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"The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light. On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident,...
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The greenhouse effect has resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, and deadly pandemics. Visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D., has a master plan for reversing global warming. He brings together a disparate group of people from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming. Ultimately, they must face the question:...
4) The prisoner
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"Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the handsome billionaire Jed Hawthorne. But then, Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun...
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"When Michael Lewis 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? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer...
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Eric Shaw is hired by a woman to make a documentary film about her ninety-five-year-old, billionaire father-in-law whose past remains a mystery, but upon arrival to the man's hometown, Shaw discovers a once glamorous hotel recently restored with therapeutic hot springs and a great evil eager to regain its lost power.
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The secret to Galen Pallas's success is his laser-sharp focus. And young widow Roula Drakos is disruption personified! Most disruptive of all is their smoldering attraction--which he can't act on when he hires her as his temporary PA! Roula's worked hard to put her marriage behind her. Intimacy isn't something she ever wants again. Yet swept into her boss's glamorous world, she's never felt so safe or desired. Can this shy Cinderella be bold enough...
13) Q & A: a novel
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After winning India's biggest quiz show, Ram Mohammad Thomas is put in jail as authorities question how a poor orphan who has never gone to school could win such a contest.
14) NYPD Red 3
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When a billionaire's chauffeur is brutally murdered and his son is abducted, NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his ex-girlfriend partner, Kylie MacDonald, realize that their own lives are becoming more threatened as they get closer to solving the case.
15) The testament
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When Rachel Lane learns that she has inherited eleven billion dollars from her biological father, she wants nothing to do with the money, or her father's other children who insist that they be given the money they feel they deserve, even though the will states they are to get nothing.
16) The wild side
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"For Melanie Drake, school guidance counselor in a small Virginia town, the day's challenges typically involve a playground scuffle or a student skipping school. It's worlds away from her previous career as a vital part of the Office of Special Investigations. There, she devoted herself heart and soul to covert operations, the riskier the better. Since leaving, Melanie has cherished her peaceful, calm existence, with her two beloved retired service...
17) Encore in death
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"The homicide cop with a passion for justice returns in the captivating crime thriller series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who'd conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. And now Eve Dallas has made her entrance-but not as a guest. After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the floor and died, with physical symptoms pointing to cyanide,...
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"Jack Dana is a star history student at Yale with a bright career in academia ahead of him. But after 9/11 he feels it is his duty to change course. As a Marine infantry officer he is deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Severely wounded in combat, he begins writing a novel about his wartime experiences while surgeons at the Walter Reed Hospital patch up his pelvis. Jack then moves to Manhattan to live with his Uncle Harry, a partner in a leading New...
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[2021]
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x, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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To implement his most ambitious plan of all, a ruthless billionaire must get President Jack Ryan out of the way and assembles the most ruthless mercenaries alive to kidnap the First Lady.
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From a USA Today–bestselling author, a wealthy CEO discovers he has fathered a child with his former lover and demands she marry him for his son's sake.
Jake Marriot had always been clear about the terms of his relationships-no marriage, no babies. So when Ashleigh Forrester found out she was pregnant with his child, she ran!
But Jake's back. The billionaire has returned to convince Ashleigh that she belongs in his bed. But when he meets her...
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