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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A journalist and industry specialist for Reuters examines the growing disparity between the rich and the poor, taking a non-partisan look into the businesspeople who are amassing colossal fortunes and preferring the company of similar people around the world.
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier....
43) Still me
Author
Series
Me before you volume 3
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.
Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand...
Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand...
Author
Language
English
Description
The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. When he falls for a fake story and implicates a powerful congressman in some rather nasty business on a radio program, Gus becomes embroiled in a slander suit. The stress makes it difficult for him to focus on his next novel, which is based on the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. The convicted murderer is behind bars, but Gus is not
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Over the past 40 years, Tom Stanley and his daughter Sarah Stanley Fallaw have been involved in research examining how self-made, economically successful Americans became that way. Despite the publication of The Millionaire Next Door, The Millionaire Mind, and others, myths about wealth in America still abound. Government officials, journalists, and many Americans still tend to confuse income with wealth. A new generation of household financial managers...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy businessman learns of his daughter's swift engagement to a missionary, he embarks on a quest to keep her closer to home, but when his efforts go askew, he must reconsider what it means to be a strong father.
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 7
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Investigating the arson deaths of a wealthy couple, San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant DA Yuki Castellano find the case further complicated by the disappearance of a former governor's son, internal pressure, and the media.
50) Marguerite
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
1921, not far from Paris. It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. When a young, provocative journalist decides to write a rave article on her latest performance, Marguerite starts to believe even further in her talent. This gives her the courage she needs to follow her dream.
51) El mesero
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Rodrigo Sada finds himself trapped between two worlds: the world to which he belongs and to which he aspires to belong, since he is a waiter who works in a luxurious restaurant and dreams of living like the clients he serves daily. Luis, his best friend and co-worker, constantly advises him to stop thinking about all that is out of his reach.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Murder, blackmail, and betrayal, all set against the glittering backdrop of Washington society." -The Today Show No one knows the world of high society better that New York Times bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock-and no one captures its behind-the-scenes scandals and secrets better. In Mortal Friends, the Edgar® Award-nominated author of Trick of the Eye and Social Crimes offers readers a comedy of manners and murders which Barbara Goldsmith...
53) Smash cut
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. When the Wheeler family approaches attorney Derek Mitchell about defending Paul's nephew Creighton--even before he's been charged with the murder--Derek jumps at the chance. But the more he learns about Creighton and his darker side, the more he doubts the young man's innocence.
Publisher
Cheng Cheng Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Pickle is a night security guard at a bronze statue factory, who also plays in a band at the funerals when time allows. Earning a meager income, Pickle lives with his elderly mother. His best friend Belly Button works as a recycling collector during the day, and Pickle's biggest pleasure in life is flicking through the porn magazines Belly Button collects in the small hours in the security room. Having late night snacks and watching television are...
56) Broken wings
Author
Series
Dark legacy volume 1
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"They rule my new town, my school, and with more money than God, there's very little out of their reach. Four gorgeous, perfect, scary boys."
57) Motion
Author
Series
Hypothesis: Laws of physics volume 1
Hypothesis laws of physics volume part 1
Hypothesis Laws of physics volume 1
Hypothesis laws of physics volume part 1
Hypothesis Laws of physics volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forced to lie to protect her sister ...
One week.
Home alone.
Girl genius.
Unrepentant slacker.
Big lie.
What's the worst that could happen?
Mona is a smart girl and figured everything out a long time ago. She had to. She didn't have a choice. When your parents are uber-celebrities and you graduate from high school at fifteen, finish college at eighteen, and start your PhD program at nineteen, you don't have time for distractions outside...
58) Moonlight sins
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout delivers the unforgettable story of a woman whose new life has just begun-but may end in murder . . . Julia Hughes has always played it safe until she learned a very painful lesson. Now Julia's starting over with a job in the Louisiana bayou-and a scorching encounter with a stranger, only to discover he's Lucian de Vincent . . . her new employer. The de Vincent brothers share a massive fortune...
59) The touch
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Scottish-born Alexander Kinross writes home from the gold fields of 1860s Sydney for a bride and marries young cousin Elizabeth, who struggles with Alexander's rowdy ex-madam mistress and illegitimate son.
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