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1) Neverwhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Richard Mayhew, a young businessman living in London, helps an injured girl and finds his life changed when he leaves reality and enters the city's underground world of sewers and abandoned subway stations--a world in which the girl he helped is someone of power and nobility.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
"The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge...
6) Grey
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A biography of art collector and steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick written by his great-granddaughter, drawing from family memories and archives to provide details about his private and public life, and featuring an examination of the creation of The Frick Collection.
Author
Series
Fifty shades trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.
Shocked yet thrilled...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Explains why Microsoft was unable to deal with the wide-spread popularity of the Internet in the early 1990s, how the company tried to overcome their lack of Internet experience, and why their efforts caused the Justice Department to serve them with an antitrust action.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An in-depth investigation into Donald Trump's business--and how he used America's top job to service it." -- Inside front book jacket flap.
Alexander details President Trump's efforts to make money off of politics. He takes us inside the exclusive clubs, luxury hotels, overseas partnerships, commercial properties, and personal mansions while tracking hundreds of millions of dollars flowing freely between big businesses and President Trump. The presidency...
Author
Publisher
Insight Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Unstoppable is the ultimate immigrant story and an epic David-and-Goliath adventure. While American teens were socializing in ice cream parlors, Siggi was suffering beatings by Nazi hoodlums for being a Jew and was soon deported along with his family to the darkest place the world has ever known: Auschwitz. Siggi used his wits to stay alive, pretending to have trade skills the Nazis could exploit to run the camp. After two death marches and near...
19) Elon Musk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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Description
"From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter"--
Author
Language
English
Description
In the Sudan decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, the Mahdi or 'Expected One'. The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country. Along with hundreds of others, British trader and businessman Ryder Courtney is trapped...
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