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"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
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Every year, the illustrious Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, gather at their secluded winery estate for a joint birthday celebration. It's a tradition they've followed nearly all their lives, and now they are back with their significant others for a much-needed weekend of rest and relaxation, away from the public spotlight. With lavish comforts, gorgeous scenery, and indulgent drinking, the trip should be the perfect escape. But it soon...
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After the death of her parents, Ariana Alvarez is lost and can't hold down a job because corporate life is so not her. To help her navigate post-college life, her doting Tio Jorge gets her a summer membership at his swanky country club and challenges her to make some friends...fast. But Ariana soon learns that life among the wealthy and golf-obsessed is a lot like being back in high school: cliques abound, mean girls are everywhere, and only the richest...
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Drafthouse Films volume 18
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Craig is a struggling family man who loses his low-wage job and is threatened with eviction. In an effort to delay facing the music at home, he heads to a local bar and encounters an old friend. The couple engages the two friends in a series of innocent dares in exchange for money over the course of the evening, with each challenge upping the ante in both reward and boundaries.
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Harlequin presents volume 4159
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"Jilted at the altar, Isla Kendrick faces an impossible decision: lose her family business or marry the ruthless tycoon trying to take it over. Already in her wedding dress, she reluctantly says "I do." Orion North wants Isla's company ... and her! So when the opportunity to save her from a media frenzy arises, he takes it. He whisks her away to his luxurious Icelandic lodge, and the heat burning between them soon takes them to the bedroom. But with...
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Liars Society volume 1
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"Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad...But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre...But Jack has a secret of his own...one with the...
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Harlequin presents volume 4160
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"Clare Redmond retreated from the world, pregnant and grieving her fiancé's death, never expecting to see his ice-cold brother, Rocco, again. She's stunned when the man who always avoided her storms back into her life, demanding they wed to give her son the life a Cosentino deserves! Clare accepts--how can she deny her son his birthright? Yet she soon discovers Rocco's coldness masks an unbridled passion that sets her alight! But discovering the...
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Rivalries volume 1
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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.
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Harlequin presents volume 4145
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Ice-hotel manager Lena Weir's job means the world to her. So, succumbing to temptation for one earth-shattering night with her super-rich boss, Konstantinos Siopis, was reckless--but oh so irresistible. Only their passion left her carrying a most unprofessional consequence ... This Christmas, she's expecting the hotelier's heir! Past experience has taught Konstantinos not to trust easily. So, when a glimpse of Lena's undisguised bump reveals the shocking...
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"Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a wealthy white family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS--White Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black parents can't seem to afford--and it creates a dissonance in her best friend...
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"Yellowjackets meets The Cloisters in this beguiling coming-of-age story about class, reinvention, and destiny, set against the backdrop of two mysterious deaths. Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale equestrian team. But when she comes back from her junior year abroad with newfound confidence, she finds that the group has been infiltrated by a mysterious intruder: Annelise Tattinger. A talented...
12) Run and hide
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"Run and Hide is Pankaj Mishra's intimate story of achieving material progress at great moral and emotional cost. It is also the story of a changing country and global order, and the inequities of class and gender that map onto our most intimate relationships"--
Growing up in a small railway town, Arun always dreamed of escape. His acceptance to the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, enabled through great sacrifice by his low-caste parents,...
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"When an anonymous neighborhood forum gets hacked, the darkest secrets of New York's wealthiest residents come to light-including some worth killing for-in this gripping suspense novel from the author of Just One Look. It was all confidential. Right up to the moment when it wasn't. UrbanMyth: It was lauded as an alternative to the performative, show-your-best-self platforms-an anonymous discussion board grouped by zip code. The residents of Manhattan's...
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"Paxos, Greece A young girl meets two boys on the beach one hot summer night. Her life will never be the same again. London, England Julia is the perfect spouse, mother, cook, cleaner and speech writer to her husband, James. But behind it all is a stifled woman trapped in a gilded cage. When she meets Laurel, a therapist who promises fulfilment, Julia opens herself up to the hope of a different future. Bound by the past But what happened in Greece...
16) Wild life
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They're walking on the wild side ... The Plan was simple: find a cure for the cancer that nearly took her sister's life. But for Zoey Fong, something about The Plan isn't working anymore. When a crucial tissue sample accidentally winds up in the hands of a very distracting--and disarmingly handsome--visitor, Zoey jumps at the chance to follow him home to retrieve it. Davy Hsieh's rugged island estate is no manicured suburban park. His plan is simple:...
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