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"Introducing Josh Riedel's adrenaline-packed debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a glitch that transports him to other worlds Once you sign an NDA it's good for life. Meaning legally, I shouldn't tell you this story. But I have to. A college grad with the six-figure debt to prove it, Ethan Block views San Francisco as the place to be. Yet his job at hot new dating app DateDate is a far cry from what he envisioned. Instead of making...
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Teddy Fay novels volume 2
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English
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Teddy Fay has donned a new disguise as a stuntman and actor starring in Centurion Studios' newest film. When the picture's leading lady begins receiving blackmail threats, Teddy is in the perfect position to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that the villains have more in their sights than just money.
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Jay Porter novels volume 1
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English
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Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX's Empire—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)
Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)
The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)
"A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented
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"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple"--
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has only grown more intense in recent years. Meanwhile, corporations continue to amass wealth and power at a dizzying rate, recklessly pursuing profit while leaving society to sort out the costs. In For Profit, law professor William Magnuson argues that the story of...
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Unincorporated volume 4
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Tor
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Sandra O'Toole is the president of the Outer Alliance, which stretches from the asteroid belt to the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto. Resurrected following the death of Justin Cord, the unincorporated man, O'Toole has become a powerful political figure determined to win the Civil War against the inner planets at almost any cost. And the war has been going badly. Nothing is predictable, even the behavior of artificial intelligences. There may be only one way...
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The decendents of Kate Blackwell battle to carry on her powerful legacy. Each is determined to control Kruger-Brent, Limited, the multibillion-dollar international corporation with holdings in diverse industries around the world. But only one can reign supreme.--From publisher's description.
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Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Two years after destroying a corporate empire intent on controlling human thinking through technology, teenagers Mal and Laura engage in another battle to save humanity when a "coporate bogeyman" known only as the Old Man tries to gain absolute power.
11) The capitol game
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It was the deal of the decade, if not the century. A small, insignificant company on the edge of bankruptcy had discovered an alchemist's dream; a miraculous polymer, that when coated on any vehicle, was the equivalent of 30 inches of steel. With bloody conflicts surging in Iraq and Afghanistan, the polymer promises to save thousands of lives and change the course of both wars.
Jack Wiley, a successful Wall Street banker,...
Jack Wiley, a successful Wall Street banker,...
12) System collapse
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Murderbot diaries volume 7
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2023.
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English
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"Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be...
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"Once the hottest mergers and acquisitions executive in the company, Henrietta Wegner can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When Henri’s boss makes it clear she’ll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can convince her aging parents to sell Wegner’s—their iconic Frankenmuth, Michigan, Christmas store—to a massive,...
15) Cape Perdido
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Soledad County novels volume 3
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English
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"In Soledad County, California, four local residents struggle to save their community from the hostile plans of an out-of-state company"--Provided by the publisher.
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Unincorporated volume 2
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Tor
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Exiled hero Justin Cord works to outmaneuver a power-hungry corporate Earth society that has launched an interplanetary war in order to regain control over the outer planets.
17) Project Namahana
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Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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""An enthralling tale of disappearances, deaths, dark secrets, and corporate evil."--Douglas Preston, #1 bestselling co-author of the Agent Pendergast series. Nothing stays hidden forever... Two men, unified by a string of disappearances and deaths, search for answers--and salvation--in the jungles of Kaua'i. Together, they must navigate the overlapping and complicated lines between a close-knit community and the hated, but economically necessary...
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2014.
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“Business Adventures remains the best business book Ive ever read.” Bill Gates, The Wall Street JournalWhat do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety; these notable and fascinating accounts are...
19) Invisible armies
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
20) Run: a novel
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2014.
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"Marc Bowman is an in-demand hired gun, a computer consultant for AmeriTel, the huge technical corporation where his wife Carolyn happens to work as a high-powered executive. Then, one morning, AmeriTel unceremoniously fires Marc with no notice and no cause. Furious, Marc turns to Carolyn for an explanation--and is stunned when she sides with her employer. Suddenly, things are happening in Marc's life that he can't explain; strange men are following...
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