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Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match? It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father and his sultry bottle-blonde girlfriend...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mary Swan Middleton has always taken for granted the advantages of her family's wealth. But a tragedy that touches all of Atlanta sends her reeling in grief. When the family maid challenges her to reach out to the less fortunate as a way to ease her own pain, Mary Swan meets Carl--and everything changes. For although Carl is her opposite in nearly every way, he has something her privileged life could not give her. And when she seeks his help to uncover...
Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Miami socialite Leigh Anatole White's annual Charity Ball, a star-studded benefit for troubled teens, is the most highly anticipated event of the season, and Leigh pulls out all the stops to ensure it doesn't disappoint. This year--the tenth anniversary of the Ball--Leigh has decided to give Miami one last blowout before relinquishing her title as hostess. Even the dirty secrets and entanglements of her friends and pseudo-friends can't slow her down....
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Quirky and fun-loving American heiress Daisy Bowman is the last unmarried Wallflower. Her exasperated father has informed her that if she can't find a husband by the end of her third London season, she will be forced to marry a man she hates-the ruthless entrepreneur Matthew Swift. Daisy is horrified. A Bowman never admits defeat, so she decides to do whatever it takes to marry someone . . . anyone . . . other than Matthew. What she doesn't count...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's the grand opening of Daybreak Island's cat café, where customers can get cozy with an assortment of friendly felines--and maybe even take one or a few home. Co-owner Maddie James is purring with excitement over her new warm-and-fuzzy venture...until she becomes entangled in a petty drama between one of her volunteers, an ardent animal-rights activist, and a wealthy woman who insists on adopting a calico kitty--right this instant. The catfight...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 349 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cracow, 1893. Zofia Turbotyńska--professor's wife and socialite--is bored at home, with little to do but plan a charity auction sponsored by the wealthy residents of a local nursing home and the nuns who work there. But when one of those residents is found dead, Zofia finds a calling: solving crimes. Ridiculed by the police, who have declared the deaths of natural cause, she starts her own murder investigation, unbeknownst to anyone but her loyal...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Selina Lennox is a Bright Young Thing. Her life is a whirl of parties and drinking, pursued by the press and staying on just the right side of scandal, all while running from the life her parents would choose for her. Lawrence Weston is a penniless painter who stumbles into Selina's orbit one night and can never let her go even while knowing someone of her stature could never end up with someone of his. Except Selina falls hard for Lawrence, envisioning...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Meagan McKinney brings Victorian-era New York alive in this sensuous tale of secret identities. Rafe Belloch, a powerful railroad baron, is accustomed to being in control. When a masked young woman steals his valuables and leaves him naked in the street, he vows to find her and get even. Two years later he meets demure debutante Mystere Rillieux, a woman unlike any he has ever met. But something about her is hauntingly familiar....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When dressmaker Lucy Scarpelli befriends socialite Rowena Langdon, she visits the Langdon mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, and falls for a high-society man, while Rowena struggles with her upcoming arranged marriage.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Enduring a life of lonely desperation in spite of her beauty, pedigree, and Park Avenue penthouse, Vera is drawn to a secretive French artist who is painting a mural in her coveted building, a relationship that reminds her about a talented forger from her past who nearly cost her everything.
Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a penthouse at The Angelus--the most coveted address on Park Avenue. But behind the sparkling social whirl, Vera is...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The international bestselling author of "The Devil Wears Prada" returns with this breezy tale about what happens when a girl on the fringe enters the realm of New York's chic, party-hopping elite when she's hired by a PR firm and finds the line between her personal and professional lives is invisible.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Jaded bounty hunter Bryan Kelly is head-over-hormones in lust with a woman . . . and what she does to his senses is criminal.
Double Trouble.
Bryan Kelly has a few rules. Rule #1: Women are for fun, not commitment. Rule #2: He'll do anything for his twin brother, even switch places with him to find out who's sabotaging his charity. But playing a really good guy isn't easy around a luscious Shay Sommers. Which brings him to Rule #3: If you can't...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On her way from singing in church to hooking up with a Tinder date, Brittany Lynn Snider crashes her momma's minivan, and her life is changed forever. One moment she's texting HotGuyNate, and the next she's at a hospital in El Paso, watching doctors operate on her near-lifeless body. When a shimmering portal appears, it pull Brittany upward toward heaven--until another patient, a mean girl named Edie, leaps through and steals Brittany's place. Brittany...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
594 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue.