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1) Overboard
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bored super-rich woman falls off her yacht and into the life of a carpenter with four children in need of attention.
2) Sanditon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Parker is obsessed with turning the sleepy seaside village of Sanditon into a fashionable health resort, enlisting the backing of local bigwig Lady Denham. Through a mishap, Tom makes the acquaintance of the Heywoods and invites their eldest daughter, Charlotte, for an extended stay at Sanditon. Meanwhile, Lady Denham, a widow, is playing matchmaker for her destitute nephew, Sir Edward, who is determined to seduce Lady Denham's ward, Clara.
Series
Drafthouse Films volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Craig is a struggling family man who loses his low-wage job and is threatened with eviction. In an effort to delay facing the music at home, he heads to a local bar and encounters an old friend. The couple engages the two friends in a series of innocent dares in exchange for money over the course of the evening, with each challenge upping the ante in both reward and boundaries.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A native New Yorker Rachel Chu accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young, to his best friend's wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick's family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. It turns out that he is not only the scion of one of the country's wealthiest families but also one of its most sought-after bachelors.
5) The nest
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From director Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) comes The Nest, a powerful and dark drama. Rory (Jude Law, Sherlock Holmes), an ambitious entrepreneur and former commodities broker, persuades his American wife, Allison (Carrie Coon, The Leftovers), and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England. Sensing opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor with grounds...
Author
Series
Schuler sisters volume 2
Schuyler Sisters volume 02
Thorndike Press large print core
Schuyler Sister novels volume 02
Schuyler Sisters volume 02
Thorndike Press large print core
Schuyler Sister novels volume 02
Language
English
Description
One half of a political power couple struggles to keep up her perfect life despite the unwelcome arrival of her unpredictable sister, Pepper, and an incriminating photograph.
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The town con and the town beauty team up to outwit a half-wit pair of would-be burglars in this hilarious new comedy from John Hughes. Frank Whaley stars as Jim Dodge, a smooth-talking small-town guy with a knack for putting up a front -but no talent for holding down a job. But Jim's life suddenly takes a turn for the fantastic when he finds himself locked inside the local department store one night with Josie McClellan (Jennifer Connelly), the daughter...
Series
Criterion collection volume 96
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Drama of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring.
10) The great Gatsby
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
On Long Island in the early 1920s the mysterious Jay Gatsby tries to rekindle his romance with Daisy, a young woman who has married another man, the wealthy and cruel Tom Buchanan.
12) The feast
Language
Welsh
Formats
Description
An affluent family gathers at their lavish home in the Welsh mountains for a dinner party, hosting a local businessman and neighboring farmer to broker a business deal to mine the surrounding countryside. When a mysterious young woman arrives to be the family's waitress for the evening, they find their beliefs and values challenged, as her quiet yet disturbing presence begins to unravel their lives - slowly, deliberately, and with the most terrifying...
13) Barefoot
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Black sheep son Jay Wheeler impresses his wealthy family when he brings home a charming psychiatric patient who has lived in isolation her entire life.
14) A Perfect Ending
Language
English
Formats
Description
She’s elegant, wealthy and proper — an upstanding wife and mother with three grown children, a swanky estate and a horrible husband. And tragically, she’s never had an orgasm. Determined to solve the problem, Rebecca’s lesbian friends set her up with an exceptionally talented high-class call girl named Paris — and, needless to say, the lives of both Rebecca and Paris are changed forever. Filled to the brink with aching desire, the sexual...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman whose given to sudden fits of...
16) The fall guy
Author
Language
English
Description
It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines, and with the arrival of a fourth character, the household finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions. As readers of James Lasdun's acclaimed fiction can expect, The Fall...
17) Richie Rich
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A likable but isolated kid has everything money can buy except friends--until he hits it off big with a group of sandlot kids.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Language
English
Formats
Description
A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A delightful satire of the haves and the have-nots set against the backdrop of a gorgeous lakeside villa in Switzerland. At the story's center is Wanda, a Polish caretaker who has left her own small children in Poland to look after Josef, the stroke-ridden patriarch of the wealthy Wegmeister-Gloor dynasty. Wanda is adept in navigating the tricky family dynamics between the two grown offspring and the elegant if controlling matriarch Elsa, along with...
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