The Great Gatsby
"An aspiring writer falls under the spell of an aloof millionaire with designs for the young scribe's unhappily married cousin in director Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 832
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: man-woman relationships, upper class, man-woman relationship, love stories, long island (n.y.), wealth [X], rich, traffic accidents, married women, first loves, rich people, mistresses, closed caption video recordings, film adaptations, closed captioning, love, audiobook, compact discs, audiobooks, films for the hearing impaired, fitzgerald, f. scott, gatsby, jay (fictional), english literature, jazz era, 1920s, wives, electronic books, psychological fiction, love stories, electronic books, romance fiction [X], gatsby, jay, buchanan, daisy, nineteen twenties, revenge
Dance Of The Red Death
In this continuation of a twist on Edgar Allen Poe's gothic short story, wealthy seventeen-year-old Araby Worth, betrayed and bereft, discovers that she will fight for her city and the people she loves, beginning at the prince's masked ball.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: plague, love, wealth [X], balls (parties), dystopias, action and adventure fiction, romance fiction [X]
Tender Is The Night
A story of Americans living on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 990
subjects: psychiatrists, wealth [X], riviera (france), love stories, psychological, psychological fiction, romance fiction [X]
We Were Liars
Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 139
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: friendship, love, family life, amnesia, wealth [X], islands, massachusetts, families, love stories, romance fiction [X]
Everything But The Truth
Holly Mathews lives at a retirement home for the super wealthy that her mother manages on expensive Mercer Island, but when she meets Malik Buchannan, grandson of one of the residents, she allows him to think that she is just visiting, so he will accept her as belonging to his A-list world--it is just supposed to be a summer fling, but soon she finds herself falling in love.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: retirement communities, mothers and daughters, social classes, deception, dating (social customs), mercer island (wash.), mother-daughter relationship, wealth [X], romance fiction [X]
Windfall
"Alice doesn't believe in luck--at least, not the good kind. But she does believe in love, and for some time now, she's been pining for her best friend, Teddy.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 37
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: love, friendship, lotteries, luck, wealth [X], fortune, fate and fatalism, romance fiction [X]
Smash & Grab
When her wealthy family loses everything, Lexi tries to clear her father's name by masterminding a bank heist, only to be surprised when another thief, one who was blackmailed by the Mexican mafia, steals her heart.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mexican americans, wealth [X], bank robberies, detective and mystery fiction, romance fiction [X]
Be True To Me
Told in two voices, Jean, a rich girl, and Fritz, an outsider, compete for the affection of handsome newcomer Gil during the summer of 1976 at an exclusive Fire Island enclave, and discover their competition has higher stakes than either can imagine.
FIC
year:
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: friendship, dating (social customs), wealth [X], fire island (n.y. : island), romance fiction [X], love, love stories
Anna K
Told from multiple viewpoints, while seventeen-year-old Anna K seems above the typical problems of her Manhattan friends and siblings, finding love with a notorious playboy changes everything.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dating (social customs), korean americans, wealth [X], family life, new york (n.y.), romance fiction [X], families
?ramos Mentirosos
Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: friendship, families, amnesia, wealth [X], family life, spanish language materials, spanish language, romance fiction [X]
Anna K Away
Told from multiple viewpoints, Anna K spends a summer with her father and his family in South Korea, while in the United States, Lolly and Steven, Kimmie and Dustin, and Bea all face relationship issues.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dating (social customs), korean americans, wealth [X], love, new york (n.y.), korea, los angeles (calif.), romance fiction [X]