Upper Middle Class

As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle. Those at the top of the income ladder are becoming more effective at passing on their status to their children, reducing overall social mobility. The result is not just an economic divide but a fracturing of American society along class lines. Upper-middle-class children become upper-middle-class adults.

In Privilege Lost, Jessi Streib traces the lives of over 100 youth born into the upper-middle-class. Following them for over 10 years as they transition from teens to young adults, Streib examines who falls from the upper-middle-class, how, and why don't they see it coming. In doing so, she reveals the patterned ways that individuals' resources and identities push them onto mobility paths - and the complicated choices youth make between staying true to themselves and staying in their class position. 

“When the picture-perfect wife drove him toward the woman who saw his soul.” It started with a scroll and a sigh. While his wife posted another perfect picture for her followers, Elijah King sat in silence wondering when their marriage became a brand instead of a bond. To the world, Elijah was the man—respected businessman, community hero, the brother buying back downtown Gastonia with Black dollars and purpose. To his wife Taryn, he was just another prop in her highlight reel. Then came Imani—a 21-year-old business student on summer break, hired to watch their five-year-old son. ...

From two leading economists comes a groundbreaking new portrait of the hidden fortunes of Main Street business owners—ordinary Americans who built extraordinary wealth and are quietly rewriting the rules of money and power. Most people think the path to great wealth runs through Wall Street or...

In this atmospheric novel set in the Jim Crow South, a powerful Black family fights to protect their empire—an "unforgettable must-read" for readers of Tayari Jones (Victoria Christopher Murray, New York Times bestselling author). Jordan Sable, a prosperous undertaker turned political boss...

You ever been called a sinner for giving a man what his own wife forgot he needed? They think I’m just the preacher’s side chick. But they don’t know what it’s like to touch a man who spends all day saving souls but can’t find one to save his own. They don’t know the look in his eyes when he finally stops performing and starts breathing. I didn’t chase him. I just stopped running from what was already coming for both of us—need. See, men love to act like they want peace and prayer, but deep down? They need to be wanted. Not worshiped. Wanted. They need a hand on their chest ...

Beautifully and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles, set during the onset of World War II. 'Compelling, moving, unputdownable . . . Maybe my favourite books ever' - Marian Keyes, bestselling author of My...

If you enjoy historical romance novels, you want to read Lindamira… first written as a contemporary romance, it’s historical now because it was written over 300 years ago! What Makes Lindamira a Great Story? The Adventures of Lindamira from 1702 mimics the best of popular late 17th-century French, Spanish, and Italian novels of aristocratic romantic intrigues, with all the emotional ups and downs and the issues that build angst and anticipation to make a riveting tale, yet this story is far more concise, brings the cultural setting down to the upper-middle-class, and provides an ...

The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family. Elizabeth Jane Howard's magnificent Cazalet Chronicles continues with Casting Off, the fourth novel in the saga. The Cazalet cousins are now in their twenties, trying to piece...

Set in the height of the Second World War, The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series, Confusion, where chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family. 'Compelling, moving, unputdownable . . . Maybe my favourite books ever' - Marian Keyes, bestselling author of My...

Elegantly constructed and told with exceptional grace, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's extraordinary, bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles. Every summer, the Cazalet brothers – Hugh, Edward and...

How do I win in life? That seems to be a question everybody ponders over. Better yet, why do some people get to be multi-millionaires, and how do I become one of them? This audiobook will reveal to you what the top 1 percent have in common and how they got their share of the pie. It will teach you how to best position yourself on that very same track and prepare you for the success you thought was out of reach.

As featured on BBC Radio 4 Open Book As the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges, All Change marks the fifth and final volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling The Cazalet Chronicles. 'She helps us to do the necessary thing – open our eyes and our hearts' – Hilary...