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21) Overseas
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A cynical Wall Street analyst falls in love with a billionaire with a mysterious past in a romance with mystical ties to a relationship between a World War I British officer and a beautiful young American who held vital information about a fateful reconnaissance mission.
22) Truth be told
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A middle-class family's evicted from their suburban home. In digging up the facts on this story and on other foreclosures, reporter Jane Ryland soon learns the truth behind a big-bucks scheme and the surprising players who'll stop at nothing, including murder, to keep their goal a secret.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An electrifying thriller about a group of American operatives who secretly take over the world's largest dark money fund, an astonishing, audacious debut by a seasoned insider of global finance. When a U.S. airdrop of billions of dollars disappears in the desert sands of Syria, only a small group of military operatives knows its ultimate destination or why it has been stolen. Their goal is no less than the restoration of Americas geopolitical dominance...
26) Black Fridays
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Struggling to rebuild his life after a two-year prison term for unscrupulous choices, former Wall Street hotshot Jason Stafford is tapped by an investment firm to investigate the suspicious death of a junior trader.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Alex Garrett, a recent college graduate who began her Wall Street career in 2006, dreams of fast-talking days on the trading floor while living a life tied to a government bond desk and performing other peculiar tasks.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
With The Hole We're In-a bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America-award-winning author and screenwriter, Gabrielle Zevin, delivers a work that places her in the ranks of our shrewdest social observers and top literary talents. Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school,...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
300 1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in downtown New York in 1900, the Knickerbocker Hospital faces a major upheaval due to poor finances and an exodus of wealthy patients. The one remaining star is Dr. Thackeray, who along with the hospital staff of surgeons, nurses and other personnel must struggle to keep both themselves and the hospital going.
30) Elle of Portuana
Author
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
22 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Elle is from a small town by the beach named Portuana. She loves trees, nature, and saving money. This book aims to inculcate these traits in young children so they grow up to be environmentally conscious and have a balanced life--Adapted from cover.
31) The bezzle
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost twenty-five dollars. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island,...
34) Long way down
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Working as a financial investigator after two years in federal prison, Jason Stafford looks into a biofuel engineer's claims about being set up by dangerous adversaries.
35) All in
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Trust is the most precious commodity of all. In the cutthroat world of Sweden's financial elite, no one knows that better than corporate raider David Hammar. Ruthless. Notorious. Unstoppable. He's out to hijack the ultimate prize, Investum. After years of planning, all the players are in place; he needs just one member of the aristocratic owning family on his side--Natalia De la Grip. Elegant, brilliant, driven to succeed in a man's world, Natalia...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Berkley trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Cynthia Hartwick's lighthearted novel is an irresistible rags-to-riches adventure. Set in Minnesota in 1983, it combines the wry Midwestern humor of Garrison Keillor with the gentleness and warmth of Jan Karon. Its characters, a group of mostly married, mostly middle-aged ladies, will have you laughing out loud from the first sentence. The Larksdale ladies meet over coffee cake and crafts every Saturday morning. But one day, when they take a long,...
37) Saving Jason
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jason Stafford used to be a hot Wall Street trader, went too far, and paid for it in prison. Now a financial investigator, he's been asked to look into rumors of a hostile takeover of his firm, but he has no idea it will turn his whole life upside down. Suddenly embroiled in a grand jury investigation of Mob-related activities on Wall Street, and threatened by some very serious men, he is thrust into witness protection with his young autistic son....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1977, middle-schooler Josie secretly takes on her aging grandfather's financial problems while also helping her friend Winky bail his Major League Baseball idol out of the town jail.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shanti decides to save her money so she can go on rides at the fun park. Readers learn along with Shanti that there are a lot of ways to save"--
40) Aldo Ice Cream
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English