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It's the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Four young women, all with something to prove, receive what some see as the invitation of a lifetime. Amelia Alexander, who hopes to eventually attend law school, hesitates to participate in what she sees...
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Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that Louisa will steal his heart. When Croaksworth drops dead in...
Author
Series
Unexpected seasons volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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In 1817 England, teenagers Thalia, Charis, and Kallie navigate a London Season gone awry.
6) Cinderella
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Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the transformative power of kindness with Disney's Cinderella, a modern classic that shines with beauty, imagination...and magic! Despite being bullied by her stepmother and stepsisters, a spirited Ella refuses to despair or retaliate, choosing instead to honor her mother's last words: "Have courage and be kind". Then one day, she meets a remarkable, like-minded man in the woods and she resolves to take charge of her fate in hopes of seeing...
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"The night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women downstairs launch a daring revenge heist against Mayfair society in this dazzling historical novel about power, gender, and class "Rollicking fun and entirely original... Anyone who relishes a good party gone wrong will devour this." --Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves,...
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Series
Once upon a con volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Cinderella goes to the con in this fandom-fueled twist on the classic fairy tale. Part romance, part love letter to nerd culture, and all totally adorbs, Geekerella is a fairy tale for anyone who believes in the magic of fandom.
9) The legacies
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Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the annual initiation of members into the exclusive Legacy Club, the surprise nomination of Tori Tasso, a scholarship student, jeopardizes the club's clandestine truths and leads to a perilous Legacy Ball where one attendee does not make it out alive.
10) Cinderella
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Diamond edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown, and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving only a single glass slipper, the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending! Bonus features included.
11) Belgravia
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1815 on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, the Duchess of Richmond’s legendary ball is taking place and one family’s fate is about to change forever.
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Series
Rainbow magic. Fairy tale fairies volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
65 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rachel and Kirsty are going to the fairy tale-themed ball, but they need to track down Faith's magic glass slipper first.
13) Bellegarde
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, in eighteenth-century France, popular ultra-wealthy teen, Beau Bellegarde, bets he can transform working-class Evie into school royalty.
Beau Bellegarde, a second-born son, makes a deal: if he can turn Evie Cľment, the unapproachable baker's daughter, into the winner of the Court Ball, making her the most desired bachelorette in Paris, he inherits the family fortune, but his target has plans of her own.
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