The American Heir

Author : Brad Weston
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1613464673

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Secrets come in all sizes, forms, and severities. Some secrets are simply a nuisance, like an old boyfriend or girlfriend you are trying to forget. Some are embarrassing, like a mouse running through your kitchen on Thanksgiving Day in front of the whole family. Others are like a hand grenade in your toilet; eventually they just blow the lid off! What would you do if you found out you inherited a castle in England? What if you were promised a million dollars to visit, if only for a week? Is it worth leaving the comfortable life you have now? Is it worth your very life itself? Mika Cosgrove is an American school teacher, but also the heir of Moinster castle in northern England. Mika is caught in a life-changing adventure through a foreign land, thrust into the role of proprietor and perpetuator of his family name and grandest possession. His youthfulness and pride are at once his greatest virtue, as well as his costliest vice. His only salvation may lie with a local newspaper reporter with whom he has fallen in love. Have his actions really resulted in destroying his family legacy? Can he manage to preserve the dignity of his family name, as well as his own life? Moinster doesn't pay taxes and isn't under the authority of the Queen. A four hundred and fifty year old secret lies at the heart of the ninety-two hundred acre estate, a secret that draws in the Royal Crown of England and the president of Germany. Who really owns Moinster, and what will it cost them to keep it?

Author : Gina Robinson
Publisher : Gina Robinson
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE AMERICAN HEIR is book 4 of the Billionaire Duke series. This series needs to be read in order. If you haven’t read the other books, now’s a good time to go back and see what you missed. Start with THE BILLIONAIRE DUKE. Does their marriage stand a ghost of a chance? Seattle billionaire and reluctant new duke Riggins Feldhem is going to be a father, whether he likes it or not. And he's deeply in love with his duchess. How much is he willing to sacrifice to make his temporary marriage permanent and find his happily-ever-after? The Duchess of Witham is ready to fight to keep her duke. But old ghosts have a way of haunting the present and one of them is gunning for her future with Riggins. Scroll up and grab your copy today!

Author : Daisy Goodwin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429987080

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The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin Pdf

Now including an excerpt from VICTORIA: A Novel, by Daisy Goodwin, the Creator/Writer of the Masterpiece Presentation on PBS. "Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind." --Allison Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of I Don't Know How She Does It and I Think I Love You Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage. Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, Cora's story marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. "For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness." --Daisy Goodwin in The Daily Mail One of Library Journal's Best Historical Fiction Books of 2011

Author : Philip Jett
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781250111821

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The Death of an Heir by Philip Jett Pdf

The Death of an Heir is Philip Jett's chilling true account of the Coors family’s gilded American dream that turned into a nightmare when a meticulously plotted kidnapping went horribly wrong. In the 1950s and 60s, the Coors dynasty reigned over Golden, Colorado, seemingly invincible. When rumblings about labor unions threatened to destabilize the family's brewery, Adolph Coors, Jr., the septuagenarian president of the company, drew a hard line, refusing to budge. They had worked hard for what they had, and no one had a right to take it from them. What they'd soon realize was that they had more to lose than they could have imagined. On the morning of Tuesday, February 9, 1960, Adolph “Ad” Coors III, the 44-year-old CEO of the multimillion dollar Colorado beer empire, stepped into his car and headed for the brewery twelve miles away. At a bridge he stopped to help a man in a yellow Mercury sedan. On the back seat lay handcuffs and leg irons. The glove box held a ransom note ready to be mailed. His coat pocket shielded a loaded pistol. What happened next set off the largest U.S. manhunt since the Lindbergh kidnapping. State and local authorities, along with the FBI personally spearheaded by its director J. Edgar Hoover, burst into action attempting to locate Ad and his kidnapper. The dragnet spanned a continent. All the while, Ad’s grief-stricken wife and children waited, tormented by the unrelenting silence. The Death of an Heir reveals the true story behind the tragic murder of Colorado’s favorite son.

