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2021.
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English
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"The woman no one notices . . . Shy heiress Alice Lusk is tired of being overlooked by every bachelor. Something has to change, else she'll be forced to marry a man whose only desire is her fortune. She needs to become a siren, a woman who causes a man's blood to run hot . . .and she's just met the perfect rogue to help teach her. He's the life of every party . . . Christopher "Kit" Ward plans to open a not-so-reputable supper club in New York City,...
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Sarah Booth Delaney mystery volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When PI Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner and best friend, Tinkie, take on Monica and Eleanor Levert as clients, they dont have much hope of solving the case. The wealthy heiresses of Briarcliff in Natchez, Mississippi, claim that a family necklace worth four million dollars has been stolen, and they think that they can hurry the insurance payout if a reputable PI investigates. Sarah Booth has her doubts, and not just about the payout. All...
44) Bringing up Baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 1085
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English
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"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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With a new name and fake ID papers, Sarah Patterson, on the run from her violent estranged husband--a police lieutenant--takes a job working with Hollywood's golden boy director who, as their bond deepens, attempts to keep Sarah out of harm's way.
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[James Bond films] volume 21
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Bond is charged to protect a gorgeous billionaire heiress from the ruthless hands of the nuclear-obsessed terrorist Renard who wants control of the world's petroleum supply.
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2016.
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English
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"Lady Emily retreats to her villa on the island of Santorini for a brief respite from London. But when she arrives, the housekeeper informs her that the master of the house has returned--Emily's first husband who died a decade earlier.."--
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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In post World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets . . . With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way...
49) Empty mansions: the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Empty Mansions reveals a complete picture of the enigmatic Huguette Clark, heiress to one of the greatest fortunes in American history, a woman who had not been photographed in public since the 1920s. Though she owned three palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, they sat vacant while she lived out her final two decades in a New York City hospital room, despite being in excellent health. Her father was self-made copper industrialist...
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Criterion collection volume 974
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Directed with a keen sense of ambiguity by William Wyler, this film based on a hit stage adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square pivots on a question of motive. When shy, emotionally fragile Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland, in a heartbreaking, Oscar-winning turn), the daughter of a wealthy New York doctor, begins to receive calls from the handsome spendthrift Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift), she becomes possessed by the promise of...
51) A deep divide
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Secrets of the canyon volume 1
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English
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"When her father's greedy corruption goes too far, heiress Emma Grace McMurray sneaks away to be a Harvey Girl at the El Tovar Grand Canyon Hotel, planning to stay hidden forever. There she uncovers mysteries, secrets, and a love beyond anything she could imagine-leaving her to question all she thought to be true"--
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Victorine decides it's time to leave the old film town of Fort Lee with her best friend, photoplay star Darleen Darling, and look for work in Hollywood, California. Soon the girls find themselves mixed up in adventures as wild as anything in the movies--but with stakes that are much too real!
53) Baptism of fire
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English
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The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times.But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he has recovered from his injuries.While war rages across all of the lands, the future of magic is under threat...
54) Bringing up Baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 1085
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone,...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Darby, penniless and alone, is struggling to care for herself and her young sister in the seaport town of Hull. But when a solicitor from London brings news that she has inherited a vast estate in Kent, it seems like far too much for a shipping merchant's daughter to manage. She quickly comes to rely on Henry Morland, the estate steward, whose father is in debtor's prison. Henry, having worked hard his entire life, is willing to take care...
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English
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Jane Marple takes a holiday at Bertram's Hotel in London for a much-needed rest and to relive the happy memories of sojourns there during her youth. The hotel is famous for fully preserving its Edwardian atmosphere -- from the proper staff to the elderly guests who frequent the tearoom. The décor is well appointed, and the service is impeccable. But with her keen powers of observation, Miss Marple quickly realizes all is not as it seems. The hotel...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married impoverished, British gentry at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so...
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English
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When Jonathan Deverill promised a dying friend he'd be guardian to the man's daughter, he envisioned a girl in pigtails and pinafores, a child he could leave behind in some finishing school. Problem is, his ward is actually a fully grown, defiant beauty whose longing for romance threatens to make his guardianship a living hell.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A marriage of convenience between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd London politician makes for a scandalous Victorian bargain--and a love that will eclipse the burdens of ambition and duty. Ana María Luna Valdés has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect niece, and the perfect representative of the powerful Luna familia. So, when Ana María is secretly sent to London with her sisters to seek refuge during the French occupation of Mexico,...
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New York, 1887. Arthur Livingston seeks out the Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency to find a missing heiress, and Eunice Holbrooke realizes her past has finally caught up with her. To avoid Arthur, Eunice goes undercover on another case. When other secrets come to light, Eunice has no choice but to confront her past. Will it set her free-- or will it place her life, and the lives of those she loves, in jeopardy? -- adapted from back cover
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