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21) The flying bed
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A greedy baker buys his wife a magic bed that flies them to the master baker, where they are given special yeast that helps their bakery become, for a while, the most popular in Florence.
22) Good faith
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
New Jersey realtor Joe Stratford is 40 years old, divorced and ready for a fresh start. Enter Marcus Burns, a former IRS agent who believes the old rules are meant to be broken. Marcus is enthusiastic about his get-rich-quick plans, but are they the right plans for Joe? And why is the local savings and loan so eager to lend Joe and Marcus the money they need to complete a huge real estate transaction?
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
c1968.
Language
English
Description
A young snail dreams of having the biggest houseor shellin the world. Then one day, his wise father tells him the story of another snail with the same dream. He grew and grew, adding bright colors and beautiful designs, until he found that his house came at a terrible cost. The young snail decides that a small, easy-to-carry shell might be best for a life of adventure and exploration.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Obsessed by the gorgeous Annalise Bonner, who cares only for adventure and the good life, accountant Jordan Wise uses his bookkeeping skills to embezzle half a million dollars from his company and plans an escape to the Virgin Islands.
26) Even in paradise
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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 Amontillado sherry and Brabantio's beautiful daughter, Portia....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set partly in America, which Dickens had visited in 1842, the novel includes a searing satire on the United States. Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates of moral redemption and worldly success for one, with increasingly desperate crime for the other. This powerful black comedy involves hypocrisy, greed and blackmail, as well...
29) Gold!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Instead of making friends, seven-year-old Max Midas decides to make millions and spend it on what he loves best, gold, but one day things get lonely inside his shiny castle and Max finally learns that gold is not worth anything without friends and family by your side.
30) One fine day
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After an old woman cuts off his tail when he steals her milk, a fox must go through a long series of transactions before she will sew it back on again.
Author
Publisher
Atmosphere Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes the biggest lessons come in the smallest packages. In the timeless tale...it takes the wits of a bright, brave girl to teach a greedy king that there are things in life much more valuable than wealth or material goods"--Back cover.
32) Little century
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, Esther Chamber is met by her distant cousin, a laconic cattle rancher named Ferris Pickett. But this town on the edge of civilization is in the midst of a very real range war in a story of dispossession, greed, and ecstatic visions of America.
34) Serena: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
RMR Publishing House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Can Harvey R. Holt, perpetrator of a multi-million dollar Ponzi Scheme and R. Sager Sims, a down and out Sin City attorney, overcome the odds to redeem their lives and reputation? The answer boils down to whether or not they can find silver in the sandstone cliffs west of Las Vegas. And if the treasure does exist, can Holt & Sims locate it while running for their lives from sinister forces?
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a failed landowner's accidental death, his fragile young widow struggles to survive, his naturalist friend keeps a series of unusual pets, and an enigmatic debt collector plots an audacious robbery.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Snowboy is busy saving the Polar Bear King when Greenbackboy approaches him with an idea for a game called KA-CHING -- a game that will make them rich. It's easy: all they need to do is cut down all of the trees in the forest and catch all of the fish in the ocean and trade it in for piles and piles of shiny KA-CHING. But if all the trees are gone, they won't be able to breathe. And what is a sea without fish?
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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, thinking him guilty of the heinous crime, despite the lack...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Roaming across the salt flats and skirting the salt lake, Richard, a geologist working for an oil company, hunts for fossils under the spell of Clarissa, the local beauty who plans to use her share of their plunder to get out of small dusty Midland for good. A generation earlier a Depression era couple Max and Marie Omo numbly mines for salt along the banks of the briny lake until the emotional terrain of their marriage is suddenly and irrevocably...
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