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61) 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
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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,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The eccentric Bluth clan lives a life of excess, funded by the family credit card and paid for by patriarch, George, whose fortune came from the tract home development business. Oldest son George, nicknamed Gob, is an "illusionist" of minor importance who has anger management issues. Youngest son, Buster, wastes his days taking obscure graduate school courses. Daughter Lindsay is a vain socialite. The only sane one is Lindsay's twin brother Michael,...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
�1993, cp2001
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This program follows the fortunes of Paul Craddock, a former soldier who purchases a run-down Devon estate. Set between the Boer War and the outbreak of World War I, the miniseries depicts the end of an era, as England moves into the modern age.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Hot stars Sarah Michelle Gellar ... and Ryan Phillippe ... sizzle as a pair of wealthy and manipulative step-siblings in this delicious tale of seduction and revenge. After cleverly seducing and ruining the reputation of an unsuspecting classmate, Kathryn and Sebastian devise their greatest challenge yet. Sebastian must seduce and deflower the Headmasters' beautiful and innocent daughter Annette ... If he loses, he must hand over his most prized possession...
Author
Series
The Revolution of Marina M volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pregnant and adrift in the countryside amid the devastation of the Russian Civil War, Marina returns to a decimated Petrograd, where her work caring for war orphans inspires her emergence as a poet.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Vanishing Year is a stunner. A perfectly compulsive read that's impossible to put down." –Mary Kubica
"A chilling, powerful tale of nerve-shattering suspense." –Heather Gudenkauf
Nominated for "Best Mystery & Thriller" by Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
Zoe Whittaker is living a charmed life. She is the beautiful young wife to handsome, charming Wall Street tycoon Henry Whittaker. She is...
"A chilling, powerful tale of nerve-shattering suspense." –Heather Gudenkauf
Nominated for "Best Mystery & Thriller" by Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
Zoe Whittaker is living a charmed life. She is the beautiful young wife to handsome, charming Wall Street tycoon Henry Whittaker. She is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Linda Corbet is missing and Jennie is hired to investigate. The only clue Jennie has is a fragment of a 17th century poem she finds in Linda's room. But from that one clue her investigations will lead her to a secret Oxford society and a hidden world of violence, excess and desire which lies behind the city's dreaming spires.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Depression-era Boston, a city divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely friends are bound by a dangerous secret in this mesmerizing work of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector. Maeve Fanning is afirst generation Irish immigrant, born and raised among the poor, industrious Italian families of Boston's North End by her widowed mother. Clever, capable, and as headstrong as her red hair suggests,...
72) His wicked charm
Author
Series
Mad Morelands volume 6
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Lilah Holcutt dislikes Constantine Moreland the moment she meets him. He may be handsome, but he's frivolous, rash, impulsive and a flirt. Now that Con's twin brother married Lilah's best friend, she sees way more of him than she'd like. And when Con's sisters are kidnapped, curiosity sweeps Lilah into his investigation. Con knows that Lilah hates him. He just wishes that he weren't so attracted to her . . . especially since they're working so closely...
73) The luxe
Author
Series
Luxe series (Anna Godbersen) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best-laid plans of parents and others.
Author
Series
Jane Austen mysteries (Stephanie Barron) volume 10
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Would-be wallflowers volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Miss Cleopatra Lewis is about to be launched in society by her aristocratic grandfather. But since she has no intention of marrying, she visits a costume emporium specifically to order unflattering dresses guaranteed to put off any prospective suitors. Powerful and charismatic Jacob Astor Addison is in London, acquiring businesses to add to his theatrical holdings in America—as well as buying an emerald for a young lady back in Boston. He's furious...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lady Emily retreats to her villa on the island of Santorini for a brief respite from London. But when she arrives, the housekeeper informs her that the master of the house has returned--Emily's first husband who died a decade earlier.."--
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed author of The Talented Ribkins deconstructs painful African-American stereotypes and offers a fresh and searing critique on race, class, privilege, ambition, exploitation, and the seeds of rage in America in this historical novel."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Lady Julia Grey novels volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Brisbane investigates the seemingly-innocent death of Sir Edward Grey, who collapsed and died while attending a dinner party in his home, and uncovers shocking papers that allude to murder.
80) The black orchid
Author
Series
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A desperate letter from her best friend sends Lady Jane rushing from her cozy Cornwall home to the remote reaches of Northumberland. Alison's frantic plea for help hints that something sinister is going on in the gloomy halls of Winton Park, so Jane braves the misty moors in the dead of winter to get to her pregnant and bedridden friend. A menacing sense of doom grips Jane the moment she arrives at the isolated Victorian estate. Charlotte, the lady...
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