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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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In 1927 Philadelphia, to save her family's financial future and social standing, Helen Montgomery marries the black-sheep scion of a railroad magnate, but as her husband's attempts to be published lead to frustration and her personal dreams recede, the cracks in the perfect life she desires start to show.
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English
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"A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story. Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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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....
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In The Bottoms, tiny Cotswold villages on the English countryside, filthy rich Tata Hawkins is in a tizzy when her husband runs off with a bikini designer; her glamorous new neighbor, an American divorcée, refuses her overtures at friendship; and her two best friends are distracted by their own problems.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ever since her year as a scholarship student among the ultra-wealthy at a Manhattan private school, El knows what it is like to feel rich-to feel chosen. And being not chosen is her current living nightmare: at age thirty, she has given up her dream of becoming a famous actress, she has no passions, no great love, nothing to look forward to. Then El meets a mysterious trust-fund Cambridge grad who holds the keys to the world she has long dreamed...
6) Final offer
Author
Series
Dreamland billionaires volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tasked with selling his grandfather's Michigan lake house in order to receive his inheritance, CALLAHAN "CAL" KANE is determined to do right by his grandfather, but standing in his way is ALANA CASTILLO, Cal's childhood friend and now co-owner of the lake house. Alana's mother was the caretaker of the lake house and Alana share fond memories there, not only with Cal's grandfather but with Cal himself. While Cal's destructive ways stood in the way...
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