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"Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather. On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut...
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Ginger Kelly wakes up in 1924 in tranquil Cocoa Beach, Florida, after fleeing to safety with disgraced Prohibition agent Oliver Anson Marshall, and her newly-orphaned young sister, Patsy. But Marshall is reinstated to the agency with suspicious haste to patrol for rumrunners on the high seas. When he promptly disappears, Gin hurries north to rescue him, only to be trapped in an agonizing moral quandary by Marshall's desperate mother. In 1998, Ella...
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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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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"The long-awaited memoir of one of Canada's most talked about and controversial figures, Friends and Enemies is shockingly honest, richly detailed, and pulls no punches as it traverses the highs and lows of Barbara Amiel's storied life. From her early childhood in London during the Blitz, to emigrating to Toronto and her rise to the top rungs of journalism; to her five husbands and other assorted beaus both famous and not; right up to her marriage...
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"An unforgettable historical about true love found and lost and the secrets we keep from one another from an award-winning author Selina Lennox is a Bright Young Thing. Her life is a whirl of parties and drinking, pursued by the press and staying on just the right side of scandal, all while running from the life her parents would choose for her. Lawrence Weston is a penniless painter who stumbles into Selina's orbit one night and can never let her...
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In this deeply personal memoir, the ultimate It Girl shares, for the first time, the hidden history that traumatized and defined her and how she rose above a series of heart-wrenching challenges to find healing, lasting love, and a life of meaning and purpose.
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Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The Hunting Wives share more than target practice, martinis, and bad behavior in this novel of obsession, seduction, and murder. Sophie O'Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet, and she's...
11) If a man answers
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Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Bobby Darin stars as Eugene Wright, a photographer, who marries a beautiful socialite, Sandra Dee, who sets about training him to become the ideal husband.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2008
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English
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The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke. And shortly after her death in 2007, Anthony Marshall, Mrs. Astor's only child, was indicted on charges of looting her estate. Rarely has there been a story with such an appealing heroine, conjuring up a world so nearly forgotten: a realm of lavish wealth...
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Simon & Schuster
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2016.
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English
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Set in London during the years of 1939-1942, when citizens had slim hope of survival, much less victory; and on the strategic island of Malta, which was daily devastated by the Axis barrage, Everyone Brave is Forgiven features little-known history and a perfect wartime love story inspired by the real-life love letters between Chris Cleave's grandparents. This dazzling novel dares us to understand that, against the great theater of world events, it...
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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2018.
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English
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It's the grand opening of Daybreak Island's cat café, where customers can get cozy with an assortment of friendly felines--and maybe even take one or a few home. Co-owner Maddie James is purring with excitement over her new warm-and-fuzzy venture. . .until she becomes entangled in a petty drama between one of her volunteers, an ardent animal-rights activist, and a wealthy woman who insists on adopting a calico kitty right this instant. The catfight...
18) Blue Jasmine
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[Publisher not identified]
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[2014?]
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English
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After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
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Society of steam volume 1
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Pyr
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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In an alternate 1880 New York City nineteen-year-old socialite Sarah Stanton dreams of becoming one of the Paragons, the city's greatest team of gentlemen superheroes. She seizes an opportunity in tragedy when Dennis Darby, her mentor and leader of the Paragons, is murdered and she investigates the circumstances behind his death--only to discover a conspiracy among the heroes.
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