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[2019]
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"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...
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Appears on list
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Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he claims...
5) The 6:20 man
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6:20 man novels volume 1
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Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling...
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Garrett Kohl volume 2
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"DEA Special Agent Garrett Kohl must rescue a CIA officer after she has been kidnapped in Texas by a brutal band of mercenaries in this pulse-pounding thriller for fans of C. J. Box"--
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2021.
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In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty...
8) Rock bottom
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Sisterhood series volume 35
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Isabelle "Izzy" Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project--an indoor/outdoor café that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzy knows just where to go to get the project off the ground: her old college classmate, Zoe Danfield, now vice president of a huge construction corporation. But the Zoe that Izzy reencounters doesn't seem like her old, confident friend. This Zoe is tense and stressed, and Izzy eventually learns why. Buildings...
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Caleb York novels volume 1
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When a corrupt sheriff tries to take George Cullen's daughter as his bride and force him to sell his ranch, Cullen refuses to go down without a fight and hires the West's toughest gunslinger to destroy his enemy.
10) Join the team!
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Sunny Day and her friends enjoy a day playing soccer, but Lacey, determined to win at any cost, decides to cheat to get her way.
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Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
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x, 322 pages ; 24 cm
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Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.
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[2022]
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From the New York Times's Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers comes a long-overdue exposae of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms, following the narrative arc of Jones Day, the firm that represented the Trump campaign and much of the Fortune 500, as a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the legal industry in recent decades.
13) Mortal bonds
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Jason Stafford novels volume 2
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
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342 pages ; 24 cm.
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Hired by the family of a disgraced investment banker who died in prison amid financial scandals, Jason Stafford races against time to find a fortune in missing funds only to see the people he contacts suffer suspicious and deadly accidents.
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Jay Porter novels volume 1
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
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430 p. ; 24 cm.
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In the tradition of Greg Iles and Dennis Lehane comes a powerful new voice in American fiction. Locke's debut thriller involves murder, greed, and redemption, set in the oil boomtown of 1980s Houston.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
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x, 285 pages ; 24 cm
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"While the world watched Donald Trump's presidency in horror or delight, few noticed that his lifelong grifting quietly continued. Less than forty minutes after taking the oath of office, Trump began turning the White House into a money machine for himself, his family, and his courtiers. More than $1.7 billion flowed into Donald Trump's bank accounts during his four years as president. Foreign governments rented out whole floors of his hotel five...
16) Reckless
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Ty Hauck novels volume 3
Pub. Date
c2010
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The shocking murder of a suburban family leads private security investigator Ty Hauck, with Naomi Blum, a tenacious agent from the U.S. Department of Treasury, to uncover a frightening global conspiracy. Unraveling evidence of a reckless banking scheme that stretches from New York to London to central Europe, they race to avert a disaster that could threaten the security of the United States.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
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ix, 416 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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A revelatory account based on the authors' unprecedented access to the NCAA's highest-level programs throughout the 2012 season describes its high-powered system of billion-dollar television deals, high-priced coaches, football "hostessing," castoff athlete-students and paid test takers.
18) The final twist
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Colter Shaw novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
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"Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: finding a missing courier bag containing evidence that will bring down a corporate espionage firm responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths"--
20) Signal
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Sam Dryden novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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"From the bestselling author of RUNNER comes the next thriller featuring Sam Dryden, in the series that has captured the imagination of readers worldwide. In the middle of the night, ex-Special Forces operative Sam Dryden gets a urgent call from an old colleague, desperate for his help in a last-minute secret mission. Without a moment's hesitation, Dryden agrees. The two race to a remote shack in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, where they break...
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