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Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
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
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009, c1988
Language
English
Description
Gus Bailey, the confidant of New York society, observes the social repercussions of socialite Justine Altemus's engagement to TV anchorman Bernie Slatkin and inadvertently precipitates a social explosion.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface . 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. Before the 20th century a...
Author
Series
Quirke mysteries volume 1
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Returning to the morgue where he works after an office party, Dublin pathologist Quirke stumbles across a body that should not have been there, as well as his brother-in-law, pediatrician Malachy Griffin, altering a file to cover up the corpse's cause ofdeath.
16) Thoroughbreds
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Lady Emily retreats to her villa on the island of Santorini for a brief respite from London. But when she arrives, the housekeeper informs her that the master of the house has returned--Emily's first husband who died a decade earlier.."--
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Joyner family sits atop prime Marcellus Shale. When landmen for the natural gas companies begin to lease property all around the family{u2019}s hundred acres, the Joyners start to take notice. Undecided on whether or not to lease the family land, Frank Joyner must weigh his heirs{u2019} competing motivations. All of this culminates as a looming history of family tragedy resurfaces. A sprawling family novel, Fractures follows each Joyner as the...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The world of debutantes opens into a revealing story of women across six centuries, their limited options, and their desires. Digging into the roots of the debutante ritual, with its ballrooms and white dresses, Kristen Richardson- herself descended from a line of debutantes- was fascinated to discover that the debutante ritual places our contemporary ideas about women and marriage in a new light. In this brilliant history of the phenomenon, Richardson...
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