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Adrienne's best friend, Liz Braun, has also gotten caught up in the seductive web of society, going out on jaw-dropping dates with devilishly handsome and wealthy Parker Devlin.

Three Manhattan teens, Phoebe, Nick, and Lauren, are initiated into an age-old secret society that offers them the fulfillment of their wildest dreams but demands their undying loyalty, while Nick's friend Patch, an aspiring filmmaker, tries to document the society's activities.

When thirteen-year-old Connie spends two weeks with her eccentric and extremely wealthy great-aunt in Manhattan, a mystery is revealed that provides answers to some of the family's peculiarities.

Lucille invites Junie B. and her friend Grace to sleep over at her very rich nanna's house, where everything is beautiful, expensive, and breakable.

Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection, and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the paintings.

A fisherman catches an oyster that contains a large, lustrous pearl.

Owen, Avery, and Baby Carlyle have made both friends and enemies in Manhattan, and after Owen steals his best friend's girlfriend and Avery claims the popularity crown, a socialite war rages with rumors as weaponry.

The Christmas after her parents' death, Emily wants no gift but to see the wonderful doll of her grandmother's employer, Mrs.

Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island.

Argues that contemporary economic theories, particularly those concerning efficiency and wages, favor the rich over the poor, and that there are better, more just options.

Examines the history of economic growth and development as it pertains to the accumulation and distribution of capital from the eighteenth century to the present, and argues that the trend of returns on capital exceeding the rate of economic growth is the main source of inequality today, which can be mediated through political action.

In this contemporary retelling of "The Great Gatsby," seventeen-year-old Naomi Rye becomes entangled in the drama of a Hamptons social circle and a tragedy that shakes the summer community.