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Bless your heart / by Ryan, Lindy,author.;
"A crackling mystery-horror novel with big-hearted characters and Southern charm with a bite, Bless Your Heart is a gasp-worthy delight from start to finish from debut author Lindy Ryan. Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill. It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with ... normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. That's how Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty years, and her progeny-Lenore the experimenter and Grace, Lenore's soft-hearted daughter, have run Evans Funeral Parlor for the last fifteen years without drama. Ever since That Godawful Mess that left two bodies in the ground and Grace raising her infant daughter Luna, alone. But when town gossip Mina Jean Murphy's body is brought in for a regular burial and she rises from the dead instead, it's clear that the Strigoi-the original vampire-are back. And the Evans women are the ones who need to fight back to protect their town. As more folks in town turn up dead and Deputy Roger Taylor begins asking way too many questions, Ducey, Lenore, Grace, and now Luna, must take up their blades and figure out who is behind the Strigoi's return. As the saying goes, what rises up, must go back down. But as unspoken secrets and revelations spill from the past into the present, the Evans family must face that sometimes, the dead aren't the only things you want to keep buried."--
Subjects: Vampire fiction.; Horror fiction.; Novels.; Dead; Family-owned business enterprises; Funeral homes; Intergenerational relations; Undertakers and undertaking; Vampires; Women-owned business enterprises;

A Caribbean heiress in Paris / by Herrera, Adriana(Romance author),author.;
"Paris, 1889. Luz Alana set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one simple rule: under no circumstances is she to fall in love. In the City of Lights, she intends to expand the rum business her family built over three generations, but buyers and shippers alike can't imagine doing business with a woman ... never mind a woman of color. This, paired with being denied access to her inheritance unless she marries, leaves the heiress in a very precarious position. Enter James Evanston Sinclair, Earl of Darnick, who has spent a decade looking for purpose outside of his father's dirty money and dirtier dealings. Ignoring his title, he's built a whiskey brand that's his biggest -- and only-- passion. That is, until he's confronted with a Spanish-speaking force of nature who turns his life upside down."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Businesswomen; Family-owned business enterprises; Heiresses; Interracial couples; Man-woman relationships; Nobility;

And now you're back / by Mansell, Jill,author.; Hall, Laura,illustrator.;
This is a poignant, funny, feel good storyabout second chances and finding your way home. They never thought they'd see him again ... Didi Laing met her first love, Shay Mason, on a magical winter visit to Venice. For six months after that they were rapturously happy together and Shay came to work at Didi's parents' hotel in the Cotswolds. One event changed everything, shocking the town, and leading to Shay's disappearance. In the thirteen years after Shay walked out, no one expects ever to hear from him again. Then one day, out of the blue, Shay returns to Elliscombe to fulfill his father's dying wish and unintentionally upends Didi's life. Moving into the best suite in her hotel sparks all kinds of rumors and sets off a chain of events that affects the whole town. The residents of Elliscombe all have their own stories and secrets, more intertwined than anyone could have guessed.
Subjects: Chick lit.; Family-owned business enterprises; Friendship; Hotels; Life change events; Man-woman relationships; Reunions; Secrecy;

Glorious beef : the Lafrieda family and the evolution of the American meat industry / by LaFrieda, Pat,author.; Molinari, Cecilia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In 'Glorious Beef', Pat LaFrieda shares his family's legacy as master butcher's and pulls back the curtain to reveal a behind-the-scenes view of each stage of the process involved in bringing beef from pasture to plate and the truths behind the industrys story of survival and constant evolution.
Subjects: Biographies.; LaFrieda, Pat.; Beef industry; Beef; Family-owned business enterprises; Meat industry and trade; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses;

Just one taste / by Dent, Lizzy,author.;
"Fresh-caught squid, handmade pasta, and the salt of the Sicilian summer breeze might just give a jaded food critic the long-lost ingredients for la dolce vita in this ... romance"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Cooks; Family-owned business enterprises; Inheritance and succession; Man-woman relationships; Restaurants; Restaurateurs; Women food writers;

The Gilded Age. [videorecording] / by Baranski, Christine,actor.; Benton, Denée,actor.; Cocquerel, Thomas,actor.; Coon, Carrie,1990-actor.; Farmiga, Taissa,1994-actor.; Gilpin, Jack,1951-actor.; Jacobson, Louisa,actor.; Jones, Simon,1950-actor.; Nixon, Cynthia,actor.; Richardson, Harry(Actor),actor.; Ritson, Blake,actor.; Spector, Morgan,1980-actor.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,distributor.;
Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denee Benton, Taissa Farmiga, Harry Richardson, Blake Ritson, Thomas Cocquerel, Simon Jones, Jack Gilpin, Cynthia Nixon, Christine Baranski.A period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new. A wide-eyed young scion of a conservative family, Marian, embarks on a mission to infiltrate the wealthy neighboring clan or her aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook, dominated by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell, his rakish son, Larry, and his ambitious wife, Bertha. In this exciting new world that is on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path?Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Historical television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Entrepreneurship; Families; Family-owned business enterprises; Man-woman relationships; Rich people;
For private home use only.

Glass : a Cinderella tale / by Lasky, Kathryn.;
"In a grand glass house, there was a girl named Bess whose power would, one day, change the fate of her family . . . Bess Wickham has always felt like a bit of an outcast among her family of extraordinary glassblowers, but then an immense, magical power that's lain dormant in her bloodline begins to emerge. So, when she suspects her family's business has taken a sinister turn, Bess must find the strength to defeat dark magic and save a certain cinder girl. But will she shatter under the weight of such evil or get her happily ever after?"--Amazon.
Subjects: Fairy tales.; Fantasy fiction.; Families; Hot shops (Glass blowing and working); Family-owned business enterprises; Magic; Ability; Cinderella (Tale);

The heiresses : a novel / by Shepard, Sara,1977-author.;
After their cousin Poppy jumps to her death, the remaining heiresses of the Saybrook family receive an ominous warning that forces them to uncover a dark truth about their family before they lose the only thing money can't buy--their lives.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Blessing and cursing; Family secrets; Family-owned business enterprises; Inheritance and succession; Murder;

A dish best served cold / by Genova, Rosie.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Rienzi, Victoria (Fictitious character); Family-owned business enterprises; Murder; Restaurants; Authors;

Echo Lake / by Neggers, Carla.;
Subjects: Love stories.; Family-owned business enterprises; Dwellings; Bodyguards; Homecoming;