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Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 5
Language
English
Description
The series depicts life and adventures of siblings Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie from their younger childhood up to growing teen years in the early 20th century U.S.A. up to WWI.
Author
Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 4
Language
English
Description
The further adventures of five sisters and their brother growing up on New York's East Side in the early twentieth century.
4) The luxe
Author
Series
Luxe series (Anna Godbersen) volume 1
Language
English
Description
In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best-laid plans of parents and others.
5) Empire girls
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Ivy and Rose Adams may be sisters, but they're nothing alike. Rose, the eldest, is the responsible one, while Ivy is spirited and brazen. After the unexpected death of their father, the women are left to reconcile the estate, when they make a shocking discovery: not only has their father left them in financial ruin, but he has also bequeathed their beloved family house to a brother they never knew existed. With only a photograph to guide the way,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. What she found instead was shocking: She had an identical twin sister. What's more, after being separated as infants, she and her sister had been, for a time, part of a secret study on separated twins. Paula Bernstein, a married writer and mother living in New York, also knew she was adopted, but had...
7) 27 dresses
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jane has the kind of selflessness that everyone looks for in a friend. Lately the perennial bridesmaid has begun to feel as if something is missing in her life. Kevin is a local newspaper reporter who spots Jane racing between two receptions - one in Manhattan and the other in Brooklyn. He quickly surmises that her quirky tale may be just the story to get him into the big leagues. Jane butts heads with Kevin just as her younger sister, Tess, shows...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the second season of this upbeat comedy, sisters Holly and Valerie have moved into a New York City loft, and become well-acquainted with Holly's uncanny ability to unravel her straitlaced sibling's well-ordered life. Nevertheless, Valerie's own public relations firm, which she runs out of the loft with her quirky friend Lauren, has hit the ground running, while Holly's feelings for cute messenger boy Vince have ruffled her relations.
11) Sparkle
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Set in Harlem in 1958, this musical tells the story of three sisters struggling to find stardom as a singing group. But they learn that wishing on a star is one thing, and that being the star can be a one-way ticket to self-destruction.
12) The old settler
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The story of two middle-aged sisters, Elizabeth and Quilly (played by real-life siblings Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen), who share an apartment in Harlem in 1943. The sisters quarrel amiably, but they share a wounded history that becomes revealed as the tale unfolds.
13) 27 dresses
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Jane is a romantic, completely selfless woman who has been a bridesmaid in no less than 27 weddings. Her younger sister Tess captures the heart of Jane's boss, on whom Jane has a secret crush, inspiring her to change her 'always a bridesmaid' destiny.
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When their father takes a job in Japan, rambunctious, spontaneous, impulsive and disorganized sixteen-year-old Holly Tyler moves in with her twenty-eight-year-old organization freak sister, Valerie, in Manhattan-- and the sisters discover they may make better siblings than roomies.
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