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English
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Winning a scholarship to a prestigious college where she befriends a beautiful girl of privilege, unassuming Mabel joins her friend during a lakeside summer surrounded by wealthy vacationers only to discover morally ambiguous truths about her friend's family fortune.
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English
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The House of Mirth is an uncompromising depiction of 19th-century New York society. Lily Bart is a society lady who is unwilling to marry for love, but equally unwilling to marry as society dictates. She sabotages every advantageous opportunity she receives, until her society friends begin to hasten her downfall for their own ends.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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On Long Island in the early 1920s the mysterious Jay Gatsby tries to rekindle his romance with Daisy, a young woman who has married another man.
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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In the tradition of John Grisham and Scott Turow, Crime of Privilege is a stunning thriller about power and corruption and the dangerous ways they come together. George Becket is a young lawyer, toiling away in the basement of the Cape and Islands district attorney's office.
9) Mary Poppins
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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An English nanny with magical abilities takes over the household of a proper London banker and changes the lives of everyone.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A deliciously funny, sharply observed novel of family, wealth, love and tennis, this zeitgeisty debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one, the millennial conscience of the family, who wants to give it all away. Rife with the indulgent pleasures of affluent WASPS in New York and full of recognizable if fallible characters (and a couple of appalling ones!), it's about the...
13) The trackers
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life...
15) The wild rose
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Series
Tea rose trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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In 1914, with World War I approaching, polar explorer Seamus Finnegan tries to forget Willa, a passionate mountain climber, as he marries a beautiful young woman back home in England.
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Distributed by Goldhil Home Media International, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Edition
Digital collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (375 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dunne will rivet you with his selection of notorious cases that uncover the lowest depths of high society, where corruption collides with justice.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
212 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
Features six pieces that include the title story about a teacher at a private school for girls as he reflects on his long career, and "The Country Cousin," a one-act play about the hidden lives of members of a wealthy family.
18) Mrs: a novel
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English
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In the well-heeled milieu of New York's Upper East Side, coolly elegant Philippa Lye is the woman no one can stop talking about. Then, into her precariously balanced life, come two women who uncover an explosive secret about Philippa's single days. When Gwen's husband stumbles over the connection between Philippa's past and the criminal investigation he is pursuing, this insulated society is forced to confront the rot at its core and the price it...
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English
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A breathtaking thriller featuring "political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murder, and financial crises" (San Francisco Chronicle), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire
In 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath initiate a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine...
In 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath initiate a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine...
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