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Michael Centella is a rising star at Wall Street investment bank Saxton Silvers. Everything is going according to plan until the love of his life, Ivy Layton, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas. Seven years later, Michael's got undercover FBI agents afoot, spyware on his computer, and mysterious e-mails from a "JBU." Embroiled in corporate espionage, he's desperate to clear his name. He doesn't want to believe it, but the signs point to his...
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Modern love volume 2
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English
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"In Alisha Rai's second novel in her Modern Love series, a reclusive investor goes viral, shoving her into the world's spotlight--and into the arms of the bodyguard she's been pining for."--Publisher's description.
One minute, Katrina King, a camera-shy ex-model, enjoying an innocent conversation with a random guy at a coffee shop; the next, a stranger has live-tweeted the entire encounter, shoving her into the spotlight-and into the arms of the...
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Christian Gillette thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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The master of financial suspense returns with a gripping thriller of money and murder set in the perilous world of private equity.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"In the spellbinding new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Goolrick, 1980s Manhattan shimmers like the mirage it was, as money, power, and invincibility seduce a group of young Wall Street turks. Together they reach the pinnacle, achieving the kind of wealth that grants them access to anything--and anyone--they want. Until, one by one, they fall. With the literary chops of Bonfire of the Vanities and the dizzying decadence of...
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English
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Nearing the end of his life, financier Harry Wainwright journeys to a rustic fishing camp in Maine and leaves a profound legacy for a haunted young man, a Vietnam draft evader, a woman Harry loved for three decades, and a spirited young woman who holds a key to the past.
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Series
Christian Gillette thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race.
13) The escape room
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2019.
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English
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"In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of outrageous luxury. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to get ahead. When the four of them are ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a locked elevator, things start to go horribly wrong. They...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Putting her complete trust in her husband as he builds a financial empire, Phoebe is shattered when she discovers that her husband's successes are tied to an elaborate Ponzi scheme, a situation that forces her to make a terrible choice.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2005.
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English
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The undertaker practices the Dismal Trade with consummate skill, transforming the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Now he is called to disguise the suicide of a famous financier. Only his art can save America's financial markets. His wife's task on this day is secret, an act of understanding and dedication. In the end it is she who, through love, is able to transcend death.
16) England made me
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
"Anthony Farrant has boasted, lied and cheated his way through jobs all over the world. Then his adoring twin sister, Kate, gets him taken on as the bodyguard of Krogh, her lover and boss, a megalomaniac Swedish financier. All goes well until Krogh gives orders that offend Anthony's innate decency. Outraged and blind to risk, he leaks information to Minty, a shabby journalist and fellow victim of life ..."
17) Little Dorrit
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Series
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company
Pub. Date
1951
Language
English
Description
A satire on the English Civil Service, with descriptions of prison life. First published in 1857.
Little Dorrit grows up in Marshalsea prison, where her father is confined for his debts, and she helps to feed the family with her needlework until her father receives an inheritance when she is in her teens, and more problems ensue.
Set in England in the mid 1800s, this novel portrays a prison-world in which the shadow of the Marshalsea reaches from...
18) Flint
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1960]
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IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The story of a strange gun duel fought in the West.
"He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East, he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America--and one of the most feared and hated. Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed...
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Midnight volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"In THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT, they played the ultimate game of love, lust, and death. Now, in MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT, the survivors meet to play one last time... Shadowed by tragedy and burdened by amnesia, a beautiful woman desperately tries to return to reality. She is Catherine Douglas, destined to once again challenge the cruel, charismatic power of Constantin Demiris, the Greek shipping tycoon who murdered Catherine's husband. Now, in the glittering...
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Series
Cavanaughs (Stephanie Laurens) volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An inventor's daughter falls in love with an investor who has bet his fortune on the success of her father's last design.
A respected and driven entrepreneur, Lord Randolph Cavanaugh is loyal and devoted to his family, but yearns for more in life. When he travels to Buckinghamshire to review a recent investment, he discovers the determined and intelligent Felicia Throgmorton struggling to keep her late father's estate together-- and to do that, she...
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