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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIS 2017
1 available
FICTION DAVIS 2017
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIS 2017
1 available
FICTION DAVIS 2017
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIS 2017
1 available
FICTION DAVIS 2017
1 available
Description
Struggling to rebuild after rehab, an interior designer leaps at a chance to renovate her heiress cousin's lavish apartment and learns the scandalous history of a distant ancestor's connection to the murder of the building's architect a century earlier. By the author of The Dollhouse.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHARTO 2021
1 available
FICTION WHARTO 2021
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHARTO 2021
1 available
FICTION WHARTO 2021
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHARTO 2021
1 available
FICTION WHARTO 2021
1 available
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WHA 2001 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION WHA 2001 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Description
"Edith Wharton’s acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman. A Penguin Vitae Edition Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a suitable match from a good family, when May’s cousin, the beautiful and exotic Countess Ellen Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
FICTION HARPER 2019
1 available
Description
Reimagines the life of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt as the reluctant and bullied bride of the Duke of Marlborough before she finds the inner strength to fight for women's equality.
Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess. Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the Century” to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind “the glitter...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WINGAT 2020
2 available
FICTION WINGAT 2020
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WINGAT 2020
2 available
FICTION WINGAT 2020
2 available
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by little-known historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual "Lost...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2018
1 available
FICTION BENEDI 2018
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2018
1 available
FICTION BENEDI 2018
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2018
1 available
FICTION BENEDI 2018
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROSE 2020
1 available
FICTION ROSE 2020
1 available
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From M.J. Rose, New York Times bestselling author of Tiffany Blues, “a lush, romantic historical mystery” (Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale), comes a gorgeously wrought novel of ambition and betrayal set in the Gilded Age. New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHARTO 2006
1 available
FICTION WHARTO 2006
1 available
Description
Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the interior décor of this America and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through a most intricate...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY SIMPSO 2021
1 available
MYSTERY SIMPSO 2021
1 available
Description
"Heiress-turned-sleuth Prudence MacKenzie, with the help of photographer and social reformer Jacob Riis and the famous journalist Nellie Bly, frantically searches for two orphans who had come to her for help—and who are now on the run from a dangerous predator"--
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BROWN 2021
1 available
FICTION BROWN 2021
1 available
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"From USA Today bestselling author of Flight of the Sparrow Amy Belding Brown comes an evocative new novel about Emily Dickinson's longtime maid, Margaret Maher, whose bond with--and ultimate betrayal of--the poet ensured Dickinson's work would live on. Massachusetts, 1869. Margaret Maher has never been one to settle down. At twenty-seven, she's never met a man who has tempted her enough to relinquish her independence to a matrimonial fate, and she...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHARTO 2020
2 available
FICTION WHARTO 2020
2 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHA 1987
1 available
FICTION WHA 1987
1 available
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHA 2000
1 available
FICTION WHA 2000
1 available
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION WHA 2000 UNABRIDGED
1 available
CD FICTION WHA 2000 UNABRIDGED
1 available
Description
The glittering yet treacherous world of New York High Society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy husband but winds up disgraced and discarded.
"A bestseller when it was published nearly a century ago, this literary classic established Edith Wharton as one of the most important American writers in the twentieth century—now with a new introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BELFOU 2015
1 available
FICTION BELFOU 2015
1 available
Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BELFOU 2015
1 available
FICTION BELFOU 2015
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BELFOU 2015
1 available
FICTION BELFOU 2015
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
When his son racks up an impossible gambling debt to a notorious gang in nineteenth-century New York, John Cross uses his inside knowledge of high-society mansions and museums to craft a perfect heist.
In 1886 New York, a respectable architect shouldn't have any connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the city. But when John Cross's son racks up an unfathomable gambling debt to Kent's Gent's, Cross must...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIS 2022
2 available
FICTION DAVIS 2022
2 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIS 2022
1 available
FICTION DAVIS 2022
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DAVIS 2022
1 available
FICTION DAVIS 2022
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after...
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CLEETO 2021
1 available
FICTION CLEETO 2021
1 available
Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION CLEETO 2021
1 available
FICTION CLEETO 2021
1 available
Description
"At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's captivating new novel inspired by real-life events and the true story of a legendary Cuban woman-Evangelina Cisneros-who changed the course of history. A feud rages in Gilded Age New York City between newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. When Grace Harrington lands a job at Hearst's newspaper...
14) murder on millionaires row
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Gaslight mysteries (Victoria Thompson) volume 24
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY THOMPS 2021
1 available
MYSTERY THOMPS 2021
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY THOMPS 2021
1 available
MYSTERY THOMPS 2021
1 available
Description
"When a scoundrel is murdered, Sarah and Frank Malloy must find the real killer to stop a scandal that threatens to destroy a young family in this latest installment of the beloved Gaslight Mysteries. The next installment in the beloved Gaslight Mystery series by national bestselling author Victoria Thompson, set in 19th century New York City"--
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALLAC 2022
1 available
FICTION WALLAC 2022
1 available
Description
"Among New York City's Gilded Age elite, one family will defy convention. When their father gambles away the family fortune on an elevated railroad, his daughters Jemima and Alice must navigate polite society during the rise and fall of their family, each forced to reexamine who she is, and even who she is meant to love."--
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
Senior Center Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
FICTION BENEDI 2021
1 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
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Lady Dunbridge series volume 3
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY NOBLE 2020
1 available
MYSTERY NOBLE 2020
1 available
Description
"Roasted chestnuts from vendor's carts, fresh cut spruce trees lining the sidewalks, extravagant gifts, opulent dinners, carols at St Patrick's Cathedral, a warm meal and a few minutes shelter from the cold at one of the charitable food lines . . . It's Christmas in Gilded Age Manhattan. And for the first time ever an amazing giant ball will drop along a rod on the roof of the New York Times building to ring in the New Year. Everyone plans to attend...
19) Savage girl
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ZIMMER 2014
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FICTION ZIMMER 2014
1 available
Description
A riveting tale from the author of The Orphanmaster about a wild girl from Nevada who lands in Manhattan’s Gilded Age society. Jean Zimmerman’s new novel tells of the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple, and taken back East to be civilized and introduced...
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After losing her husband on the RMS Titanic, Madeleine Astor, who is constantly surrounded by scandal, finds her status elevated to that of a virtuous, tragic heroine and must decide whether to accept the role assigned to her or carve out her own extraordinary path.