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The Knickerbocker Club volume 1
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New York City's Gilded Age shimmers with unimaginable wealth and glittering power. The men of the Knickerbocker Club know this more than anyone else. But for one titan of industry, the business of love is not what he expected…
Born in the slums of Five Points, Emmett Cavanaugh climbed his way to the top of a booming steel empire and now holds court in an opulent Fifth Avenue mansion. His rise in stations, however, has done little to elevate his...
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Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret emails, art world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather.
On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should...
On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should...
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Princes of Texas volume 2
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No one cheats on a Prince and gets away with it. And Hallie-Texas socialite, would-be ballerina, and the only daughter of Cimarron County's renowned Prince family-is ready to give her two-timing fiancé a piece of her mind. But fate plants hot, sexy ranch hand and ex-Army Ranger Rafael Fontana quite literally in her way. Her childhood friend is all grown up. He's sexy, he's handsome, and, suddenly, after all these years, Hallie is taking notice. Rafe...
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Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book
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Antonina Beaulieu is in the glittering city of Loisail for her first Grand Season, where she will attend balls and mingle among high society in hopes of landing a suitable husband. But Antonina is telekinetic, and strange events in her past have made her the subject of malicious gossip and hardly a sought-after bride. Now, under the tutelage of her cousin's wife, she is finally ready to shed the past and learn the proper ways of society. Antonina,...
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In 1955, Grace Monroe's marriage has landed her at the heart of London's high society, but the role of sophisticated socialite doesn't come easily to her.An unexpected inheritance from a French woman she has never met sends her on a journey to Paris, to a long-abandoned perfume shop where she discovers the bewitching story of Eva d'Orsey, a perfumer's muse in the 1920s. As Eva's past and Grace's future intersect, Grace realizes she must choose between...
8) Hot shot
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Her name is Susannah, but three men she brings together call her Hot Shot. She's the spark to a daring venture they start in a garage and build into an empire. For Sam, a rebel, the business is just the thrill he seeks; for Yank, an eccentric inventor, it's his vision fulfilled; and for Mitch, a starched marketing genius, it's a risk he has to take.
But dreams can have a cruel price. For Susannah, daughter of a bigwig in a competing company, success...
But dreams can have a cruel price. For Susannah, daughter of a bigwig in a competing company, success...
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As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. A love triangle between Theresa, Octavian, and Miss Sophie Fortescue transforms into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations, and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression - and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet...
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"Beauty and glamour meet deception and revenge in this electrifying novel by New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick. Investigative apprentice Lyra Brazier, the newest resident of Burning Cove, is unsettled when her boss suddenly goes on a health retreat at an exclusive spa and disappears without another word. Lyra knows something has happened to Raina Kirk, and she is the only one who can track her down. The health spa is known for its luxurious...
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The breathtaking new novel set during the Blitz by the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of "Little Bee." As World War Two begins, Mary - a newly qualified teacher in London, left behind to teach the few children not evacuated - meets Tom, a school official. They quickly fall in love, but this is not a simple love story. Moving from Blitz-torn London to the Siege of Malta, this is an epic story of love, loss, prejudice, and incredible courage....
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Signal/McClelland & Stewart
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"The long-awaited memoir of one of Canada's most talked about and controversial figures, Friends and Enemies is shockingly honest, richly detailed, and pulls no punches as it traverses the highs and lows of Barbara Amiel's storied life. From her early childhood in London during the Blitz, to emigrating to Toronto and her rise to the top rungs of journalism; to her five husbands and other assorted beaus both famous and not; right up to her marriage...
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Wicked city novels volume 2
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English
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The dazzling narrator of The Wicked City brings her mesmerizing voice and indomitable spirit to another Jazz Age tale of rumrunners, double crosses, and true love, spanning the Eastern seaboard from Florida to Long Island to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1924. Ginger Kelly wakes up in tranquil Cocoa Beach, Florida, having fled south to safety in the company of disgraced Prohibition agent Oliver Anson Marshall and her newly-orphaned young sister, Patsy. But...
15) The wicked city
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Wicked city novels volume 1
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In the first book of a breathtaking new trilogy by bestselling author Beatriz Williams, two generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village apartment -a flapper hiding an extraordinary past, and a modern-day Manhattanite forced to start her life anew.
When she discovers her banker husband has been harboring a secret life, Ella Gilbert escapes her SoHo loft for a studio in Greenwich Village. Her charismatic musician neighbor,...
16) Coming out
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Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New...
17) Dreamland
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The year is 1911 when twenty-year-old heiress Peggy Batternberg is invited to spend the summer in America's Playground. The invitation to Coney Island is unwelcome. Despite hailing from one of America's richest families, Peggy would much rather spend the summer working at the Moonrise Bookstore than keeping up appearances with New York City socialites and her snobbish, controlling family. But soon it transpires that the hedonism of Coney Island affords...
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After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis' father. Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favour is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed at - he will hunt the famous Loch Ness monster, and when he finds it, he will restore his father's name and return to his father's good...
19) The after party
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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 centre of it all. Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1957 Houston social scene. Best friends with Joan since pre-school, Cece Buchanan is either Joan's chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on the night and whom you ask. When...
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