family-owned business enterprises

Twins Bick and Beck Kidd and their family of professional treasure hunters race against mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and a lumber baron through the jungles and mountains of Peru in search of Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city of gold, in hope of conserving the archaeological treasure and preventing deforestation of the rain forest.

Tim loves his job at the family pet store because he gets to spend time with a black cockatoo named Elmo, but he questions his father's leadership when a bird is stolen during a public event.

Even though twelve-year-old Pixie prefers to blend into the background, she might have to step closer to the center of attention when her friend runs for class president and when her mom leaves town indefinitely, leaving her parent's party planning business in need of a British-accented punk mermaid.

Katie leaves her job at Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc., in Manhattan, as well as the sexy wizard Owen Palmer, to return to a simpler life in Cobb, Texas, but when Cobb is hit with a spate of devilish mischief, Katie recognizes it as "unauthorized magic," and Owen joins her and her friends in showing why it is unwise to hex with Texas.

"Twelve-year-old Kestrel must battle the evil twin daughters of a property developer and overcome her own worst fears to prevent the foreclosure of her grandmother's beloved Vancouver lodge"--OCLC.

"Anna has studiously avoided her Aunt Rose -- the woman she once loved more than anyone else in the world -- every since the night Rose betrayed Anna and her mother, Rose's own fatally ill sister. In the sixteen years that have passed, Anna has built another life for herself far from her hometown on Maryland's eastern shore, but she can't forgive or forget. Now another betrayal, by a faithless lover, has brought Anna back to her family's restaurant, where Rose needs her estranged niece's help -- and trust -- more than ever before. Determined to leave as soon as the struggling business is back on its feet and her own hurt is healed, Anna joins Rose in the kitchen of the Bella Sorella, resolved to remain unaffected by Rose's longing to undo the past. But Anna's resistance could blind her to a true and unexpected love that's reching out to grab her by the heart."--back cover.

For one hundred years the Angelini Shoe Company has bought its shoe leather from Vechiarelli & Son in Tuscany. This business relationship leads Valentine Roncalli to meet and fall in love with Gianluca Vechiarelli, and the two start a life together with bumps on the road. However, Valentine meets each bump with the knowledge that anyone who can craft a shoe can do nearly anything.

"During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie"--Provided by publisher.

Trevor Barnett has become the lead spokesman for the tobacco industry just as it's on the verge of extinction, and is forced to announce on national television that no cigarettes will be manufactured or sold until the industry is given ironclad protection from the courts, causing the economy to falter and chaos to take hold of the nation.

Amy Steadman, heir to a merchandising and publishing empire, uncovers some shocking family secrets while cleaning out her murdered grandmother's home.