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[2016]
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It's been two years since Leo Barnes stopped himself from a regrettable act of revenge on Purge Night. Now serving as head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, his mission is to protect her in a run for president and survive the annual ritual that targets the poor and innocent. But when a betrayal forces them onto the streets of D.C. on the one night when no help is available, they must stay alive until dawn, or both be sacrificed for their sins...
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[2022]
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298 pages ; 24 cm
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"With his reputation permanently marred by an insider trading conviction, Jamison Maddox, a young Wall Street broker, reluctantly takes a job with Drexler Limited in sleepy Redemption, Illinois. Drexler Limited is run with an iron fist by a man named Claud Drexler, who tells Jamison that the company mostly does financial research for select clients. Jamison is surprised that an outfit that merely does corporate research has such elaborate security...
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Gabriela waits desperately for news of her abducted daughter. At last, the door opens. But it's not the negotiators. It's not the FBI. It's the kidnapper. And he has a gun. How did it come to this? Two days ago, Gabriela's life was normal. Then, out of the blue, she gets word that her six-year-old daughter has been taken. She's given an ultimatum: pay half a million dollars and find a mysterious document known as the "October List" within 30 hours,...
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Kindle County novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2020.
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"At 85 years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will provide the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives,...
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"The enduring legacy of a legendary investorCalled the "greatest stock picker of the century" by Money magazine, legendary fund manager Sir John Templeton is remembered as one of the world's foremost investors, known for his pioneering insights and phenomenal investment performance over a professional career which spanned more than half a century.Templeton's Way with Money provides a unique, professional 21st century appraisal of what made this formidable...
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Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 8
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D.C. fixer Joe DeMarco must clear Molly Mahoney's name and keep his boss, Senator Mahoney, clean. Before long, DeMarco uncovers that there's far more to Molly's case than meets the eye, and the risk to Mahoney is more than just a little political embarrassment.
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Pub. Date
2011
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372 p. ; 24 cm.
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"Alex Miller is a criminal defense attorney and, at thirty-five, the youngest partner in one of the most powerful law firms in New York City. He's a man at the top of his game with the life he's always dreamed of. Then, at his father's funeral, Alex meets a mysterious and nearly mythic figure in Miller family history-who presents Alex with a surprising request: to represent him in a high-profile criminal investigation. As Alex gets involved and the...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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vi, 378 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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People know who Stephen Schwarzman is -- at least they think they do. He's the man who took $400,000 and co-founded Blackstone, the investment firm that manages over $500 billion (as of January 2019). He's the billionaire philanthropist who founded Schwarzman Scholars, this century's version of the Rhodes Scholarship, in China. But behind these achievements is a man who has spent his life learning and reflecting on what it takes to achieve excellence,...
13) The day trader
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p2007
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8 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Augustus McKnight is nearly broke and his only respite is day trading, where a sudden windfall gives him some of his dignity back. It is too late for his his marriage, though, and his wife, Melanie, requests a divorce. A day later, she is found dead on the streets of New York, and Augustus is the beneficiary of her million-dollar life insurance polciy. To ease his pain, he goes into day trading full time, and is remarkably successful-- but he is also...
14) Cosmopolis
Pub. Date
2012
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Little does he know his perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.
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[2016]
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194 pages ; 23 cm.
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Astrophysicist Ainsley Grace has teamed up with her mother's former colleague at MIT to finish Project Cosmic Company, which her mother had been working on when she died. She gets an opportunity to pay off her mountain of college debt by writing stock-trading codes for a high-frequency trading firm, writing algorithms to make sure her firm's supercomputers are faster than any others on Wall Street. The difference between making a billion and losing...
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"Steven A. Cohen is a Wall Street legend. Born into a middle class family in a decidedly upper class suburb on Long Island, he was unpopular in high school and unlucky with girls. Then he went off to Wharton, and in 1992 launched the hedge fund SAC Capital, which grew into a $15 billion empire. He cultivated an air of mystery and reclusiveness -- at one point, owned the copyright to almost every picture taken of him -- and also of extreme excess,...
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"A new, gripping history of America--told through the executives, bankers, farmers, and politicians who paved the way from colonial times to the present--reveals that this country was founded as much on the search for wealth and prosperity as the desire for freedom. The Land of Enterprise charts the development of American business from the colonial period to the present. It explores the nation's evolving economic, social, and political landscape...
18) Bitcoin
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You've come to the right place! This is a three-book bundle.
Book one: The bitcoin buzz has actually exploded, and it's still an excellent chance to invest in or purchase cryptocurrencies. For how long it will last, no one understands. However, if you understand what you're doing, you can absolutely increase your earnings.
This book exists to direct you to make the right choices. It focuses particularly on the business side of it and whether you can...
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Risk. It can be kryptonite for investors, no matter your investment amount or level of experience. But, like many obstacles to success, risk is a challenge only overcome by facing it head-on.
What if you could attack risk, rather than hide from it? What if there were even a way to leverage it for profit? The first step in investment success is adjusting how you think about risk. In The All Weather Trader, Trendstat Capital founder and "Mr. Serenity"...
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In the dizzying world of finance, trading holds a certain allure. It is often seen as a quick path to riches, a way to outsmart the market and win big. Images of Wall Street traders cheering and fist-pumping after a successful deal are etched in our collective memory, fueling the misconception that active trading is a sure-fire strategy for accumulating wealth. However, this romanticized depiction is far from reality, and it's time we bring this inconvenient...
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