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82) Utopia for realists: the case for a universal basic income, open borders, and a 15-hour workweek
Author
Publisher
The Correspondent
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"From a universal basic income to a 15-hour workweek, from a world without borders to a world without poverty--it's time to return to utopian thinking. Join Rutger Bregman on a journey through history, beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he introduces ideas whose time has come."--page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"In the glittering ballroom of London's most exclusive gentleman's club no one is more powerful than its mysterious proprietress, Vienne La Rieux. A shrewd businesswoman, Vienne treasures her hard-won independence and has her eye on a prize that could make her England's richest woman...until the only threat to her heart arrives, sending her controlled world into chaos. Lord Trystan Kane is as familiar with success as he is with the exquisite Vienne....
86) Windfall
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. When she buys him a lottery ticket that turns out to be a winner, their lives are changed forever and their friendship is put to the ultimate test"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"America has become the land of the free and the home of the broke. Household debt is at an all-time high, and every day people-just like you-are feeling more cynical and hopeless about their financial futures. It's time to stop believing countless liesfrom a system designed to take your money-lies like student loans are the golden ticket to a good-paying job, car payments are just part of life, and that you need to have a credit card. Ramsey Personality...
Author
Series
Inheritance games volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Rumors spread that Tobias Hawthorne's lost son may still be alive, casting doubt on seventeen-year-old Avery's inheritance and changing the rules of the game.
Author
Series
Winterborne home volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After years in foster care, April gets to live in a mansion where she and four other children are caught up in a mystery related to a missing heir, a lost legacy, and the Phantom.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Tax the Rich! Morris Pearl, the millionaire chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, and Erica Payne, the organization's founder, take readers on an insider's tour of the nation's tax code and show how the rich (and the politicians they control) structured the tax code to make themselves even richer. They explain how to un-rig the economy through the tax code to reverse America's ever-growing and dangerously destabilizing concentration of wealth and...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Gilder compares America's current economic challenges with her past economic problems-- particularly those of the late 1970s-- and explains why Obama's big-government, redistributive policies are doing more harm than good for the poor. He makes the case that supply-side economics and free market policies are-- and always will be-- the answer to decreasing America's poverty rate and increasing her prosperity
Author
Series
The beast and the Bethany volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Handsome Ebenezer Tweezer has lived comfortably for nearly 512 years by feeding the magical beast in his mansion's attic whatever it wants, but when the beast demands a child, they are not prepared for Bethany.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sisters Cheta and Zam couldn’t be more different. Cheta, sharp-tongued and stubborn, never shies away from conflict—either at school or at home, where her mother fires abuse at her. Timid Zam escapes most of her mother’s anger, skating under the radar and avoiding her sister whenever possible. In a turn of good fortune, Zam is invited to live with her aunt’s family in the lap of luxury. Jealous, Cheta also leaves home, but to a harder existence...
96) Pool boy
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a 70-something pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons.
Author
Publisher
Plata Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
An age-appropriate guide encourages the development of confident and responsible money skills, providing case examples, sidebars, and attitude recommendations that demonstrate how to achieve security in today's challenging job market.
98) Smash and grab
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When her wealthy family loses everything, Lexi tries to clear her father's name by masterminding a bank heist, only to surprised when another thief--blackmailed by the Mexican mafia--steals her heart.
99) Ready player one
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find an Easter egg, which will give the finder his fortune.
Author
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"In Breaking Through Power, Nader draws from a lifetime waging--and often winning--David vs. Goliath battles against big corporations and the United States government. In this succinct, Tom Paine-style wake-up call, the iconic consumer advocate highlights the success stories of fellow Americans who organize change and work together to derail the many ways in which wealth manipulates politics, labor, media, the environment, and the quality of national...
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