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Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Responding to a domestic disturbance call on the Ojibwe reservation, Tamarack County sheriff Cork O'Connor barely escapes a sniper attack and stumbles into the investigation of a Chicago businessman's murder.
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Back Bay paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
This book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have pioneered an industry that literally transformed the entire world. The passion, luck and genius of these quirky visionaries is presented in this portrayal of the fierce and often humorous battle to rule the fledgling personal computer empire.
64) Burn rate
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder that nearly cost him everything in this gripping, radically honest memoir of mental illness and entrepreneurship. At twenty-eight, fresh from Stanford's MBA program and steeped in the move-fast-and-break-things ethos of Silicon Valley, Andy Dunn was on top of the world. He was building a new kind of startup-a digitally native, direct-to-consumer brand-out...
66) Ocean's thirteen
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Full screen ed.
Language
English
Description
When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel with known casino owner Willy Banks in Las Vegas, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal by the loathsome Banks. Banks' even goes so far as to finding amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won't stand for Banks and what he's done to a friend. Uniting...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young widow and an engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love. In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial...
Author
Series
Would-be wallflowers volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Miss Cleopatra Lewis is about to be launched in society by her aristocratic grandfather. But since she has no intention of marrying, she visits a costume emporium specifically to order unflattering dresses guaranteed to put off any prospective suitors. Powerful and charismatic Jacob Astor Addison is in London, acquiring businesses to add to his theatrical holdings in America—as well as buying an emerald for a young lady back in Boston. He's furious...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the inspiring life and career of the late founder of Apple, covering topics ranging from his struggles as an adopted child and a college dropout to his Buddhist faith and friendship with Steve Wozniak, in a portrait framed around his inspirational Stanford University commencement speech.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Original UK edition.
Language
English
Description
Itb2ss 1919, WWI has just ended, and Harry Selfridge is struggling with loss. After the death of his beloved Rose, he is making costly business mistakes. His empire is weakened, and he is vulnerable to his old enemy Lord Loxley.
74) Pretty woman
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
15th anniversary special ed.
Language
English
Description
A corporate raider pays a gorgeous hooker to be his escort for a business week in Beverly Hills ... and then falls for her.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When talented journalist Penelope "Casey" Harrison starts to research a piece about the #MeToo movement that includes an incident in her own life which she has been trying to put out of her mind for years, she does not realize that the young man who drugged and assaulted her at a fraternity house party in college is now a wealthy, powerful industrialist on the eve of a merger which will make him a billionaire--and who will do anything, even murder,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on. Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From acclaimed journalist Walter Shapiro, the true life story of how his great-uncle--a Jewish vaudeville impresario and exuberant con man--managed to cheat Hitler's agents in the run-up to WWII. Vaudeville manager, boxing promoter, stock swindler, cardshark and self-proclaimed 'Jade King of China,' Freeman Bernstein was a master of exuberant excess and no stranger to the hard-hand of the law. But the charges he was arrested for on the evening of...
79) Tell me no lies
Author
Series
Lady Dunbridge mystery volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miss Fisher meets Downton Abbey in Tell Me No Lies, part of the critically acclaimed Lady Dunbridge Mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble.
Rise and shine, Countess, you're about to have a visitor.
Lady Dunbridge was not about to let a little thing like the death of her husband ruin her social life. She's come to New York City, ready to take the dazzling world of Gilded
80) Action collection: the 4 movie action collection : Arena ; Cleaner ; Lakeview terrace ; Unthinkable
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Lakeview Terrace: A young interracial couple moves into their dream home and is increasingly harassed by their next-door neighbor, a tightly wound, black LAPD officer. When the couple decides to fight back the feud turns deadly.
Unthinkable: It's a race against time when an interrogation specialist and a C.I.A. agent battle wits with a suspected terrorist who's planted three nuclear devices set to explode if his demands are not met.
Cleaner: Tom...
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