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Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after...
2) Whitefern
Author
Series
Audrina volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Arden turns violent in his protestations against Audrina's control over the family brokerage, an inheritance that causes her to wonder what her father knew about Arden's true nature.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
From the award–winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us comes an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune-and its bearings.
Labor Day 1976, Martha's Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coast of New England, Fern and Edgar-married with three children-are happily preparing for a family birthday celebration when they learn that the unimaginable...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jende Jonga journeys to New York City from Cameroon in 2004 on a visitors' visa in hopes of obtaining a green card, he's sure his life will only improve. After saving up enough money to bring over Jende's wife, Neni, and six-year-old son, the family moves into an apartment in Harlem. Then Jende hits the jackpot in 2007 when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a wealthy Lehman Brothers executive. But working for the Edwardses isn't...
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
415 p.
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward delivers the second novel in her Bourbon Kings series--a sweeping saga of a Southern dynasty struggling to maintain a facade of privilege and prosperity while secrets and indiscretions threaten its very foundation...In Charlemont, Kentucky, the Bradford family is the crème la crème of high society--just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. And their complicated lives and vast estate are run by a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 393 p. : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the thrilling finale of the Bourbon Kings series, the Bradford family dynasty teeters on the edge of collapse after the murder of their patriarch -- and a shocking arrest. Life at Easterly will never be the same again. For some, this is good; for others, it could be a tragedy beyond imagining. But love survives all things. Even murder.
