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Author
Series
Van Shaw novel volume 6
Language
English
Description
Van Shaw is hired to evaluate the safeguards for the art collection of eccentric business magnate Sebastien Rohner. Then Rohner reveals to Van the real reason he's been recruited: to prevent another professional burglar from stealing the art. Rohner wants to set a thief to catch a thief. While questioning the bizarre nature of the job, Van accepts the lucrative offer and arrives at the island estate during an international summit that Rohner is hosting....
22) Total control
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman learns her husband's plane has crashed and he is dead, only to receive a call from him on the day of his funeral. It's the start of a financial thriller involving computer companies, big bucks and crooks who operate online.
23) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Zinnia never thought she'd be infiltrating Cloud. But now she's undercover, inside the walls, risking it all to ferret out the company's darkest secrets. And Paxton, with his ordinary little hopes and fears? He just might make the perfect pawn--if she can bear to sacrifice him.
Paxton never thought hed be working for Cloud, the giant tech company thats eaten much of the American economy. Much less that hed be moving into one of the companys sprawling...
25) Pleasantville
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville in this new thriller--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father's fox and rabbit sermon--once a parable...
27) Company man
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
520 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Nick Conover is the CEO of a major corporation, a local boy made good, and once the most admired man in a company town. But that was before the layoffs. When a faceless stalker menaces his family, Nick, a single father of two since the recent death of his wife, finds that the gated community they live in is no protection at all. He decides to take action, a tragedy ensues - and immediately his life spirals out of control. At work, Nick begins to uncover...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maya has had a price on her head from the day she escaped the TechCorps. Genetically engineered for genius and trained for revolution, there's only one thing she can't do--forget... Gray has finally broken free of the Protectorate, but he can't escape the time bomb in his head. His body is rejecting his modifications, and his months are numbered. When Maya's team uncovers an operation trading in genetically enhanced children, she'll do anything to...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set in early 1900s Colorado, the unforgettable tale of a young woman who bravely faces the consequences of speaking out against injustice. In a voice spiked with sly humor, Sylvie Pelletier recounts leaving her family's snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining company that employs her father and dominates the town. Sharp-eyed Sylvie is awed by the luxury around her; fascinated by her employer,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How beautiful we were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made--and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists...
32) The fool's run
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
Berkley ed.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Eighteenth-century Ohio: two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in...
34) Dead astronauts
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against a ruthless corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. Jeff...
35) Cape Perdido
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once a lumber town, Cape Perdido is now a getaway for tourists and outdoor recreationists. But when the water harvesting plans of an out-of-state company threaten the residents' livelihoods, four people get caught up in the fight to save the town.
Author
Publisher
Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Business Solutions, Inc., is falling apart at the seams. While employees kill time stalking free snacks and filming porn in the HQ stairwells, the company's co-CEOs bring in shadowy corporate consultants to shake up their business in ways even they don't understand. As the communications manager tasked with translating C-suite doublespeak, Will Evans is constantly torn between his blue-collar warehouse past and his white-collar future. When he is...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jack Dana is a star history student at Yale with a bright career in academia ahead of him. But after 9/11 he feels it is his duty to change course. As a Marine infantry officer he is deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Severely wounded in combat, he begins writing a novel about his wartime experiences while surgeons at the Walter Reed Hospital patch up his pelvis. Jack then moves to Manhattan to live with his Uncle Harry, a partner in a leading New...
38) System collapse
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 07
Publisher
Tordotcom/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget. Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be. But he's carefully tucked away his darkest sins: the guns, the FBI file, the trial that nearly destroyed him. Houston, Texas, 1981. It is here that Jay believes he can make a fresh start. That is, until the night he impulsively saves a woman from drowning in the...