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"The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley's former students, works hard to earn a degree from Oxford and becomes an investment banker; Carole's mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about...
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Stone Barrington novels volume 48
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English
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"When an old acquaintance reaches out to Stone Barrington requesting assistance, the job seems easy enough. She needs an expert in an esoteric field, someone with both the knowledge and careful dexterity to solve a puzzle. But the solution to one small problem blows the lid open on a bigger scandal going back decades, and involving numerous prominent New Yorkers who would prefer the past stay buried. With this explosive information in-hand, Stone...
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2014.
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"What happens when a young Wall Street investment banker spends a small fortune to have lunch with Warren Buffett? He becomes a real value investor. In this fascinating inside story, Guy Spier details his career from Harvard MBA to hedge fund manager. But the path was not so straightforward. Spier reveals his transformation from a Gordon Gekko wannabe, driven by greed, to a sophisticated investor who enjoys success without selling his soul to the...
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Risk analyst Esther Larsen has uncovered a conspiracy with the potential to devastate the world's financial markets. But when she sounds the alarm, she wonders who will believe her. As public support grows for her ideas, so does the desperation of those whose greed she seeks to expose.
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FBI/US Attorney novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"After a humiliating end to her engagement, investment banker Sidney Sinclair is done with commitment-phobic men. But when her sister winds up engaged after a whirlwind courtship, Sidney is thrown into close contact with exactly the kind of sexy playboy she wants to avoid--the gorgeous best man"--P. [4] of cover.
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[2002]
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English
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"Jim Leighton is young, fit, and hungry for excitement-and his dream of adventure is coming true, now that he's been hired as a deckhand and personal trainer to a wealthy investment banker and setting sail for Rio de Janeiro aboard the luxury yacht Hustle."--Jacket.
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Christian Gillette thrillers volume 4
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2007.
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English
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Christian Gillette, chairman of New York's most renowned private equity firm, gets the chance to seal a deal unlike any other--one that will leave its mark on history.
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[2016]
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English
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A twisted, noir-drenched drive through the dark streets and back alleys of Los Angeles. Having just returned home from Iraq, war vet Sam Taylor is a cab driver sent on a late night run. He picks up a wealthy, shady investment banker named Frank Devore, but unbeknownst to Sam, Frank's on the run.
12) Codex
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[2004]
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English
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An investment banker is sent by his firm to organize a collection of rare books for a mysterious client and realizes that there may be a medieval codex hidden among the volumes that parallels a computer game's addictive virtual reality world.
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2014.
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Becoming a Wall Street banker is like pledging the world's most lucrative and soul-crushing fraternity. Every year, thousands of eager college graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money--as well as how to dress, talk, date, drink, and schmooze like real financiers. This is the inside story of this well-guarded world. Kevin Roose, New York magazine business writer, spent...
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[2021]
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English
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"Tips from the Trolley Boy is a book for anyone, from any walk of life, at any stage of life. It contains some of the most straightforward and applicable advice you've ever heard. Simple principles to apply to life are given in an accessible and friendly voice. Ying Tan's approachable, caring personality infuses this book with warmth. He is as likeable in print as he is in life (as readers will learn from the outstanding testimonials given by the...
16) Capital
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[2016]
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English
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The story is about the interconnected lives of a diverse group of characters linked to a neighborhood street. One day, the street's residents all receive an anonymous postcard through their front doors bearing a simple message: "We want what you have." Who is behind the anonymous hate campaign? And what do they want? As the mystery of the postcards deepens, interweaving stories reveal lives filled with love and loss, fear and greed, fortune and envy,...
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[2010]
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English
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Michael Centella, a rising star at Wall Street investment bank Saxton Silvers, has everything 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 with the signs pointing to Ivy.
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[2023]
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"Faye Walker has it all. She's not only scored one of the most highly coveted internships on all of Wall Street, she's also just met the head-over-heels love of her life. 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 betrayal arrives to shatter Faye's plans and her young life. But what her high finance masters-of-the-universe...
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