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Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The rivalry between two wealthy and unscrupulous power brokers for the attentions of the beautiful Lucy Dupree, a newcomer to New York society, causes them to engage in a series of high-stakes financial manipulations that lead to a major Wall Street collapse in 1907.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.
The Sacklers are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The seemingly perfect Hawthorne family of northern California is tested by Ivy League ambitions, overscheduling, impossible expectations by the Bay Area elite, and difficult personal secrets.
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It is only after they arrive that she suspects he has actually been sent there on an assignment. She tries not to be angry, because she is, after all, in a paradise! They are picked up in Nairobi and taken to a lovely house in Happy Valley--the center of upper-class English life there. Darcy finally confides that there have been some...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Doubleday large print home library ed.
Physical Desc
534 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private...
Author
Series
Avalon Bay volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Mackenzie Cabot has spent most of her twenty years pleasing the other people around her so she is going to Garnet College in the expensive beachside town of Avalon Bay in South Carolina when she would really rather focus on her growing internet business; Cooper Hartley is a local boy who usually tends bar and disdains the rich, spoiled college kids he sees every day--but MacKenzie and Cooper fall for each other, until money and family come between...
67) Walkaway
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hubert, Seth, and their ultra-rich heiress friend Natalie are getting a little old to hang out at the "Communist parties," techno-raveups in abandoned industrial spaces, full of insta-printed drugs and toys. And Natalie was finished, years ago, with her overcontrolling zillionaire dad. And now that anyone can manufacture food, clothing, shelter with equipment comparable to a computer printer, there seems to be little reason to to stick with the world...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud is a fantastically expensive car, especially in the pristine condition of the one owned by Muriel Cantrell. Living in a luxury apartment building on Central Park West...Apparently beloved in her building, residents are shocked when Muriel is murdered...Lieutenant Romaine Very of the NYPD is called to investigate and again seeks help from his friend Hoag...The investigation leads to the unexpected source of Muriel's...
Author
Series
Boy meets boy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Young, rich, and thoroughly spoiled, Matthew has no intention of being shipped off to some small town in New England to stay with his grandmother for Christmas...or to play nice with the attractive young man he meets there. Find a little "Joy to the World"? Not today, Santa. But when the two are forced to work together to make a charity gala go off without a hitch, Matthew may find the home he's been missing all along"--
70) Deep dive
Author
Series
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his friend is accused of murder, former corporate superstar Sam Aquillo is drawn back into the prestige-obsessed world of the Hamptons.
Sam Acquillo has spent most of his time in the Hamptons hanging out with the other half of the moneyed wonderland cops and bartenders, carpenters, store clerks and firemen. He couldn't care less about the concerns of the 1%, until his best friend Burton Lewis, a certified billionaire, is dragged into a high-profile...
Author
Language
English
Description
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? --Publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings is set against the backdrop of the turbulent summer of 1968 in Martha's Vineyard, where twenty-two-year-old Whitney Dane begins questioning her goals and sense of independence at the side of a fiercely ambitious, underprivileged man.
73) The big Kahuna
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Straight arrow FBI Agent Kate O'Hare always plays by the rules. Charming con man Nicholas Fox makes them up as he goes along. She thinks he's nothing but a scoundrel. He thinks she just needs to lighten up. They're working together to tackle the out-of-bounds cases ordinary FBI agents can't touch. And, their relationship? Well, there hasn't been so much explosive chemistry since Nitro was introduced to Glycerin. Next on the docket: The mysterious...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a Fifth Avenue apartment high above Central Park, art dealer Flanders Kittredge and his wife Ouisa are trying to interest a moneyed friend in a $2 million investment. When an unexpected young guest arrives, claiming to be the son of Sidney Poitier, the plot takes some wonderfully unexpected turns. Veering effortlessly from hilarity to pathos, this dazzling play was lauded by The New York Times as “transcendent, magical and a masterwork.”
...Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The incredible national bestseller that is changing people's lives — and increasing their net worth!
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Can you spot the millionaire next door?
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Can I even become one of them?
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Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Twenty-nine-year-old Vanessa Cole is a wild, stunningly beautiful heiress, the adopted only child of a highly regarded New York brain surgeon and his socialite wife. Twice married, Vanessa has been scandalously linked to any number of rich and famous men. But on the night of July 4, 1936, at her parents' country home in a remote Adirondack Mountain enclave known as The Reserve, two events coincide to permanently alter the course of Vanessa's callow...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's the week before her wedding, and all of Eliza's meticulous planning is about to pay off. She's become the exact type of woman who would marry into the prominent, blue-blood Walker family--Ivy League credentials, a high-powered PR job, and a designerlabel wardrobe. But as the big day approaches, secrets from Eliza's past attending an Evangelical college start to throw her true motives into question. Who exactly is Eliza Bennet and what does she...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (396 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As his father continues to face legal trouble, Michael Bluth runs the family business, tackling a host of legal and financial issues while trying to cope with his eccentric relatives.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the renowned president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a coming-of-age tale of privilege and hidden sexuality at a New England boys' boarding school. Sam has spent more than half his life at the prestigious Leverett high school, which lies at the heart of an affluent Connecticut town of the same name. First as a student in the late 1960s, before coeducation, then as an English teacher after Harvard and Oxford, he developed a keen sense of loyalty...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2060 New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a prominent businessman and finds that the facts don't seem to add up and that the killer may be closer than she originally thought.
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