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1) Ambush
Author
Series
Michael Bennett mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a setup. An officer is taken down--and, despite the attackers' efforts, it's not Michael Bennett. New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows, each with a distinct signature, alerting Bennett to the presence of a professional killer with a flair for disguise. Bennett taps his best investigators...
Pub. Date
[2011], c1999
Language
English
Description
From cartoons to country music, "feuding like the Hatfields and McCoys" is synonymous with senseless fighting, barbaric behavior and endless grudges. Behind the hillbilly stereotype is an untold story of romance, greed and exploitation. Here is the story of two famous families and their infamous legacy.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Locked in a deadly feud, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent decades attempting to annihilate each other any time they are within shooting distance. So far, the men are even. One of Frank's bullets has given Randy a permanent limp. Vain Frank wears a prosthetic ear, his own lost to Randy's assault. If either of them remembers the original reason for the feud, it seems moot now. Their quest for revenge has led them on a merry chase through...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
In their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, the O'Donnells and the Angerts have mythic legacies. But for all the tall tales they weave, both founding families are tight-lipped about what caused the century-old rift between them, except to say it began with a cherry tree. Eighteen-year-old Jack “June” O'Donnell doesn't need a better reason than that. She's an O'Donnell to her core, just like her late father was, and O'Donnells stay away from Angerts....
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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Description
While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old family feud.
11) A pho love story
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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AAPI YA Books
Forbidden Romance - Adult/YA
If You Like Summer I Turned Pretty, Read These!
Romantic Fiction - YA
Forbidden Romance - Adult/YA
If You Like Summer I Turned Pretty, Read These!
Romantic Fiction - YA
Description
High school seniors Bao and Linh, whose feuding families own competing Vietnamese restaurants, conceal their budding romance, as well as Linh's desire to become an artist.
Author
Series
Texas local volume no. 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Stafford-Townsend feud began with an 1871 shootout in Columbus, Texas, followed by the deaths of the Stafford brothers in 1890. The second phase blossomed after 1898 with the assassination of Larkin Hope, and concluded in 1911 with the violent deaths of Marion Hope, Jim Townsend, and Will Clements, all in the space of one month."-- From publisher's description.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Los Jiménez y los Fuentes arrastran una sangrienta historia. Todo se remonta a cuando el noviazgo entre Amadeo Jiménez y Luciana Fuentes acabó en ruptura. Desde entonces, las dos familias se enfrentaron en una guerra centrada en los lindes de sus tierras. Luciana, que no olvida lo que pasó, instiga a sus hermanos a una sangrienta venganza.
The matriarch of one of two feuding clans in a small Spanish village, presses her family to avenge real...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Sooner or later, we're all gonna be okay." That's what Dani's Grandma Beans used to say. But that was before she got Alzheimer's. Lately, Dani isn't so sure Grandma Beans was right. In fact, she isn't sure of a lot of things, like why Mac Richardson suddenly doesn't want to be her friend, and why Grandma Beans and Avadelle Richardson haven't spoken in decades. Lately, Grandma Beans doesn't make a lot of sense. But when she tells Dani to find a secret...
Author
Series
These violent delights volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.
17) Romeo and Juliet
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It's William Shakespeare's epic and searing tale of love. An ageless story from the world's most renowned author is reimagined for the 21st Century. This adaptation is told in the lush traditional setting it was written, but gives a new generation the chance to fall in love with the enduring legend.
Author
Series
St. Rosetta's Academy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Told in two voices, Jaya Rao, an East Indian princess, and Grey Emerson, an English lord, suffer the effects of a centuries-old feud when they meet at an elite Colorado boarding school.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Raku and Chitoge's false love is off to a rocky start, but they have everyone fooled! Meanwhile, Raku's still hung up on his childhood sweetheart and wears a pendant around his neck as a memento. However, one big problem prevents him from finding the girl whom he promised to marry--he can't remember her name or face! To further complicate matters, Onodera, Raku's current crush who also harbors secret feelings for him, accidentally overhears Raku...
Author
Series
Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The second book in the Dark Star trilogy ... Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened to the boy, and how she plotted and fought, triumphed and failed as she looked for him. It's also the story of a century-long feud--seen through the eyes of a 177-year-old witch--that Sogolon had with the Aesi, chancellor to the king. It is said that Aesi works so closely with the king that together they are like the eight limbs of...
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