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Pub. Date
2020.
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". . . A revealing story of women across six centuries, their limited options, and their desires. Digging into the roots of the debutante ritual, with its ballrooms and white dresses, [the author]- herself descended from a line of debutantes- was fascinated to discover that the debutante ritual places our contemporary ideas about women and marriage in a new light. In this history of the phenomenon, [the author] shares debutantes' own words-from diaries,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The world of debutantes opens into a revealing story of women across six centuries, their limited options, and their desires. Digging into the roots of the debutante ritual, with its ballrooms and white dresses, Kristen Richardson- herself descended from a line of debutantes- was fascinated to discover that the debutante ritual places our contemporary ideas about women and marriage in a new light. In this brilliant history of the phenomenon, Richardson...
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"A dazzling new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers"--
It’s the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Four young women, all with something to prove, receive...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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Seventeen-year-old Victoria "Vicky" Darling in the year 1909 has been brought up to be a proper wealthy woman, to be nothing more than a wife and then a mother. Vicky would very much rather become an artist, and when she poses nude for an art class she has been taking in secret she is discovered, and her parents decide to try to marry her off quickly to cover up the shame. However, Vicky is stubborn, and determines to take her future in her own hands....
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"In 1938, Sarah Baring was enjoying life as a young debutante. Only a few years later, at the height of World War Two, she was working alongside some of the greatest minds of Britain in their code-breaking operations at Bletchley Park. How did she end up in the top-secret world of cyphers and codes? And what did she do within the confines of Bletchley's Hut 4 that allowed the British Navy to be always one step ahead of their foes? The Road to Station...
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Series
House of Serendipity volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
At Serendipity House, a grand mansion in 1920s London, two girls, one living downstairs as a servant and the other living in wealth upstairs, combine their fashion designing and dressmaking talents to secretly make outfits for the debutante ball and help one attendee who wants to escape high-society life.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"France, March 1944. Virginia Hall wasn't like the other young society women back home in Baltimore--she never wanted the debutante ball or silk gloves. Instead, she traded a safe life for adventure in Europe, and when her beloved second home is thrust into the dark days of war, she leaps in headfirst. Once she's recruited as an Allied spy, subverting the Nazis becomes her calling. But even the most cunning agent can be bested, and in wartime trusting...
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Series
Cinderella and the duke volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Miss Julia Beaumont has exactly one night to find herself a husband . . . The Weatherford Ball is the last chance Julia Beaumont has to escape the clutches of her horrid stepmother. Any potential husband will do-rich, poor, even a reasonably well-groomed walrus. But all of Julia's matrimonial chances are completely obliterated . . . thanks to the actions of an infuriating and utterly rakish duke. Gregory Carter, Duke of Ashworth, would never risk...
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