"Anticipating a dreadful summer alone, young Alfie Bloom unexpectedly inherits a castle which conceals a centuries-old, dangerous secret that threatens everyone who lives within one thousand miles"--OCLC.
"Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir"--OCLC.
how the daughters of Genghis Khan rescued his empire
Weatherford, J. McIver
2010
A comprehensive history of the women who ruled the Mongol empire during the thirteenth century, focusing on Queen Manduhai, the daughter of Genghis Khan, who restored the Mongol Empire and spent her life fighting both the Ming Dynasty of China and Muslim warlords.
When an aging, senile king attempts to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, he begins a power struggle that tears his kingdom apart and results in the deaths of those closest to him.
Firekeeper, a young woman raised by royal wolves with their own spoken language, returns to the world of humans to fulfill the wishes of her late mother and learns that she may be the daughter of Prince Barden, who left Hawk Haven years earlier to start a colony and was never heard from again.
Seventeen-year-old Imogene Rockford turned away from her family and their English country manor after her parents' death, but assumes her duty as the new Duchess of Wickersham despite threats and strange occurrences.
Traces Anthony and Gloria Patch, a spoiled couple, through various romantic pursuits which leave them after six years of marriage with Anthony a mental and physical wreck and Gloria's beauty waning.
Rosalinda Fitzroy, heir to the multiplanetary corporation UniCorp, is awakened after years in stasis to find that everyone she knew has died and, as she tries to make a new life for herself, learns she is the target of a robot assassin.
An unexpected legacy from the father who deserted her as a baby starts Jenny on a dangerous search for answers to questions concerning her father, his death, and her own future.
