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From the glamorous San Francisco social scene of the 1920s, through war and the social changes of the '60s, to the rise of Silicon Valley today, this extraordinary novel takes us on a family odyssey that is both heartbreaking and inspiring, as each generation faces the challenges of their day. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the 1960s - history holds many surprises, and lives are changed...
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LA NUEVA NOVELA DE DANIELLE STEEL, LA AUTORA MÁS LEÍDA EN TODO EL MUNDO.900 MILLONES DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS. La emotiva historia de una familia y un vestido muy especial, heredado de madres a hijas a lo largo de años llenos de felicidad, pérdidas, tragedias y éxitos. En los años veinte la familia Deveraux es una de las más importantes de San Francisco. En 1929 la boda de la hija, Eleanor, con Alexander Allen, un joven y adinerado banquero,...
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"A circular tale of time travel in a picture book! Max and her dog Boomer accidentally break a vase, a treasured family heirloom-the only thing that Max's great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother managed to save when her houseboat sank. Instead of coming clean, they decide to do the next most logical thing: Build a time machine, travel back to her great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother's home, and smash the vase then so that they can't...
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"En una caja de seguridad abandonada en un banco de Nueva York aparecen un fajo de cartas manuscritas, fotografías, pasaportes caducados y veintidós joyas de un valor incalculable. Jane Willoughby, empleada judicial, recibe el encargo de encontrar a los posibles herederos, y Phillip Lawton, experto de la casa de subasta Christie's, el de tasar las piezas. Atraída por el hallazgo, Jane averigua el nombre de la enigmática mujer que aparece en las...
26) For Love of Eli
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When unspeakable tragedy leaves young Eli an orphan, two families are devastated. Taylor, Eli's widowed aunt and legal guardian, runs a bed and breakfast. She helps Eli remember his parents by creating a Memory Quilt. As she pieces together the moments of his parents' lives, the young family's story emerges and Taylor and Eli begin to heal. Eli's Uncle Reece, a pediatrician with shared custody of Eli, still blames Taylor's brother for his sister's...
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Młoda prawniczka Jane ma wrażenie, że znalazła się na życiowym zakręcie: jej związek przechodzi kryzys, a praca nie dostarcza zbyt wielu wrażeń. Aż do dnia, gdy musi zająć się niezwykłą sprawą: nadzoruje licytację pamiątek pozostawionych przez pewną arystokratkę. Sprawa wydaje się tajemnicza-- o hrabinie niewiele wiadomo. Być może jednak pamiątki-- kilka wyblakłych fotografii, stare listy i bezcenne klejnoty-- mogą stanowić...
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The morning of her niece's wedding, Margo Just drinks a double martini and contemplates the many mistakes she's made in her fifty-odd years of life. Spending three decades in love with a wonderful but unattainable man is pretty high up on her list of missteps, as is a long line of unsuccessful love affairs accompanied by a seemingly endless supply of delicious cocktails. When the young bride flees -- taking with her a family heirloom and leaving behind...
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"Chloe has a devil of a time unraveling the mysteries of Norway's fiddle and dance traditions. After her mother's unexpected death, curator Chloe Ellefson discovers hidden antiques that hint at family secrets. Determined to find answers, Chloe accepts a consultant job in Norway, her ancestors' homeland. She's thrilled with the opportunity to explore Hardanger fiddle and dance traditions . . . and her own heritage. Once their plane lands, however,...
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On leave from his Highland regiment, Captain Liam Lockhart comes to London on an urgent mission: to repossess the stolen family heirloom that could save his ancestral estate. He never dreamed it would involve surrendering his heart. But the beautiful and scandalous socialite Ellen Farnsworth sets his Highland blood aflame with a will as strong and reckless as his own.
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Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years -- and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking.
"Qué ocurriría si, de repente, tus deseos más inconfesables empezaran a cumplirse? A Gemma Ranford le fascina la Historia, y por eso está encantada de catalogar los documentos de los Frazier, una de las familias más antiguas de Edilean....
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Witch P.I volume 37
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"There have been many changes to Jill's life during the last six years, but she's just as busy as ever. A family heirloom has disappeared from Tweaking Manor, and a man claims he saw a woman being shot, but the police insist no such shooting ever took place. Meanwhile, Winky is up to his old tricks." -- Back cover.
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Defeating the giants volume 1
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Trinkets become heirlooms - treasures rich with history... En route to Washington, D.C., to celebrate the victory of Brown v. Board of Education, Tobias Bascom settles into his seat on the train. In his hands he holds an elegant, old tin box containing what seems to be very ordinary items - that are far from ordinary... As Tobias props opens his inherited tin box carefully passed on to each generation, he unveils a "time capsule" spanning the last...
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"Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian is a brilliant and enigmatic British jewelry appraiser. Seigi Nakata is a young college student. Their worlds are as different as can be, but when a chance encounter leads Seigi to hire Richard to appraise a family heirloom, it sparks a partnership that goes well beyond that one job. Together, the duo investigate jewelry-related cases and solve mysteries, finding the secret messages hidden in the hearts of precious stones-and...
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Secrets of the manor volume 2
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It's the end of June in 1914, and Beth Etheridge is traveling from her home in England's Chatswood Manor all the way to America, to visit her cousin Kate at Vandermeer Manor in Rhode Island. The girls are thrilled to be united, especially because Beth will be in attendance when Kate receives the heirloom "Katherine" necklace: one half of a heart encrusted with gorgeous rubies. It's the companion to Beth's "Elizabeth" necklace. But the trip is cut...
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Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 5
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"Mystery arises at Secondhand Blessings when Martha promises to hold a unique crazy quilt for her late mother's best friend Anne, who says it is a family heirloom. But then an elderly Amish customer comes along and demands that she be allowed to buy the quilt, claiming that it belonged to her family. Do the two share some connection the Classens don't know about? Can Amish neighbor Rachel Fischer help the sisters uncover the clues they need from members...
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