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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett is called in when the son of one of New York's richest families is kidnapped and held hostage, and when another student disappears, Bennett must rely on FBI agent Emily Parker before the mastermind can fulfill his plot to bring destruction to the city.
3) The pickup
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Julie is from an affluent white family and is always searching for new ideas and adventures. When her car breaks down in a South African city she is immediately drawn to Abdu the mechanic who comes to her aid. He has left his home and family in the north to find work in the new South Africa. As their relationship develops into passionate love, they must both confront the prejudices of their past and the uncertainties of the future. The Pickup is the...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
The second Maisie Dobbs mystery
Jacqueline Winspear's marvelous debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from around the world and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature's favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather, its follow-up, finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London "between the wars." It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to...
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English
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"...Paris is sensual, dazzling and dangerously seductive. It serves as a fitting backdrop for a dramatic tale about the tension between desire and action, and about the complex relationship that exists between our public and private selves."--from cover, p. [2].
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Language
English
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Meet Dr. Shelley Green — newly minted pediatrician. After graduating medical school at the top of her class, Shelley is hired by Madison Pediatrics, the Upper East Side's most exclusive practice. Suddenly this self-described 'schlumpy girl from Jackson Heights' is thrown into the world of the rich, famous, and very neurotic. Her life is about to change in a big way.
Hyper-parenting has reached epidemic proportions -- and Madison Pediatrics is its...
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Language
English
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This Side of Paradise chronicles the coming of age of Amory Blaine, born to a wealthy midwestern family. It begins with Amory as a spoiled youth, doted on by his eccentric mother Beatrice. It follows him as he attends preparatory school and Princeton, and then briefly attempts but quickly abandons at a career in advertising. His service in World War I is mentioned but mostly glossed over. Covered in much more detail are his various romances:
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English
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Librarian Phoebe O'Dunn wears a fabulous vintage gown, that she found in a hidden room filled with vintage clothing, to a masquerade ball in Boston and shares a special night with a daring and handsome man, but when the two meet again in Knights Bridge they must unmask their true selves in order to find a happy ending.
15) Schooled
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Anna discovers an underground world of plagiarism while teaching at a posh Manhattan private school with students who pay college educated tutors to "help" them with their homework, and Anna struggles to avoid the temptation of adding to her meager teacher's salary by cashing in on the easy money.
16) Dying for mercy
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After journalist Eliza Blake arrives her friend's newly renovated New York estate for a gala, she finds the host has perished in a grotesque suicide, but while she investigates within the mansion, Eliza uncovers clues that lead to a killer determined to expose the sins of respected local citizens.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Kemal, the thirty-year-old son of a wealthy family in Istanbul in 1975, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when a chance encounter with Fusun, a distant relation, sparks an obsessive love that change his entire life.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Tru Newman, who enjoys being a wealthy mother and banker's wife, learns that her husband has been out of work for three months, and when her friend Sienna Post loses her job and is also looking for a new source of income, the two decide to open an escort service that employs only women over forty.
20) Ain't she sweet
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Language
English
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Ain't She Sweet? Not exactly . . .
The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But fifteen years have passed, and life has taught Sugar Beth its toughest lessons. Now she's come home-broke, desperate, and too proud to show it.
The people of Parrish don't believe...
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