Author : Bob Nienaber
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781532068645

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American Bloodline by Bob Nienaber Pdf

Charlie seems like a normal, modern guy, and up to now he didn’t even know about his amazing bloodline, which reaches back to the lost tribe of Benjamin. After the Benjamins defeated the Romans, they left Israel and wandered through northern Germany. Charlie is astonished to learn that his ancestors played a role in Charlemagne’s ascension, William the Conqueror’s rule over Normandy and England, and the founding of the American colonies. But the family’s place in history isn’t just impressive—it’s otherworldly. Along the way, there was a dose of the divine from Poseidon himself, injecting powers of mythical proportion into the bloodline. Now Charlie’s own powers have awakened as he finds himself heir to wealth beyond his wildest dreams. He’s always thought he was on the outside looking in, but now he learns that those set apart can become leaders, heroes, and world changers. Armed with his new knowledge, Charlie discovers that the very traits that made his family “different” also gave them strength and tenacity.

Author : Gina Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692731237

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Does their marriage stand a ghost of a chance? SEATTLE'S SECOND HOTTEST BILLIONAIRE HAS FALLEN IN LOVE American billionaire and reluctant new duke Riggins Feldhem is going to be a father, whether he likes it or not. And he's deeply in love with his duchess. How much is he willing to sacrifice to make his temporary marriage permanent and find his happily-ever-after? The Duchess of Witham is ready to fight to keep her duke. But old ghosts have a way of haunting the present and one of them is gunning for her future with Riggins. The stunning conclusion of the page-turning romantic comedy readers have been waiting for! Continue in the exciting and romantic world of the Jet City Billionaires... The Billionaire Duke Series NOTE: These novels must be read in the order listed below. 1-The Billionaire Duke 2-The Duchess Contest 3-The Temporary Duchess 4-The American Heir The Jet City Billionaires world presents romantic stories full of humor, laughs, secrets, mysteries, and poignancy. The Billionaire Duke Series is a modern twist on the classic marriage of convenience story. Scroll up and grab a copy today!

Author : Susan Rieger
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101904732

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The Heirs by Susan Rieger Pdf

Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017 "Both original and moving—and a whole lot of fun."—CAROLINE LEAVITT, New York Times Book Review "A must-read."—People "Fans of Salinger's stories about Manhattan's elite will enjoy this novel about privileged siblings who grapple with the state of their inheritance and long-held secrets that emerge in the wake of their father's death."—InStyle Six months after Rupert Falkes dies, leaving a grieving widow and five adult sons, an unknown woman sues his estate, claiming she had two sons by him. The Falkes brothers are pitched into turmoil, at once missing their father and feeling betrayed by him. In disconcerting contrast, their mother, Eleanor, is cool and calm, showing preternatural composure. Eleanor and Rupert had made an admirable life together—Eleanor with her sly wit and generosity, Rupert with his ambition and English charm—and they were proud of their handsome, talented sons: Harry, a brash law professor; Will, a savvy Hollywood agent; Sam, an astute doctor and scientific researcher; Jack, a jazz trumpet prodigy; Tom, a public-spirited federal prosecutor. The brothers see their identity and success as inextricably tied to family loyalty—a loyalty they always believed their father shared. Struggling to reclaim their identity, the brothers find Eleanor’s sympathy toward the woman and her sons confounding. Widowhood has let her cast off the rigid propriety of her stifling upbringing, and the brothers begin to question whether they knew either of their parents at all. A riveting portrait of a family, told with compassion, insight, and wit, The Heirs wrestles with the tangled nature of inheritance and legacy for one unforgettable, patrician New York family. Moving seamlessly through a constellation of rich, arresting voices, The Heirs is a tale out Edith Wharton for the 21st century.

