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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As a corporate 'undertaker' for a mergers and acquisitions firm in New York, Carol MacLean travels from factory to factory, firing blue-collar workers who remind her of her father and the kids she grew up with. On a trip that takes her to a desperate fishing town in Massachusetts, Carol gets a call from the office: 'You're fired.' Those words shake Carol to her core. But with the help of the townspeople and a charming local fisherman, she begins to...
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of the "Lentil Underground" begins on a 280-acre homestead rooted in America's Great Plains: the Oien family farm. Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness told small farmers like the Oiens to "get big or get out." But twenty-seven-year-old David Oien decided to take a stand, becoming the first in his conservative Montana county to plant a radically different crop: organic lentils. Unlike the chemically dependent grains American farmers had...
Author
Series
Colter Shaw volume 03
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: finding a missing courier bag containing evidence that will bring down a corporate espionage firm responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This time out John Dortmunder and his merry band of crooks return to the scene of the crime world in an attempt to steal a fleet of automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing. The mark is Monroe Hall, corrupt CEO of a now defunct conglomerate, who spent more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined. Having escaped prosecution, Hall is holed up on his massive Pennsylvania farm and Dortmunder, as...
10) Bone music
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew--a pair of serial killers who murdered her mother and tried to shape Charlotte in their own twisted image. If only the nightmare had ended when she was rescued. Instead, her real father exploited her tabloid-ready story for fame and profit--until Charlotte finally broke free from her ghoulish past and fled. Just when she thinks she has buried her personal...
Author
Language
English
Description
As seen on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday
A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller
In this book, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring some of today's best-known companies, they illustrate how these two forces can-and do-work most powerfully to create value for all stakeholders: including customers, employees,...
12) Dead astronauts
Author
Series
Borne volume 2
Language
English
Description
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against a ruthless corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. ...A...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple"--
14) Total control
Author
Language
English
Description
Sidney Archer, aided by FBI agent Lee Sawyer, searches for the truth about the disappearance of her husband Jason, a rising young executive with the world's leading technology conglomerate, who was supposed to be on an airplane that crashed, but apparently missed the flight and has not been seen since.
16) Buried secrets
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Language
English
Description
Nick Heller comes to the aid of family friend Marshall Marcus, whose daughter Alexandra, has been kidnapped and held captive in an underground crypt; but as Nick digs deeper into Marshall's life, he finds that his criminal activities have left behind scores of enemies that reach to the highest levels of government.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Eve and Alexandra, the great-granddaughters of Kate Blackwell, battle for control of the powerful multibillion-dollar corporation, but their desire to lead the company is threatened by their own ambitions, dark secrets from the past, and a little-known descendant of Kate's great-grandfather.
Author
Language
English
Description
Examines the power of trading companies between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, describing the lives and legacies of men such as Peter Stuyvesant of the Dutch West India Company, Cecil Rhodes of the De Beers company, and George Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company, and discussing how each man impacted politics, society, and culture.
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