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41) The burning air
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The MacBrides lead a cozy life of upper class privilege: good looks (more or less), a beautiful home, tuition-free education at the prestigious private school where Rowan is headmaster, an altruistic righteousness inherited from magistrate Lydia. But when Rowan and his three grown children gather for the first time since Lydia's passing at the family's weekend home--a restored barn in the English countryside--years of secrets surface ... [and they]...
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 396 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As his father continues to face legal trouble, Michael Bluth runs the family business, tackling a host of legal and financial issues while trying to cope with his eccentric relatives.
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Digitally remastered collector's ed. ; Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (660 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 companion guide
Language
English
Description
Spans three decades from the early twenties to World War II in Charles Ryder's relationship with the wild and eccentric Sebastian Flyte and the aristocratic Marchmain family.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A woman tries to rebuild her life after her husband's conviction for huge financial fraud"--
After her husband Alan's decades of financial fraud are exposed, Suzanne's wealthy, comfortable life shatters. Alan goes to prison. Suzanne files for divorce, decamps to a barely middle-class Massachusetts beach town, and begins to create a new life and identity. Ignoring a steady stream of calls from Norfolk State Prison, she tries to cleanse herself of...
45) Secret relations
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this stunning and provocative domestic drama about a sweet sixteen birthday party that goes horribly awry, a wealthy family in San Francisco finds themselves entangled in a legal battle, their darkest secrets revealed, and their friends turned to enemies. One invitation. A lifetime of regrets. Sweet sixteen. It's an exciting coming of age, a milestone, and a rite of passage. Jeff and Kim Sanders plan on throwing a party for their daughter, Hannah--a...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (493 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in modern-day America, the one-hour drama series delivers a new, dramatic take on Will's life-altering journey from the streets of West Philadelphia to the gated mansions of Bel-Air. Leaving behind the only home he's ever known for a second chance in an unfamiliar place, Will finds his life turned upside down as he encounters new challenges and biases in a world of wealth and aspiration.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fanny Price goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park. There she navigates a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house, while her cousin Edmund Bertram remains her stalwart confidant.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Salvador, the patriarch, runs one of Wall Street's biggest banks the summer before everything collapses; Roberto and Rachel, his two children, have never worked a day in their lives; and Lena, his ex-wife, is a scheming hypochondriac. Part travelogue, part epic family drama, the novel follows Roberto and Rachel across Europe as the two dilettantes come to terms with their father's choices and the repercussions of his actions. Oozing with his signature...
51) French exit
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Annie is a young girl from a working-class neighborhood who suddenly finds herself working as a nanny for a wealthy family in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Between catering to the every whim of her employers and their precocious son and falling in love with their gorgeous neighbor, Annie tries to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
55) The inheritance
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A poignant tale of one family's infidelitiesand betrayals set against the backdrop of 1960s English aristocracy.
56) Sons of fortune
Author
Series
Stevenson family saga volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
500 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The epic story of two families at the height of the railroad boom, where the lives of the Victorian people rose economically and set in motion forces of passion and struggle that would define a people.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 2007, Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Their situation only improves when Jende's wife Neni is hired as household help. But in the course of their work, Jende and Neni begin to witness infidelities, skirmishes, and family secrets. Then, with the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, a tragedy changes all four lives forever, and the...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
416 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of how the Clamorgan family influenced race issues in America, describing how Jacques Clamorgan bequeathed large land holdings to his mixed-race, illegitimate heirs, triggering more than two centuries of litigation.