McLaughlin, Emma.
Summary: A graduate from New York University takes a position caring for the only son of a weathly Manhattan family. She rapidly learns the work and time involved to ensure that the Park Avenue wife doesn't work, cook, clean or raise her own child. A satirical and comical look at the upper class of Manhattan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCLWilcox, James.
Summary: A homosexual's search for love. He is Lloyd Norris a computer programmer living with his ex-wife who advises him to be more open about his homosexuality so he can find a boyfriend. But Norris is timid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILPek, Jane
Summary: Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls--and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PEKKinsella, Sophie.
Summary: Becky Bloomwood is delighted when her boyfriend proposes, but her visions of a perfect wedding day dissolve as her mother plans a backyard wedding and her high-society mother-in-law-to-be insists on a lavish affair at the Plaza Hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KINSykes, Plum.
Summary: A wealthy and spoiled young woman living in New York searches for the meaning of life while coping with her broken engagement and telephone calls from her mother in England pressuring her to marry the Earl next door.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books/Hyperion 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SKYSykes, Plum.
Summary: As she navigates the perils of glamorous high-society New York, newlywed Sylvie Mortimer encounters Lauren Blount, a member of Manhattan's debutante divorcee set and a notorious husband huntress, who sets her sights on Sylvie's spouse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYKSykes, Plum.
Summary: Young Manhattanite Sylvia Mortimer can't help noticing that her friends "put almost as much effort into losing husbands as they once did into finding them." Lauren, the most recent to discard hers, has just had a champagne-fueled divorce party. Although Sylvia is the blissful newlywed of the pack, her husband has started spending weeks away in Paris without her, and has hired a sleek temptress...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SYKESPalahniuk, Chuck
Summary: Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2014
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Pek, Jane
Summary: "Claudia is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls--and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PEKLanger, Adam.
Summary: "A novel about a down-on-his-luck short-story writer who becomes embroiled in an elaborate confidence game designed to scam the publishing world"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LANYablon, Hillary
Summary: "Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams-with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . . When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YABBrowne, Hester.
Summary: With the Little Lady Agency doing a booming business back home, Melissa joins her dashing American boyfriend, Jonathan Riley, for an extended holiday in Manhattan. But she's soon out of her depth among Jonathan's hard-charging friends and his interfering ex-wife. And while she's all for shopping and sight-seeing, a covert work opportunity is an irresistible temptation -- a project that soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.McLaughlin, Emma.
Summary: In the sequel to Nanny Diaries, Nan returns to New York after 10 years abroad and is approached by a drunken, 16-year-old Grayer X, who describes his parents' brutal divorce and prompts her re-entry into child care for the elite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLMcLaughlin, Emma.
Summary: A sequel to the best-selling Nanny Diaries finds Nan returning to New York after 10 years abroad and getting approached by a drunken 16-year-old Grayer X, who describes his parents' brutal divorce and prompts her re-entry into child care for the elite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2009