Summary: Follows events when the rising nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's well-known upper classes and when secrets from the past threaten to emerge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BELSummary: A period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new. A wide-eyed young scion of a conservative family, Marian, embarks on a mission to infiltrate the wealthy neighboring clan or her aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook, dominated by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell, his rakish son, Larry, and his ambitious wife, Bertha....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GILSummary: The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. The film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches-to-rags success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC QUEFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: Though Daisy is married to the insensitive but hugely successful Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby still longs for his old love. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated with the display of enormous wealth in which Gatsby revels, finds himself swept up in the lavish lifestyle of Long Island society during the Jazz Age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FICTION FITRoots (Musical group)
Contents: Dilltastic vol won(derful) -- False media -- Game theory (feat. Malik B.) -- Don't feel right (feat. Maimouna Youssef) -- In the music (feat. Malik B. & Porn) -- Take it there (feat. Wadud Ahmad) -- Baby (feat. John-John of Nouveau Riche) -- Here I come (feat. Dice Raw of Nouveau Riche & Malik B.) -- Long time (feat. Peedi Peedi & Bunny Sigler) -- Livin' in a new world (feat. John-John of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Def Jam Recordings 2006
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP ROOStandiford, Les
Summary: When Henry Flagler arrived at the island of Palm Beach in April 1893 it was a dense tangle of Palmetto brush and mangroves. Within a year he had built the Royal Poinciana Hotel, and two years later what was to become the legendary Breakers. Now Palm Beach has become synonymous with exclusivity, a fabled landscape intertwined with the colorful lives of its famous protagonists. Standiford brings...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.9 STAFellowes, Julian.
Summary: A secret unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one family's life will change forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fellowes 2016Summary: Once the centre of the New York bohemia, Greenwich Village is now home to lux restaurants, and buzzer door clothing stores catering to the nouveau riche. But one shop in the heart of the Village remains resilient to the encroaching gentrification: Carmine Street Guitars. There, custom guitar maker Rick Kelly and his young apprentice Cindy Hulej, build handcrafted guitars out of reclaimed wood...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC CARSummary: Philip II ruled over Spain at its peak of world influence.and at the start of its long slide from prominence. This program depicts the life and times of this absolutist monarch through dramatizations, artwork, and maps. High-profile topics, including the Inquisition, the Armada, and the Battle of Lepanto, are presented while addressing controversies such as the imprisonment and death of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Philip II ruled over Spain at its peak of world influence.and at the start of its long slide from prominence. This program depicts the life and times of this absolutist monarch through dramatizations, artwork, and maps. High-profile topics, including the Inquisition, the Armada, and the Battle of Lepanto, are presented while addressing controversies such as the imprisonment and death of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005