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21) The skin game
Series
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Description
Landed gentry defend family that is being evicted by tradespeople who have worked their way up from the lowest section of society.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, happens upon a young orphan in the park and, on a whim, decides to adopt him. Together they set off on a series of madcap escapades"--Container.
23) The good liar
Publisher
Warner Home Video
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Description
Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life.
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"Filipino-American Christina "Ting" Klein has just travelled from New York to Manila, both to escape her imminent divorce, and to begin research for a biography of Timicheg, an indigenous Filipino brought to America at the start of the twentieth century to be exhibited as part of a 'human zoo.' It has been a year since Ting's last visit, and one year since Procopio "Copo" Gumboc swept the elections in an upset and took power as president. Arriving...
Author
Appears on list
Description
"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...
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On wealthy philanthropist Cecil Wyatt's eightieth birthday, all the money in the world won't bring back his missing grandson, William Wyatt. The family, the police and the media all have tried in vain to discover the young man's fate. Now suspicion has turned shockingly toward William's own half-brother, the rather distant and enigmatic Mitchell Wyatt. Kate Donovan is tagged as a suspect in a high-society murder case, after a chance romantic encounter...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xv, 330 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
A journalist and industry specialist for Reuters examines the growing disparity between the rich and the poor, taking a non-partisan look into the businesspeople who are amassing colossal fortunes and preferring the company of similar people around the world.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
320 pages
Description
"When young Charlie Boykin gains entry into the wealthy society of the most exclusive part of Nashville, he falls under its spell. But he soon learns what he'd have to give up in return in this novel that asks why we envy and worship a class of people that so often exhibits the worst excesses"--
31) Make you mine
Author
Series
Nine circles volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
In the Nine Circles Club, one lucky man gets more than his share of money, power, and women--until he meets a beautiful opponent who plays in the name of love?́Œin Make You Mine by Jackie Ashenden. He's raising the stakes. International playboy Alex St. James always plays to win. Whether it's betting on a high-stakes card game--or bedding a high-class socialite--the gorgeous world-class gambler knows how to beat the odds using his brains, his body,...
32) Overboard
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
Author
Description
Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted...
34) The lion's den
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
353 pages
Description
"Belle likes to think herself immune to the dizzying effects of fabulous wealth. But when her best friend, Summer, invites her on a glamorous girls' getaway to the Mediterranean aboard her billionaire boyfriend's yacht, the only sensible answer is yes. Belle hopes the trip will be a much-needed break from her stalled acting career and uniquely humiliating waitressing job, but once aboard the luxurious Lion's Den, it becomes clear that all is not as...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"A leading expert on the affluent reveals the real way to build wealth... Dr. Thomas J. Stanley is a recognized and highly respected authority on the wealthy, their behavior, and their thinking. Now, in Stop Acting Rich, he details how the less affluent have fallen into the elite luxury brand trap that keeps them from truly acquiring wealth and details how to get out of it by emulating the working rich as opposed to the super elite. A defensive strategy...
36) Fake: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A professional forger, who makes copies of nineteenth-century paintings for museums and wealthy collectors, receives an invitation to work with an oligarch and sees the seedy underbelly of his opulent life.
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"A prominent high-society matron--who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES--has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, as it turns out, is far from the truth. Meanwhile, a bizarre discovery in the middle...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Obelisco
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 21 cm
Description
El mundo te ha llevado a creer que la libertad financiera no es algo que puedas crear voluntariamente en tu vida. Te han enseńado a ver la riqueza como algo de lo que disfrutan sólo unos pocos afortunados a los que les ha tocado una lotería empresarial aleatoria o bien que están bendecidos con un talento inimaginable. Este libro no sólo analiza los pilares más importantes para ti, sino que también te enseña cómo incorporarlos a tu vida actual...
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