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A juicy, sprawling comedy of manners about a group of thirtysomethings navigating friendship, love, and their fledgling careers among Houston's high-powered, oil-money elite
Thirty-year-old Vivienne Cally is wealthy in name only. Orphaned as a child and raised by a cold but regal aunt, Vivienne was taught to rely on her beauty and Texas tradition, and is expected to marry a wealthy and respectable man who will honor the Cally name. Friends with Houston's...
82) Just kiss me
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English
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"A love story with sizzle, sass, and just a bit of southern charm"--
83) The midnight lie
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Forgotten gods (Rutkoski) volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Nirrim endures a grim and punishing life as a Half Caste until she encounters Sid, a rakish traveler from far away who whispers rumors that the High Caste possess magic and tempts Nirrim to seek that magic for herself.
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Uncertain choice volume 2
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English
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When a young maiden vows to protect those mistreated in the kingdom, she finds herself at odds with a wealthy knight. But when the two realize their feelings for each other, the maiden must protect her heart, as well.
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English
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A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Felicita fakes her own suicide to escape from the strict confines of her aristocratic family and an arranged marriage, only to be confronted with the harsh realities of living in the slums and the ultimate discovery that the boy she has fallen in love with is plotting a rebellion to destroy her family.
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"Harry and Emma Clifton rush to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian. But who died in the car accident, Sebastian or his friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, Alex Fisher. Harry and Emma's daughter wins an art school scholarship, where she falls in love with Clive Bingham, who asks her to marry him. Everyone is delighted...
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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In the final season, Sarah Nordmann finally marries wealthy landowner George Bligh. But as Sarah takes her place as lady of Ash Park, George's mother, Elizabeth, feels pushed out of the household. George's son, James, returns from abroad to start a business, while his daughter, Anna, lives in Hawaii with her sister-in-law, hiding a secret from the family. The Bligh's face tragedies, betrayals, and new beginnings that will challenge their relationships...
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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"Sparks fly when sixteen-year-old Lucy Patterson and seventeen-year-old Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. Soon after, the two teenagers leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally, in this story set over the course of one year"--
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"Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young widow and an engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love. In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris--a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial...
94) New order
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Neon
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Español
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In this riveting, suspenseful dystopian drama, a lavish upper-class wedding goes awry in an unexpected uprising of class warfare that gives way to a violent coup d’état. As seen through the eyes of the sympathetic young bride and the servants who work for—and against—her wealthy family, NEW ORDER breathlessly traces the collapse of one political system as a more harrowing replacement springs up in its wake. Winner of the Silver Lion at the...
95) Caddyshack II
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
The members of the Bushwood Country Club still insist that only a privileged few are permitted to walk miles in the sun while wearing silly pants and whacking a little ball from hole to hole. Blue-collar millionaire Jack Hartounian is concerned more with the way people treat each other than whether they use the right words in polite society or raise the proper finger to drink a glass of beer.
96) Jawbreaker
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Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Three of the most popular girls in high school play a practical joke on the prom queen and accidentally kill her with a jawbreaker. In the ensuing investigation only the powerful succeed and the girls find out who their friends really are.
98) Alice Adams
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English
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First published in 1921, "Alice Adams" is a novel by American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946). Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. One of his most famous and successful novels, "Alice Adams" follows the eponymous character and her struggle...
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