One Dangerous Lady.ONE DANGEROUS LADY. Jane Stanton Hitchcock. 2005. Read by Barbara Rosenblat. 10 cds. 13 hrs. Blackstone Audiobooks. 0-78617943-0. $81.00. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. SA Hitchcock casts her sardonic sar·don·ic adj. Scornfully or cynically mocking. See Synonyms at sarcastic. [French sardonique, from Greek sardonios, alteration of sardanios. eye at the underbelly of high society and finds plenty of venality ve·nal·i·ty n. pl. ve·nal·i·ties 1. The condition of being susceptible to bribery or corruption. 2. The use of a position of trust for dishonest gain. Noun 1. and corruption from which to craft a distinctive, suspenseful mystery. At the top of the list of NYC's most beautiful people is Jo Slater, who has scrambled back up the social ladder after a dark scandal caused a temporary fall from grace. But Jo still knows trouble when she sees it, and when billionaire Russell Cole disappears from his yacht in Barbados and Cole's young trophy wife Carla commandeers all of his assets to buy and bribe BRIBE, crim. law. The gift or promise, which is accepted, of some advantage, as the inducement for some illegal act or omission; or of some illegal emolument, as a consideration, for preferring one person to another, in the performance of a legal act. her way into the charmed circle, Jo senses the presence of an evil that must be stopped. As Carla's influence in the haute haute adj. Fashionably elegant: "In Washington, haute gastronomy is at least as important as the national economy" Ann L. Trebbe. monde n. 1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. Le beau monde fashionable society. See Beau monde. Demi monde See Demimonde. grows daily, because opposition to her is quite literally dying, Jo seeks to prove that Carla will go to any length, even murder, to get what she wants. But just what could she want that she doesn't already have? Hitchcock's characters and their concerns are anything but mainstream. Rosenblat's fully differentiated, multi-accented, nuanced performance catches their eccentricities and excesses. Francine Levitov, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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