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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry--and what to do about it. There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, and EY stunts innovation,...
2) Chances are
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Public-relations expert Liz Jerome treated all her clients with professional detachment. But her new client, sexy Donovan Grant, just wasn't having any. Instead he caught her off guard with his subtle come-ons and his humorous teasing. But being his playmate was not on Liz's agenda. She was determined to block his every move, to resist the sweet confusion he aroused in her. Then he kissed her, and the unexpected fire of his loving crumbled her defences....
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two men. One night. The police captain on the island of Puerto Rico interviews a prominent tax attorney and old friend-- the witness to one of a shocking series of brutal crimes. But what begins as a cooperative conversation between peers descends into a night of intense interrogation between fierce adversaries. A hidden past. A secret life. Witness or suspect? Guilty or innocent?
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Relief pitcher/private investigator Johnny Adcock doesn't have an office; he has the bullpen. That's where he sits shelling sunflower seeds when in walks a femme-fatale blonde claiming to be a TV reporter. She is Tiff Tate, the highly-paid stylist responsible for half the looks in Major League Baseball, from Brian Wilson's beard to Big Papi's gold ropes. Tiff has a problem. Yonel Ruiz-the rookie phenom who infamously escaped from Cuba by surviving...
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 237 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Called "a world-class power broker" by the Washington Post, Robert Brown has been a sought-after counselor for an impressive array of the famous and powerful, including every American president since John F. Kennedy. But as a child born into poverty in the 1930s, Robert was raised by his grandmother to think differently about success. For example, "The best way to influence others is to be helpful," she told him. And, "You cant go wrong by doing right."...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist "Calamity" Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 384 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"From the New York Times-bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy-explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlining what can be done to fix it."--Amazon.com.
11) Zero days
Author
Description
"Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To addto her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect--her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer...
12) Out of nowhere
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Brought together by a mass shooting at a Texas county fair, children's book author and single mother Elle Portman and high-rolling corporate consultant Calder Hudson, both fueled by revenge, search for a killer while wondering if the attraction growing between them is too painful and complicated to sustain.
13) Vanished
Author
Series
Nick Heller novels volume 1
Formats
Description
Lauren Heller and her husband Roger, a brilliant executive at a major corporation, are attacked in a Georgetown parking lot after an evening out. Knocked unconscious by the assailants, Lauren lies in a coma in the hospital while her husband has vanished without a trace. With nowhere else to turn, Lauren's teenage son Gabe reaches out to his uncle, Nick Heller, a high-powered investigator with a corporate intelligence firm in Washington, D.C. Having...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 18.6 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vietnam veteran turned private investigator Thomas Magnum works as head of security on the luxurious Hawaiian estate of wealthy, but absentee owner Robin Masters. With the mansion and its amenities - including a 308 GTS Ferrari - at his disposal, Magnum investigates his cases while clashing with the estates strict caretaker, Jonathan Higgins, an ex-British Army soldier.
16) The confidante: the untold story of the woman who helped win World War II and shape modern America
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
As Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s special envoy to Europe in World War II Anna Rosenberg went where the president couldn’t go. She was among the first Allied women to enter a liberated concentration camp, and stood in the Eagle’s Nest, Hitler’s mountain retreat, days after its capture. She guided the direction of the G.I. Bill of Rights and the Manhattan Project. Though Anna Rosenberg emerged from modest immigrant beginnings, equipped with only...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
288 pages
Description
"A memoir from Valerie Biden Owens, Joe Biden's younger sister, trusted confidante and lifelong campaign manager. Valerie, one of the first female campaign managers in United States history, writes of the role of family, faith, and fate in shaping her life, and the power of empathy and kindness in the face of turmoil and division. Growing Up Biden details Valerie's decades-long professional career in politics, and the central role she played in her...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (4 hrs. 40 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Now that Kaan & Associates is back on top, their biggest mission is staying there. In the fifth and final season of House of Lies, the tight-knit, profit-seeking pod launches life-changing moves with some gamechanging tactics.
19) Buried secrets
Author
Series
Nick Heller novels volume 2
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.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 332 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In season four of this viciously funny take on high-stakes business, failure is not an option. Fresh from a stint in prison, brilliantly manipulative management consultant Marty Kaan is driven to rebuild his faltering firm. Nothing's going to distract him, even if that means booting his extremely pregnant off-and-on partner Jeannie.
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