A Fortune in Waiting

A Fortune in Waiting
Author: Michelle Major
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488013934

FORTUNE ON THE MENU Even in a town as eclectic as Austin, Keaton Fortune Whitfield stands out. With his dreamy British accent and his slate-blue eyes, he has captured the fancy of every red-blooded Texas female in town…except one. Francesca Harriman, his favorite waitress at Lola May's, seems completely immune to his charms. When she's not on her shift, she's too busy studying to pay attention to him—which only makes him want her more. Francesca has been burned before, and she won't let the Londoner melt her heart. What would a brilliant, wealthy architect want with a commoner like her? She's not about to abandon her schooling to become Keaton's catch of the day. Could a hash-slinging waitress really find happiness with a Fortune?

Waiting for Bojangles

Waiting for Bojangles
Author: Olivier Bourdeaut
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501145916

An “oddball fairy tale” (The New York Times)—shortlisted for one of France’s highest literary prizes—a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways. A young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment, where the unopened mail rises in a tower by the door and his parents dance each night to Nina Simone’s mellifluous classic “Mister Bojangles.” As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into her own mind, it is up to the boy and his father to keep her safe—and, when that fails, happy. Fleeing Paris for a country home in Spain, they come to understand that some of the most radiant people bear the heaviest burdens. Told from the perspective of a young boy who idolizes his parents—and from George’s journals, detailing his epic love story with his wife—Waiting for Bojangles is a “lighthearted and yet sorrowful tale” (San Francisco Chronicle) that will stay with you long after the final page.

The Alchemist of Fire and Fortune

The Alchemist of Fire and Fortune
Author: Gigi Pandian
Publisher: Gargoyle Girl Productions
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1938213157

The fifth book in the award-winning Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series by USA Today bestselling author Gigi Pandian. A blackmailer obsessed with gold. A boyfriend who’s more than he seems. And a treasure hidden on the Oregon coast. Alchemist Zoe Faust’s mentor Nicolas Flamel is back in her life, but catching up with him will have to wait. An elusive blackmailer has threatened to expose a dangerous alchemical secret. Zoe’s boyfriend is out of town protecting secrets of his own. So when rumors of a treasure map reach Zoe, she turns her back on what sounds like no more than a game. Zoe’s mischievous living gargoyle best friend Dorian, who thinks of himself as a modern-day Poirot, is convinced the map is real—and that it’s the key to proving himself as valuable to Zoe as her human family. With the help of the neighborhood teenagers, Dorian sets out to find the treasure, risking more than he planned in the process. Rumors, treasures, and secrets intersect to unearth more than Zoe could have dreamed—and could leave her family changed forever. Can Zoe stop the threat to the family unit she’s created?

Fortune's Rocks

Fortune's Rocks
Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1999-12-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780316781015

Olympia Biddeford's passionate affair with a married man nearly three times her age, results in her being exiled from society and forces her to make a new life for herself.

Metrical Pieces

Metrical Pieces
Author: Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1855
Genre: Christian poetry, American
ISBN:

Copy Fights

Copy Fights
Author: Adam D. Thierer
Publisher: Cato Institute
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2002
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781930865242

A debate on the theory of intellectual property, the evolution of copyright and patent law, and the use of technology to protect intellectual property. An important book on cutting-edge issues.

Through Thick and Thin

Through Thick and Thin
Author: Kevin Waddle
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595176127

During a rainy weekend in a small Virginia town, four college friends are reunited after spending the last three years apart. They are called together for reasons they don’t fully understand, and it soon becomes clear that not everything is how it seems. Among them are Reggie “Battle” Battlefield, the organizer of the reunion and son of a prominent state politician; Jake Mathis, a successful business manager from Cincinnati who knows more than he’s letting on; Travis Li, a sports reporter in the nation’s capital trying to break the biggest story of the year; and Tommy Covington, a former hero who now lives alone in Kansas City. As the weekend unfolds, tensions flare as the group struggles to learn the real purpose of their reunion. New secrets are revealed, old wounds are reopened, and a dark figure from their past comes back to haunt them all. Their homecoming suddenly appears to be the work of a larger and more dangerous plot, and the group is unexpectedly launched on a final mission to save one of their own. But succeeding means working together, forcing the former college pals to reexamine their friendship and question their once unshakable loyalty to each other.

Horrible Histories Special: Twentieth Century

Horrible Histories Special: Twentieth Century
Author: Terry Deary
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1407137204

Readers can discover all the foul facts about the TWENTIETH CENTURY, including who shocked the world by showing her knickers, how two monkeys and a dog became astronauts and why a posh London restaurant served stewed cat.

Assassin

Assassin
Author: Duncan Falconer
Publisher: Sphere
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0748122249

In Afghanistan, elite operative John Stratton leads a raid on a remote compound, leaving no survivors. Days later, in London, Stratton is contacted by an old friend in military intelligence with a curious message about being hunted by an assassin. When the officer vanishes, Stratton is drawn into a desperate race to secure a missing nuclear warhead that has been stolen from the Pakistan military. Against an unknown enemy, he begins a heart-stopping search for the bomb that will take him from a Taliban hideout just a few miles outside Bagram Air Base to the crowded streets of Manhattan. A terrifying and authentic vision of the special forces world by an ex-SBS operative, this is Duncan Falconer's most gripping thriller to date.