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22) The latecomer
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot (a Tonight Show Summer Read pick) and You Should Have Known, adapted as HBO's The Undoing, Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer is the story of three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and theupending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth. The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their parents....
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Gus Monet mysteries volume 2
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English
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Running from a mistake she cannot undo, Augusta Monet ends up in one of Ottawa's oldest neighborhoods where she meets her reclusive elderly neighbor Poppy and finds her growing curiosity taking a deadly turn when the discovery of a body is linked to Poppy's influential family.
24) Schooled
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to make ends meet as a poorly paid Manhattan private school teacher, Anna joins an underground circle of nighttime tutors for privileged students and finds herself indoctrinated into her patrons' affluent lifestyles.
25) Summer darlings
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English
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In the summer of 1962 on Martha's Vineyard, a college student is forced to reckon with the dark underbelly of privilege when she becomes the nanny for a mysterious, wealthy family.
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English
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In this riveting and disquieting thriller about the secrets and betrayals that accompany exorbitant wealth-imagine Crazy Rich Asians as written by Gillian Flynn-two sisters from a Chinese-Indonesian family grapple with the past after one of them poisons their entire family.
Gwendolyn and Estella have always been as close as sisters can be. Growing up in a wealthy, powerful, and sometimes deceitful family, they've relied on each other for support...
27) Wildfire
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Series
Hidden Legacy novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Coming to accept the depths of her magical powers, Nevada Baylor now has to accept the fact that she has fallen in love with Connor "Mad" Rogan and is faced with choices she never dreamed of to be with him--forever.
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English
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Arriving in New York City to realize her dreams of becoming an architect, Lady Eva Hyde, who is extremely unlucky, discovers that her new boss is the very same man with whom she had a passionate shipboard encounter, and must decide whether or not to mix business with pleasure when danger throws them together.
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English
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Self-made man Aidan Iverson has seen more closed doors in his thirty years than he's ever cared to count. As a member of the elite Duke's Den, he has all the money he could possibly need but the one thing he can't purchase is true power. If roguish Aidan can't buy his way into society's hallowed halls, he'll resort to a more extreme measure: marriage. Brought up to be a proper lady, the only thing Diana Ashby desires is to be left alone to the creation...
32) The great Gatsby
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English
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"In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined the Americanobsession with love, wealth, material objects, and class. Considered one of the great novels of the 20th century, Fitzgerald s famous work remains relevant for its observations on the pursuit of the...
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English
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Engaged to Murray Sedgemont after a whirlwind romance, Kass Baptiste, unexpectedly entering the world of the rich and powerful, starts receiving anonymous threatening social media messages during their engagement party that result in murder—one she’s accused of committing.
34) The husband list
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Series
Culhane family romances volume 2
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English
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Pressured by her mother to marry a proper gentleman, Caroline Maxwell reluctantly considers Lord Bremerton while harboring a secret longing for adventure and passion with her brother's world-traveling friend, Jack, whose new money and lack of title render him an unsuitable candidate in her mother's eyes.
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When young Charlie Boykin gains entry into the wealthy society of the most exclusive part of Nashville, he falls under its spell. But he soon learns what he'd have to give up in return in this novel that asks why we envy and worship a class of people that so often exhibits the worst excesses"--
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English
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In 1961, Margo Hightower, becoming the assistant to a society photographer, is thrown headfirst into the glamorous Jet Set world she so covets where she becomes friends with heiress and rising fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer, but when the lines between work and play blur, the golden life she desires slips from her grasp.
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Andy Mills mysteries volume 1
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English
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While investigating the mysterious death of matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of a famous soap empire, Andy Mills is seduced by the safety and freedom found in Lavender House, where a queer family lives honestly and openly, until he becomes a pawn in their deadly game.
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