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Twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: she's a rising star at The Women's Magazine, impossibly fit, perfectly groomed, and about to marry Luke Harrison, a handsome blueblood. But behind that veneer of perfection lies a vulnerability that Ani holds close and buries deep -- a very violent and public trauma from her past that has left her constantly trying to reinvent herself. And only she knows how far she would go to keep...
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First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, here is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol...
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Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Tells the story of the story of impoverished widow Octavia Darcy, who inherits a fortune, rebuffs the efforts of her half-brothers and sisters to remarry, and becomes a London socialite before an old nemesis of the Darcy family threatens to steal her inheritance.
5) Coming out
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English
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Olympia Crawford Rubinstein finds her life unraveling when her twin daughters, who are just finishing high school, are invited to attend New York's most exclusive coming-out ball, an event that brings chaos, and new choices into her world.
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Blackbird Sisters mystery volume 2
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English
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When a high society jewel thief drowns in a pool, Nora swings into action to save her old flame, Flan Cooper. But then suspicion is steered towards herself, and she must find the killer.
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Wallflowers volume 5
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English
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After spending three London seasons searching for a husband, Daisy Bowman's father has told her in no uncertain terms that she must find a husband. Now. And if Daisy can't snare an appropriate suitor, she will marry the man he choosesthe ruthless and aloof Matthew Swift. Daisy is horrified. A Bowman never admits defeat, and she decides to do whatever it takes to marry someone... anyone... other than Matthew. But she doesn't count on Matthew's...
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Blackbird Sisters mystery volume 8
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English
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When the three Blackbird sisters show up to claim their deceased aunt's supposedly-fabulous country estate, they find a decayed house and a dead body.
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Blackbird Sisters mystery volume 4
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English
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When her boss is found bound in pantyhose and shot execution style, Nora Blackbird launches an investigation that brings her face to face with some of the most glamorous suspects in the City of Brotherly Love.
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WaterBrook
Pub. Date
c1999.
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English
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Moving reluctantly from L.A. to her grandmother's ranch to start her life anew, pampered socialite Karen Butler meets Dusty Stoddard, who operates a summer camp for troubled teenagers, and learns more about herself than she expected.
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Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive diamond necklace. She maintains it was a gift from her husband, but the Eustace lawyers insist she give it up, and while her cousin Frank takes her side, her new lover Lord Fawn states that he will only marry her if the necklace is surrendered. As gossip and scandal intensify, Lizzie's truthfulness is thrown into doubt,...
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Blackbird Sisters mystery volume 5
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English
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Heiress Nora Blackbird and her two sisters, Libby and Emma, investigate a case of murder among the aristocracy that is tied to a popular sports bar, political intrigue, and a blue-blooded brat with a thirst for fame and fortune.
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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English
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When a series of events leaves them trapped together behind enemy lines, Lady Emma Drake and Captain Sidney Fletcher must embark on a journey fraught with danger -- from a bloody hunt for Spanish treasure to the battlefields of war-torn Spain. As their flight becomes increasingly perilous, Sidney and Emma must trust each other with their lives -- but can they trust each other with their hearts?
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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 -- the alluring socialites Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, and Pamela Churchill. By all appearances, Babe has it all: money, beauty, glamour, jewels, influential friends, a prestigious husband,...
15) Black dog
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After returning home from a treacherous adventure, Stone Barrington is all too happy to settle back down in his New York City abode. But when he's introduced to a glamorous socialite with a staggering inheritance, Stone realizes his days are about to be anything but quiet. As it turns out, Stone's intriguing new companion has some surprisingly familiar ties and other far more sinister ones--including a nefarious enemy who gets too close for comfort....
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Blackbird Sisters mystery volume 9
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English
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"Nora's assigned to write a profile on billionaire fashion designer Swain Starr, who recently retired to build a high-tech organic farm with his new wife, Zephyr, a former supermodel. But before Nora can get the story, the mogul is murdered. And now her boss wants her to snap up an exclusive on who killed Starr before the cops do."--Page 4 of cover.
18) Social crimes
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[Jo Slater mysteries] volume 1
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English
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Jo Slater, one of the most influential women in New York, finds herself dethroned after a young French countess takes advantage of her friendship, so Jo plans an elaborate scheme to reclaim her place at the top of society, but in order to pull it off, she must commit an unthinkable act.
19) 666 Park Avenue
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011.
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English
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Darkness lurks behind the gilded halls of New York high society, and the elite Upper East Side Witches who rule Park Avenue.
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Broadway
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Skewers the upper crust young people of Manhattan's Park Avenue in the story of Julie, a hip, downtown salesgirl at Pelham's jewelry store, who is adopted by wealthy Lell Palham and her friends who pass her off as an heiress as a joke.
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