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After losing his family's fortune in gambling dens and brothels, Fugui is forced by the Nationalist Army to leave behind his family to witness the horrors of the Civil War, only to return years later to face the hardships brought on by the Cultural Revolution.

In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best-laid plans of parents and others.

Letty, Cordelia, and Astrid pursue romance, adventure, and intrigue in New York during the Roaring Twenties.

When they find a treasure chest in the orchard, two discontented pigs abandon their rural paradise for what they think will be the pleasures of a more luxurious life.

Rising high school seniors and life-long best friends Laura, Mac, and Ginger hope for invitations to be introduced to Houston, Texas, society as Glass Slipper Debutantes, while each faces family and boyfriend issues and Jo Lynn plots Laura's downfall.

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.

The "New Yorker" artist and writer and the late-night comic host present a satirical survey of the "universally detested" wealthy elite that lampoons their megalomaniacal fantasies, environmental recklessness and moral indecency.

A wealthy newspaper publisher achieves tremendous social and political power, but fails to overcome the loneliness which plagues him throughout his life.

Schuyler Van Alen, growing comfortable with her newfound vampire powers, seeks her grandfather in Italy, while back in New York plans are being completed for the fabulous Four Hundred Ball, to be followed by an elite, teens-only event at which masks hide a terrible secret.

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.

Thirteen-year-old Cassie, bemoaning the fact that her family cannot afford designer clothes or exotic vacations, is enchanted with her rich new friend Dana, until an incident makes her see Dana in a different light.

Explores how the Bush family used all its resources to create a political dynasty that has used the White House to further its family and ideological agenda, revealing how four generations of the family have ascended the ladder of national power since World War I.

A survey of the economic history of the twentieth century with photos, artwork, and maps.

Twelve-year-old Alexander Baddenfield, the last in a long line of evil men who die young, has his cat's extra eight lives transplanted into his own body, while his caretaker, Winterbottom, strives to keep him safe.