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Author
Series
Fowler sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy begins a sexy new contemporary romance series--perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Emma Chase--that introduces three sisters born to wealth, raised to succeed, ready to love, destined to make waves. I've moved through life doing what's expected of me. I'm the middle daughter, the dutiful daughter. The one who braved a vicious attack and survived. The one who devoted herself to her family's business...
Author
Series
Westcott volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Humphrey Wescott, Earl of Riverdale, has died, leaving behind a fortune and a scandalous secret that will forever alter the lives of everyone in his family--including the daughter no one knew he had.... Anna Snow grew up in an orphanage in Bath, knowing nothing of the family she came from. Now she discovers that the late Earl of Riverdale was her father and that she has inherited his fortune. She is also overjoyed to learn she has siblings. However,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley renounced her inheritance when she married Malcolm, a first generation Korean American with a lucrative job in banking. Sasha, Darley's new sister-in-law, has come from more humble origins, and her hesitancy about signing a pre-nup has everyone worried about her intentions. Georgiana, newly graduated...
Author
Series
Bourbon Kings volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A sweeping saga of a Southern dynasty struggling to maintain a facade of privilege and prosperity while secrets and indiscretions threaten its very foundation... --Publisher
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Patrick Melrose is a new kind of family saga which takes a scathing and sardonic view of the upper-classes, shining an unforgiving light on the privilege, greed, cruelty and vulnerabilities that lie within their ranks. Patrick himself is many things: an aristocratic addict, a rakish and outrageously funny playboy, but he is also a man living as a victim of the sins of his parents. Follow Patrick as he embarks on a harrowing yet humorous decades-spanning...
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In the midst of World War I, the residents of Styles wake one morning to find Emily Inglethorpe has been fatally poisoned. Captain Hastings, staying with the family, enlists the help of his old friend, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With the evidence mounting against one member of the family, Poirot uses his technique to prove who really killed Emily.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A memoir of a singular childhood in England and India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten. Pamela Mountbatten entered a remarkable family when she was born in 1929. As the younger daughter of a glamorous heiress and a British earl, Pamela spent much of her early life with her sister, nannies, and servants--and a menagerie that included, at different times, a bear, two wallabies, a mongoose, and a lion. Her parents each had lovers...
Author
Series
Lady Emily mystery volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lady Emily travels to Greece, wehre a ghost from her past returns to haunt her amid the ruins. --Publisher
12) Jeremy Poldark
Author
Series
Poldark volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Captain Ross Poldark is brought to trial for his involvement in an illegal ship salvage, his wife Demelza tries to rally support for him and his enemy, powerful banker George Warleggan, tries to ensure his conviction.
13) The good life
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Stacy and Roger seem to have it all: a wonderful marriage, a luxury Upper East Side apartment with all the accoutrements of the wealthy, and two endearing young children enrolled in private schools. But what appears to be "the good life" to their family and friends is not what it seems in this fast-paced, suspenseful novel that shows the sinister effects of a destructive marriage and the pursuit of the privileged life.
Author
Series
Jane Prescott volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The atmospheric, compelling follow-up to the stunning debut A Death of No Importance, featuring series character, Jane Prescott. In 1912, as New York reels from the news of the Titanic disaster, ladies' maid Jane Prescott travels to Long Island with the Benchley family. Their daughter Louise is to marry William Tyler, at their uncle and aunt's mansion; the Tylers are a glamorous, storied couple, their past filled with travel and adventure. Now, Charles...
16) The dinner party
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This night is different from all other nights...three families, one unforgettable dinner. This will be the night the Golds of Greenwich meet the Rothschilds of New York City. The Rothschilds are the stuff of legend, and when Sylvia finds out that her youngest of three is going to bring her new boyfriend to the Sedar, she's giddy... Making a good impression is all she thinks about. Well, almost. She still has to consider her other daughter, Sarah,...
17) Mrs: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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...
18) The great Gatsby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. Bathtub gin, flappers and house parties that last all week enliven Fitzgerald's classic tale, a startling portrait of Gatsby's search for meaning in his opulent world.
Author
Publisher
Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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...
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