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Publisher:
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Inspired by a handwritten note from his idol, Frank Lloyd Wright, Merlin Richards sets off from the Welsh valleys to the Arizona desert to launch his architectural career. Now here in Wright's note does it say anything about murder. Chasing his dream, Richards arrives at the building site of the Arizona Biltmore hotel, where he meets a beautiful young designer named Rosa Lustig. Like every other man in her circle, Merlin is captivated . but only several...
Author:
Series:
Serafina volume 2
Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
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In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her.
Author:
Series:
Serafina volume 3
Pub. Date:
2017
Lexile measure:
920L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When a mysterious threat moves towards Biltmore, bringing with it violent storms and flooding, Serafina must fight to defend all she loves and become everything that she is meant to be.
Author:
Publisher:
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
©2024
Language:
English
Description:
It's 1942, and the United States is at war. Henry Hamilton is an inquisitive twelve-year-old who dreams of being a reporter. Pursuing a story for his school newspaper, Henry's investigation soon leads to a mysterious room inside his town's famous Biltmore Mansion. The mystery only grows deeper when he uncovers the secret of the room's contents. As Henry pursues the story, hoping for his first real scoop, he encounters spies, dark forests, hidden tunnels,...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Under the Southern Sky and the Peachtree Bluff series brings "her signature wit, charm, and heart" (Woman's World) to this sweeping new novel following four women across generations, bound by a beautiful wedding veil and a connection to the famous Vanderbilt family"--
Author:
Series:
Book retreat mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
In order to save her boyfriend, who has been kidnapped, Jane Steward is forced to lead his captor to a historic estate that he believes houses Ernest Hemingway's lost suitcase, a search that leads instead to murder.
Author:
Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
"On a clear December morning in 1937, at the famous gold clock in Grand Central Terminal, Joe Reynolds, a hardworking railroad man from Queens, meets a vibrant young woman who seems mysteriously out of place. Nora Lansing is a Manhattan socialite whose flapper clothing, pearl earrings, and talk of the Roaring Twenties don't seem to match the bleak mood of Depression-era New York. Captivated by Nora from her first electric touch, Joe despairs when...
Author:
Publisher:
The History Press
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
These dark hills and hollers hold endless secret wonders. UFO sightings join mysterious booming noises and the famous Brown Mountain Lights in lists of unexplained phenomena. Ghosts abound from Biltmore to Grandfather Mountain. Learn about the Phantom Rider of the Confederacy and all the spots where the devil is said to have set foot on Tar Heel soil. Sightings of Bigfoot join the legend of the Wampus Cat in tales told around the fire at night. Master...
Author:
Series:
Mystery House volume 8
Publisher:
Eva Pohler
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Ellen should have known that a gathering in America's last castle would entail a few uninvited guests. During a Christmas eve wedding at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Ellen and her friends are visited by multiple ghosts. The spirits have come to tell their stories, to right the wrongs that history has done to their memories. Each of them died in Asheville with their voices stifled. One spirit is particularly adamant and threatening,...
10. Paradigm
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Publisher:
Savas Beatie
Pub. Date:
2006
Language:
English
Description:
GOLD MEDAL FOR FICTION, 2006, MILITARY WRITERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA What is tomorrow's Wall Street Journal worth to you today? Where is the line between reality and fiction? Are the financial markets really predictable? Does an ancient artifact hold the key to how some of the world's wealthiest families made their fortunes? When a mysterious granite and cypress Egyptian box is found hidden away in a secret room in the palatial Biltmore Estate, twin...
Author:
Series:
Serafina volume 4
Pub. Date:
2019
Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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In 1900, the shapeshifting guardian of North Carolina's Biltmore estate faces deceptively dark and terrifying forces that make her question her own senses and whom she can trust.
Author:
Series:
Sam Blackman volume 1
Language:
English
Description:
Sam Blackman, a Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the U.S. military, and Nakayla Robertson must delve into Asheville's rich history--the legacy of the Vanderbilts at the Biltmore estate and of author Thomas Wolfe--to uncover the truth behind the murder of Nakayla's sister. Their only clue--the journal of a twelve-year-old boy.
Author:
Series:
Haunted Craft Fair Mysteries volume 3
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
A Gilded Age ghost helps psychic painter Celeste Cabot catch a killer ... Rising up against the beautiful backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Biltmore Estate is a magnificent mansion in Asheville, North Carolina, built as a summer home for George Washington Vanderbilt II-yes, of those Vanderbilts-during the Gilded Age. Nowadays, it's the site of an annual craft fair. Unfortunately, it's also about to become a crime scene ... Celeste is hard...
Author:
Publisher:
Silk Sheet Books
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Trouble In Paradise... After everything they have been through, Thomas and Josephine's big day has finally arrived. The Biltmore house is all a buzz in preparation for their nuptials, but when things don't go as planned who is the surprise guest to ruin it all? Travel with their love as their story draws to a close. Hopefully, this billionaire has gotten everything he's ever wished for...