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The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money, her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals. As Lily spirals down into...
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2017.
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Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the...
5) Libertie
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2021.
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"Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be...
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Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the interior décor of this America and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly...
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Coldest winter ever volume 2
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Emily Bestler Books, Atria
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©2021.
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English
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The shy and sweet daughter of a well-to-do physician, Catherine Sloper seems destined for lifelong spinsterhood until the sudden appearance of a dashing suitor who proposes marriage. Her adored father suspects the would-be fiance of fortune-hunting and threatens her with disinheritance, forcing Catherine to choose between lover and father. Setting his novel in New York City of the 1840s, James masterfully explores the moral consequences of a tender...
11) Drumsticks
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2021.
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Nanette's fortunes as a saxophone player take a turn for the better when Harlem folk artist Ida Williams gives her a gift "mojo doll," but then Williams is "shot to death in the middle of Nanette's new uptown gig."--Jacket.
12) The other typist
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Working as a typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, Rose Baker documents confessions of harrowing crimes and struggles with changing gender roles while clinging to her Victorian ideals and searching for nurturing companionship before becoming obsessed with a glamorous newcomer and her world of bobbed hair, smoking and speakeasies.
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"Lucy is faced with a life-altering choice. But before she can make her decision, she must start her story--their story--at the very beginning. Lucy and Gabe meet as seniors at Columbia University on a day that changes both of their lives forever. Together, they decide they want their lives to mean something, to matter. When they meet again a year later, it seems fated--perhaps they'll find life's meaning in each other. But then Gabe becomes a photojournalist...
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2016.
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Su vida perfecta era una perfecta mentira... Ani tiene un secreto. Hay algo en su pasado que todavía la persigue: algo privado, oculto, secreto y doloroso que amenaza con destruirlo todo. Como estudiante en la prestigiosa escuela Bradley, Ani FaNelli no pasó la mejor de las adolescencias. Ahora, con un trabajo glamuroso, un armario caro y un apuesto novio, está muy cerca de vivir la vida perfecta y frívola por la que ha estado trabajando tan duro....
16) Friendship
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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©2014.
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English
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Two best friends living in New York in their early 30s find that their relationship changes when one unexpectedly becomes pregnant.
17) Fly Betty
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Harlem girl lost volume 3
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Cash Money Content
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2013.
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English
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Coldest winter ever volume 1
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Washington Square Press
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2005.
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English
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Winter Santiaga, the daughter of one of Brooklyn's most powerful drug czars, uses her own weapons--including sex and an aggressive attitude--to stay on top, after her father's empire is threatened by a drug war.
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Paul Dry Books
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©2014.
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English
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Listening to the ticking of her biological clock, and wondering where life is taking her, Suzanne Davis embarks on a wrong-headed, but very funny, quest to find Mr. Right and start the family she hopes will give meaning to her life, as her 35th birthday looms closer.
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A romantic early in life, Clara Hoyt gets engaged -- much to her mother's horror -- to the lackluster Bobbie Lester. Soon after her Vassar graduation, however, Clara sees the error of her ways, spurns Bobbie, and slyly enthralls the well-bred and fabulously wealthy Trevor Hoyt, the first of her husbands. Soon she lands a job at a tony magazine, and so begins her wildly entertaining course to the inner sanctum of New York's aristocracy and into the...
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