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61) The wild rose
Author
Series
Tea rose trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1914, with World War I approaching, polar explorer Seamus Finnegan tries to forget Willa, a passionate mountain climber, as he marries a beautiful young woman back home in England.
Publisher
A&E Network
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning from the battlefields of World War I, an impoverished young soldier learns the love of his life has married into a wealthy family and moved to Long Island's fabled Gold Coast. Obsessed with rekindling their romance, he reinvents himself as the mysteriously prosperous Jay Gatsby, throws scandalously lavish parties at his glittering mansion, and waits for his chance.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Boston, 1933. Maeve Fanning is a first generation Irish immigrant born and raised among the poor, industrious Italian families of Boston's North End by her widowed mother. But she s determined to better herself despite the overwhelming hardships of the Great Depression. However, Maeve also has a dangerous fondness for strange men and bootleg gin, a rebellious hunger for experience that soon finds her spiraling downward, leading a double life.
65) The after party
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man who sees her seems to want her; every woman just wants to be her. But this is a highly ordered world of garden clubs and debutante balls. The money may flow as freely as the oil, but the freedom and power all belong to the men. What happens when a woman of indecorous...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1954 Mississippi, Jack Branch returns to his father $1 (Bs Delta estate, Great Oaks, to perform an act of noblesse oblige: teaching at the local high school. Conducting a class on historical evil, Jack is shocked to discover that his unassuming student Eddie is the son of the Coed Killer, a notorious local murderer. Jack feels compelled to mentor the boy, encouraging Eddie to examine his father $1 (Bs crime and using his own good name to...
68) A step so grave
Author
Series
Dandy Gilver murder mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Wedding bells are set to ring as Dandy Gilver, family in tow, arrives in windswept Wester Ross on Valentine's Day. They've come to celebrate Lady Lavinia's fiftieth birthday and to meet her daughter Mallory, a less-than-suitable bride-to-be for Dandy's son Donald. But soon love is the last thing on Dandy's mind when the news breaks that Lady Lavinia has been found dead, brutally murdered in the middle of her famous knot garden. Strange superstitions...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Meg Davenport had a sheltered life, growing up surrounded by the educated elite at an exclusive New York boarding school, but her world is turned upside down when her father dies and she discovers her life of luxury was built on lies and deceit, introducing Meg to a world more adventurous and dangerous than she had ever known
Author
Series
Lady Julia Grey novels volume 3
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Come back to the intriguing world of Lady Julia Grey in the beloved historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn.
Despite his admonitions to stay away, Lady Julia arrives in Yorkshire to find Brisbane as remote and maddeningly attractive as ever. Cloistered together, they share the moldering house with the proud but impoverished remnants of an ancient family-the sort that keeps their bloodline pure and their...
73) Someone to love
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolinas high society, where old Southern money-and older Southern secrets-meet the new wealth of bankers, boom-era speculators, and carpetbagging social climbers. Jerene presides over her familys legacy of paintings at the Mint Museum; Duke, descendant of a Confederate general, whose promising political career was mysteriously short-circuited, has settled into a comfortable...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends. By all appearances, Babe has it all: money, beauty, glamour, jewels, influential friends, a prestigious husband, and gorgeous homes. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate...
76) The photographer
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer is a slyly observed, suspenseful story of envy and obsession, told in the mesmerizing, irresistible voice of a character who will make you doubt that seeing is ever believing. Delta Dawn comes from humble beginnings, but in her work as a photographer for the children's parties of New York's elite she is used to moving, unnoticed, through their luxurious homes. As she observes their seemingly perfect lives, she...
79) The Henna Artist
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Escaping from an arranged and abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone from her 1950s rural village to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the henna artist-and confidante-most in demand to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own... Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The world of debutantes opens into a revealing story of women across six centuries, their limited options, and their desires. Digging into the roots of the debutante ritual, with its ballrooms and white dresses, Kristen Richardson- herself descended from a line of debutantes- was fascinated to discover that the debutante ritual places our contemporary ideas about women and marriage in a new light. In this brilliant history of the phenomenon, Richardson...