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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"This guide to a revolutionary yet achievable utopia offers three core ideas-a universal basic income, a fifteen-hour workweek, and open borders across the globe-each of them supported by lively anecdotes, multiple studies, and numerous success stories. Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen. From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty, to Richard Nixon's...
Author
Publisher
BiggerPockets Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Are you tied to a nine-to-five workweek? Do you work hard making someone else rich? Are you financially freethe sort of free that ensures you spend the best part of your day and week, and the best years of your life doing what you want? Would you like to "retire" from wage paying work within ten years? Why not build and follow a plan that allows you to live the life of your dreams? This isn't about saving up a nest egg. It's not about setting aside...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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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Series
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English
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"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off her two children without a penny . . . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who has only weeks to live. Among Lady Playford's visitors...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From an "astonishing" writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in a wealth-obsessed America deranged by Mammon. A bag of money drops out of the sky, literally, into the path of a cash-starved citizen named Graveyard. He carries it home to his wife, Ambience, and they embark on the adventure of their lives, finally able to have everything they've always thought they deserved: cars, guns, games,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Since she can remember, Katarina's relatives have been grooming her for the family business, thieving. But when Kat tries to go straight and leave that life for a normal one, she's promptly kicked out of her new school for stealing the headmaster's car and mounting it on the school fountain. Although she could have done it without breaking a sweat, ironically, this time she's innocent.
9) 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....
10) Tradition
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Brendan Kiely, a stunning new novel that explores the insidious nature of tradition at a prestigious boarding school. Prestigious. Powerful. Privileged. This is Fullbrook Academy, an elite prep school where history looms in the leafy branches over its brick walkways. But some traditions upheld in its hallowed halls are profoundly dangerous. Jules Devereux just wants to keep her head down, avoid...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
We’ve all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we’re told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage. But what if that narrative is wrong? What if...
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"In this irresistible debut novel, a freak accident allows a wife and mother to explore the alluring alternative of the Road Not Taken. Abbey Lahey is a married, harried working mother of two, struggling to make ends meet in a blue-collar suburb of Philadelphia. When a tumble down a Nordstrom escalator lands her in an alternate reality, Abbey finds herself happily married to the one who got away--a dashing Philly blueblood she met briefly years earlier--and...
Author
Series
Rules of summer volume 2
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-olds Rory McShane and Isabel Rule are back for another summer in East Hampton, but their friendship is put to the test as each girl deals with boyfriends, summer jobs, and family issues.
14) The fixer
Author
Series
The fixer (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When her grandfather develops dementia, sixteen-year-old Tess, who has been keeping his Montana ranch going, is whisked away to Washington, D.C., by a sister she barely knows and thrown into a world of politics, power, wealth, love triangles, and family secrets.
15) Family of liars
Author
Series
We were liars volume Prequel
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo, Japan! Happy birthday!" In the Land of the Rising Sun, where high culture meets high kitsch, and fashion and technology are at the forefront of the First World's future, the foreign-born teen elite attend ICS-the International Collegiate School of Tokyo. Their accents are fluid. Their homes are ridiculously posh. Their sports games often involve a (private) plane trip to another country. They...
Author
Publisher
Washington Mews Books, an imprint of New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Cecilia Tichi invites us on a beautifully illustrated tour of the Gilded Age, transporting readers to New York at its most fashionable. A colorful tapestry of fun facts and true tales, What Would Mrs. Astor Do? presents a vivid portrait of this remarkable time of social metamorphosis, starring Caroline Astor, the ultimate gatekeeper"--
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