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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
Rich novels (Kevin Kwan) volume 2
Language
English
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"On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris, and a fiancé willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. But Rachel still mourns the fact that her birth father, a man she never knew, won't be able to walk her down the aisle. Until:...
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
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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...
4) Bad blood
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
476 p.
Language
English
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Attorney Alexandra Cooper is in court to prosecute a young businessman charged with murdering his wife. Although he has an alibi, she intends to prove that the man hired a hit man to do the job. When the city's rocked by an explosion in a tunnel below in the middle of the trial, she discovers a connection between the tunnel workers and the accused. Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman go into the tunnels where they find a body and clues that undermine...
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HarperCollins
Language
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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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Set in London during the years of 1939-1942, when citizens had slim hope of survival, much less victory; and on the strategic island of Malta, which was daily devastated by the Axis barrage, Everyone Brave is Forgiven features little-known history and a perfect wartime love story inspired by the real-life love letters between Chris Cleave's grandparents. This dazzling novel dares us to understand that, against the great theater of world events, it...
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
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"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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Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Exiled to rural Louisiana in the 1920s after being diagnosed with leprosy, socialite Mirielle, unable to accept her new reality, stays away from other residents until she finds both community and purpose and must choose to stay or return to a life she isn't sure she has anymore.
For Mirielle West, a 1920's socialite married to a silent film star, the isolation and powerlessness of the Louisiana Leper Home in Carville is an unimaginable fall from...
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Project Gutenberg
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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...
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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...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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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....
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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
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...
15) Black dog
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 62
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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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...
16) 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...
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...
18) The wicked widow
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...
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...
20) 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
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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.
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