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281) The falling machine
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Society of steam volume 1
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In an alternate 1880 New York City nineteen-year-old socialite Sarah Stanton dreams of becoming one of the Paragons, the city's greatest team of gentlemen superheroes. She seizes an opportunity in tragedy when Dennis Darby, her mentor and leader of the Paragons, is murdered and she investigates the circumstances behind his death--only to discover a conspiracy among the heroes.
282) The mad Miss Manton
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A rich Park Avenue socialite with a penchant for practical jokes solves two mysterious murders in her own madcap fashion.
283) Melora
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Anne's marriage to New York socialite lawyer Brent Wystan is shadowed by threatening notes left in her typewriter, the appearence of Brent's first wife Melora, an intruder, and murder.
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"Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni recounts her experience working in Andy Warhol's studio, and explores Warhol's influence--during his life and forever after--on the art world, pop culture, society, and fashion, and how his iconic status gave rise to some of our most influential tastemakers today. Spanning her own childhood through her late twenties, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni's After Andy is a memoir and social exploration of the influence that artist Andy...
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December 1917. As World War I rages in Europe, twenty-four-year-old Ruby Wagner, the jewel in a prominent Philadelphia family, prepares for her upcoming wedding to a society scion. Like her life so far, it's all been carefully arranged. But when her beloved older brother is killed in combat, Ruby follows her heart and answers the Army Signal Corps' call for women operators to help overseas. As one of the trailblazing "Hello Girls" deployed to war-torn...
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"The rags-to-riches life of May Yohe, the Gay Nineties queen of the stage who was born at the inn in Bethlehem, had at least three husbands (though twelve were rumored), owned the Hope Diamond, washed floors for a living, was sued for maternity, escaped an insane asylum, and only wanted true love and her fair share."--Cover.
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"The Dark Corner: Kathleen Conley is the perfect secretary. And she knows a tail when she sees one. The guy in the white suit has been following her detective boss, Bradford Galt, all evening. So Galt braces the guy and takes him to his office for a little talk, and has Kathleen follow him after he leaves. Turns out the man in the white suit is working for Jardine, his ex-partner, the man who set him up a few years back to take a homicide rap-the...
291) The betrayal
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Could you kill someone? Someone you love? Paris, 1938. Twin sisters are divided by fierce loyalties and by a terrible secret. The drums of war are beating and France is poised, ready to fall. One sister is an aviatrix, the other is a socialite and they both have something to prove and something to hide.
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The gilded lily: Newspaper reporter Peter Dawes (MacMurray) and stenographer Marilyn David (Colbert), nicknamed Lynn, meet regularly on a park bench sharing popcorn along with their dreams. Their budding romance is soon threatened by a chance meeting between Marilyn and Charles Gray (Ray Milland), an English nobleman visiting America.
The bride comes home: A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine.
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Harlequin historicals volume 927
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English
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"She prefers guns to gowns--and riding the land to dancing at balls. So heiress Gabrielle Price heads across Texas's most dangerous territory to break her unwanted society engagement. Only, her biggest problem isn't outlaws and killers. It's a rugged, relentless Texas Ranger.... With a killer to catch, Hudson Stone has better things to do than escort his commander's spoiled, socialite daughter. But his fiery charge is as irresistible as she is off-limits,...
300) Las buenas amigas
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Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. But in this highly ordered world of garden clubs and debutante balls the money may flow as freely as the oil, but the freedom and power all belong to the men. What happens when a woman of indecorous appetites and desires like Joan wants more? Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom...
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