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Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story. Amory Blaine, raised in wealth, struggles with his friendships and his relationships with women while attending Princeton University.
2) Santa & me
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a mall Santa tells Rubie, a grade school bully from a wealthy family, that she doesn't know the spirit of Christmas, Rubie accuses him of not being the real Santa. On Christmas Eve, she hears a noise in the house, and discovers Santa coming down the chimney. It's not storybook Santa, but the same Santa from the mall. He gives Rubie a holiday assignment. If she doesn't complete the task, he'll make her as ugly on the outside as she is on the inside....
5) Gun games
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LAPD lieutenant detective Decker and his wife, Rina, have willingly welcomed fifteen-year-old Gabriel Whitman, the son of a troubled former friend, into their home. While the enigmatic teen seems to be adapting easily, Decker knows only too well the secrets adolescents keep--witnessed by the tragic suicide of another teen, Gregory Hesse, a student at Bell and Wakefield, one of the city's most exclusive prep schools. Gregory's mother, Wendy, refuses...
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Michael Bennett mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Detective Michael Bennett and FBI Abduction Specialist Emily Parker reluctantly team up to stop a killer targeting not only the children of New York's wealthiest families--but the entire city of New York.
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"Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just enrolled one hundred and forty female students for the first time. Even though most of the kids on the campus have all the privilege in the world, some are struggling,...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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The second Maisie Dobbs mystery
Jacqueline Winspear's marvelous debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from around the world and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature's favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather, its follow-up, finds psychologist and private investigator Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London "between the wars." It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to...
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2018.
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568 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
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Tess, a simple country girl in nineteenth-century England, is sent by her family to meet her supposed kin, but is destroyed by her father's continued and determined efforts to use her in order to regain the family's former social standing.
Pub. Date
[2009]
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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While on a trip to Hollywood to help a celebrity starlet's depressed Chihuahua, Maya Dolittle gets caught up in the Hollywood glitz. Dropping her dreams of becoming a vet, Maya lands a job hosting an animal talk show with famous heiress Tiffany Monaco. Lucky starts falling in love with a pedigreed pooch and Maya falls out of love with the ideas about how to help animals. Just when Maya thinks she'll be trapped forever in Tinseltown, Lucky, his new...
19) Unnatural acts
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p2012
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7 sound discs (ca. 8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a hedge fund billionaire hires Stone Barrington to talk some sense into his wayward son, it seems like an easy enough job; no one knows the hidden sins and temptations of the ultra-wealthy better than Stone. But as Stone and his erstwhile protege, Herbie Fisher, probe deeper into the case--and an old one comes back to haunt him---he realizes that even he may have underestimated just how far some people will go to cover up their crimes...and plan...
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2015
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's novel follows daughter of a well-to-do family in 1948 Manhattan. Fifteen-year-old Camilla Dickinson, leads a sheltered life in New York City until her parents' marriage begins to fall apart. When Camilla meets her best friend's rebellious brother Frank she finds a way to escape her troubles. As her relationship with Frank deepens, Camilla discovers a world outside of her own and begins to understand a little...
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