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  L.A. Connections: Power Obsession Murder Revenge

  by Jackie Collins

  New York Times bestselling author Jackie Collins blazed onto bestseller lists nationwide with L.A.Connections -- four entwined novels of passion and danger among Hollywood's most powerful players. Now this sensational serial novel is collected in one blockbuster volume from "the queen of glamour fiction" (San Antonio Express-News). Power Obsession Murder Revenge A killer is playing a deadly game inside... (more)
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  The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America

  by Robert F. Dalzell

  What it was like to be as rich as Rockefeller: How a house gave shape and meaning to three generations of an iconic American family   One hundred years ago America’s richest man established a dynastic seat, the granite-clad Kykuit, high above the Hudson River. Though George Vanderbilt’s 255-room Biltmore had recently put the American country house on the money map, John D. Rockefeller, who detested... (more)
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  Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

  by Edward Renehan

  The first modern biography of an American financial giant. Using previously unreleased archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. narrates the compelling life of Cornelius Vanderbilt: willful progenitor of modern American business. Vanderbilt made his initial fortune building ferry and cargo routes for sailing vessels. Then he moved into steamboats and railroads. With the New York Central, Vanderbilt established the... (more)
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  Beautiful Bad Girl: The Vicki Morgan Story

  by Gordon Allen Basichis

  Vicki Morgan, mistress to department store heir and Ronald Reagan confidante, Alfred Bloomingdale, lived beyond her years and died before her time—the victim of a brutal murder. Seething with power, intrigue, sex and obsession, it's a ringside seat into the darker habits of the world's rich and powerful.
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  sTORI Telling

  by Tori Spelling

  Tori Spelling Reads Her Fabulous #1 New York Times Bestseller She was television's most famous virgin -- and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin of Beverly Hills 90210 , Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character's exploits. Yet... (more)
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  'Tis The Season!: A Novel

  by Lorna Landvik

  Bestselling author Lorna Landvik shines in this delightful holiday novel of redemption and forgiveness. Heiress Caroline Dixon has managed to alienate nearly everyone with her alcohol-fueled antics, which have also provided near-constant fodder for the poison-pen tabloids and their gossip-hungry readers. But like so many girls-behaving-badly, the twenty-six-year-old socialite gets her comeuppance, followed by a... (more)