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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. Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom you ask. But as Joan's radical behavior escalates, Cece's perspective shifts--forcing one provocative choice to appear the only one there is.
Author
Series
Westcott novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Arriving in London to claim an unexpected inheritance from the late Earl of Riverdale, Anna Snow finds an ally in the new earl's guardian, the Duke of Netherby.
4) Whitefern
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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The long-awaited sequel to My Sweet Audrina, one of V.C. Andrews's strangest, most beloved books. Whitefern swallowed Audrina's childhood--and now the sprawling Victorian mansion threatens her adult life too.
6) The suitors
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Two upper class sisters hatch a scheme to attract a wealthy suitor to purchase their family's summer estate, L'Agapanthe, when they learn of their parents' plan to sell it in this comedy of manners.
Author
Series
Bourbon kings volume 2
Language
English
Description
While eldest son Edward immerses himself in alcohol and affairs with two scheming women amid rumors of his role in his father's suicide, estranged family member Maxwell returns to the fold with an agenda that could spell their salvation or ruin.
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English
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Follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one, the millennial conscience of the family, who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. Sasha, Darley's new sister-in-law, has come from more humble origins, and her hesitancy about signing a pre-nup has everyone worried about her intentions. Georgiana, newly graduated...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Preparing for a family birthday celebration over a 1976 Labor Day weekend spent at Martha's Vineyard, Fern and Edgar discover that Fern's inheritance has suddenly run dry, prompting the couple to engage in reckless affairs while their children are left for days at a time without guardians.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009, c1985
Language
English
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When Navy ensign Billy Grenville, heir to a vast New York fortune, sees showgirl Ann Arden on the dance floor, it is love at first sight. And much to the horror of Alice Grenville—the indomitable family matriarch—he marries her. Ann wants desperately to be accepted by high society and become the well-bred woman of her fantasies. But a gunshot one rainy night propels Ann into a notorious spotlight—as the two Mrs. Grenvilles enter into a conspiracy...
15) French exit
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sixty-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price had a plan. To die before the money ran out, but things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for twelve years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank, who may or may...
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Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
No one likes to believe that America has its own aristocracy, but the families described in this narrative share how these American families climbed the social ladder and their resulting legacies. Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall, including the following families: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford, Getty, Hearst, Morgan, Astor, Coors, Adams, Kennedy, Nampeyo, Wyeth,...
18) Gosford Park
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The lives and interactions among a group of upper class and their servants at a weekend hunting party in the English country, and a mysterious murder that occurs among them.
19) Mary Poppins
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An English nanny with magical abilities takes over the household of a proper London banker and changes the lives of everyone.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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The Dowager Countess reveals she has a villa in the south of France, and many of the family follow her there for a rest while some of the family stay behind to keep an eye on the cast and crew of a film which is shooting at the grand estate.
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