Downing, Samantha
Summary: "In the latest thrillingly savage stand-alone from the twisted mind behind mega hit My Lovely Wife comes the story of a family--not unlike your own--just with a few more violent tendencies thrown in.... Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons--we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather dies and leaves a cryptic final message...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWFrancis, Felix
Summary: Bill Russell is acting as a volunteer steward at Warwick races when he confronts his worst nightmare---the violent death of his much-loved wife. But, the aftermath proves much worse when he is accused of killing her and then hounded mercilessly by the media. Losing his job and in danger of losing his home too, Bill's life begins to unravel completely. Even his best friends turn against him,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAHayfield, Olivia
Summary: "If Philippa Gregory and Jackie Collins went out for cocktails and wrote a book, they'd come back with Wife After Wife. A wickedly entertaining and utterly absorbing modern take on the life and marriages of Henry VIII...if he were a twenty-first-century womanizing media mogul rather than the king of England. Master of the universe Harry Rose is head of the Rose Corporation, number eighteen on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYCornick, Nicola.
Summary: In the tradition of the lush historical dramas of Kate Morton, Philippa Gregory, and Barbara Erskine, USA Today bestselling author Nicola Cornick's audiobook is a delicious tale of jealousy, greed, plotting, and revenge that spans the generations between decadent Georgian society and present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Cornick 2019Dickens, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICEllis, David
Summary: Simon and Vicky couldn't seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims. A stable, if unexciting marriage. But one thing's for sure ... absolutely nothing is what it seems. The pair are far from normal, and one of them just may be a killer. When the body of a beautiful socialite is found hanging in a mansion in a nearby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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Summary: Retiring in Barbados, widower Peter Ducksworth concludes he must divide his land between his three daughters. Feeling snubbed by his youngest daughter, he declares that she receive hers only after his death and so sets in motion a discord in the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUNRash, Ron
Summary: The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains--but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RASSummary: A volume of twenty-three original crime tales by women authors features themes of lust and greed, in a collection that includes contributions by such individuals as Laura Lippman, Marcia Muller, and Carolyn Hart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M TWOL'Amour, Louis
Summary: He was educated by life and bound to the land he loved. Then beautiful Angelina Foley came up from Texas with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and an old Spanish grant to Radigan's land. Radigan reasoned with them, stood up to them, and when they tried to drive him from his home he fought back, determined to make his enemies taste the bitterness of their greed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1981
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Summary: ""Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Leon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MANMoore, Christopher
Summary: "Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters--the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago--have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising him an evening of spirits and debauchery with a rare...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOORash, Ron
Summary: Traveling to the mountains of 1929 North Carolina to forge a timber business with her new husband, Serena Pemberton champions her mastery of harsh natural and working conditions but turns murderous when she learns she cannot bear children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RASAlderman, Naomi
Summary: "The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: SF ALDDickens, Charles
Summary: Presents a reprint of Dickens's 1843 novel depicting the greed and selfishness in England and America through the story of suspicious and misanthropic old Martin Chuzzlewit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICFriedman, Elyse
Summary: "A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world's most devious family, for fans of The Nest and Succession. When Alana Shropshire's seventy-six-year-old father, Ed, starts dating Kelly, a saucy twenty-eight-year-old, a flurry of messages arrives from Alana's brothers, urging her to help "protect Dad" from the young interloper. Alana knows that what Teddy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRISteinbeck, John
Summary: A poor fisherman dreams of wealth and happiness for his family when he finds a priceless pearl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y Fiction SteBialosky, Jill.
Summary: "What do we prize most? Are integrity and ambition mutually exclusive, as we seek a place in the world? How do we value, ultimately, a piece of art - or a life? These are the questions at the core of the evocative new novel by New York Times bestsellingauthor Jill Bialosky. Talented, successful, blessed with a loving wife and daughter, Edward Darby has everything a man should hope for. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIAHarris, Thomas
Summary: A ruthless man driven by unspeakable appetites to pursue a fortune in cartel gold hidden beneath a Miami mansion finds his efforts challenged by Cari Mora, the mansion's caretaker and a war survivor with unusual talents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HARKilroy, Claire
Summary: "Tristram St. Lawrence has not been home for years--ever since he missed his mother's deathbed in favor of going on a bender, the thirteenth Earl of Howth is not welcome in the family castle. Now sober, he lives an itinerant life in self-imposed exile, and his main confidant is his sponsor, a mysterious businessman who Tristram knows only as M. Deauville. One day, when his plane is unexpectedly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KILSteinbeck, John
Summary: Reworking an ancient legend, Steinbeck created a powerful parable of modern man's preoccupation with materialism, money, and power. The story is of Keno, a poor fisherman who finds a great, luminous pearl. Although he is sure the fortune it represents will solve all his problems, Keno eventually realizes that the pearl has marked his life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1999