A powerful and unscrupulous investment banker learns the hard way that what goes up must come down. Ever since Gordon Perkins made off with his partners' money, he's been living fast, but losing even faster.
Upper class
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Auteur:Ford, WallaceSommaire: - Auteur:Fowler, EarleneSommaire:
Ex-cowgirl and quilter Bennie moves to California to start over after the sudden death of her husband. Working as the curator of a folk-art museum, Benni uncovers clues to a small-town murder. Now it's up to this crackerjack sleuth to...
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Auteur:Hamilton, CicelySommaire:When war breaks out in Europe - modern, aerial war whose tactics include displacing entire populations - British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named Theodore Savage, an educated and idle civil servant, must learn to...
- Auteur:HOWARD, AudreySommaire:
Clare Hanrahan has nothing left to lose the day she stumbles into the arms of Lew Earnshaw. By the time Lew and his kindly neighbour Nelly Bradbury have nursed Clare back to health, he is hopelessly in love with the frail Irish girl....
- Auteur:Little, BenildeSommaire:
Abra Dixon is well educated, fashionable, and married to the perfect man. She also runs a film production company with her childhood friend, Natasha. Abra's perfect life is suddenly thrown off course when her husband leaves her for a...
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Auteur:Wharton, EdithSommaire:Lily Bart enjoys an equitable standing within the New York City elite. Although she desires a comfortable life and has received generous proposals from wealthy suitors, Lily remains single with hope for an honest and loving marriage....
- Auteur:Joshi, AlkaSommaire:
Escaping from an arranged and abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone from her 1950s rural village to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the henna artist, and confidante, most in demand to the...
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Auteur:Wharton, EdithSommaire:Beautiful, calculating Undine Spragg wants more than anything to be stylish. Never satisfied, she is constantly planning her next social accomplishment. In her struggle, she encounters Ralph Marvell, a gentleman from the upper class,...
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Auteur:Wharton, EdithSommaire:Set in the 1870s, Edith Wharton examines the American elite culture on the East Coast. Newland Archer is a lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most prominent families. He is arraigned to be married to May Welland. Newland is...
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Auteur:Oates, Joyce CarolSommaire:Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark and dangerous lurks at the edges of the town, corrupting and infecting its residents....
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Auteur:Kwan, KevinSommaire:Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an uproarious new novel of a family riven by fortune, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture gown...
- Auteur:Putney, Mary Jo.Sommaire:
Alexander Randall is the last heir to the Earl of Daventry and he must find himself a bride. His prayers are answered in the form of distressed midwife Julia Bancroft. But though their union would benefit both parties, Julia is...
- Auteur:Quick, AmandaSommaire:
Beautiful, headstrong Imogen Waterstone has recruited the darkly infamous Earl of Colchester to help her seek revenge for the murder of her best friend. As they set a trap for the villain, Imogen and Colchester fearlessly encounter the...
- Auteur:Gardner, AshleySommaire:
Londres, 1816 De retour des guerres napoléoniennes, le capitaine de cavalerie Gabriel Lacey rentre à Londres, à l’époque de la Régence, exténué. À présent sans emploi, il lutte contre la dépression. Mais la disparition d’une jeune fille...
- Auteur:Willig, LaurenSommaire:
L’OEillet rose est «une comédie vraiment exquise». En voici maintenant la suite «terriblement brillante et amusante» mettant en vedette Éloïse Kelly, étudiante au doctorat à Harvard, qui est sur le point de démasquer l’espion le plus...
- Auteur:Gardner, AshleySommaire:
Le capitaine Gabriel Lacey du 35e régiment des Dragons légers, officier de cavalerie relevé de ses fonctions, a énormément perdu sur le champ de bataille au cours de la guerre péninsulaire. Cependant, il dispose encore de son sens inné...
- Auteur:Little, BenildeSommaire:
Alice Andrews, a reporter in Newark, falls in love with handsome, Harvard-educated surgeon Jack Russworm, but class differences, especially his upper-crust African American background threaten their romance.
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Auteur:Steel, DanielleSommaire: - Auteur:Robertson, PaulSommaire:
As 1870 Europe lurches toward war, one man could turn the tide. But with his wife's mysterious death, he's thrust into a web of deceit, political intrigue, and murder that could destroy him, his children, and a nation.
- Auteur:Waugh, EvelynSommaire:
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, artistic inhabitants...
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