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The women of the Sisterhood are fun, smart, sassy, and determined to get their way every time. But most of all, they are the best friends a woman wants by her side in good times and bad. Meeting once again in Myra Rutledge's beautiful Virginia home, they're ready to face a new challenge and right a vicious wrong...Alexis Thorn, once a successful securities broker, spent a hellish year behind bars for a crime she never committed. Now, she has her freedom,...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Mayor of Kingstown follows the McLusky family -- power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither"--Container.
3) Inside man
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NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
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Trouble in paradise! volume 2
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Plum Lockhart went out on a limb when she ditched her corporate job in NYC and moved to the Caribbean island of Paraiso. Now the head of her own villa broker agency, Plum finds herself going head-to-head with her former boss and his evil (and annoyingly handsome) deputy Damian. But when an old colleague asks her to connect with his snarky assistant Arielle, the sweet life turns sour-Arielle is soon found dead at the house of an eccentric tycoon,...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones. We rarely stop to consider where they come from. But we should. In The World for Sale, two leading journalists lift the lid on one of the least scrutinised corners of the economy: the workings of the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard and sell the earth's resources. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"[It] follows the McLusky family--power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither"--Container.
8) Syriana
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies Across the globe, a disenfranchised...
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Paramount
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[2024]
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English
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A series of explosions rock Kingstown and its citizens, as a new face of the Russian mob sets up shop in the city, and a drug war rages inside and outside prison walls. The pressure is on Mike McLusky to end the war but things get complicated when a familiar face from his incarcerated past threatens to undermine the Mayor's attempts to keep the peace among all factions.
10) Temptation
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Wall Street broker Callie Smith is taken by surprise with TV network president Jason Kane's offer of a recurring role on a failing soap opera, not to mention his romantic attentions or her growing closer to her mother and family.
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Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Crime. Vengeance. Love. Physics. The infamous Deadbomb Bingo Ray is a high level fixer in the City of Brotherly Love. He's the man you call when you've crossed the line into hopeless and there's no way back to anywhere. Three years have passed since Ray burned a hedge fund manager on behalf of a pool of retirees, and now the money man is back for revenge. While Ray unravels the plot and orchestrates some payback of his own, he unwittingly steps into...
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Warner Books
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2001.
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English
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A hilarious insider's glimpse behind the scenes of DLJ, one of the hottest investment banks on Wall Street.
Newly graduated business students John Rolfe and Peter Troob thought life at a major investment banking firm would be a dream come true. But they discovered Wall Street employees to be overworked and at their wit's end. Twenty-hour work days, strip clubs, and inflated salaries–this hysterical book reveals it all. ...
Newly graduated business students John Rolfe and Peter Troob thought life at a major investment banking firm would be a dream come true. But they discovered Wall Street employees to be overworked and at their wit's end. Twenty-hour work days, strip clubs, and inflated salaries–this hysterical book reveals it all. ...
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Trouble in paradise! volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"After Plum Lockhart's job as a travel magazine editor is eliminated in corporate cuts, she decided she's sick of cold winters in NYC and fruitless swiping on dating apps--what she needs is a dramatic change of scenery. On a whim, she accepts a job as a villa broker and moves to a beautiful Caribbean island. But paradise isn't as perfect as it seems: the slow pace of island life, the language barrier, and a cutthroat office rival make Plum question...
14) Pride
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"The 7 Deadly Sins series that inspired several Lifetime original movies continues with this unputdownable novel following mortgage broker Journee Alexander as she tries to escape the secrets of her past without losing all she has worked to build in the present. Journee Alexander grew up believing that the only person she could depend on was herself. After being abandoned by her mother, burning bridges with friends, and narrowly escaping bad business...
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The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of 1929, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and as an investment banker and later financial journalist, was uniquely positioned to chronicle the ambition and folly that fueled the decade.
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2016.
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"The blistering sequel to The Ascendant: An action-packed thriller starring a bond trader turned antihero. Unlikely patriot Garrett Reilly can identify threats against America from both inside and outside the nation's borders. But now the whole world's economy is at risk ... Garrett Reilly sees what others do not: numbers, patterns, a nation on the brink of collapse. His unique talents saved countries from falling into a world war in The Ascendant....
18) Jungle2jungle
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002?]
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English
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Commodities broker Michael Cromwell is king of the Wall Street jungle. With money, power and an engagement to a beautiful fashion designer, he has it all. But when Michael travels to the Amazon to finalize the divorce from his wife--a jungle doctor--she reveals that he also has a blowdart-shooting, giant spider-carrying 13-year-old son, Mimi- Siku.
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Portfolio/Penguin
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[2014.]
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English
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"Nestled deep in the towers of banking and finance are the commodities traders who spend their days gambling with oil, gold, and corn contracts. They're highly-educated world travelers with a penchant for risk, and they're here to bet big on the future of the raw materials that make our economies hum. They're very wealthy, barely regulated, and can be a force for tremendous good--or ill. Now Kate Kelly, the bestselling author of Street Fighters, shines...
20) Leg the spread: a woman's adventures inside the trillion-dollar boys' club of commodities trading
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Broadway Books
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2004.
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English
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Stepping on to the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for the first time was a terrifying experience for Cari Lynn; it was a minefield of flailing arms, rampant sexism and knife-edge deals and the stress levels meant it could blow up at any moment. As an Exchange clerk Lynn learned the pitfalls and triumphs of the markets up close, gaining an insight into the larger than life personalities of her trader colleagues and what it’s like to...
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