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Author
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Our heroines, Sophie and Lil, don cunning disguises, mingle in high society and munch many cucumber sandwiches to solve this curious case. Applaud their bravery as they follow a trail of terrible secrets that leads straight to London's most dangerous criminal mastermind, and put their own lives at risk. It will be the most thrilling event of the season.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Wealth, beauty, and power define the residents of New York's most exclusive community, but one woman will stop at nothing to exact revenge from those who ruined her father's life. Witness Emily Thorne's brilliantly vindictive plot against Victoria Grayson, the reigning queen of the Hamptons, and all who destroyed her family. However, even the best-laid plans can unravel in the wake of an unexpected love triangle between Emily, the son of her greatest...
Author
Series
Rogues and remarkable women volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune--and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child--until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, Duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers his...
44) Decorum
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1890s New York City, beautiful, wealthy, and recently orphaned Francesca Lund becomes engaged to longtime acquaintance Edmund Tracey, but self-made Irish millionaire Connor O'Casey hopes to win her over to help with his ambitious plans.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
The psychologically charged affairs between residents and servants on a posh London street escalate to violence involving a handsome valet who is sleeping with a lord's wife and daughter, an au pair who aids her mistress's affair, and a disturbed gardener.
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"A compulsively readable novel in the vein of The Bonfire of the Vanities-by way of The Nest-about what Washington, DC's high society members do away from the Capitol building and behind the closed doors of their suburban mansions"--
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The long-awaited return of what many consider to be one of the funniest shows in television history. Featuring the entire original cast from the first three seasons, the fourth season incorporates a non-linear storyline that leaves the viewer wanting more from the ever-dysfunctional Bluth family.
Author
Series
Jeeves and Wooster volume 5
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic short story collections in the English language. Whoever or whatever the cause of Bertie Wooster's consternation―Bobbie Wickham giving away his fierce Aunt Agatha's dog; getting into the bad books of Sir Roderick Glossop; attempting to scupper the unfortunate infatuation of his friend Tuppy for a robust opera
...50) Belgravia
Publisher
Universal Studios Canada, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follows events when the rising nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's well-known upper classes and when secrets from the past threaten to emerge.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen
Language
English
Description
Michael Bluth finally realizes that it's his Uncle Oscar serving time in prison, not his father. Reluctant to spring Oscar due to the effect it may have on the family business, Michael decides that the only fair thing to do is to find his father and place him under house arrest. Yet once found, George Sr. insists he was tricked into working with the Iraqis, leaving Michael no choice but to investigate his father's claim. But it isn't until Michael...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An astonishingly incisive and suspenseful novel about a scandal amongst Britain's privileged elite and the women caught up in its wake. Sophie's husband James is a loving father, a handsome man, a charismatic and successful public figure. And yet he stands accused of a terrible crime. Sophie is convinced he is innocent and desperate to protect her precious family from the lies that threaten to rip them apart. Kate is the lawyer hired to prosecute...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set in modern-day America, the one-hour drama series delivers a new, dramatic take on Will's life-altering journey from the streets of West Philadelphia to the gated mansions of Bel-Air. Leaving behind the only home he's ever known for a second chance in an unfamiliar place, Will finds his life turned upside down as he encounters new challenges and biases in a world of wealth and aspiration.
55) A good woman
Author
Language
English
Description
When Annabelle Worthington loses her family due to the sinking of the Titanic, she becomes a medical volunteer at Ellis Island, marries badly, and eventually finds purpose by volunteering in a field hospital during World War I.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Now a well established household in the heart of London, life in Eaton Place has moved on; Lady Agnes and Sir Hallam's family is complete with the addition of two small children and London has settled into an uneasy peace with the apparent aversion of war. Yet below the surface of a well-run household, both upstairs and downstairs are harboring life-changing secrets. As romance, heartbreak and revelation engulf the household; its inhabitants discover...
Author
Series
Wildes of Lindow Castle volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Miss Viola Astley is so painfully shy that she's horrified by the mere idea of dancing with a stranger; her upcoming London debut feels like a nightmare. So she's overjoyed to meet handsome, quiet vicar with no interest in polite society - but just when she catches his attention, her reputation is compromised by a duke. Devin Lucas Augustus Elstan, Duke of Wynter, will stop at nothing to marry Viola, including marrying a woman whom he believes to...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with her happily married parents and older brother. Daphne Vasquez lost her hearing as a child and grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Life as they know it is turned upside down when Bay's school project about blood types reveals she is not genetically related to her parents, and a series of tests confirms she and Daphne were accidentally switched at birth.
59) The adventuress
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Emily and husband Colin have come to the French Riviera for what should be a joyous occasion - the engagement party of her lifelong friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge, and Amity Wells, an American heiress. But the merrymaking is cut short with the shocking death of one of the party in an apparent suicide. Not convinced by the coroner's verdict, Emily must employ all of her investigative skills to discover the truth and avert another tragedy"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in. Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined. Her father, the eccentric,...
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