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1) The appeal
Author
Language
English
Description
Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
2) Need you now
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Abe Cushman, the evil genius behind a $60 billion Ponzi scheme, has killed himself and taken his secrets to the grave. A young financial advisor and his girlfriend uncover a conspiracy that reaches from Wall Street deep into the halls of government. With nowhere to turn and no one to trust, Patrick and Lilly must uncover the truth before they become collateral damage in a "financial war" in which casualties are no longer measured in dollars and cents....
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of 1938 New York City society in search of a brighter future.
5) Hard sell
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-eight and filthy rich, Matt Cannon is the youngest broker on Wall Street. He may be a "boy wonder," but he's every inch a man. Ask any woman--any night. But when Matt's latest fling makes scandalous headlines, his clients get anxious, and his bosses at Wolfe Investments level an ultimatum: keep his assets zipped, get a "real" girlfriend, and clean up his act. Only one woman can help Matt with something this hard.
Author
Publisher
Keywords Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 pages
Language
English
Description
Phoebe recognizes fire in Jake Pierce's belly from the moment they meet as teenagers. As he creates a financial dynasty, she trusts him without hesitation--unaware his hunger for success hides a dark talent for deception. When Phoebe learns her husband's triumph and vast reach rests on an elaborate Ponzi scheme her world unravels. As Jake's crime is uncovered, the world obsesses about Phoebe. Did she know her life was fabricated by fraud? Was she...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 179 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sex. Money. Power. Drugs. Brace yourself for an outrageous true story from legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Jordan Belfort, a young stockbroker, is hungry for fame and glory in New York City, where corruption is king and more is never enough.
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's summer in New York City and Faye Walker has it all. She's not only scored one of the most highly coveted internships in all of Wall Street, she's also just met the head-over-heels love of her life. With her natural-born gift for numbers and a work ethic that knows no bounds, Faye is a shoo-in for a full-time position at the illustrious merchant bank Greene Brothers Hale. Then, just as she awaits her offer and her signing bonus, a treacherous...
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with her fiance, Jake. But Winnie and Jake learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place at the top of Wall Street.
11) 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
Publisher
Nightstand Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Things haven't come easy for brilliant young astrophysicist Ainsley Grace. Her mother, an equally talented astrophysicist, died when Ainsley was just a child. A "brainiac" who started college at age sixteen and earned her Ph.D. before most people her age had even settled on a major, Ainsley struggled to fit in. But the pieces of her life seem to fall together when Ainsley teams up with her mother's former colleague at MIT to finish Project Cosmic...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A whip-smart and funny novel told by a former Wall Street insider who reveals what it's like for a working woman to balance love, ambition, and family in a world of glamorous excess, outrageous risk-taking, and jaw-dropping sexism. In 2008, Isabelle--a self-made, thirty-something Wall Street star--appears to have it all: an Upper West Side apartment, three healthy children, a handsome husband, and a high-powered job. But her reality is something else....
14) 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 313 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After surviving attempts on his life and malicious competition, Christian Gillette becomes chairman of an equity firm. However, when his success suddenly starts crumbling--at what may be the hands of his protege--Gillette will have to face tough facts and tough choices.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world that moves as fast as finance does, top producers have to think three steps ahead and make snap decisions. Theirs is a blurred version of reality, one that conceals moves as much as it rewards the bold ones. All too easily, scams can be disguised as success, and plotting can be mistaken for killer instincts. And as Grove O'Rourke finds out, "Nothing obscures vulnerability like success. Nothing that is, except for friendships." But this...
18) 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....
20) La apelación
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1. ed. Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Español