DiMartino, Michael Dante
Summary: "Relishing their newfound feelings for each other, Korra and Asami leave the Spirit World, but find nothing in Republic City but political hijinks and human vs. spirit conflict. A pompous developer plans to turn the new spirit portal into an amusement park, potentially severing an already tumultuous connection with the spirits. What's more, the triads have realigned and are in a brutal all-out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEGSummary: Xuan's real estate project involved reclamation of the sea, threatening the livelihood of the residents who relied on the sea to make a living. Bearing family secrets, Shan was dispatched to stop Xuan. During their encounters, they fall in love with each other. Even though Xuan stopped the reclamation plan out of his love for Shan, Shan got injured in an accident and vanished into the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MERDiMartino, Michael Dante
Summary: When Asami is kidnapped, Korra sets out to the Spirit Wilds to find her. Now teeming with dark spirits influenced by the half spirit-half human Tokuga, the landscape is more dangerous than ever before. The two women must trust in each other and work together if they are to make it out alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEGKraft, Bridget.
Summary: "Kellen O'Roarke is out for revenge. Wealthy Jonathan Clarke swindled Kellen's family, and when his heartbroken father died in poverty, Kellen vowed to bring Clarke down. Now, with his plans to open a hot springs resourt, he is within reach of his goal. Only one thing stands in his way, local landowner Guin Talbot. Guin is at a crossroads in her life. Grief-stricken and alone since her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KRAAbel, Kenneth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ABEBrogan, Tracy
Summary: Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Brogan is back with a sweet, hilarious series about family, forgiveness, and what it means to go back home.Emily Callaghan never expected to spend another summer on Wenniway Island. Yet here she is, back in her quaint northern Michigan hometown of Trillium Bay, divorced, flat broke, and dragging along her precocious twelve-year-old. It's a simple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BROBurdette, Lucy
Summary: "Hayley Snow, food critic for Key Zest magazine, is taking the afternoon off for lunch with a friend. 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 as GG Garcia, a Key West...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BURBybee, Catherine.
Summary: Grace Hudson is the only female civil engineer in her department. After her last love interest left her traumatized, she is determined to focus on her career. Even so, a little flirting with a handsome stranger over coffee can't hurt, right? Dameon Locke is focused on his newest development project and keeping his company afloat after his biggest investor pulled out. So during the planning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYBLawson, Michael
Summary: Joe DeMarco's powerful congressman boss dispatches him to Boston to help an elderly woman who's holding out against a real estate developer intent on tearing down her apartment building. The congressman wants her to take a buyout, but she doesn't, and the developer disrespects him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWWendelboe, C. M.
Summary: First in a new series featuring FBI agent Manny Tanno, a Native American returning to the reservation home he thought he left behind. The body of local Native American land developer Jason Red Cloud is found on the site for his new resort on the Pine Ridge Reservation. A war club is lodged in his skull-appearing as if someone may have performed a ritual at the crime scene. FBI Special Agent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Kellerman, Faye.
Summary: Los Angeles detective Peter Decker tackles a homicide case involving a billionaire real estate developer, his wife, and four employees. While 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KELRichards, Emilie
Summary: "With nothing but brains, ambition and sheer nerve, Charlotte Hale built a career as a tough, do-anything-to-succeed real-estate developer. She's at the top of that mountain...but her life is empty. Her friends are as grasping and insincere as she has become. Far worse, she's alienated her family so completely that she's totally lost touch with her only daughter. One terrifying day, facing her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P RICSiddons, Anne Rivers.
Summary: An ecologically aware woman battles her land-developer husband over the future of the island she inherited off South Carolina. He wants to build houses, she wants to preserve the island's habitat with its marshes, ponies and Gullah communities of former slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIDTucker, K. A. (Kathleen A.)
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperbacks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUCAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: Refusing to leave his home when a powerful real-estate developer offers to buy out the residents of a crumbling apartment complex near the infamous Dharavi slums, a retired schoolteacher becomes a target of violence by the developer and his own neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADICarlson, Melody
Summary: When empty-nester Marley Farrell inherits her grandmother's run-down tourist shop in Portside, Oregon, she knows selling it is the only sensible things to do. Her childhood crust, Grayson Matthews, wants to buy the building to redevelop the town's business district into a soulless, cookie-cutter outdoor mall-- so Mallory decides to renovate the property herself. When her eclectic home decor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARDelany, Vicki
Summary: "As the proprietor and head pastry chef of Tea by the Sea, a tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod, Lily Roberts has her hands are full. But nothing keeps her busier than steering her sassy grandmother, Rose, away from trouble. Rose operates the B & B adjacent to Lily's tea shop ... for now. Real estate developer Jack Ford is pushing hard to rezone nearby land, with an eye toward...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Claire Malloy deals with an old friend who is chained to a tree to protest the destruction of a copse of trees, an abandoned baby left on her doorstep, and the murder of the developer at the center of the controversy surrounding the trees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESMillet, Lydia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2008
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Summary: Defending a real estate tycoon from lawsuits stemming from a building collapse and suspected mafia ties, lawyer Duncan Riley finds the task complicated by his client's enamored daughter and a seemingly unrelated murder case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEALupica, Mike
Summary: "The town of Paradise receives a shock when the mayor is discovered dead. It's ostensibly suicide, but Jesse has his doubts. The piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious land deal. Two powerful moguls are fighting over the right to develop the prime real estate, and one of them has brought in a hired gun, an old adversary of Jesse's: Wilson Cromartie, aka Crow....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: When an out-of-state developer wants to drain Fairy Pond--a beloved piece of Acorn Hill's past--a storm of protest rises up. While most residents are opposed to destroying the idyllic spot, some businesspeople are in favor of the added commerce it would bring. With the town divided, Mayor Lloyd Tynan is having a hard time keeping everyone happy, but when the stress begins to affect his health,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAEAbel, Kenneth.
Summary: A small town in St. Tammany's Parish, just north of New Orleans, is home to a slave burying ground, so long forgotten that it doesn't appear on any maps. When a group of white teenagers appropriate 'the burying field' for after-hours drinking, racial tensions in the area begin to rise. One night the drunken party turns violent, and the town explodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABEBrown, Rita Mae.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010