social classes

In Scarletville, the only thing that matters in society is having red hair. Felicity St. John seems to have it all--a hot boyfriend, artistic talent, a good shot at winning the Miss Scarlet pageant, and good friends. It is all a sham--her hair is the product of a bottle. Her true hair color is her secret--and that secret is discovered. Felicity will go to any lengths to keep it, but in the process she may discover she has issue with Scarletville's prejudices after all.

Seventeen-year-old Agnes Wilkins is about to make her debut into 1815 London society at a lavish party, where she meets Lord Showalter, a wealthy and eligible man who collects Egyptian antiquities and who is hiding a dangerous secret.

In Victorian England, Joe Rat has escaped the clutches of the criminal mastermind, Mother, and is trying to make an honest living in a better part of London, but when a rich philanthropist tracks down a man claiming to be Joe's missing father--a British army deserter--he must determine where his loyalties lie.

Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work as maids and nannies for their classmates. But their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.

Reed Brennan is determined to rebuild the Billings House with Noelle. But someone doesn't want it rebuilt, and will do whatever it takes to stop the project, including killing Reed.

Bhima, a domestic servant in the household of Sera Dubash, an upper-class Parsi housewife, develops a bond with her employer over the course of many years as they both suffer through abusive marriages, loss, and disappointments, but their friendship still cannot overcome the restrictions of class and money.

Wealthy Massie is determined to exclude middle class Claire, the daughter of her father's old friend, from her seventh-grade clique at a very exclusive private school in Westchester, New York, but after Massie steals her only friend, Claire strikes back.

A reprint of the 1947 text which examines the beginnings of the French Revolution, analyzing the composition and action of various social classes, and looking at how they combined, under the leadership of the aristocracy, to overthrow the Bourbon regime.

Sixteen-year-old Violet Willoughby has been part of her mother's Spiritualist scam since she was nine, but during an 1872 house party in Hampshire, England, she is horrified to learn that she can actually see ghosts, one of whom wants Violet to solve her murder.

After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.