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The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track -- until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan...
Author
Series
Jay Porter novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX's Empire—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)
Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)
The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)
"A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented
...4) Cure
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English
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With her son's illness in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work-and finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzle of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start- up biotech companies caught in a zero-sum game...
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Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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When an international terrorist cult threatens global political stability and kidnaps a fellow agent. Sniper Brandon Beckett and the newly formed Global Response & Intelligence Team - or G.R.I.T. - led by Colonel Stone mus travel across the world to Malta, infitrate the cult, and take out it's leader to free Lady Death and stop the global threat. Ryan Robbins and Josh Brener co-star in this globetrotting entry to the Sniper franchise.
6) Get bossy
Publisher
Present Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this stoner detective comedy, a cannabis-loving female private eye partner with a bitter former CIA officer to uncover a conspiracy and bring down a larger-than-life corporate villain charting her comeback to the top of the financial world.
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Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Moon wants to kill you. Whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or you just get caught up in a fight between the Moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the Moon's near feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon's newest "dragon," Adriana has wrested control of the Moon's Helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie...
8) Kickback
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English
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"P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts,...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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One day in the life of Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, she, and viewers, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which...
10) The Judge's List
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Lacy Stoltz novels volume 2
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge—in “one of the best crime reads of the year.... Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense.... Worth staying up all night to finish” (Wall Street Journal).
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated...
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated...
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the world of college sports, winning means big dollars. But that money often comes at a cost. University of Nike explores the University of Oregon's complex relationship with its corporate partner, Nike, and how the arrangement has undermined the school's academic integrity, transparency, and campus culture. Through tenacious reporting and riveting storytelling, The University of Nike investigates how learning in Oregon, and America more generally,...
13) The company man
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Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011
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English
Description
After eleven union men are found dead in a trolley car in 1919, a man named Hayes must discover the truth behind the murders--and behind the McNaughton Corporation and the Evesden, the company town it built--before he meets a grim end.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"A popular and beautiful Italian politician comes to Spain with plans to expose the evil-doings of Petronosa, a soulless multinational corporation. In order to silence her, the corporation's top executives conspire to hire the most incompetent detective they can find to serve as her bodyguard. Naturally, Torrente is the perfect man for the job"--Container.
"Una popular eurodiputada, Giannina Ricci, llega de visita a España. Su objetivo, a través...
16) Fed up
Publisher
Atlas Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Katie Couric, the film blows the lid off everything that was known about food and exercise, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public. Exposing the hidden truths contributing to one of the largest health epidemics in history, it follows a group of families battling to lead healthier lives and reveals why the conventional wisdom of 'exercise and eat right'...
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