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It's the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French ďbutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Four young women, all with something to prove, receive what some see as the invitation of a lifetime. Amelia Alexander, who hopes to eventually attend law school, hesitates to participate in what she sees...
3) Lorna
Author
Series
Debutantes volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Award winning author Debra White Smith (more than 1 million books in print) offers Book 2 in this contemporary mystery-romance trilogy featuring three bright amateur sleuths whose faith and skills manage to get them out of trouble. Attending a welcome-the-new-mayor party, Lorna Leigh counters boredom by escaping to the garden ... only to realize she's not alone. The dashing 30-something mayor is getting fresh air too. Sparks fly when she realizes...
4) Brittan
Author
Series
Debutantes volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Award winning author Debra White Smith (more than 1 million books in print) wraps up her exciting mystery-romance trilogy. The Debutantes are three southern amateur sleuths whose faith, intelligence, and skills help them solve crimes ... and get out of trouble. When Brittan Shay meets Jose Herrera, she's found love for the first time. Even when she and her friends, Lorna and Heather, investigate a money laundering scheme and discover Jose's mother...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Diana Cook, born at the turn of the nineteenth century, the only daughter of Virginia gentry, agrees to marry a rich captain to save her family's land. Luckily for Diana, her union with the captain is brief and gives her a beautiful son. But after the son is grown is when the real tragedy begins.
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For a young society woman seeking a favorable marriage in the late 1890s, so much depends on her social season debut. Clara Carter has been given one goal: secure the affections of the city's most eligible bachelor. Her hard work and training pays off when celebrity's spotlight turns Clara into a society-page darling. Yet Clara wonders if this is the life she really wants - especially when her best friend also sets her sights on Franklin De Vries....
7) Heather
Author
Series
Debutantes volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
When the mayor of Houston is shot, the Debutantes solve the case. To remain anonymous, they leave the perfume laden evidence at the newspaper, along with a long stemmed rose.
8) Coming out
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When Olympia Rubinstein's twin daughters are invited to a debutante ball, chaos erupts. One twin and Olympia's ex-husband are anxious to go, while the other twin and Olympia's current husband refuse to go.
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Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"In the wake of her parents' mysterious disappearance, a society girl discovers her dilettante father and flighty mother were leading double lives as government spies. With the help of her uncle and mentor, she determines to continue her parents' work-a decision that takes her from the ballrooms of London to the fox hunts and regattas and soirees of high society, chasing down artfully hidden clues while trying to keep her mission a secret from her...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Fleeing an arranged marriage, debutante Elizabeth Manning exchanges places with a mail-order bride bound for New Harmony, Iowa. Life on the frontier can't be worse than forced wedlock to pay her father's gambling debts. But Ted Logan's rustic lifestyle and rambunctious children prove more challenging than Elizabeth expects. She doesn't know how to be a mother or a wife. She doesn't even know how to tell Ted the truth about her past as her feelings...
11) Rebel belle
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Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Harper Price's charmed life is turned upside down when she discovers she's been given magical powers in order to protect her school nemesis David Stark, who's an Oracle"--
Author
Publisher
Poppy
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After the death of her free-spirited mother, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Lee is forced to move from Northern California to Savannah, Georgia, to live with her wealthy grandmother, who expects Alex to join a long-standing debutante society, which, Alex learns, has made a pact with a legendary Hoodoo family.
Author
Series
(Jennifer Lynn).Debutantes volume 2
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.
Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason only: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found only left her with more questions-- and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes her into pledging a mysterious, elite, and all-female secret society called...
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019, 2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Against all odds, Sawyer befriends a group of debutantes and quickly learns that her family is not the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. As she navigates the twisted relationships between her new friends and their powerful parents, Sawyer discovers there are secrets people will kill to keep buried."
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"When it's announced that 1958 will be the last year debutantes are to be presented at court, thousands of eager mothers and hopeful daughters flood the palace with letters seeking the year's most coveted invitation: a chance for their daughters to curtsey to the young Queen Elizabeth and officially come out into society. In an effort to appease her traditional mother, aspiring university student Lily Nichols agrees to become a debutante and do the...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"Threatened by powerful enemies, William Blackburn, Earl of Ketterham, lives in exile in the Scottish Highlands with his daughter Vanessa. When she comes of age William urges her to return to her mother in England to make her debut. Raised with all the advantages and freedom a boy would have, Vanessa doubts she can fit into the mold of a proper young lady. Still, she agrees to re-enter fashionable society, determined to end the vendetta against her...
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Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Lady Sophronia Bremerton is a far cry from the typical debutante, but she's the toast of London's upper class for one simple reason: she's a society columnist for the London Illustrated News, and the gentry loves seeing their exploits printed in the gossip pages. But Sophie has bigger plans-- she aspires to be an investigative reporter. When a stuffy ballroom at yet another Season proves to be nothing more than the usual rumor mill, Sophie seeks...
Author
Series
House of Marionne volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"To hide from the assassin hunting her, and keep her mother out of harm’s way, Quell reluctantly inducts into a debutante society of magical social elites, which she never knew existed, called the Order. If she can pass their three rites of membership, mastering their proper form of magic, she’ll be able to secretly bury her forbidden magic forever. If her dark magic is discovered, she will be killed.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
With England on the threshold of war, Valerie de Vere Cole, the niece of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, must navigate a new lifestyle when she befriends other debutantes from England's aristocracy.
1939. Valerie de Vere Cole, the niece of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, makes her deep curtsey to the King and Queen of England, but she knows war is imminent. Reinventing herself as a carefree and glittering young society woman, she befriends...
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