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1) Rock bottom
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Series
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...
Author
Series
Dez Limerick novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Desmond Aloysius Limerick ("Dez" to his friends and close personal enemies) is a man with a shadowy past, certain useful hard-won skills, and, if one digs deep enough, a reputation as a good man to have at your back. Now retired from his previous life, Dez is just a bloke with a winning smile, a bass guitar, and bullet wounds that paint a road map of past lives. Jaleh Swann, a business journalist hot on the trail of an auditor who was mugged and killed,...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 388 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Abuse and exploitation of workers is baked into the very foundations of the entertainment industry. To break the cycle and make change that sticks, it’s important to stop looking at headline-making stories as individual events. Instead, one must look closely at the bigger picture, to see how abusers are created, fed, rewarded, allowed to persist, and, with the right tools, how they can be excised. In Burn It Down, veteran reporter Maureen Ryan does...
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"Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service "to investigate historical over-reaching." Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so. But MI5's formidable...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Description
"In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, after Sid became a star at Columbia and then led...
6) El imperio del dolor: la historia secreta de la dinastaia que reinao en la industria farmacaeutica
Author
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
686 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Presents a portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, who built their fortune on the sale of Valium and later sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xx, 263 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age, and though she was confronted with serious challenges including the death of her father and struggles with disordered eating, her prospects were bright. She won high school cross country championships in Minnesota, NCAA track and field championships at the University of Colorado, and when she graduated from college, Nike offered her a sponsorship deal. Alberto Salazar...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist"--
Author
Publisher
Rockport Publishers, an imprint of the Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
212 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
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"Alex must balance becoming a superhero tasked with defeating Kaiju, making it as a journalism student, and navigating life as a gay man in modern Europe. Nine years after a mysterious ecological disaster, journalism students Alex and Rosalia investigate the strange company that rebuilt their city and turned it into a vision of the future—that is, until Alex's world is turned upside down by a chance encounter with a gigantic monster from another...
Author
Publisher
Forum Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxv, 252 pages ; 25 cm
Description
The inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless-and how we can fight back-from the acclaimed author of The Unbroken Thread. Over the past two generations, U.S. leaders deregulated big business on the faith that it would yield a better economy and a freer society. But the opposite happened. Americans lost stable, well-paying jobs, Wall Street dominated industry...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 467 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
As witnesses were mysteriously murdered and the FBI, NSA, CIA and even the IRS were on the warpath in 1975, a senator named Frank Church stood almost alone in the face of extraordinary abuses of power.
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 384 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"After the demise of the Soviet Union, the newly-established Russian government privatized its industry by issuing vouchers to all of its citizens, allowing them the chance to be shareholders in the country’s burgeoning businesses. The slips are distributed among the population and auctions are arranged where they can be exchanged for actual shares. For the country’s rural populations living in abject poverty, the vouchers appear to be little...
14) Chasing Madoff
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Tells the story of Harry Markopolos, a whistleblower of the monumental Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, describing his discovery of the investment banker's crimes, as well as his repeated warnings to the Securities and Exchange Commision that went unheeded.
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 408 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
agosto de 2022.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Cuando la minera canadiense Inuit Mining Corporation descubre uno de los yacimientos de litio más grandes del mundo en una pequeña localidad de Sonora, Ana Ochoa y otros pobladores serán presionados para vender sus tierras a precios irrisorios. Con la complicidad de autoridades locales y la participación del narcotráfico, los empresarios canadienses harán todo lo que sea necesario para conseguir el control del llamado oro blanco. Este brutal...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When Mina Lee woke up on Saturday morning for SAT prep, she did NOT expect to : 1. Nearly be fried by a superhero who turned out to be a supervillain ; 2. Come face to face with Jin, the handsome boy of her dreams ; 3. Discover a conspiracy involving an evil corporation that she made up. And it's all happening in her fictional webcomic world. Mina is trapped in the story she created. Now it's up to her to save everyone. Even if it means losing Jin...
18) Verdad o reto
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
noviembre de 2023.
Physical Desc
124 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Cuatro amigos. Última noche del año. Los adolescentes Liv, Martina, Max y Anton, amigos desde la infancia, están ansiosos por celebrar esta Nochevieja juntos divirtiéndose, bebiendo y coqueteando, mientras espían a sus padres en la casa de al lado. Cuatro secretos. Hay que arriesgarse y transgredir las reglas. Cuando empiezan a jugar, primero al Monopoly, después a «verdad o reto», la fiesta sube de tono. No tardarán en descubrir que detrás...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
septiembre de 2023.
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"La noticia de una tragedia hace añicos la tranquila vida de Gil como profesor de Escritura Creativa en un pequeño pueblo de Vermont. Su hermana y su cuñado han muerto en un violento accidente de tráfico y él se ve obligado a adoptar a su sobrino Matthew, un joven en apariencia encantador y dulce, aunque no parece estar afectar por la muerte de sus padres. Lo que en un inicio es un acto de amor, pronto se convertirá en la peor pesadilla para...
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