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2022.
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"El mito de Hades y Perséfone nunca había sido tan sexy. Perséfone es una de las jóvenes más bellas y populares de Olimpo. No dispuesta a aceptar su destino como futura esposa del peligroso Zeus, será capaz de proponerle un pacto al mismísimo rey del Inframundo. Hades se ha pasado toda la vida en las sombras. La propuesta de Perséfone de tomar parte en una jugosa y ansiada venganza contra Zeus será excusa suficiente para salir de ellas....
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"From the nationally bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of 1950s Texas socialites and the one irresistible, controversial woman at the bright, hot center of it all. Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man who sees her seems to want her; every woman just wants to...
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High society journalist Gus Bailey was sued for $11 million for a fake story he repeated on the radio concerning a powerful congressman and a missing young woman. The stress from the lawsuit makes it difficult to finish the novel he's writing about the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. The convicted murderer is in jail but, Gus is not convinced they have the right person and Konstantin's wife will do anything to suppress the story....
4) Blue Jasmine
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English
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After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
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London, 1939. The day war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up. Tom Shaw decides to ignore the war—until he learns his roommate Alistair Heath has unexpectedly enlisted. Then the conflict can no longer be avoided. Young, bright, and brave, Mary is certain she’d be a marvelous spy. When she is—bewilderingly—made a teacher, she finds herself defying prejudice to protect the...
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New American Library
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[2002]
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English
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aFormer debutante Nora Blackbird takes a job as a society page columnist to help pay the bills when her parents skip town leaving her with a land inheritance that comes with a two-million-dollar tax bill, but she finds herself on the investigative beat when she stumbles upon the murdered body of the host at her first party assignment.
Nora Blackbird, society columnist and down-and-almost-out former debutante, reclaims her place within Philadelphia's...
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Wicked city novels volume 1
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[2017]
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English
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Moving into the building that once hid a speakeasy, Ella Hawthorne uncovers the Jazz Age story of a scandalous love triangle involving redheaded flapper Gin Kelly, a rugged Prohibition agent, and a wealthy debonair Princetonian.
10) On Gin Lane
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Everleigh “Lee” Farrows thinks she finally has life all figured out: a handsome fiance named Roland, a trust in her name, and a house in Bronxville waiting for her to fill it with three adorable children. That is, until Roland brings her out to the Hamptons for a summer that will change everything. Most women could only dream of the engagement present Roland unexpectedly bestows on Lee—a beachside hotel on the prized Gin Lane—but Lee's delight...
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Crown
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[2018]
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English
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Kitty Tessler is the winsome and clever only child of self-made hotel and nightclub tycoon Nicolas Tessler. Kitty may not have the same pedigree as the tennis club set she admires, but she still sees herself as every inch the socialite--spending her days perfecting her "look" and her nights charming all the blue-blooded boys who frequent her father's clubs. It seems like the fun will never end until Kitty's father issues a terrible ultimatum: she...
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W.W. Norton
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c2007
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English
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The fabulous life of Brooke Astor, a pioneer of philanthropy and for decades a luminary of New York society. After a disastrous early marriage, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959. In a highly publicized courtroom battle, Brooke fought off an attempt to break Vincent's will, which left some $67 million to the Vincent Astor Foundation. As the foundation's president, Brooke would use this legacy to benefit...
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This is the tale of the Astor family as it rises and falls. While the family squabbles with each other over Brooke Astor's vast wealth, journalist Meryl Gordon reveals the secrets of this seemingly coming-to-an-end epic. Gordon infiltrates the Astor family and its elite social circles that will cut through the lies and greed, exposing the motives of those vying for the Astor fortune.
15) 666 Park Avenue
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666 Park Avenue volume 1
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Darkness lurks behind the gilded halls of New York high society, and the elite Upper East Side Witches who rule Park Avenue.
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St. Martin's Press
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2020.
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English
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"In this captivating narrative, Chanel's Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d'Azur during a period that saw the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the twentieth century. The Cote d'Azur in 1938 was a world of wealth, luxury, and extravagance, inhabited by a sparkling cast of characters including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Joseph P. Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Colette, the Mitfords, Picasso, Cecil Beaton, and Somerset Maugham....
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