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Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
Julius es un niño que observa con inocencia un orden social donde señores y sirvientes, padres e hijos, alumnos y profesores, se relacionan sin llegar jamás a conocerse. Así, en el mundo de Julius, preso de incomunicación, coexisten muchos mundos. Y sus experiencias, pero sobre todo sus reflexiones, habrán de encaminarlo hacia uno de ellos, o quizás hacia uno distinto, más suyo, que los integre todos. Aunque ambientada en la Lima de mediados...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1934, the ultimate vacation becomes a fight for survival as the secrets of two women's pasts collide aboard a luxury cruise liner on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the tragedy of the SS Morro Castle. New York heiress Catherine Dohan seemingly has it all. There's only one problem. It's a lie. As soon as the Morro Castle leaves...
24) Half a sixpence
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Humble London drapery clerk Arthur Kipps inherits a fortune. He briefly forgets his old mates and his faithful girlfriend, but soon discovers that high society is not his cup of tea.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Pitted against a powerful family when he reopens the scandalous case of a young woman's unsolved murder, George Becket is forced to confront a haunting mistake from his own past while outmaneuvering wealth-driven corruption.
Author
Series
Cavendish Square volume no. 1
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In the aftermath of a wild, liquor-soaked party, three women from very different social classes are about to live out their forbidden desires. Society girl Nora Richardson's passionate nature has always been a challenge to her ever patient husband. Now he wants out of the marriage and she has just this one night to win him back. The catch? He wants to punish her for her bad behavior. Nora is offended by her husband's increasingly depraved demands,...
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Series
Language
English
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"Humphrey Wescott, Earl of Riverdale, has died, leaving behind a fortune and a scandalous secret that will forever alter the lives of everyone in his family--including the daughter no one knew he had ... Anna Snow grew up in an orphanage in Bath, knowing nothing of the family she came from. Now she discovers that the late Earl of Riverdale was her father and that she has inherited his fortune. She is also overjoyed to learn she has siblings. However,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
"In the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An American aristocrat--a descendant of founding father John Jay--Susan Mary Alsop (1918-2004) knew absolutely everyone and brought together the movers and shakers of not just the United States, but the world. Henry Kissinger remarked that more agreements were concluded in her living room than in the White House. In 1945 Susan Mary joined her first husband, a young diplomat, in Paris, where she was at the center of the postwar diplomatic social circuit,...
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