Author : Amélie Wen Zhao
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780525707813

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Blood Heir by Amélie Wen Zhao Pdf

The first book in an epic new series about a princess hiding a dark secret and the con man she must trust to clear her name for her father's murder. In the Cyrilian Empire, Affinites are reviled. Their varied gifts to control the world around them are unnatural—dangerous. And Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a terrifying secret. Her deadly Affinity to blood is her curse and the reason she has lived her life hidden behind palace walls. When Ana's father, the emperor, is murdered, her world is shattered. Framed as his killer, Ana must flee the palace to save her life. And to clear her name, she must find her father's murderer on her own. But the Cyrilia beyond the palace walls is far different from the one she thought she knew. Corruption rules the land, and a greater conspiracy is at work—one that threatens the very balance of her world. And there is only one person corrupt enough to help Ana get to its core: Ramson Quicktongue. A cunning crime lord of the Cyrilian underworld, Ramson has sinister plans—though he might have met his match in Ana. Because in this story, the princess might be the most dangerous player of all. “Cinematic storytelling at its best.”—Adrienne Young, New York Times bestselling author of Sky in the Deep and The Girl the Sea Gave Back “Zhao shines in the fast-paced and vivid combat scenes, which lend a cinematic quality that pulls readers in.”—The New York Times Book Review “Zhao is a master writer who weaves a powerful tale of loyalty, honor, and courage through a strong female protagonist. . . . Readers will love the fast-paced energy and plot twists in this adventure-packed story.”—SLJ

Author : Sufiya Abdur-Rahman
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609387822

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Heir to the Crescent Moon by Sufiya Abdur-Rahman Pdf

"From age five, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, the daughter of two Black Power-era converts to Islam, feels drawn to the faith even as her father, a devoted Muslim, introduces her to and, at the same time, distances her from it. He and her mother abandoned their Harlem mosque before she was born and divorced when she was twelve. Forced apart from her father--her portal into Islam--she yearns to reconnect with the religion and, through it, him. In Heir to the Crescent Moon, Abdur-Rahman's longing to comprehend her father's complicated relationship with Islam leads her first to recount her own history with it. Later, as she seeks to discover what both pulled her father to and pushed him from the mosque and her mother, Abdur-Rahman delves into the past. She journeys from the Christian righteousness of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.'s 1950s Harlem, through the Malcolm X-inspired college activism of the late 1960s, to the unfulfilled potential of the early-'70s' black American Muslim movement. When a painful reminder of the reason for her father's inconsistent ties to his former mosque appears to threaten his life, Abdur-Rahman's search nearly ends. She's forced to come to terms with her Muslim identity, and learns how events from generations past can reverberate through the present. Told, at times, with lighthearted humor or heartbreaking candor, Abdur-Rahman's story of adolescent Arabic lessons, fasting, and Muslim mosque, funeral, and eid services speaks to the challenges of bridging generational and cultural divides and what it takes to maintain family amidst personal and societal upheaval. Writing with quiet beauty but intellectual force about identity, community, violence, hope, despair, and faith, Abdur-Rahman weaves a vital tale about a family: black, Muslim, and distinctly American"--

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385542548

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Heirs of the Founders by H. W. Brands Pdf

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. Together these heirs of Washington, Jefferson and Adams took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency and set themselves the task of finishing the work the Founders had left undone. Their rise was marked by dramatic duels, fierce debates, scandal and political betrayal. Yet each in his own way sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its refusal to specify where authority ultimately rested, with the states or the nation, and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. They wrestled with these issues for four decades, arguing bitterly and hammering out political compromises that held the Union together, but only just. Then, in 1850, when California moved to join the Union as a free state, "the immortal trio" had one last chance to save the country from the real risk of civil war. But, by that point, they had never been further apart. Thrillingly and authoritatively, H. W. Brands narrates an epic American rivalry and the little-known drama of the dangerous early years of our democracy.

