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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Description
Sidney Archer, aided by FBI agent Lee Sawyer, searches for the truth about the disappearance of her husband Jason, a rising young executive with the world's leading technology conglomerate, who was supposed to be on an airplane that crashed, but apparently missed the flight and has not been seen since.
2) Cape Perdido
Author
Series
Soledad County novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
In Soledad County, California, four local residents struggle to save their community from the hostile plans of an out-of-state company.
Author
Series
Commonwealth saga volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Peter F. Hamilton's superbly imagined, cunningly plotted interstellar adventures are conceived on a staggeringly epic scale and filled with fully realized human and alien characters as complex as they are engaging. No mere world builder, Hamilton creates entire universes-and he does so with irresistible flair and intelligence. His previous novel, the acclaimed Pandora's Star, introduced the Intersolar Commonwealth, a star-spanning civilization of...
Author
Series
Unincorporated volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After the world's economic collapse, civilization requires the incorporation of every individual at birth. Most people spend most of their lives gaining control of the majority of their own shares. The arrival of a cryogenically preserved man from the 21st century?who's obviously unincorporated?creates a social anomaly.
10) Infomocracy
Author
Series
Centenal cycle volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line."--Front jacket flap.
11) System collapse
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 7
Publisher
Tordotcom/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...
Author
Series
Avery Keene thrillers volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together—excelling in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn—the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases—has slipped into a coma, Avery’s life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Language
English
Description
Paradise: When corporate raider Matthew Farrell targets a department store empire, he crosses paths with stunning blonde Meredith Bancroft -- and a once-in-a-lifetime passion and bittersweet memories are rekindled for each of them. Can Matt and Meredith believe in each other at last? Or will a hostile takeover shatter their tenuous trust? Tender triumph: Stunning Katie Connelly submerged her painful past in a fast-track career and men she could keep...
14) The capitol game
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In this exciting financial thriller, Jack Wiley, a partner and senior v-p at an elite Wall Street private equity firm, approaches the Capitol Group, a large privately held corporation, with a golden opportunity--to acquire the troubled Arvan Chemicals company. Arvan has invented a polymer coating that when painted onto combat vehicles makes them virtually impenetrable to firepower, a product that will be worth billions to the military. With Jack's...
15) Not in love
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A successful biotech engineer, Rue Siebert, when a hostile takeover and its front man, Eli Killgore, threaten to bring her stable, hard-fought world crashing down, is torn between loyalty and undeniable attraction when they embark on a forbidden, no-strings-attached affair that proves all’s fair in love and science.
16) The takeover
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A plot by Wall Street financiers to topple a liberal U.S. president by creating a crisis on world markets. The operation, which requires several murders, including that of the Federal Reserve chairman, is prompted by the president's proposal for a 90 per cent inheritance tax which the rich oppose.
17) Buried Secrets
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Joseph Finder introduced Nick Heller, a "private spy" who finds out things powerful people want to keep hidden, to widespread acclaim from the critics and wild enthusiasm from the readers, in the New York Times bestselling novel Vanished. Now, in Buried Secrets, Nick Heller returns, finding himself in the middle of a life-or-death situation that's both high-profile and intensely personal.Nick has returned to his old home town of Boston to set up his...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Montaro Caine, CEO of the Fitzer Corporation, is losing control of the company he built. At this moment of crisis, a man and woman appear at his office with a coin of unknown provenance, composed of a metal unknown on Earth. Montaro immediately recognizes it as the companion of a coin he analyzed as a graduate student working in a lab at MIT, which was later returned to its unidentified owner. But the value of the coin lies not in its monetary worth...
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Language
English
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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...
20) Longer than
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
©1991.
Language
English
Description
She'd never forget his face. Ten years ago local bad boy Ryder Hayes broke Jennifer Joyce's heart when he left Hazelhurst--and her. Now he's back--a dangerously seductive man powerful enough to decide the fate of the entire town. She may have been under his spell once, but Jennifer is determined not to let Ryder hurt her or family again. She's older, wiser, and, most important, she's learned from her past mistakes . . . hasn't she?