greed

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greed

The moon lake

1981
A shepherd boy follows a lost sheep to the secret lake in which the moon bathes, but greedy townspeople soon learn that its banks are encrusted with silver, gold, and precious jewels.

The Westing game

2002
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

The flying bed

2007
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.

Betty Bunny wants everything

2012
Betty Bunny's mother takes her and her siblings to a toy store where each is allowed to pick out one item, but Betty refuses to choose just one and throws a tantrum when she learns the alternative is to get nothing.

Serena

a novel
2009
George and Serena Pemberton negotiate the terrain of love and betrayal in the mountainous wilderness of North Carolina, where they build a timber business; when Serena learns that she will not bear a child, she plots to murder the illegitimate son George previously fathered in the area.

The pearl

1994
Terrible events follow the discovery of a magnificent pearl by a poor Mexican fisherman.

Sanji and the baker

1998
Sanji loves to stand on his balcony and sniff the wonderful scents arising from the bakery downstairs, but his finds himself in trouble when the baker claims Sanji is stealing his smells and demands to be paid.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger's but I waaannt it!

2000
After his mother buys him all the stuffed animals he wants, a boy discovers what he truly wants.

Hidden treasure

1987
After claiming the treasure that he and his brother haul out of the ocean, Herbert spends the rest of his life fearfully guarding it from possible thieves.

The dream merchant

2005
When Josh Cope is recruited by an international corporation, he finds himself pulled into a nightmare as he is caught in a place between dreams and reality, filled with danger and the threat of destroying the past.

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