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English
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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...
2) Coming out
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print in association with Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st large print ed.
Physical Desc
240 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Olympia Crawford Rubinstein manages her family with grace and humor. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartener from her second marriage, there seems to be nothing she can't handle. That is, until she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend a coming-out ball in New York. Then chaos erupts. Olympia's on the verge of surrender until a series of choices and changes of heart, family, and friends turns a...
3) Rebel belle
Author
Series
Rebel belle volume 1
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (approximately 564 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Harper Price's charmed life is turned upside down when she discovers she's been given magical powers in order to protect her school nemesis David Stark, who's an Oracle"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Diana Cook, born at the turn of the nineteenth century, the only daughter of Virginia gentry, agrees to marry a rich captain to save her family's land. Luckily for Diana, her union with the captain is brief and gives her a beautiful son. But after the son is grown is when the real tragedy begins.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the nationally bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of 1950s Texas socialites and the one irresistible, controversial woman at the bright, hot center of it all. Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man who sees her seems to want her; every woman just wants to...
Author
Series
Mischief and matchmaking volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A...queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other"--
Author
Series
Would-be wallflowers volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Miss Cleopatra Lewis visits a costume emporium specially to order unflattering dresses guaranteed to put off any prospective suitors--and ends up purchasing the establishment. Powerful and charismatic American Jacob Astor Addison is furious when a she-devil masquerading as an English lady steals Quimby's Costume Emporium from under his nose. Jake strikes a devil's bargain, offering to design her "wallflower wardrobe" and giving Cleo the chance to...
Author
Series
Charles Lenox chronicles volume 14
Charles Lenox mysteries volume Book 14
(Charles B.)Charles Lenox volume 14
Charles Lenox mysteries volume Book 14
(Charles B.)Charles Lenox volume 14
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite. London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case....
Author
Series
House of Marionne volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Quell is reluctantly inducted into a magical debutante society of social elites where she must bind with her forbidden magic while evading the assassin who has been tasked with hunting her kind.
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