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Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage España
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Con ingenio y humor, María Amparo Escandón sigue a la familia Alvarado mientras esta lucha con evacuaciones inminentes, secretos, engaños y traiciones, y con la decisión más difícil que deben tomar hasta el momento: permanecer unidos o quemarlo todo. L.A. está seco como un desierto, Oscar, el patriarca de la familia Alvarado, está obsesionado con el clima y solo quiere un poco de lluvia. En realidad, alberga un secreto que lo distrae de todo...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Recognizing that their dullard daughter, Carley, needs an academic boost, Gretchen and Francis Wells hire author Bree McEnroy to write a book to Carley's specifications--but Carley isn't as ignorant as her parents and teachers believe. Her desire to pull her best friend out of his self-loathing, drunken state eventually convince Carley to give words a chance and to reassert that it's not about books or reading, after all, but about people and relationships....
324) Easy living
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
The first graphic novel based on the classic by Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"From the author of Mr. Malcolm's List comes a delightful romantic comedy set in Regency England about a widow who takes high society by storm. Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, has no desire to ever marry again. Particularly not to someone who merely wants her for her fortune. So when she discovers that she's listed in a directory of rich, single women she is furious, and rightly so. She confronts Maxwell Dean, the man who published the Bachelor's...
327) One in a million
Author
Series
Rivalries volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
When Frank Culhane, the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas’s most prestigious families, is murdered, Detective Sam Rafferty, a city outsider, is propelled into a tangle of simmering rivalries and forbidden attractions as Frank’s second wife and his scorned first wife hold the future of his ranching dynasty in their hands.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xv, 494 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"For fans of Downton Abbey comes an immersive historical epic about a lavish English manor and a dynasty of rich and powerful women who ruled the estate over three centuries of misbehavior, scandal, intrigue, and passion. Five miles from Windsor Castle, home of the royal family, sits the Cliveden estate. Overlooking the Thames, the mansion is flanked by two wings and surrounded by lavish gardens. Throughout its storied history, Cliveden has been a...
Author
Series
Andy Mills mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
While investigating the mysterious death of matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of a famous soap empire, Andy Mills is seduced by the safety and freedom found in Lavender House, where a queer family lives honestly and openly, until he becomes a pawn in their deadly game.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Finding a single assassin in a city of nine million is daunting. Finding five is a nightmare.Lower Manhattan: A sniper’s bullet ends the life of a high-profile New Yorker. Five miles uptown, a second prominent victim has his throat slashed.And that’s only the beginning. A network of professional assassins is on the loose in New York City. Trained by the US military, they’re on their own now, with a new unit called Kappa Omega Delta. Killers...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 322 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Tabitha Girard had her heart broken years ago by Connor Ford. He was preppy and handsome. She was a pool girl at his country club. Their affair should have been a summer fling. But it meant everything to Tabitha. Years later, Connor comes back into Tabitha's life-older, richer, and desperately unhappy. He married for money, a wealthy, neurotic, controlling woman whom he never loved. He has always loved Tabitha. When Connor's wife Nina takes her own...
333) Good rich people
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Lyla has always believed that life is a game she is destined to win, but her husband, Graham, takes the game to dangerous levels. The wealthy couple invites self-made success stories to live in their guesthouse and then conspires to ruin their lives. After all, there is nothing worse than a bootstrapper. Demi has always felt like the odds were stacked against her. At the end of her rope, she seizes a risky opportunity to take over another person's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
336 pages.
Description
" Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are catering a Victorian Christmas party at a swanky mansion in downtown Charleston for Drucilla Heyward, one of the wealthiest women in town. As the champagne flows and the tea steeps, Drucilla is so pleased with the reception by her partygoers that she reveals her secret plan to Theodosia. The Grande Dame has brought the cream of Charleston society together to reveal that she...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (783 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Return with Dr. Hank Lawson to the Hamptons, where the tides are high, bank account balances are higher, and the patients are just high maintenance. Because of his strong convictions and straight-shooting style, the 'concierge doctor's' practice is growing, and with the return of his estranged father, so is his family. See puzzling cases involving a faithful cop with an STD, a winemaker with a troubled palate, and a reality show where all the contestants...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 535 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Meet Dr. Hank Lawson, young, brilliant, and recently fired from his ER in Brooklyn for all the wrong reasons. Through a twist of fate, he now finds himself the newest 'concierge doctor' in the Hamptons. Providing round-the-clock house calls to the community's rich and famous might be lucrative, but it's not without its challenges and frustrations.
337) McDonald & Dodds
Publisher
BBC Archives
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 DVD (178 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Newly arrived to Bath, highly amibitious Londoner DCI Lauren McDonald intends to take the city's police force by storm. But when she's partnered with veteran Sergeant Dodds, the unlikely pair must find a way to work together as their different approaches to policing--and to life--come to the fore. Together, in two new feature length episodes, they investigate intriguing crimes, set against the backdrop of the contemporary changing face of Britain's...
338) Only you
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
13 CDs (approximately 16 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Includes two fan-favorite stories by Nora Roberts. Boundary Lines brings together two long-feuding families with one steamy romance, while The Right Path leads a reluctant tourist straight into the arms of the wealthy Greek tycoon whose property she's trespassing on.
339) Lady in a cage
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rich widow is trapped in her private elevator, nine feet from the floor, for ten terrifying hours. Unable to escape, her situation becomes desperate when the emergency alarm attracts a drunken derelict and his boozy prostitute friend, both bent on robbery.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP culture-class, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estate-through the lens of mothers and daughters. At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return years later when she had children of her own. Whether to defy the previous generation or finally earn...
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