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Drawing on never-before-seen documents and told from a unique insider's viewpoint, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper tells the story of his legendary family and their remarkable influence.

Drawing on never-before-seen documents and told from a unique insider's viewpoint, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper tells the story of his legendary family and their remarkable influence.

50th Anniversary Edition.

Ninety-eight-year-old Grace Bradley is visited by a young director who takes her back to Riverton House where she reveals the secret behind the death of a young poet in the summer of 1924.

Julie Winch examines race relations within the Clamorgans family in Saint Lousis, Missouri.

Kitty Pangborn, having found work at a detective agency, owned by P.I. Dex Theroux, after her father commits suicide when the stock market crashes, finds herself trying to determine who is threatening a young equestrienne aiming to be the first horsewoman to compete at an Olympic level just before the 1932 Olympic Games.

Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories--From publisher description.

In 1954, Jack Branch returns to his hometown to teach a class on historical evils at the local high school and becomes a mentor to one student, the son of a notorious local killer, but as he encourages the boy to investigate his father's life, Jack is shocked to find the killer's past linked to his own family.

The firing of a servant girl in the household of the wealthy Rajasekharans, an Indian immigrant family in Malaysia, devastates six-year-old Aasha who knows a secret that, if revealed, could crack the carefully created facade of the outwardly proud, successful family.

Captain Charles Ryder returns to the country estate of Brideshead where he indulges in a sentimental journey that takes him back twenty years to his schoolmates at Oxford and to his memories of the Marchmains.