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HarperCollins
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English
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Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn't fit anyone's expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame Eva d'Orsey, Grace is drawn to uncover the identity of her mysterious benefactor. Weaving through the decades, from 1920s New York to Monte Carlo, Paris, and London, the story Grace uncovers is that of an extraordinary women who inspired one of Paris's greatest...
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated, aspiring writer, and his beautiful young wife, Gloria. While they wait for Anthony’s grandfather to die and pass his millions on to them, the young couple enjoys an endless string of parties, traveling, and extravagance. Beginning with the pop and fizz of life itself, The Beautiful and the Damned quickly evolves into a scathing chronicle of a dying marriage and a hedonistic...
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Language
English
Description
After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army Colonel who is already embarrassed by his son's inability to serve in WWII due to his being colorblind. To Maddie's horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favor is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed...
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Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
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For an ambitious, keenly intelligent woman, lying proves to be the easiest way to get through life, in this Victorian-era classic. Lizzie Greystock is a woman of rare cunning and determination-both of which she uses to better her lot in life. This is especially true when she manages to convince the ailing Sir Florian Eustace to marry her shortly before his demise, leaving Lizzie both a wealthy widow and the mother to Florian's young son. A born...
Author
Series
Wicked city novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she discovers her banker husband has been harboring a secret life, Ella Gilbert escapes their sleek SoHo loft for a studio in a quaint building in Greenwich Village. But her new refuge isn't quite what it seems. Her charismatic musician neighbor, Hector, warns her to stay out of the basement after midnight, when a symphony of mysterious noise strikes up--laughter, clinking glasses, jazz piano, the occasional bloodcurdling scream--even though...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"When a wealthy socialite is found dead on her luxury yacht, her daughter Lainey hires private investigator Kate Weller to look into the matter. Agnes Westin created plenty of enemies during her climb to the top of society, many with a taste for revenge--but did any of them feel strongly enough to kill her? Kate has another reason altogether for returning to Pensacola, Florida, the only town she has ever called home. Her brother Liam has spent the...
Author
Series
Wicked city novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"June 1924. The audacious Geneva "Gin" Kelly prepares to trade her high-flying ways for respectable marriage to Oliver Anson Marshall, a Prohibition agent who happens to hail from one of New York's most distinguished families. But just as wedding bells chime, the head of a notorious rum-running racket--and Anson's mortal enemy--turns up murdered, and their honeymoon bliss goes up in a spectacular blaze that sends Anson back undercover...and into the...
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Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
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The rivalry between two wealthy and unscrupulous power brokers for the attentions of the beautiful Lucy Dupree, a newcomer to New York society, causes them to engage in a series of high-stakes financial manipulations that lead to a major Wall Street collapse in 1907.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends -- the alluring socialites Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, and Pamela Churchill. By all appearances, Babe has it all: money, beauty, glamour, jewels, influential friends, a prestigious husband,...
Author
Series
Wicked city novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (12 1/4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Ginger Kelly wakes up in 1924 in tranquil Cocoa Beach, Florida, after fleeing to safety with disgraced Prohibition agent Oliver Anson Marshall, and her newly-orphaned young sister, Patsy. But Marshall is reinstated to the agency with suspicious haste to patrol for rumrunners on the high seas. When he promptly disappears, Gin hurries north to rescue him, only to be trapped in an agonizing moral quandary by Marshall's desperate mother. In 1998, Ella...
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Series
Burning Cove, California volume 5
Burning Cove California volume Book 05
Burning Cove California volume 5
Thorndike Press large print core
Burning Cove California volume Book 05
Burning Cove California volume 5
Thorndike Press large print core
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Investigative apprentice Lyra Brazier, the newest resident of Burning Cove, is unsettled when her boss suddenly goes on a health retreat at an exclusive spa and disappears without another word. Lyra knows something has happened to Raina Kirk, and she is the only one who can track her down. The health spa is known for its luxurious offerings and prestigious clientele, and the wealthy, socialite background Lyra desperately wanted to leave behind is...
13) A certain age
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 23 cm. 326, 14 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Falling in love with her paramour but unable to divorce because of societal conventions, married Jazz Age socialite Theresa Marshall tries to make the best of the situation but reconsiders her values when her lover falls for her soon-to-be sister-in-law.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Hunting Wives share more than target practice, martinis, and bad behavior in this novel of obsession, seduction, and murder. Sophie O'Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet, and she's...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and already a famous model and actress, she moved from London to a palace in Marrakesh, with her husband Paul Getty, the famous oil heir. There she presided over a swirling ex-pat scene filled with music, art, free love and a counterculture taking root across the world. When Claire arrives in London from her small town, she never expects to cross paths with a woman as magnetic as Talitha Getty....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
vi, 408 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1912 Nice, after Marcela's cruel, controlling husband disappears with their two young sons, she does everything in her power to find them until an era-defining disaster strikes, making a reunion seem impossible, in a novel set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic.
17) Black dog
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 62
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduced to a glamorous Manhattan socialite, Stone Barrington discovers his new companion has ties to a nefarious enemy who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
"After returning home from a treacherous adventure, Stone Barrington is all too happy to settle back down in his New York City abode. But when he's introduced to a glamorous socialite with a staggering inheritance, Stone realizes his days are about to be anything but quiet. As it...
18) On Gin Lane
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After her fiancé whisks her off to the glistening shores of Southampton in June of 1957, one young socialite begins to realize that her glamorous summer is giving her everything--except what she really wants. Everleigh "Lee" Farrows thinks she finally has life all figured out: a handsome fiancé named Roland, a trust in her name, and a house in Bronxville waiting for her to fill it with three adorable children. That is, until Roland brings her out...
19) Social crimes
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2003
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (12 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock's Social Crimes is a riveting thriller of manners, obsession, and revenge that scales the heights and plumbs the depths of the New York social scene. When Jo Slater, one of New York's premier socialites and a patron of the arts, befriends a French countess, she ignores warnings from friends about the mysterious newcomer. Soon, the young woman knocks Jo off her Park Avenue throne. But using her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
503 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away to war, Emmy Lake is now in charge of 'Yours Cheerfully,' the hugely popular advice column in Woman's Friend magazine. Cheered on by her best friend Bunty, Emmy is dedicated to helping readers face the increasing challenges brought about by over three years of war. The postbags are full and Woman's Friend is thriving. But Emmy's world is turned upside...
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