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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:...
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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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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.
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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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Arkady Renko, Martin Cruz Smith's iconic sleuth returns with a case that epitomizes the New Russia. Pal Ivanov, powerful, vigorous, dangerous, and one of the nation's billionaire businessmen, has jumped to his death. When Renko is called in to investigate, he uncovers hidden demons and byzantine international plots that drove this oligarch to his death.
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Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nation's top sleep therapists, she specializes in the life-threatening night terrors that her ten-year-old son, Michael, suffers from. But she is also an expert in another kind of terror--the kind that can turn a dream life into a living nightmare.
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Simon & Schuster
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415 pages ; 24 cm
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"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 weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father’s fox and rabbit sermon—once a...
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It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end -- those booming times of market optimism when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age 28, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and...
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On the eve of wealthy philanthropist Cecil Wyatt's 80th birthday, all the money in the world won't bring back his grandson, William, who has been killed. As the family, police, and the media try to discover truth behind the young man's fate, all that's clear is that it involved foul play. After Kate Donovan tangles with William's half-brother, Mitchell, she finds herself cast in a shadow of guilt and mistrust. Now she must clear her name and claim...
12) The aviator
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Depicts the life of Howard Hughes - billionaire, industrialist, movie producer, inventor, aviator - and the love affairs, Hollywood stardom, corporate battles and brilliant aeronautical invention that defined him from the mid-1920s through the 1940s.
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