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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, "that terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything." As the consequent drama unfolds, Edith Wharton's sharp ironic wit...
14) The chameleon
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A poor girl rises to become America's ambassador. She is Claire Organ of Chicago, the daughter of a shop girl. She becomes a fashion specialist for a department store, marries a Wasp and begins her climb. Her husbands and lovers include a father-in-law.
16) Manor house
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Pierpont Tree III of Los Angeles, private eye to the very rich, is hired to investigate the murder of an editor of a posh magazine. The probe takes him and his companion, retired actress China Carlyle, on a tour of low and high society, the latter including a sultan's party.
17) Righteous prey
Author
Language
English
Description
"Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in a stunning new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford"--
"We're going to murder people who need to be murdered." So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as "The Five," shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is believed to be made up of vigilante killers...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-20th-century London, aristocratic gay sleuth Colin Pendragon and his partner Ethan Pruitt try to solve the murder of Lady Arnifour's husband, as well as the disappearance of a street urchin's sister.
Author
Series
Cavendish Square volume no. 1
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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