Fowler, Therese
Summary: Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York's old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built 9 mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOWFowler, Karen Joy
Summary: "From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022