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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Bertie and Jeeves are back for another spot of what Jeeves likes to call 'quiescent espionage' ... This time Bertie is required to impersonate a priest and journey to Cambridge, where the Seventh Earl of Sidcup, aspiring fascist Roderick Spode, is wooing undergraduates to his gang of Brown Shorts. Bertie accepts his charge with equanimity, even when required to do some 'nightclimbing' (an undergrad frolic involving skipping to and fro atop the towers...
302) An American beauty
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When a railroad baron falls for a uniform girl at a gambling parlor thirty years his junior, he moves her to New York posing as a well-heeled Southern widow where her shrewd investing instincts build her a fortune"--
1867, Richmond, Virginia. Arabella wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, yet she is set apart by her unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of...
303) Murder in St. Giles
Author
Publisher
JA/AG Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Brewster, my bodyguard, comes to me about a murder of a pugilist--and what's more, says his wife has summoned me--I must hasten to St. Giles to find a killer before Brewster is arrested for the crime. This is made difficult because my wife's late husband's odious cousin has materialized to try to wrest her son into his care. After all, seven-year-old Peter is a viscount, and his cousin wants to get closer to the title. But how close? If Peter's...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Pub
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A parody of the television series "Downton Abbey" follows the Granvilles as they entertain guests at their country estate while secret service agents work undercover as household staff, protecting the royal crown under the threat of war.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the Standard Oil heiress and legendary American trendsetter Millicent Rogers. Nobody knew how to live the high life like Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whirl of beautiful homes, European vacations, exquisite clothing and handsome men. Here, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogers's glittering life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her Taos finale. A rebellious icon of the age, she eloped with...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects' lives. Elsie Palmer traveled between her father's Rocky Mountain castle and the medieval English manor house where her mother took refuge, surrounded...
307) A death in Chelsea
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"1915. Set against the backdrop of World War I, Mayfair 100 is the telephone number for a small, specially-formed crime fighting team based in a house in Mayfair. A call comes through to Mayfair 100, where Chief Inspector Peter Beech and his Mayfair-based amateur detectives eagerly await their next case. A society gossip queen has been found hanged in her room in mysterious circumstances. Her enemies are numerous--and her family are convinced she...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 530L
Language
English
Description
From the green light across the bay to the billboard with spectacled eyes, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 American masterpiece roars to life in K. Woodman-Maynard's exquisite graphic novel--among the first adaptations of the book in this genre. Painted in lush watercolors, the inventive interpretation emphasizes both the extravagance and mystery of the characters, as well as the fluidity of Nick Carraway's unreliable narration. Excerpts from the original...
Author
Publisher
a Borzoi Book, an imprint of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the years after World War II, Georgetown's leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors: a coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected civilians who helped steer American strategy from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Watergate, and the endgame of Vietnam. The Georgetown set included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife publishers of The Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Alsop, odd-couple brothers who were among the...
310) Near Prospect Park
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
"It's December 1896, and after marrying a muckraking reporter, detective Mary Handley shifts her focus pursuing new cases to raising her newborn daughter. But when her husband is found dead, Mary knows that her next case must be solving his murder. Harper was working on a big story--did it get him killed? Mary's investigation soon leads to the very top of the New York food chain. Realizing she's outgunned, Mary turns to the one person who might be...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After the Communist Revolution, Desmond Shum's grandfather was marked as belonging to a "black category" that included former landlords and rich peasants--meaning the Shums would be stigmatized and impoverished. As Desmond was growing up, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity Shum earned an American college degree and returned to China to establish himself in business. There, he met his future wife, the highly...
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Theresa Longworth, a Victorian Englishwoman whose aristocratic husband abandoned her and took a second wife, describing her attempts to prove the legality of her marriage and her later successes as an author and public speaker.
Publisher
Center for New American Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
How do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? In travels across the U.S. in interviews with people from diverse socioeconomic groups, this film examines how social class in America has as much influence as race or ethnicity in determining what kind of opportunities a person has in life. Discusses how social class plays a role in the lives of all Americans,...
314) Envy
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
Manhattan's most envied residents appear to have everything they desire: wealth, beauty, happiness. But sometimes the most practiced smiles hide the most scandalous secrets.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned and the project was abandoned with only one storey complete. Empty, unfinished, and in a gradual state of decay, the building was considered an eyesore. Yet in the early 20th century the Unfinished Palazzo's quality of fairytale abandonment, and its potential for transformation, were to...