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A saga set throughout the latter half of the twentieth century that traces a mega-wealthy family's efforts to orchestrate respective agendas from their Hamptons summer home and English countryside manor, while a brother and two sisters discover that they all have different fathers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When her beloved Ginger, a piano-playing socialite and very snappy dresser, makes a last-minute trip to London not knowing her housesitter has cancelled, Petunia the pig does more than fend for herself, she becomes Ginger.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"[A] novel of a family riven by fortune, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture gown sabotage, and the heir to one of Asia's greatest fortunes locked out of his inheritance" -- provided by publisher.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Jane Prescott has perfected the art of serving as a ladies' maid in the upper-most echelons of 1910 New York City society. When her mistress, Charlotte Benchley, surprises the family by getting engaged to notorious society playboy Norrie Newsome, Jane understands how the engagement might have come to pass, and what it means for both families. And when Norrie is suddenly and gruesomely murdered, Jane is uniquely positioned to understand who might have...
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English
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"The MacBrides lead a cozy life of upper class privilege: good looks, a beautiful home, tuition-free education at the prestigious private school where Rowan is headmaster, and altruistic righteousness inherited from magistrate Lydia. But when Rowan and his three grown children gather for the first time since Lydia's passing at the family's weekend home, years of secrets surface, and they discover a stranger in their midst. A stranger who is convinced...
10) Shadows & lies
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English
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Following the huge success of The Shape of Sand, shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger award, comes this dramatic story of love, war, and intrigue.
It is the year 1910 and the bloodstained body of an unknown woman is found on the grounds of Sir Henry Chetwynd's Shropshire estate. A reluctant heir to the estate, Sebastian Chetwynd is already battling with divided loyalties: his ambition for a career of his own and his father's expectation that...
11) Bittersweet
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Winning a scholarship to a prestigious college where she befriends a beautiful girl of privilege, unassuming Mabel joins her friend during a lakeside summer surrounded by wealthy vacationers only to discover morally ambiguous truths about her friend's family fortune.
12) Mrs: a novel
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English
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"In the well-heeled milieu of New York's Upper East Side, coolly elegant Philippa Lye is the woman no one can stop talking about. Despite a shadowy past, Philippa has somehow married the scion of the last family-held investment bank in the city. And although her wealth and connections put her in the center of this world, she refuses to conform to its gossip-fueled culture. Then, into her precariously balanced life, come two women: Gwen Hogan, a childhood...
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2018, c2017.
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English
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"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 the case: an experienced professional who knows that the law is all about winning the argument. And yet Kate seeks the truth at all times....
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Step back in time and experience the grandeur and romance of a previous era as Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This boxset includes: THE NIGHT SHE MET THE DUKE by Sarah Mallory (Regency) After hearing herself described as “dull,” Prudence escapes London to Bath, where her new life is anything but dull when one night she finds an uninvited, devastatingly handsome duke in her kitchen! FALLING FOR...
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations. This box set includes: INNOCENT MAID FOR THE GREEK by USA TODAY bestselling author Sharon Kendrick Self-made Theo watched his new wife, Mia, flee minutes after signing their marriage papers. Now Theo must persuade the hotel maid...
17) A cup of tea
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English
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Set against the backdrop of New York society during the uncertain days of World War I, Rosemary Fell watches her world unravel as her fiance begins an affair with another women only to have it end when he is sent off to war.
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of America's extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of "Our Crowd" It's no secret that the rich are different from the rest of us. But the rich, as author Stephen Birmingham so insightfully points out, are also different from the very rich. There's Society, and then there's Real Society, and it takes multiple generations for families of the former to become entrenched in the latter....
19) The Europeans
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English
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Two European siblings travel to New England to meet their American cousins in this classic satire. Henry James's short novel The Europeans -which made its debut in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly -is the beloved tale of Eugenia Münster and her brother, Felix Young, who travel to Boston after having spent most of their lives in France, Italy, Spain, and Germany. At the heart of the story rest the concerns that most intrigued the iconic author:...
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