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41) Orient: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
612 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
At the eastern edge of Long Island, far from the hustle of New York City, stands Orient, a village that has been home to a few families for hundreds of years and is now--reluctantly--opening up to wealthy weekenders and artists from the city. On the last day of summer, a young man with a hazy past appears, and not long after comes a series of events that shatters the peace in this isolated community. A strange, twisted creature washes ashore on the...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As preparations for the 1893 World's Fair set Chicago and the nation on fire, Louis Tiffany--heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire--seizes the opportunity to unveil his state-of-the-art, stained glass, mosaic chapel, the likes of which the world has never seen. But when Louis's [sic] dream is threatened by a glassworkers' strike months before the Fair opens, he turn to an unforeseen source for help: the female students at the Art Students...
44) Café society
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
Author
Series
American royalty volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After years of being her diva mother's understudy, it's time for Delia Vittoria to take her place on stage. Attempting to make amends for a grave mistake, Kit Quincy is suddenly pulled into Delia's plot to win the great opera war and act as her patron and an enigmatic phantom. But when a second phantom appears, more than Delia's career is threatened." -- Provided by publisher.
46) How could she
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a devastating break-up with her fiancé, Geraldine is struggling to get her life back on track in Toronto. Her two old friends, Sunny and Rachel, left ages ago for New York, where they've landed good jobs, handsome husbands, and unfairly glamorous lives (or at least so it appears to Geraldine). Sick of watching from the sidelines, Geraldine decides to force the universe to give her the big break she knows she deserves, and moves to New York...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the top of the Empire State Building on a freezing December night, two women hold their breath. Frances and Agnes are waiting for the man who has wronged them. They plan to seek the ultimate revenge. Set over the course of a single night, One Night, New York is a detective story, a romance and a coming-of-age tale. It is also a story of old New York, of bohemian Greenwich Village between the wars, of floozies and artists and addicts-lighting up...
48) A cup of tea
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Rosemary Fell was born into privilege. She has wealth, well–connected friends, and a handsome fiance, Philip Alsop. Finally she has everything she wants. It is then, in a moment of beneficence, that Rosemary invites Eleanor Smith, a penniless young woman she sees under a streetlamp in the rain, into her home for a cup of tea. While there, Rosemary sees Eleanor exchange an unmistakable look with Philip, and she sends Eleanor on her way. But she cannot...
49) Bergdorf blondes
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Plum Sykes's beguiling debut welcomes listeners to the glamorous world of Park Avenue Princesses. With enormous wit and an insider's eye, Sykes captures the nuances of the rich and spoiled in a heartwarming social satire, featuring a loveable "champagne bubble of a girl" who's just looking for love (and maybe the perfect pair of Chloe jeans).
50) The chaperone
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Holiday Stalker by Laura Scott, Max Santelli and his furry partner protect the team's tech guru, Eden Chang, when she becomes the target of deadly attention.
In Gift-Wrapped Danger by Maggie K. Black, army veteran Adam Jolly teams up with Noelle Orton and her keen-nosed K-9 to take down someone smuggling drugs using toys donated to the single dad's Christmas charity.
53) Savage Girl
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple. Taken back East to be civilized and introduced into high society, Bronwyn hits the highly mannered world like a bomb. A series of suitors, both young and old, find her irresistible-- until the willful girl's illicit lovers begin to turn up murdered.
Author
Series
American royalty volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Upon her father's unexpected retirement, his shareholders refuse to allow Willow Dupré to take over the company without a man at her side. Presented with twenty-five potential suitors from New York society's elite, she has six months to choose which she will marry. But when one captures her heart, she must discover for herself if his motives are truly pure.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Half-sisters Cassie and Peck could not be more different. Cassie is a journalist with her feet firmly planted on the ground; Peck is an actress with her head in the clouds. In fact, the only thing they seem to have in common is their inheritance. Fool's House is a broken-down home in the Hamptons left to Cassie and Peck by their Aunt Lydia, a house that she decreed they must share. But Cassie and Peck can't afford the place, and they can't agree on...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Julia Summers seems to have it all: a Fifth Avenue apartment, a successful husband, and two adorable children attending the best private school in the city. She relishes wielding influence over her well-heeled girlfriends, but her star appears to be fading. That's why, when stranded in Manhattan for the summer as the entire Upper East Side flees to the Hamptons, Julia is on the hunt for the next big thing--the hot new fad that will put her back on...
60) Scarlett fever
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Scarlett, who is beginning to get over her break-up with Eric, stays busy as assistant to her theatrical-agent friend who is not only promoting Scarlett's brother Spencer, but also a new client whose bad-boy brother has transferred to Scarlett's school.