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Amor Towles · 352 pages
A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton · 320 pages
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s, the world in which she grew up, and from which she spent her life escaping. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but
Flambards
K.M. Peyton · 224 pages
Twelve-year-old Christina Parsons is sent to live with her fierce uncle and his two sons, Mark and Will, in their decaying mansion, Flambards. Christina discovers a passion for horses and riding but finds herself part of a strange household, divided by emotional undercurrents and cruelty. 1st book in the Flambards series.
Deadly Promise
Brenda Joyce · 341 pages
Francesca Cahill is an American heiress. She also happens to be a political activist and an amateur sleuth (detective). Francesca finds out that there a girl missing from the streets and she fears that she may have been abducted. Along with finding her, she has also accepted Calder Harts proposal for marriage which puts her on the outs with Rick, the police commissioner and Harts brother. Howeve
A Certain Age
Beatriz Williams · 336 pages
The American Heiress
Daisy Goodwin · 468 pages
"Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 592 pages
The Portrait of a Lady is widely held to be the outstanding work of Henry James’s “early” period, and among the finest novels of his entire career. When the eccentric Mrs. Touchett “takes up” her charming American niece, Isabel Archer, and returns with her to England, her husband and son, the invalid Ralph, are first mystified, then bemused. Soon, however, they are smitten, as also is their aristo
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence · 322 pages
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 716 pages
War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. The novel begins in the year 1805 during the reign of Tsar Alexander I and leads up to the 1812 French invasion of Russia by Napoleon. The era of Catherine the Great (1762–1796), when t
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 256 pages
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab · 448 pages
Dirty Filthy Rich Men
Laurelin Paige · 281 pages
You Know You Love Me
Cecily von Ziegesar · 232 pages
In You Know You Love Me, the sequel to Gossip Girl, it's brunette vixen Blair Waldorf's seventeenth birthday, and she knows exactly what she wants--Nate, her studly troubles boyfriend of three years. But Blair's been too busy filling out Ivy League college applications to notice that Nate has found himself another playmate.
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 864 pages
Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of our time, and inspired a sequel that became the fastest selling novel of the century. It is one of the most popular books ever written: more than 28 million copies of the book have been sold in more than 37 countries. Today, more than 60 years after its initial publication, its ac
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
Chris Cleave · 464 pages
The Swans of Fifth Avenue
Melanie Benjamin
Brooklyn
Colm Toibin · 262 pages
In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, t
The Great Gatsby
Kathleen Parkinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald · 144 pages
The Thousandth Floor
Katharine McGee · 441 pages
"A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future where anything is possible -- if you want it enough. Welcome to Manhattan, 2118. A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. Everyone there wants something ... and everyone has something to lose." -- From dustjacket. A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovatio
Studio Saint-Ex
Ania Szado · 358 pages
In fashion-driven 1940s New York, ambitious fashion designer Mignonne Lachapelle falls for French expatriate writer and war pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery, while the author's estranged Salvadoran wife, Consuelo, is determined to win him back at all costs.
Lions and Lace
Meagan McKinney · 417 pages
SHE PLAYED BY HIGH SOCIETY'S RULES The gaslight's glow lit 19 year old Alana Van Alen's golden hair. Born to luxury, she belonged with the Astors and the Vanderbilts at cotillions and soirees. But she shivered with fear and something more was she faced the handsome, ruthless 32 year old Trevor Sheridan. He had bankrupted her fortune and would expose her family's scandalous secret unless she accep
Chasing Harry Winston
Lauren Weisberger · 304 pages