Author : Heather Cocks,Jessica Morgan
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538715925

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The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks,Jessica Morgan Pdf

Making it up the aisle was the easy part: Rebecca "Bex" Porter must survive her own scandals and adjust to royal British life in this "positively delicious" follow-up to The Royal We that's "just as fun, charming, and delightful as the first" (Taylor Jenkins Reid). After a scandalous secret turns their fairy-tale wedding into a nightmare, Rebecca "Bex" Porter and her husband Prince Nicholas are in self-imposed exile. The public is angry. The Queen is even angrier. And the press is salivating. Cutting themselves off from friends and family, and escaping the world's judgmental eyes, feels like the best way to protect their fragile, all-consuming romance. But when a crisis forces the new Duke and Duchess back to London, the Band-Aid they'd placed over their problems starts to peel at the edges. Now, as old family secrets and new ones threaten to derail her new royal life, Bex has to face the emotional wreckage she and Nick left behind: with the Queen, with the world, and with Nick's brother Freddie, whose sins may not be so easily forgotten—nor forgiven.

Author : Gary V. Wood
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739106015

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Heir to the Fathers by Gary V. Wood Pdf

In Heir to the Fathers, author Gary V. Wood examines the ideas that guided John Quincy Adams throughout his political career. For Wood, it is Adams' understanding of The Constitution of the United States that foregrounds a crucial link between the principles laid-forth in The Declaration of Independence and the original intent of the Framers of The Constitution. Heir to the Fathers traces this link through an examination of Adams' celebrated essay, Jubilee of the Constitution and, most significantly, through his defense of a group of Africans who mutinied aboard the slave ship Amistad. The contradictory relationship between what is stated The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution and the treatment of African slaves has been a persistent problem in any attempt to understand the legacy of freedom in the United States. Adams' argument before the Supreme Court, based on his interpretation of constitutional law, is an example of how this unique political mind comes to terms with this contradiction without abandoning the spirit of America's founding principles. Wood's discussion of Adams' political and intellectual life invites readers to reexamination the principles upon which the United States of America was founded. Heir to the Fathers is a salient addition to the study of constitutional law and history and American political thought.

Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : HMH
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547526799

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Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick Pdf

A teenage girl goes to work for a chaotic family of Jewish immigrants, in a New York Times bestseller that’s “a cause for celebration” (Ann Patchett). In the 1930s, New York is swarming with Europe’s ousted dreamers, alien families adapting to a new world. Rose Meadows unknowingly enters the lives of one such family when she answers an ad for an “assistant” to a Herr Mitwisser, the patriarch of a large household living in an obscure little neighborhood, in a remote corner of the sparse and weedy northeast Bronx. With an uncertain future, and no clear idea of her duties, Rose—orphaned at eighteen and recently turned out by lover—has become a refugee among refugees. Expelled from Berlin’s elite, Professor Mitwisser—a researcher obsessed with an arcane religious doctrine—lives with his wife, a prominent physicist now quietly going mad, and Anneliese, their willful sixteen-year-old daughter. When Anneliese’s fierce longing draws a new outcast into the fold—a vagrant actor running from fame—it’s up to Rose to quell the emotional, sexual, spiritual, and societal tempests brewing within the Mitwissers unsettled home. Hailed by the New York Times as “the most accomplished and graceful literary stylist of our time,” Cynthia Ozick is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Nabokov Award and PEN/Malamud Award, and Heir to the Glimmering World is yet another triumph from the author of the National Book Award finalist The Puttermesser Papers and Foreign Bodies. “A heroine to love, a story we can’t let go of, gorgeous sentences, and ideas to wrestle with. I didn’t just read the book, I devoured.” —Ann Patchett

Author : Anne Herries
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426841231

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The Unknown Heir by Anne Herries Pdf

A woman must make a match for an eligible American bachelor while trying to resist his charms in this captivating Regency romance. Miss Hester Sheldon believes the American heir to her adopted grandfather’s estate is a rogue and a rebel—with no fortune of his own. Now she has been instructed to teach him the ways of English society, and to find him a suitable wife! But Jared Clinton turns out to be powerful, very wealthy—and extremely handsome! Hester, who has always thought she was destined never to marry, is shocked by her building desire. Soon she is wishing that she could be his chosen bride . . .

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : American literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433000086706

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The American Catalogue by Anonim Pdf