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Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
©2003.
Language
English
Description
Forced to participate in a series of business investments that will cause his company to lose millions of dollars, businessman Titus Cain faces threats against his family and friends if he calls the police or fails to cooperate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Self-made billionaire Zephyr Nikos has come a long way from the streets of Athens, but his heart is stone-cold--like marble. He can't offer Piper Madison his love; instead he offers her his world--fine dining, private jet, rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful. As their desire heats up and finally reaches boiling point, Zephyr and Piper must end their affair before one of them gets, hurt. There's just one small complication ... Piper's pregnancy...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite, Lewis sets out to answer...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Eve St. Clair desperately needs help sorting reality from her fearful imaginings when ghostly voices seem to haunt the Victorian house in Sunderland, England, that she inherited from her uncle. Online research leads to a group that claims to offer just the aid she's seeking. But can Ransom King's handpicked team of investigators truly banish Eve's night terrors? Since the deaths of his wife and daughter, Seattle billionaire Ransom King has devoted...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, a masterwork of reporting and explanatory journalism that exposes how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world has transformed 21st century life and dangerously destabilized democracy"--
"The history of the last half century in America, Europe, and other major economies is in large part the story of wealth flowing upward. The most affluent people emerged from capitalism's triumph in...
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Language
English
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Description
"He'd certainly never set eyes on--much less gone to bed with--Tula Barrons. That he would have remembered. Yet businessman Simon Bradley agreed to let Tula and her infant cousin--a child she claimed was his--stay in his mansion until he had proof of the little boy's paternity. But having Tula under his roof revealed something unexpected--her father had once nearly destroyed Simon's business. The billionaire now had the perfect opportunity for revenge....
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For her, the man in the tux spells trouble in more ways than one! After clashing with Jackson Michaels, sheriff's deputy and law student Hayley Lopez doesn't know whether to arrest the gorgeous billionaire developer... or kiss him senseless. Sure, the second option presents obvious difficulties. She didn't fight for independence from her powerful family to let this supersexy older man boss her around. But when they fall into bed together, Hayley starts...
8) Obsession
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Studios's business by making a deal with a young Croatian billionaire. But when the magnate's wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to assess the threat and recover the young woman. As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes to find that darker forces are at play and an old vendetta has been revived...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age--Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt--is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For twenty years she ran the country's largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publishing, which chronicled postbellum America in dozens of weeklies and monthlies. A pioneer in an all-male industry, she made a fortune and became a national celebrity and tastemaker in the process. But Miriam Leslie was also a byword for scandal:...
Author
Series
Mars Patel volume 3
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After Mars Patel fled the Martian colony and its erupting volcano, he headed for Earth with JP, Toothpick, Aurora, Cupcake (everyone's favorite two-hundred-pound tardigrade), and genius billionaire Oliver Pruitt. But when they finally arrive, Mars is shocked to find that all the adults on Earth have mysteriously vanished. Aurora, the popular new principal of Pruitt Prep, thinks Earth is better off without the adults, while Mars, who's now a celebrity,...
Author
Series
Mars Patel volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Six months ago, Mars Patel boarded a spaceship to travel to Oliver Pruitt's colony on the planet Mars, and now he's finally there. The journey gave Mars lots of time to bond with his copilots, but Mars and his new friends soon discover that Pruitt's colonists aren't the only people living on the inhospitable planet. A splinter group, led by the mysterious Fang, are desperate to go back to Earth--and they don't care who they hurt in the process. Amid...
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Language
English
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"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? The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against "big government" led to the ascendancy of a broad-based conservative...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography ... until now. Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. "You will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money," Fred Koch cautioned. "It may either be a blessing or a curse."...
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again-whatever that means. Everyone knows something's off, but nobody can agree on just what it is. Maybe it's the weather; maybe everyone's just so damn sensitive these days. Or maybe it's because the animals of the world have finally had enough, besieging towns and cities...
15) Lone wolf
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis,...
16) Hardwired
Author
Series
Hacker volume 1
Publisher
Meredith Wild
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Details a relationship between a recent college graduate and a high-powered billionare investor.
Determined to overcome a difficult past, Erica Hathaway learns early on how to make it on her own. She finds herself face to face with a panel of investors who will make or break her fledgling startup. The only thing she didn't prepare for was going weak in the knees over billionaire (and hacker) Blake Landon, an arrogant investor who's seemingly determined...
17) Hardline
Author
Series
Hacker volume 3
Publisher
Meredith Wild
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The next installment in the relationship between Erica Hathaway, a recent college graduate and businesswoman, and billionaire investor Blake Landon.
While Blake's controlling nature and Erica's independent spirit continue to battle, he has no intention of letting her out of his life again. But when he demands more and tests the boundaries of her commitment, she is forced to face the dark desires he's kept hidden.
18) Hard limit
Author
Series
Hacker volume 4
Publisher
Meredith Wild
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
The next installment in the relationship between Erica Hathaway, a recent college graduate and businesswoman, and billionaire investor Blake Landon.
19) Hardpressed
Author
Series
Hacker volume 2
Publisher
Meredith Wild
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Despite Blake Landon's controlling ways, the young and wealthy hacker finally won the trust of the woman he loves. Internet entrepreneur Erica Hathaway broke down the walls that kept her from opening her heart and her business to Blake. Ready to start this new chapter in her life, Erica is determined not to let anything come between them, even if that means giving Blake back some of the control he craves in and out of the bedroom. But when demons...
20) The wild side
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"For Melanie Drake, school guidance counselor in a small Virginia town, the day's challenges typically involve a playground scuffle or a student skipping school. It's worlds away from her previous career as a vital part of the Office of Special Investigations. There, she devoted herself heart and soul to covert operations, the riskier the better. Since leaving, Melanie has cherished her peaceful, calm existence, with her two beloved retired service...
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