Wharton, Edith
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHABurgess, Gemma.
Summary: "Wild child and secret romantic Angie wakes up in a hotel room with $3,000 and no memories of the night before. Her best friends aren't talking to her, she can't get a job in fashion, her parents are divorcing, and she's about to turn twenty-three. And life is about to get much worse. Brooklyn Girls: Love and Curses continues the story of our five favorite grads sharing a brownstone and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Burgess 2014Weisberger, Lauren
Summary: Brooke Alter supports her husband Julian in his efforts to become a successful musician, often working two jobs to make ends meet. One night Julian becomes a star while playing in a new artist showcase, and soon the pressures of his instant celebrity threaten to rip their marriage apart.
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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 WEIClifford, Stephanie.
Summary: "'A masterful tale of social climbing and entrenched class distinctions, as seen through the eyes of an outsider who desperately wants in. Tense, hilarious, and bursting with gorgeous language. Stephanie Clifford is a 21st-century Edith Wharton.'--J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Engagements. It's 2006 in the Manhattan of the young and glamorous. Money and class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Clifford 2015Clark, Georgia
Summary: "From the author of the critically acclaimed "lively and engrossing parable for women of all generations" (Harper's Bazaar) The Regulars; comes a deeply funny and thoughtful tale of a young woman who, after discovering she has the breast cancer gene, embarks on an unforgettable bucket list adventure. Twenty-five-old Lacey Whitman is blindsided when she's diagnosed with the BCRA1 gene mutation:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLALester, Natasha
Summary: When Fabienne Bissette attends the annual Met Gala for an exhibit honoring her grandmother Estella, a famed designer, she begins to learn more about her grandmother's past, uncovering a story of tragedy, heartbreak, and secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lester 2019Egan, Jennifer
Summary: "The long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGAKnoll, Jessica
Summary: Grooming herself for an ideal life involving a successful career and a happy marriage, a rising young journalist confronts a violent episode from her past that threatens to unravel everything she has worked to achieve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, Simon & Schuster Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KNOValentine, Genevieve.
Summary: A reimagining of the "Twelve Dancing Princesses" traces the story of a family of flappers who work in a 1920s speakeasy until their suspicious father decides to marry them off, prompting a confrontation with a bootlegger from the eldest sister's past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VALKnoll, Jessica.
Summary: "A young woman strives to create the perfect life--husband, home, career--until a violent incident from her past threatens to unravel everything and expose her most shocking secret of all"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KNOJames, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tally Hall Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMWeisberger, Lauren
Summary: Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York -- she's the breadwinner working two jobs and he's the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is discovered by a Sony exec and becomes an overnight success -- and their life changes for ever. Julian's new-found fame means that Brooke must face the savage attentions of the ruthless paparazzi. And when a scandalous picture hits the front pages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIBurgess, Gemma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Burgess 2013Knoll, Jessica.
Summary: "In a riveting debut novel that reads like Prep meets Gone Girl, a young woman is determined to create the perfect life--husband, home, and career--until a violent incident from her past threatens to unravel everything and expose her most shocking secretof all. Twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: she's a rising star at The Women's Magazine, impossibly fit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KNOWeisberger, Lauren
Summary: A woman who supported her musician lover as he worked his way to rock-star status suddenly finds herself dumped for a Brazilian supermodel, causing her to seek solace in a sisterhood of women who have been jilted by successful men--and are out for revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WEIClark, Georgia
Summary: Evie, Krista, and Willow are regular girls trying to make it through their mid-twenties in New York. Until they come across Pretty, a magic tincture that makes them, well, gorgeous. Like, supermodel gorgeous. And it's certainly not their fault if the sudden gift of beauty causes unexpected doors to open for them. But there's a dark side to Pretty, too, and the question arises: What would you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books / Atria 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Clark 2016Hustvedt, Siri
Summary: "From international bestseller and Booker Prize-nominee Siri Hustvedt comes a provocative novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, Then tells the indelible story of a young Midwestern woman's fixation with her mysterious neighbor over the course of a threadbare year in 1970s New York" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSEbel, Kathy.
Summary: Overwhelmed by her unemployment and estrangement from her bohemian Brooklyn family, Claudia spectacularly misjudges her younger sister's cry for help and lands in the middle of a disastrous love affair that disrupts three very different families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EBERosen, Renée
Summary: "It's 1965 in New York City and Helen Gurley Brown, the new editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about everything off-limits. Alice Weiss is a single girl from a small midwestern town who unexpectedly lands a job at Cosmo, a job nothing could have prepared her for. When someone tries to pull Alice into a scene to sabotage her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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Summary: Louisa Clark heads for New York and finds herself torn between her old life and her new one. As she tries to keep the two sides of her world together, Lou finds herself carrying secrets--not all her own--that cause a catastrophic change in her circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYHoffman, Alice.
Summary: "An extraordinarily imaginative and immersive novel, this one set in New York from 1911-1925"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hoffman 2014Hoffman, Alice.
Summary: The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOFStandiford, Natalie
Summary: "New York's last bohemia-the glittering, decadent downtown club scene of the 1980s-is the setting for this brilliantly winning novel about a smart, vulnerable young woman taking a deep dive into her dark side, essential for fans of Sweetbitter, Fleabag, and books by Patti Smith. New York, 1984: Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adventure. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STATowles, Amor.
Summary: A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011