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61) House of secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A servant's daughter and a doctor's son who were raised in the same household develop a romantic relationship that is threatened by the doctor's new wife.
"Ever since Fern could remember, she and her mother have lived as servants in Wyndemere House, the old gothic mansion of the Davenport family. She may have been a servant, but Fern developed a sweet friendship with Dr. Davenport's son, Ryder, and she was even allowed free range of the estate. But...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Rob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling between ten different foster homes in California. When he is adopted into a loving family, he hopes that life will finally be stable and safe. Divorce, tragedy, poverty, and violence mark his adolescent and teen years, propelling Henderson to join the military upon completing high school. An unflinching portrait of shattered families, desperation, and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Charlotte married older and wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her trailer-park past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman's body floating in the exact same spot where Paul's first wife tragically drowned."--Publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's "peerless observer" (People) uncovers college life-from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating-plus race, class, sex, and basketball. Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition... Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina, who has come here on full scholarship. But...
Author
Series
Canadian crossings volume 1
Language
English
Description
After WWI Grace Abernathy is determined to reunite with her family, crossing an ocean to convince her widowed sister to return home to England. Yet Toronto holds more tragedy: her nephew, Christian, is in the custody of his paternal relatives, the formidable Easton family, who rejected Grace's sister because of her low social status. Unconvinced the Eastons can be fitting caretakers, Grace jumps at the chance to be Christian's nanny. And in the course...
Author
Series
VAMPS volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the Swiss Alps, VAMPS is the ultimate academy for the progeny of the wealthiest and most powerful vampire families. Unfortunately for Dillon, he's an outsider--to be more specific: he's a dhampir, a vampire who is half human. If he wants to survive beyond a single term, he's going to need to embrace his fangs. But blood never lies, and soon it becomes clear there is something special and deadly in Dillon's veins. As his power grows, so...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 min., 24 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
What are the connections between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts and skin colour? Our opening episode travels to Louisville, Kentucky, not to explore whether medical care cures us but to see why we get sick in the first place, and why patterns of health and illness reflect underlying patterns of class and racial inequities. The lives of a CEO, a lab supervisor, a janitor, and an unemployed mother illustrate how class shapes opportunities for...
69) Bone weaver
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Language
English
Description
"From the author of The City Beautiful comes a haunting fantasy following Toma, adopted daughter of the benevolent undead, making her way across a civil war-torn continent to save her younger sister as she discovers she might possess magical powers herself. The Kosa empire roils in tension, on the verge of being torn apart by a proletarian revolution between magic-endowed elites and the superstitious lower class, but seventeen-year-old Toma lives...
Author
Language
English
Description
"At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, and, with a tenacious grip on her dream to provide her daughter the very best life possible, Stephanie worked days and took classes online to earn a college degree,...
71) Snobs: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
A Times (London) bestseller from the author of Gosford Park. Edith Lavery, the pretty daughter of an accountant, meets gossip-column favorite Charles Broughton (Earl of Broughton and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield) at Ascot. When he proposes and she accepts, does she really love him, or is she merely dazzled by his title and money? In a tale that mixes contemporary Jane Austen with the brilliant social commentary of Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help! From Reese's Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes an absolute tour de force--the wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own"--
The wealthy island nation of Singapore seems like an oasis of luxury and order, but it owes everything to the immigrant women no one sees. Corazon, Donita,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xix, 250 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses the problems with American banking and investigates such informal banking alternatives as check-cashing businesses, payday lenders, and lending clubs.
"An urgent, absorbing exposé--why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did. What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high-net-worth entrepreneur, and a twenty-something graduate student...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2021
Edition
Edición especial 25 aniversario.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Ashby Egbert, joven perteneciente a la clase acomodada, sufre un accidente y es internado en un hospital público. Ahí empieza a conocer un mundo de cuya existencia no tenía idea y a entablar relaciones con personajes que le tenderán la mano como si fuera uno de ellos. Al salir, él ya será otro: tendrá una visión más crítica y social, desde la que encontrará su verdadero motor: Amaya Chacel. Ella llegará a su vida para darle un nuevo giro....
Author
Series
Clifton Chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the...
76) The legacies
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
During the annual initiation of members into the exclusive Legacy Club, the surprise nomination of Tori Tasso, a scholarship student, jeopardizes the club's clandestine truths and leads to a perilous Legacy Ball where one attendee does not make it out alive.
77) Close to home
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive"--
Sean's brother Anthony is a hard man. When they were kids their ma did her best to keep him out of trouble, but you can't say anything to Anto. Sean was supposed to be different. He was supposed to leave and never come back. But Sean does come back. Arriving home after university, he finds Anthony's...
78) The clearing
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An affluent businessman is kidnapped for ransom.
Author
Series
We set the dark on fire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
On the other side of Medio's border wall, the oppressed class fights for freedom and liberty, sacrificing what little they have to become defenders of the cause. Carmen Santos is one of La Voz's best soldiers: she spent years undercover, but now, with her identity exposed and the island on the brink of a civil war, Carmen returns to La Voz's headquarters. There she must reckon with her beloved leader, who is under the influence of an aggressive new...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Operator by Gretchen Berg delivers a vivid look inside the heads and hearts of a group of housewives and pokes at the absurdities of 1950s America, a simpler time that was far from simple. In a small town, everyone knows everyone else's business... Nobody knows the people of Wooster, Ohio, better than switchboard operator Vivian Dalton, and she'd be the first to tell you that. She calls it intuition. Her teenage daughter, Charlotte, calls it eavesdropping....
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