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Pub. Date
1999.
Description
History has remembered J. Pierpont Morgan as a complex and contradictory figure, part robber baron and part patron saint. Now this magisterial biography, based extensively on new material, draws a definitive, full-scale portrait of Morgan's tumultuous life both in and out of the public eye.Morgan earned his reputation as "the Napoleon of Wall Street" by reorganizing the nation's railroads and creating some of its greatest industrial trusts, including...
Author
Series
Honeymoon thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A sizzling, twisting tale of a woman with a deadly appetite and the men who dare to fall for her.
63) All in Good Time
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Series
Pub. Date
[2013].
Description
As the walls around their hearts begin to crumble, bank owner Henry Hawkins and Denver missionary Dessa Caldwell must choose between their plans and God's, between safety and love.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The novel tells the story of two people who collide with each other just as the whole world seems to be caught between the drama of Obama's election and the catastrophic collapse of the global economy. Bruno is a middle-aged American banker who has come to Ireland as a refugee from the financial meltdown in his own country. Addie is an out of work Irish architect. When she meets Bruno, her life seems to be on a downward spiral. Addie and Bruno's...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Former cowboy Sam Castlerock has been a disappointment to his father his whole life. Until now. Sam's father is giving him one chance to join the family business and turn around the Bear Creek Bank. Should be easy. Except times have been hard in Bear Creek and some of the folks who're behind on their loans deserve a second chance -- or a third. Folks like the pretty Emily Sands, the one woman Sam has never been able to forget..." --
66) The Darlings
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Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Paul Ross accepts a job working on the legal team for his billionaire father-in-law's hedge fund and must determine where his loyalties lie when a scandal and a regulatory investigation threaten the family business.
Author
Series
Tucker Mills trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A tender story of the power of faith over Fear and the tie that truly binds.
69) The vulture fund
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
A CIA director with presidential ambitions, but not the cash, hires Arabs to launch a campaign of terror to precipitate economic chaos in the U.S. This will enable him to buy property at a cheap price, later selling it at a profit. The main protagonist is the banker raising money for the purchases.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Salvador, the patriarch, runs one of Wall Street's biggest banks the summer before everything collapses; Roberto and Rachel, his two children, have never worked a day in their lives; and Lena, his ex-wife, is a scheming hypochondriac. Part travelogue, part epic family drama, the novel follows Roberto and Rachel across Europe as the two dilettantes come to terms with their father's choices and the repercussions of his actions. Oozing with his signature...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The propulsive story of three scheming opportunists-a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extraordinary gift-whose lives collide in the wake of a devastating fire in the American West For the citizens of Spokane Falls, the fire of 1889 that destroyed their frontier boomtown was no disaster; it was an opportunity. Barton Heydale, manager of the only bank in Spokane Falls, is on the verge of ending his short, unpopular life. But when his city goes...
72) Single & single
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A crooked father and an honest son are the protagonists of this novel on money laundering. The father is Tiger Single, owner of a British investment house, laundering money for criminals. His dream is to see his son follow in his footsteps, but the son is honest and will not have anything to do with him--until the father's life is threatened.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The saga of the German-Jewish immigrants-with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Lehman and Seligman-who built the modern American finance system and shaped the world economy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came Henry and Emanuel Lehman, who would open a general store in Montgomery,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"What happens when a young Wall Street investment banker spends a small fortune to have lunch with Warren Buffett? He becomes a real value investor. In this fascinating inside story, Guy Spier details his career from Harvard MBA to hedge fund manager. But the path was not so straightforward. Spier reveals his transformation from a Gordon Gekko wannabe, driven by greed, to a sophisticated investor who enjoys success without selling his soul to the...
75) God's country
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Meghan Doherty plays a beautiful investment banker with ambition who has been assigned to close a deal on the land rights to God's Country, a Christan retreat isolated in the Mojave desert which is in foreclosure. But the minister refuses to consider her offer until she agrees to spend six days learning about his ministry.
76) Buried at sea
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Jim Leighton is thrilled when he is hired as a deckhand and personal trainer to a wealthy investment banker who is setting sail for Rio de Janeiro in his luxury yacht, but Jim's dream vacation is threatened when he learns his new boss is hiding a deadly secret.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"A page-turning real-life thriller, Lucifer's Banker is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the secret Swiss high-net worth banking industry and a harrowing account of our government's justice system. Readers will follow Birkenfeld and share his outrage with the incompetence and possible corruption at the Department of Justice, and they will cheer him on as he ''hammers'' one of the most well-known and powerful banks in the world" -- Amazon.com....
79) The foundation
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Captain Brenda Pepper is a retired special forces intelligence officer with a successful personal security business in New York when she's hired to ensure international banker Chantel Simond's safety at the Jackson Hole Economic Forum. Chantel Simond is a woman shrouded in mystery, not only for Brenda, but for Ohio senator Thomas Jesse Ortega. Newly elected to the senate, Tom Ortega is in Jackson to learn all he can before voting on Senate Bill S-107,...