elite (social sciences)

Kate has to move to Hollywood to live with her washed-up silent film star grandfather, she walks into a murder scene and finds herself on the front page. Now, Kate must discover the killer while working on the set of a musical--and falling in love. Will her stars align so she can catch the murderer and live the dream in Old Hollywood? Or will she find that she's just chasing starlight?.

Ariana Osgood is living the life she always thought she deserved after escaping from the Brenda T. Trumball Correctional Facility for Women and stealing the identity of a rich socialite, but when her past catches up with her, she is forced to return to her old ways and risks losing everything she has come to love.

Examines the American economic experience over the last thirty years resulting from United States economic policies, providing a comparison with the "family capitalism" countries of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

"A young woman haunted by a family tragedy is caught up in a dangerous web of lies and deception involving a secret society in this . . . psycholgoical thriller. One summer day, Grace Fairchild, the beautiful young wife of real estate mogul Alistair Calloway, vanished from the family's lake house without a trace, leaving behind her seven-year old daughter, Charlie, and a slew of unanswered questions. Years later, seventeen-year-old Charlie still struggles with the dark legacy of her family name and the mystery surrounding her mother. Determined to finally let go of the past, she throws herself into life at Knollwood, the prestigious New England school she attends . . . Charlie has also been tapped by the A's--the school's elite secret society well known for terrorizing the faculty, administration, and their enemies. . . As the dark events of past and present converge, Charlie begins to fear that she may not survive the terrible truth about her family, her school, and her own life"--Amazon.com.

An investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to the ruling elites has vanished, examining such topics as the rise of American capitalism, visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, the surrender to contemporary delusional fables of freedom, and the politics of fear.

A highly personal meditation on race, sex, and American culture traces the author's upbringing and education in upper-class African-American circles against a backdrop of the Civil Rights era and its contradictory aftermath.

"A manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be--but aren't--providing"--Provided by publisher.

Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea--"without you there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us." Suki Kim has come to North Korea to teach English but it is 2011 and all the universities have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields--all except for the 270 students of the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. As the weeks pass, Suki is mystified at how easily her students lie and how devoted they are to the regime. As she begins to hint at the life outside of North Korea, her students offer glimpses of their private selves--proving that all their curiosity has not yet been extinguished. Then Kim Jong-il dies and the students are devastated. She wonders whether the gulf between their world and hers can ever be bridged. Suki Kim was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea and now lives in New York.

Discusses what the author sees as the blending of the square, practical bourgeoisie and the artistic, intellectual bohemians into a new social ethos, and describes the ideology, manners, and morals of this elite class.