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The Rise of Silas Lapham
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William Dean Howells |
The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu… |
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The Eustace diamonds
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Anthony Trollope |
*The Palliser Novels*, book 3: *The Eustace Diamonds* |
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Jeremy Thrane
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Kate Christensen |
**From Goodreads:**
Jeremy Thrane seems to have everything. As the long-time boyfriend of the handsome (but deeply closeted) movie star Ted Masterson, he lives rent-free in a beautiful apartment o… |
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The spare wife
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Alex Witchel |
A beautiful and wealthy widow, Ponce Morris enjoys her life as the perfect companion to the powerful couples with whom she socializes, until an ambitious young writer reveals her secret affair with a… |
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Searching for beauty
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Cherie Burns |
A portrait of the Standard Oil heiress and legendary American trendsetter Millicent Rogers. Nobody knew how to live the high life like Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whirl of beau… |
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No invitation required
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Annabel Goldsmith |
Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry. The family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her enthralling memoir she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an incre… |
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Zoe and the tormented tycoon
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Kate Hewitt |
One night...
Everyone's talking about Zoe Balfour -- the illegitimate heiress! She flies to New York to discover more about her biological family and goes a little wild, shocking even herself by spe… |
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Emily Post
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Laura P. Claridge |
"What would Emily Post do?" Even today, Americans cite the author of the perennial bestseller Etiquette as a touchstone for proper behavior. But who was the woman behind the myth, the authority on go… |
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City of saints
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Andrew E. Hunt |
Salt Lake City seems to be the squeaky-clean "City of Saints"--But looks can be deceiving. When a beautiful socialite turns up dead, Art Oveson, a twenty-something husband, father, and devout Mormon … |
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Mrs. Astor regrets
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Meryl Gordon |
Details the later years of Brooke Astor, an American socialite and philanthropist, and describes how her grandson Philip took legal action against his father, Anthony Marshall Astor, in order to remo… |
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Wealthy & wicked
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Chris Renee |
"Tracey Robbins has it all: money, successful business, and a closet a girl would kill for. St. Louis is her playground as everybody who wants to be somebody tries desperately to be in her circle. Ho… |
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Secret agent boyfriend
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Addison Fox |
What harm could there be pretending a sexy FBI agent is her boyfriend? Plenty, socialite Landry Adair discovers when she must work with Derek Winchester to locate the missing Adair heir. Pretend hugs… |
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Passion's promise
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Danielle Steel |
Smart, beautiful, and very rich, Kezia Saint Martin leads two lives: one as a glamorous socialite jetting between the poshest places in Europe and America; the other, under a false name, as a dedicat… |
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The summer I met Jack
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Michelle Gable |
New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark - and the child they may have had. Based on a real story - in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish re… |
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A change of fortune
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Jen Turano |
When one humorous mishap after another fails to help her reclaim her lost fortune, Lady Eliza Sumner finds that God has something even better in mind for her than her fortune and independence. |
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A most peculiar circumstance
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Jen Turano |
"Private Investigator Theodore Wilder is on a mission to find Arabella Beckett. But this feisty suffragette may be more trouble than he bargained for!"--Provided by publisher. |
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The after party
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Anton DiSclafani |
"From the nationally bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of 1950s Texas socialites and the one irresistible, controversial woman at the bright, hot center of it … |
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Kick
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Paula Byrne |
"Filled with a wealth of revealing new material and insight, the biography of the vivacious, unconventional--and nearly forgotten--young Kennedy sister who charmed American society and the English ar… |
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Dear Everybody
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Anne Budgell |
xvii, 319 p., [12] p. of plates : 22 cm |
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Casanova
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Ian Kelly |
"Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, wrote… |
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