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1) The nest
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Gathering to confront their older brother, who has recently been released from rehab after a drunk driving accident, the Plumb siblings watch as the trust fund left by their father rises and falls according to self-inflicted problems.
2) Night music
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After her husband dies, leaving her with a mountain of debt, classical violinist Isabel Delancey and her children are forced to move to a now- dilapidated manor she inherited in the English countryside where she fights to make her house a home as passions and lives collide.
Author
Series
Dear Daphne novels volume 1
Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
An ambitious smalltown girl, unlucky in love, is called back home from New York City upon inheriting her eccentric aunt's estate, but the will is fraught with off-the-wall clauses involving work, family, and having to find a husband by next year.
4) King Lear
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Signet Classics edition of one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.
Full of cruelty and betrayal, King Lear is the timeless and tragic story of a kingdom held in the thrall of an aging ruler’s descent into madness. Desperate for praise, he banishes those who would guide him with honesty and surrounds himself with sycophants—an action that leads to his ultimate downfall....
This revised Signet...
Full of cruelty and betrayal, King Lear is the timeless and tragic story of a kingdom held in the thrall of an aging ruler’s descent into madness. Desperate for praise, he banishes those who would guide him with honesty and surrounds himself with sycophants—an action that leads to his ultimate downfall....
This revised Signet...
6) Notorious
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
To escape from family members who are after her inheritance, Texas heiress Gaby Dupont, assuming a new identity, starts working for a powerful Chicago lawyer who comes to her aid when her greedy relatives track her down.
Author
Series
Otto Ringling novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. But in an effort to westernize his passenger and amuse himself he decides to show the monk some "American fun" along the way. From a chocolate factory in Hershey to a bowling alley in South Bend, from a Cubs game at Wrigley field to his family farm near Bismarck, Otto is given the remarkable opportunity to see his world,...
Author
Series
House of Wolves volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jenny Wolf's murdered father has left her in charge of a multi-billion-dollar empire--a newspaper, a football team, a holding company...and a dysfunctional family that knows no bounds.
Author
Series
Westcott novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Arriving in London to claim an unexpected inheritance from the late Earl of Riverdale, Anna Snow finds an ally in the new earl's guardian, the Duke of Netherby.
10) He started it
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Forced by their wealthy grandfather's death to reunite after an extended estrangement, three siblings and their respective partners reluctantly participate in a cross-country road trip to fulfill a final request and secure their inheritances.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Homecoming comes a novel that takes readers on an unforgettable journey through generations and across continents as two women try to uncover their family's secret past.
A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book—a beautiful volume of fairy tales....
A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book—a beautiful volume of fairy tales....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Rosalinda Fitzroy, heir to the multiplanetary corporation UniCorp, is awakened after sixty years in stasis to find that everyone she knew has died and as she tries to make a new life for herself, learns she is the target of a robot assassin.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church.
Olivia Morrow, a Manhattan psychologist, begins to suspect that her husband Jonathan, a brilliant obstetrician...
15) Rooms: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After Richard Walker dies, his estranged family arrives at his estate for their inheritance, while long-dead former residents bound to the house observe the family and reminisce about their past lives--until the two worlds collide.
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the early seventeenth century, Barnabas Sackett, declared an outlaw in England, leaves his native country to seek adventure and fortune in the new land of America.
17) Starter villain
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When his long-lost uncle dies, leaving him his supervillain business, Charlie, as rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital come after him, finds going bad looking pretty good with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats and a terrifying henchperson at his side.
18) Howards End
Author
Language
English
Description
Howards End is a masterful discussion of changing social class-consciousness. Three families from different levels of society become intertwined: the rich capitalists, the intellectual bourgeoisie and the struggling poor. Forster does not suggest that relationships between the classes are easy, but he does think them vitally important. The social philosophy inherent in the novel is significant and beautifully written.
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Arriving in an Amish town to claim her inheritance of a mansion from her grandmother, Allison is protected from anonymous threats by single father Nick, but things turn dangerous when she discovers that her elder's death wasn't an accident.
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