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The great Gatsby

the graphic novel
2020
A graphic novel adaptation of the tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.

The towering sky

2019
"Leda, Watt, Rylin, Avery, and Calliope struggle with their relationships, expectations, and the secrets they are all hiding"--OCLC.

People, power, and profits

progressive capitalism for an age of discontent
States that the American government and economy is slanted toward a select number of corporations, contributing to inequality, slow growth, and the exploitation of others rather than the creation of wealth. Describes true sources of wealth and ways to use the markets to work for all citizens, eliminating free market fundamentalism and instituting progressive capitalism.
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Mansfield Park

Presents Austen's novel in which Fanny, a girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by an unprincipled London girl; and includes explanatory notes and appendices on social status, dancing, the British Navy, and the play "Lovers' Vows.".
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Slumdog millionaire

a novel
After winning India's biggest quiz show, Ram Mohammad Thomas is put in jail as authorities question how a poor orphan who has never gone to school could win such a contest.

White kids

growing up with privilege in a racially divided America
". . . argues that what parents say about race and racial inequality is less meaningful than what parents actually do in their everyday lives. . . examines how affluent white parents intentionally and unintentionally, knowingly and unknowningly, use their extensive resources to construct particular racial contexts of childhood for their kids."--Dust jacket.
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Shadow girl

2017
A young girl, hoping to escape her family drama, begins tutoring a rich man's daughter, but when she develops feelings for her student's brother, along with strange noises in the house, she can't shake the fear that there is danger lurking amidst this beautiful mansion.
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Ojojojo

2018
"There's rich girls, and then there's Haru-an ultra-rich heiress with more money than you could spend in your lifetime. She may be loaded, but she has to go to high school like everyone else-and when you see everyone there asmere commoners, it might be just a little difficult to make friends. There's only one person who really hits it off with her: Tsurezure, an aloof hipster with a super-weird fashion sense. It's an unlikely friendship between oddballs . . ."--Back cover.
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Girl in the rearview mirror

a novel
"Accepting what she believes will be a dream job from a prominent political family, a young nanny is dazzled by her employers' glamorous life before a mysterious stranger draws her into a menacing web of secrets"--OCLC.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby

Presents a dramatization of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" which presents the tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.
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