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2016.
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English
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"Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man who sees her seems to want her; every woman just wants to be her. But this is a highly ordered world of garden clubs and débutante balls. The money may flow as freely as the oil, but the freedom and power all belong to the men. What happens when a woman of indecorous...
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Seattle Times • O: The Oprah Magazine • Maureen Corrigan, NPR • Salon...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Seattle Times • O: The Oprah Magazine • Maureen Corrigan, NPR • Salon...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current...
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"From the award-winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us, an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune--and its bearings. Labor Day, 1976, Martha's Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coast of New England, Fern and Edgar--married with three children--are happily preparing for a family birthday celebration when they learn that the unimaginable has...
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"1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride...
6) Pygmalion
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English
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An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London.
7) The windfall
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English
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"For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corners, gossipy neighbors, and the small dramas of stolen yoga pants and stale marriages. They thought they'd settled comfortably into their golden years, pleased with their son's acceptance into an American business school. But then Mr. Jha comes into an enormous and unexpected sum of money, and moves his wife from their housing complex in East Delhi to...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xii, 114 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Edwer Thissell is having trouble adjusting to life on the planet Sirene. The Sirenese all wear masks to indicate their social status. They also communicate by playing instruments that are carefully selected for any social situation. (To make matters worse, errors of musical etiquette often prove fatal.) Shortly after Thissell arrives on Sirene, he finds himself embroiled in an unsolved murder made all the more mysterious by the fact that since everyone...
9) Rated
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Societies thrive on order, and the Rating System is the ultimate symbol of organized social mobility. The higher your rating soars, the more valued you are. The lower it plummets, the harder you must work to improve yourself. For the students at the prestigious Maplethorpe Academy, every single thing they do is reflected in their ratings, updated continuously and available for all to see. But when an act of vandalism sullies the front doors of the...
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English
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"From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society. Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
"There's no shortage of books about public speaking or language or song. But until now, there has been no book about the miracle that underlies them all-- the human voice itself. And there are few writers who could take on this surprisingly vast topic with more artistry and expertise than John Colapinto. Beginning with the novel-- and compelling-- argument that our ability to speak is what made us the planet's dominant species, he guides us from the...
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English
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"Truth: Sherri Griffin and her daughter, Katie, have recently moved to the idyllic beach town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Rebecca Coleman, widely acknowledged former leader of the Newburyport Mom Squad (having taken a step back since her husband's shocking and tragic death eighteen months ago), has made a surprising effort to include these newcomers in typically closed-group activities. Rebecca's teenage daughter Alexa has even been spotted babysitting...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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346 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"An examination of how individuals strive for social status and how this creates our culture as a whole Contrary to belief, status signaling isn't just the province of the immature or insecure but a fundamental human need to secure social standing. It drives our behavior, forms our tastes, determines what we buy, and ultimately shapes who we are. It's what's behind "cool" and what drives fashion, music, food, sports, slang, travel, hairstyles, and...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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288 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 22 cm
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English
Description
A History of the Samurai tells the complete story of Japan's legendary warrior class from beginning to end-an epic tale of intrigue, bloodshed and bravery that is central to an understanding of the Japanese character and of Japanese history. It describes in detail the core Samurai philosophy of Bushido, 'the way of the warrior' a complex code of conduct embracing ideals of honour and loyalty that continues to govern the Japanese way of life today....
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this historical tale of friendship, family, and the power of sisterhood, three very different girls from varying social stratums find common ground as they each make a promise not just to accept things as they are anymore.
18) Tangled up
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Beverly Hills Prep volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
Margot is a junior at Beverly Hills Prep, on a partial scholarship since her parents' divorce. Margot feels adrift and alone at school. She finds herself entangled with a group of girls who sell designer handbags to their classmates at a highly discounted rate. It seems harmless enough, but eventually Margot ends up in trouble. Her grades are dropping, and with her Dad seeing someone new, everything is falling apart. Can she figure things out...
19) If I fall: #1
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nora is a first year at Beverly Hills Preparatory Academy, attending thanks to one of the limited scholarships offered by the school. In a world where it seems like everyone's parents are millionaires, Nora can't help feeling shy and self-conscious of her status. When everything changes, Nora will have to decide for herself where she belongs.
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Cornish sagas (Rosemary Aitken) volume 11
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
In Cornwall in 1911, young lady's maid Effie Pengelly assists the charming Constable Dawes with his murder investigation and develops a relationship with him that may be doomed owing to their differing social positions.
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