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Author
Series
Rich novels (Kevin Kwan) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an uproarious new novel of a family riven by fortune, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture gown sabotage, and the heir to one of Asia's greatest fortunes locked out of his inheritance. 416pp., 100K
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer is a slyly observed, suspenseful story of envy and obsession, told in the mesmerizing, irresistible voice of a character who will make you doubt that seeing is ever believing. Delta Dawn comes from humble beginnings, but in her work as a photographer for the children's parties of New York's elite she is used to moving, unnoticed, through their luxurious homes. As she observes their seemingly perfect lives, she...
Author
Series
Westcott novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"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
Description
"This Passover Seder is not just any Passover Seder. Yes, there will be a quick service and then a festive meal afterwards, but this night is different from all other nights. This will be the night the Golds of Greenwich meet the Rothschilds of New York City. The Rothschilds are the stuff of legends. They control banks, own vineyards in Napa, diamond mines in Africa, and even an organic farm somewhere in the Midwest that produces the most popular...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An astonishingly incisive and suspenseful novel about a scandal amongst Britain's privileged elite and the women caught up in its wake. Sophie's husband James is a loving father, a handsome man, a charismatic and successful public figure. And yet he stands accused of a terrible crime. Sophie is convinced he is innocent and desperate to protect her precious family from the lies that threaten to rip them apart. Kate is the lawyer hired to prosecute...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Scotland, 1830. Following the death of her dear friend, Lady Kiera Darby is in need of a safe haven. Returning to her childhood home, Kiera hopes her beloved brother, Trevor, and the merriment of the Hogmanay Ball will distract her. But when a caretaker is murdered and a grave is disturbed at nearby Dryburgh Abbey, Kiera is once more thrust into the cold grasp of death. While Kiera knows that aiding in another inquiry will only further tarnish her...
Author
Series
Belmont mansion novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an unwanted past, Claire strives to create something that will last as an artist among Nashville's elite society in the 1860s.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Even Felix himself almost believes this golden image. But underneath is a damaged soul soothed only by public adulation. Louisa Cantwell needs to marry well to support her sisters. She does not, however, want Lord Wrenworth, though he seems inexplicably interested in her. She mistrusts his outward perfection, and the praise...
11) Patrick Melrose
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Benedict Cumberbatch delivers a powerhouse performance as the title character English aristocrat based on the novels by Edward St Aubyn. Chronicling the hilarious highs and devastating lows of his tumultuous life, this blackly humorous drama follows Patrick from his childhood trauma at the hands of an abusive father and neglectful mother, to the peak of his heroin addiction, and his attempts to stay sober and support his family.
12) Las niñas bien
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
Es 1982 y una gran crisis económica está golpeando México. La elegante, encantadora y perfecta Sofía, líder del grupo de amigas del club de tenis, se enfrenta a lo inimaginable: su caída social. Sofía intentará mantener las apariencias, pero su derrumbe además de ser inevitable, dará cuenta de qué es lo que se pierde cuando se pierde el...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In Lorraine Zago Rosenthal's sequel to New Money, Savannah Morgan delves into the mystery of her late media mogul father's death and uncovers more than she ever expected. In New Money, Savannah Morgan was thrust into high society New York when she learned she was the sole heir to her media mogul father's billion dollar fortune. In Independently Wealthy she is living her dream life on the Upper West Side, excelling at her job as an editorial assistant,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Set in England, covering the time period from the 1920s through World War II, the story examines the wealthy Flyte family through the eyes of Sebastian Flyte's less wealthy school friend Charles Ryder. The novel is a story of faith and disillusionment in a glamorous upper-class world.
16) The wild rose
Author
Series
Tea rose trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1914, with World War I approaching, polar explorer Seamus Finnegan tries to forget Willa, a passionate mountain climber, as he marries a beautiful young woman back home in England.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed author of The Romanovs-a magisterial history of humanity viewed through the lens of its most powerful dynasties In this sprawling and eye-opening book, best-selling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the world's great dynasties across human history through engrossing tales of palace intrigue, glorious battle, and the real lives of people who held unfathomable power. He trains his eye on founders of humble origin, like Sargon,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset with trauma and despair ... [This book] tells the stories of these women: Mary Davies, who inherited London's most valuable real estate, and was bartered from the age of twelve; Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American 'Dollar Heiress,' forced...
19) Wicked pleasures
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A saga set throughout the latter half of the twentieth century traces a mega-wealthy family's efforts to orchestrate agendas from their Hamptons summer homes and English countryside manor as the three children of the family discover that they all have different fathers.
20) The burning air
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The MacBrides lead a cozy life of upper class privilege: good looks (more or less), a beautiful home, tuition-free education at the prestigious private school where Rowan is headmaster, an altruistic righteousness inherited from magistrate Lydia. But when Rowan and his three grown children gather for the first time since Lydia's passing at the family's weekend home--a restored barn in the English countryside--years of secrets surface ... [and they]...
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