inheritance and succession

Twelve-year-old Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass look for the hidden will left by an eccentric cereal tycoon who wished to make life difficult for his heirs after his own death by suicide.

Presents a newly edited text of William Shakespeare's "King Lear," along with detailed notes and performance annotations, introduction by Harold Bloom, commentaries by various writers including Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, and John Keats, plot summary, biography, and literary criticism.

From the age of seven when she became scullery maid in a castle, Molly has seen visions of the future which, years later, lead her and friend Tobias on an adventure to keep Alaric, the heir to the throne, safe from a curse.

Lured to their sick Uncle Silas's home under the pretense of becoming heirs to his vast fortune, cousins Adele, Isabella, and Milo soon learn that the old man has a diabolical plan to prevent his own death.

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to track down Guy Malek, a man who walked away from his family eighteen years earlier and now stands to inherit part of his deceased father's forty-million dollar estate, but unfortunately, not everyone is eager to welcome home the prodigal son.

On her eighteenth birthday, spoiled party girl Lexington Larrabee learns that her days of making tabloid headlines may be at an end when her ever-absent father decides she must learn some values by working a different, low-wage job every week for a year or forfeit her multimillion-dollar trust fund.

Richard Paris, proud owner of a cemetery in the small town of Raven Hollow which he inherited from his grandfather, has succeeded in defeating Satan, and now must find a way to deal with the Internal Revenue Service which wants inheritance tax.

Presents a graphic novel version of Shakespeare's well known tragedy of a king who foolishly disinherits his favorite daughter when she speaks out against his kingdom and splits it between his other two other deceitful daughters.

A reinterpretation of the ancient Indian epic the "Mahabharat, " in which Panchaali, a child destined to change history, marries all five Pandava brothers and builds the magnificent Palace of Illusions, only to have her spiritual failings lead them all to the brink of disaster.