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When the author first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? This book sets out to answer this question,...
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Pub. Date
2010
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332 p.
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Author Tillie Bagshawe brilliantly recaptured the late superstar author’s magic with Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game—and now she does it again with Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness. A classic tale of love and betrayal, and a struggle for survival in the new world order, this is an enthralling novel with ripped-from-the-headlines immediacy, perfect for the post-Bernie Madoff era in America. A tribute to one of America’s most popular...
23) The temps
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"Jacob Elliot doesn't want a temporary job in the mailroom at Delphi Enterprises, but after two post-college years of unpaid internships and living in his parents' basement, he needs the work. Then, on his first day, the unthinkable happens: toxic gas descends on a meeting in Delphi's outdoor amphitheater, killing all the regular employees and leaving Jacob stranded inside the vast office complex. Wandering through Delphi headquarters Jacob finds...
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2023.
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322 pages ; 25 cm
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"The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world. Jacqueline Millender is a reclusive billionaire/women's...
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c2011
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335 p. : ill. (some col.) , col. map ; 24 cm.
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"At the dawn of the Information Age in 1963, a computer salesman in Texas saw an opportunity where IBM, his former employer, saw only dusty oil camps. This young entrepreneur, who had grown up dirt-poor in rural Louisiana during the Great Depression, staked his young family's livelihood on the notion that computers would help out local businesses - and quite possibly, revolutionize the way America did business."--Dust jacket.
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Lucy Stone mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
2019.
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"Lucy doesn't know what to expect as she arrives on a private Maine island owned by eccentric billionaire Scott Newman, only that the exclusive experience should make for a very intriguing feature story. An avid environmentalist, Scott has stripped the isolated property of modern conveniences in favor of an extreme eco-friendly lifestyle. A trip to Holiday Island is like traveling back to the nineteenth century, and it turns out other residents aren't...
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"A dazzling contemporary novel that interweaves the lives of a Russian mistress and the young French painter who falls in love with her. Set in the South of France, London, and Paris, a gorgeous, innocent mistress of a Russian oligarch gradually finds independence via her own efforts and through her friendship with the artist son of a world-renowned painter and his devoted muse/now restaurateur mother, reminiscent of Picasso and La Colombe D'or in...
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2023
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My ex told me no one would ever want to be with a "fat, broke, single mom of three." My billionaire boss thinks otherwise.
After my ex left me high and dry, I need make things work for my kids. Even if it means getting rejected for jobs over and over again.
When my friend gets me an interview with her boss for an interior design job, I think things are finally looking up. That is until I door ding his Tesla and yell
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 21
Pub. Date
2021.
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"The fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire sends Gabriel Allon on a dangerous journey across Europe and into the orbit of a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth about his friend's death. The plot Allon uncovers leads to secret channels of money and influence that go to the very heart of Western democracy and threaten the stability of the global order.
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[2015]
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2 videodiscs (approximately 216 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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That Man From Rio: First, thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris's Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Up to His Ears: Unhappy billionaire Belmondo, whose suicide attempts keep failing, hires some killers to do him in. He falls in love with beautiful Andress and wants to reverse the deal.
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Tech billionaire Miles Cookson has everything he could dream of-- except time. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, there is a fifty percent chance that it can be passed on to the next generation. Two decades ago young, struggling Miles was a sperm donor. Somewhere out there, he has kids-- nine of them. And they might be about to inherit his fortune-- or maybe something much worse. Aspiring film documentarian Chloe Swanson is on a quest to...
33) Nothing to Lose
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Come to New York with us, Roxie!
It'll be so much fun!
We have tickets to the grand reopening of the Crimson flagship nightclub.
My girls don't know the truth. How can I say no?
Who says no to five-star travel? I should have. Isn't retrospect a b*tch? Life was so much easier before him. Going home should mean regularly scheduled programming. Except something's different. I just can't figure out what.
My girls are the same. My apartment. My work....
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Hunter is a billionaire who's known for his surly, no-nonsense attitude. He's a workaholic who doesn't have time for women or anything-until he sees Maddie. One look into her innocent hazel eyes, and he's a goner. He's almost twice her age, so he stays in the shadows, intent on manipulating circumstances behind the scenes to protect her and give her a better life. But when his obsession begins spinning out of his control, things get complicated. All...
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As Christmas approaches, Elizabeth Bennett, a New York event planner, is sent to a quaint, small-town to organize their holiday festival. When she arrives, she finds William Darcy, a high-profile billionaire lacking in the holiday spirit, in the process of selling the charming estate she hoped to use as a venue. Determined to make her event a success, Elizabeth persuades the reluctant Darcy to let her hold the festival on the historical estate once...
36) Bad Engagement
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Kate McLeod was desperate.
Her younger sister was having her first baby, her younger brother was recently married, and . . . Christmas was coming.
And in the McLeod household, Christmas was everything. Every year her parents' house looked like an assembly of angels had puked everywhere. She was talking lights and glitter, garland and plaid. EVERYWHERE. All of that Christmas spirit was topped off with the annual McLeod Holiday Party, complete with...
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Es la noche más embarazosa de mi vida. No solo me he chocado, literalmente, con el hombre más guapo que he visto nunca en el vestíbulo de un hotel, sino que los bollos de nata montada que llevaba (no se admiten preguntas) han acabado aplastados contra mi cuerpo. Cuando por fin consigo cambiarme de ropa, ese mismo tipo -el hombre más sexy de la historia- hace una puja por veinticinco mil libras en una subasta benéfica… ¡para obtener una cita...
38) Bad Wedding
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The white dress.
The diamond ring.
The full church.
The . . . missing groom.
Molly Miller had become a cliché when Jackson Davis left her at the altar, but she'd crawled back from the heartbreak and embarrassment and was living her dream of running a successful eatery in San Francisco.
Well, good riddance. She didn't need Jackson, or any other man in her life. She had Molly's, her restaurant, she had her customers, and she finally had found some...
39) Paige
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A sexy romance from USA Today best-selling author MJ Fields.
Four horrible break-ups.
Being overlooked for promotion after promotion.
On a whim, she quits life in America and heads to Italy for a much needed break.
One drunken dinner with friends at a swanky members only club, Paige sets her eyes on two empty thrones set on a stage and decides she no longer dreams of becoming a marketing executive, she wants to be Queen.
Empowered by her new found...
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Soy Matt Easton, el niño mimado de la industria del séptimo arte, pero si quiero seguir en la cima, tengo que borrar la imagen de playboy que he proyectado durante los últimos años. No puedo acaparar más portadas con mis excesos, ni asistir a más fiestas, y, por supuesto, nada de rollos de una noche.
Como mi próximo rodaje va a tener lugar en la costa de Maine, y estoy decidido a no meterme en líos, he alquilado una idílica cabaña frente...
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