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Jesse Stone volume 13
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English
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"Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series. It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and longer still since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a professional baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team, he is forced to grapple with his memories and his regrets over what might have been. But his time at the reunion is cut short...
63) Damage
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English
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His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered.
64) All the money in the world: the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the Getty family, describing how J. Paul Getty accumulated his vast fortune and the sometimes disastrous effects this money had on the lives of his nineteen heirs.
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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"Smart and socially gifted, Adam and Cynthia Morey are perfect for each other. With Adam’s rising career in the world of private equity, a beautiful home in Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they are, by any reasonable standard, successful. But for the Moreys, their future of boundless privilege is not arriving fast enough. As Cynthia begins to drift, Adam is confronted with a choice that will test how much he is willing to risk...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"It’s a strange, scary time for Too Small Tola when a new virus separates her family, but Atinuke’s small-but-mighty heroine proves once again how wise, kind, and resourceful she can be. In ordinary times, Tola lives in an apartment in Lagos, Nigeria, with her clever sister, Moji; her sporty brother, Dapo; and bossy Grandmommy. Tola is so happy! But news of a new virus—and a lockdown, too—sends Moji away in one direction and Dapo in another....
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Criterion collection volume 1178
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Master of social discomfort Ruben �Ostlund trains his unsparing lens on the world of wealth, beauty, and privilege in this audacious, Palme d'Or, winning satire of our status-obsessed culture. A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down. Pushing each provocative set piece...
68) The fraud squad
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Crazy Rich Asians meets The Devil Wears Prada in this millennial women's fiction novel by debut author Kyla Zhao about a working class woman who infiltrates Singapore's high society to fulfill her dreams, only to lose herself in the process. For as longas she can remember, Samantha Song has dreamed of having her own byline in a high-society magazine-and she'd do anything to get there. But the constant struggle to help her mom make ends meet and her...
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Rushmore McKenzie mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Riley Brodin is the granddaughter of Walter Muehlenhaus, a man as rich, powerful, and connected as anyone since the days of J. P. Morgan. Despite her family's connections, it's McKenzie she reaches out to when her relatively new boyfriend goes missing. Despite his reservations about getting involved with the Muehlenhaus family again, McKenzie agrees to look for one Juan Carlos Navarre. What he finds, though, is a man who appears to be a ghost. The...
70) Parasite
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
Description
Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle
Follows the Kim family as they begin providing luxury services to the wealthy Park family but are soon caught in an underhanded struggle to maintain their new lifestyle....
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In Death series volume 31
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English
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Lt. Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Department returns home from vacation to a string of bizarre murders.
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Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 1
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English
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A man with a past shrouded in mystery searches desperately for a missing teenage girl whose disappearance is triggering disastrous consequences throughout her community and the world.
"The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned...
73) Devoted in death
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English
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When Lieutenant Eve Dallas examines a body in a downtown Manhattan alleyway, the victim’s injuries are so extensive that she almost misses the clue. Carved into the skin is the shape of a heart—and initials inside reading E and D . . . Ella-Loo and her boyfriend, Darryl, had been separated while Darryl was a guest of the state of Oklahoma, and now that his sentence has been served they don’t ever intend to part again. Ella-Loo’s got dreams....
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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A creative reimagining of the life of iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel traces the development of her exceptional sewing skills in an orphanage, her transformation into a couturier and the private struggles behind her subsequent fame.
75) Steal
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Series
Instinct (James Patterson) volume 3
Language
English
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When the son of the founder of the world's largest hedge fund is thought to have committed suicide, but a body hasn't been found, his father, believing that he is still alive, turns to Dylan Reinhart for help, drawing him into a world of multi-million-dollar secrets and danger.
"Imagine everyone’s surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart’s Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. 24...
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Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"El apellido Sackler adorna los muros de las instituciones mas distinguidas: Harvard, el Metropolitan, Oxford, el Louvre... Es una de las familias mas ricas del mundo, benefactora de las artes y las ciencias. El origen de su patrimonio siempre fue dudoso, hasta que salio a la luz que lo habian multiplicado gracias a OxyContin, un potente analgesico que catalizo la crisis de los opioides en Estados Unidos. El imperio del dolor empieza en la Gran Depresion,...
78) The Juliet code
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Freddie and Grace mystery volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Frederick and Grace Percy finally make it to Italy to enjoy a delayed honeymoon and explore the beauties of the historic city of Venice. To their surprise, their friend, Detective Jack Miracle, is also in the city, investigating a series of art heists starting at the house of eccentric millionaire, Laraby Covington. Drawn into a world of boat races, mysterious houses, and parties of the rich and unusual in Venice, Frederick and Grace learn of the...
80) Dinner at eight
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Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
In this funny, dark comedy the trashy rub shoulders with the classy as reputations are ruined. Dizzy society hostess Millicent Jordan is planning an elegant dinner party for British royalty. But somehow the guest list winds up being a rogue’s gallery. But there’s still plenty of greed, ambition, and scandal to satisfy the enormous appetites of Millicent’s guests. It all boils over into an evening of delicious backstabbing humor...
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