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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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Isabel "Izzy" Spellman is a 28-year-old private eye working for her eccentric family's investigation firm. Looking to get out of the family business, she agrees to take one more job--a 15-year-old missing persons case. But things get complicated when someone close to Izzy also goes missing.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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In this novel the author exposes a dark secret from a family's past that threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture firm in Long Island City, founded by their grandfather and famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years. The...
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Baer Creighton volume 3
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2018.
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Luke Graves turned the family butcher business into an empire by cutting fat off the ledger as well as he cut meat off the bone. He also learned many men sold beef, but few sold girls and boys. Demand was high especially for the ones with brown skin-- and supply small. Ten years later the family business included three sons and a distribution chain that delivered kids for any purpose throughout the western United States. One evening, returning to...
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2015
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"Rita Jansen is living her dream as a hairstylist in Hollywood when her father calls with news that her mother has suffered a stroke. When she gets home to Chicago, Rita finds her mother is healing but facing a long recovery. Worse, without being able to run their family-owned salon, her mother could lose the business. Rita decides to help, but she only has until Valentine's Day to come up with a plan"--Page 4 of cover.
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Isabel Beebe thinks she's cursed in the romance department. Her teenage crush, Ford Hendrix, ignored all her letters. Her husband left her for another ... man. So Isabel has come home to dust off her passion for fashion and run the family bridal shop until her parents are ready to sell it. Then she'll pursue her real dreams. At least, that's the plan, until sexy, charming Ford returns and leaves her feeling fourteen all over again... Seeing Isabel...
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"Autumn Somerset is the reliable sister, the one her family, including her father, who's had a stroke, leans on, sometimes a little too heavily. Her sister Ember is the free spirit, the one with a seemingly perfect life who has experienced more than her share of heartbreak but hides it with laughter. This summer, as Autumn and Ember work hand in hand to run the animal rescue property their grandparents created, they'll see that family can be a blessing...
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an irresistible story of love and empowerment about a young woman with a complicated family, a handsome man who might be "the one," and an IOU that changes everything. Fixie Farr has always lived by her father's motto: "Family first." But ever since her dad passed away, leaving his charming kitchen supply store in the hands of his children, Fixie spends all her time picking up the slack...
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Murphys of Meadow Valley volume 1
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[2022]
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Casey Walsh and Boone Murphy had a bright future together until tragedy tore them apart. Now, more than a decade later, the beauty school dropout runs Meadow Valley's family tavern and steers clear of the boy who once stole her heart―no small feat in such a small town. When Casey's car breaks down on the way to an important interview, she's rescued by none other than Boone himself―on what was supposed to be his wedding day… Boone Murphy was...
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Vatta's war volume 1
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2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
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After Kylara Vatta is expelled from the military, she returns home to face her family's disgrace and join the family business as captain of a transport ship, but a simple assignment soon turns into a risky venture that threatens her family's business.
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Bourbon kings volume 1
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For generations, the Bradford family has worn the mantle of kings of the bourbon capital of the world. Their sustained wealth has afforded them prestige and privilege--as well as a hard-won division of class on their sprawling estate, Easterly. Upstairs, a dynasty that by all appearances plays by the rules of good fortune and good taste. Downstairs, the staff who work tirelessly to maintain the impeccable Bradford facade. And never the twain shall...
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2013.
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Isabel Spellman, PI, is used to being followed, extorted, and questioned - all occupational hazards of working at her family's firm, Spellman Investigations. Her little sister, Rae, once tailed Izzy for weeks on end to discover the identity of Izzy's boyfriend. Her mother, Olivia, once blackmailed Izzy with photographic evidence of Prom Night 1994. It seemed that Spellman vigilance would dissipate after Izzy was fired for breaching client confidentiality,...
33) Being Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Deravenel finds herself at the crossroads of love and duty as she runs one of the most powerful business dynasties in history.
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Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her older sister, Edith, struggles to make what most people would call a living. So she can't help wondering what her life would have been like with even a portion of the farm money her sister kept for herself. With the proceeds from the farm, Helen builds one...
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2019.
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Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway. On the one hand, she's a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad's multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she's considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus she's stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fiancé--a fellow VP--on the other side of her...
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After a family tragedy, Kate Donnelly left the Caribbean behind forever. But a series of bad management decisions has left her family's diving and marine recovery business drowning in red ink. Now her brother pleads with her to come back to the island nation of St Vincent. Without Kate's financial expertise, the iconic treasure-hunting enterprise started by her grandfather will go under. Unable to say no to the little family she has left, Kate heads...
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"On the family's Brazos River Ranch in Texas, Avery Elliott helps run her grandfather's commercial construction business. Raised by Senator Elliott, Avery has never doubted her grandfather is the man of integrity and faith she's always believed him to be . . . until the day she finds him standing with a gun over the body of a dead man. To make matters worse, Avery's just discovered a billing discrepancy for materials supposedly purchased for construction...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Emaline and Luke have been together all through high school, and Emaline thinks it is perfect. However, this is the summer before college, and things are changing in her small town of Colby on the beach. For one is Theo, the super-ambitious, handsome, smart New York boy who has come to town to help on a documentary--and he thinks Emaline is pretty. Then there is Emaline's dad, who thinks she ought to go to an Ivy League school and leave Luke behind....
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Valentine trilogy volume 3
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In The Shoemaker's Wife Adriana Trigiani swept her readers across generations of an Italian family, from the Italian Alps at the turn of the twentieth century to the cobblestone streets of Little Italy. In The Supreme Macaroni Company, she weaves a heartbreaking story that begins on the eve of a wedding in New York's Greenwich Village, travels to New Orleans, and culminates in Tuscany. Family, work, romance, and the unexpected twists of life and fate...
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