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Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On a quest to distract her lifelong friend Jeremy from his recent heartbreak, Lady Emily organizes a holiday in Greece. As a lover of all things Greek, she quickly finds herself occupied with tours of ancient ruins, lively debates with Margaret, a devoted Latinist, and slightly more scandalous endeavors with her dashing husband, Colin Hargreaves. But the pleasantries are brought to an abrupt halt when a man long believed dead greets the party at their...
63) A good woman
Author
Language
English
Description
The Titanic disaster spurs 19-year-old Annabelle Worthington to leave her privileged life for one of service. Fleeing scandal brought on by the end of her marriage, she winds up in France, working in a hospital for those wounded in WWI. She almost succeeds in forgetting her past, until a chance meeting brings it all rushing back.
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...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Winning a scholarship to a prestigious college where she befriends a beautiful girl of privilege, unassuming Mabel joins her friend during a lakeside summer surrounded by wealthy vacationers only to discover morally ambiguous truths about her friend's family fortune.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After a patient at the auxiliary hospital for World War I officers with shell-shock, located in the late dowager Countess of Monfort's house, is found murdered, Lady Montfort and her housekeeper Mrs. Jackson investigate.
69) Past imperfect
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wishing to track down a past girlfriend who claims he had fathered her child, the rich and dying Damian Baxter contacts an old friend from his days at Cambridge. The search takes the narrator back to 1960s London, where everything is changing--just not always quite as expected.
70) Shadows & lies
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After surviving the perils of Egypt, Peregrine Dalmay, Earl of Lisle, is back in London, facing the most dire threat of all: his irrational family...and Miss Olivia Wingate-Carsington. A descendant of notorious--but very aristocratic--swindlers, the delectable redhead has the ability to completely unhinge him and a long history of dragging him into her scandalous schemes. Olivia may be Society's darling, but she's aware a respectable future looms...
Series
Criterion collection volume 459
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
A group of high-society friends find themselves unable to leave their host's mansion after a lavish dinner party.
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Annie is a young girl from a working-class neighborhood who suddenly finds herself working as a nanny for a wealthy family in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Between catering to the every whim of her employers and their precocious son and falling in love with their gorgeous neighbor, Annie tries to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
80) Margot: a novel
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"A moving portrait of a young woman’s struggle to break free from her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution. It’s the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York City and her family’s sumptuous Oyster Bay estate, as the presumed heir to her late grandfather’s steel fortune. Stuck in the mores and bores of WASP society with its cocktail parties and white-gloved...
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