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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's business--the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke's has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn't been an easy journey. Seven years after her father's death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young girl. She may be the owner of Brooke's, but she's also...
2) Flint
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Series
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Flint 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 speculator is setting up the land swindle of a lifetime,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
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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Series
Language
English
Description
"The influential financier and philanthropist Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's and Palm Beach's elites. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. That unceasing desire--and especially a taste for underage girls--resulted in a stunning fall from grace in the...
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Series
Language
English
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An independent nobleman Lord Randolph Cavanaugh is loyal and devoted--but only to family. To the rest of the world, he's aloof and untouchable, a respected and driven entrepreneur. But Rand yearns for more in life, and when he travels to Buckinghamshire to review a recent investment, he discovers a passionate woman who will challenge his rigid self-control... A determined lady Felicia Throgmorton intends to keep her family afloat. For decades, her...
Author
Series
Modern love volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
OMG! Wouldnt it be adorable if hes her soulmate??? I dont see any wedding rings Breaking: #CafeBae and #CuteCafeGirl went to the bathroom AT THE SAME TIME!!! One minute, Katrina Kings enjoying an innocent conversation with a random guy at a coffee shop; the next, a stranger has live-tweeted the entire encounter with a romantic meet-cute spin and #CafeBae has the world swooning. Going viral isn't easy for anyone, but Katrina has painstakingly ...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 221 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The empowering story of Larry Hite's unlikely rise to the top of the hedge fund world-with critical insights and lessons you can take to the bank In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was anything but a model student-and how he went on to found and run Mint Investment Management Company, one of the most profitable and largest quantitative...
8) Tap dancing to work: Warren Buffett on practically everything, 1966-2012 : a Fortune magazine book
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xvii, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The arc of Buffett's business life is covered in this book. The editor of Fortune magazine has collected and updated the best Buffett articles published in Fortune between 1966 and 2012, including thirteen cover stories and a dozen pieces authored by Buffett himself. The editor has provided commentary about each major article, supplying context and her own informed point of view. Readers will gain fresh insights into Buffett's investment strategies...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
564 pages: illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 448 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him"--
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
" In 1901, the Northern Pacific was an unlikely prize: a twice-bankrupt construction of the federal government, it was a two-bit railroad (literally--five years back, its stock traded for twenty-five cents a share). But it was also a key to connecting eastern markets through Chicago to the rising West. Two titans of American railroads set their sights on it: James J. Hill, head of the Great Northern and largest individual shareholder of the Northern...
Author
Series
Harlequin desire volume 2418
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When producer Ryan Jackson kisses a beautiful stranger to save her from a lecherous investor, he doesn't know she's his newest employee...or that she's also his best friend's little sister all grown up. Now the only way to save his business deal is a scorching, hands-on, make-believe affair with the one woman who is absolutely off-limits. So why is he thinking more about seducing Jaci Brookes-Lyon than toeing the corporate line? When sexual ruse...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 687 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power, and influence to outmaneuver the other.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the Soviet Union's collapse. But when he exposed the corrupt oligarchs who were robbing the companies in which he was investing, Vladimir Putin turned on him and, in 2005, had him...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Nick, Dale and Kurt decided to become their own bosses by launching a business. After a slick investor deceives them, they hatch a misguided plan to get their company back." -- Container.
17) Money monster
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Bill Browders young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his lifes mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the...