblings about labor unions threatened to destabilize the family's brewery, Adolph Coors, Jr., the septuagenarian president of the company, drew a hard line, refusing to budge. They had worked hard for what they had, and no one had a right to take it from them. What they'd soon realize was that they had more to lose than they could have imagined. On the morning of Tuesday, February 9, 1960, Adolph “Ad” Coors III, the 44-year-old CEO of the multimillion dollar Colorado beer empire, stepped into his car and headed for the brewery twelve miles away. At a bridge he stopped to help a man in a yellow Mercury sedan. On the back seat lay handcuffs and leg irons. The glove box held a ransom note ready to be mailed. His coat pocket shielded a loaded pistol. What happened next set off the largest U.S. manhunt since the Lindbergh kidnapping. State and local authorities, along with the FBI personally spearheaded by its director J. Edgar Hoover, burst into action attempting to locate Ad and his kidnapper. The dragnet spanned a continent. All the while, Ad’s grief-stricken wife and children waited, tormented by the unrelenting silence. The Death of an Heir reveals the true story behind the tragic murder of Colorado’s favorite son.
Author: Grace Burrowes
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402244363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 455
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"Grace Burrowes is terrific." —Julia Quinn, NYT bestselling author of the Bridgerton series An earl who can't be bribed A lady who can't be protected A blooming romance that can't be denied. Gayle Windham, Earl of Westhaven, is the dutiful heir to the Duke of Moreland. Tired of the price of nobility and his father's unrelenting pressure to marry, he escapes to his London townhouse for the summer, where he finds himself intrigued by the secretive ways of his beautiful housekeeper. Anna Seaton is a talented, educated woman...so what is she doing here? As the two begin to lose their hearts, Anna's secrets threaten to bring the earl's orderly life crashing down—and he doesn't know how he's going to protect her from the fallout... What people are saying about the best Regency romances by the master of her craft: "Burrowes's fresh, gorgeous writing held me riveted from start to finish."—MEREDITH DURAN "Luminous and graceful...a refreshing and captivating love story."—Publishers Weekly Starred Review "Outstanding...a witty, sensual Regency romance."—Booklist Starred Review "Tons of intrigue, searing seduction, and wonderful humor...a must-read for fans of Georgette Heyer." —Night Owl Reviews Top Pick "Enchanting."—RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars
Author: Heather Cocks
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538715929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Making it up the aisle was the easy part: Rebecca "Bex" Porter must survive her own scandals and adjust to royal British life in this "positively delicious" follow-up to The Royal We that's "just as fun, charming, and delightful as the first" (Taylor Jenkins Reid). After a scandalous secret turns their fairy-tale wedding into a nightmare, Rebecca "Bex" Porter and her husband Prince Nicholas are in self-imposed exile. The public is angry. The Queen is even angrier. And the press is salivating. Cutting themselves off from friends and family, and escaping the world's judgmental eyes, feels like the best way to protect their fragile, all-consuming romance. But when a crisis forces the new Duke and Duchess back to London, the Band-Aid they'd placed over their problems starts to peel at the edges. Now, as old family secrets and new ones threaten to derail her new royal life, Bex has to face the emotional wreckage she and Nick left behind: with the Queen, with the world, and with Nick's brother Freddie, whose sins may not be so easily forgotten—nor forgiven.
Author: Sufiya Abdur-Rahman
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609387821
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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"From age five, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, the daughter of two Black Power-era converts to Islam, feels drawn to the faith even as her father, a devoted Muslim, introduces her to and, at the same time, distances her from it. He and her mother abandoned their Harlem mosque before she was born and divorced when she was twelve. Forced apart from her father--her portal into Islam--she yearns to reconnect with the religion and, through it, him. In Heir to the Crescent Moon, Abdur-Rahman's longing to comprehend her father's complicated relationship with Islam leads her first to recount her own history with it. Later, as she seeks to discover what both pulled her father to and pushed him from the mosque and her mother, Abdur-Rahman delves into the past. She journeys from the Christian righteousness of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.'s 1950s Harlem, through the Malcolm X-inspired college activism of the late 1960s, to the unfulfilled potential of the early-'70s' black American Muslim movement. When a painful reminder of the reason for her father's inconsistent ties to his former mosque appears to threaten his life, Abdur-Rahman's search nearly ends. She's forced to come to terms with her Muslim identity, and learns how events from generations past can reverberate through the present. Told, at times, with lighthearted humor or heartbreaking candor, Abdur-Rahman's story of adolescent Arabic lessons, fasting, and Muslim mosque, funeral, and eid services speaks to the challenges of bridging generational and cultural divides and what it takes to maintain family amidst personal and societal upheaval. Writing with quiet beauty but intellectual force about identity, community, violence, hope, despair, and faith, Abdur-Rahman weaves a vital tale about a family: black, Muslim, and distinctly American"--
Author: William Hall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883573720
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1420127888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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#1 New York Times-Bestselling Author: The fate of a mystic land inextricably linked to our own is balanced precariously on one woman’s courage… Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham strives to keep the mortal realm safe from trespassing entities. But as the Thorn Land's prophecy-haunted queen, there's no refuge for her and her soon-to-be-born-children when a mysterious blight begins to devastate the Otherworld. . . The spell-driven source of the blight isn't the only challenge to Eugenie's instincts. Fairy king Dorian is sacrificing everything to help, but Eugenie can't trust the synergy drawing them back together. The uneasy truce between her and her shape shifter ex-lover Kiyo is endangered by secrets he can't--or won't--reveal. And as a formidable force rises to also threaten the human world, Eugenie must use her own cursed fate as a weapon--and risk the ultimate sacrifice. . . Praise for Richelle Mead's Storm Born. . . "My kind of book--great characters, dark worlds, and just the right touch of humor. A great read." --Patricia Briggs, New York Times Bestselling Author
Author: Gail Ranstrom
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459231848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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When her late husband’s heir returns to claim his fortune, a young widow finds her home—and her heart—in jeopardy in this Regency romance. Since her husband’s death, Grace Forbush has dedicated herself to seeking justice for vulnerable women. But now it is Grace who finds herself vulnerable—when she discovers a buckskin-clad ruffian in her library. Adam Hawthorn is not what he seems. A gentleman by birth, he is also the true heir to the estate of Grace’s late husband. Presumed dead for years, he has now returned to claim what is rightfully his: a home, a fortune—and a bride!
