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162) Fallen angel
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"Amy Johnson's future had always been a given -- she would join her father's Seattle-based company and eventually take control. No one seemed to care that her heart wasn't in it -- that she was miserable. Until a stranger offered some good advice, a strong shoulder to lean on and heated kisses that only made her hungry for more. But then Josh Powell left for the other side of the world, refusing to make any commitment or any promises. He'd bitterly...
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Burning girl novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Kidnapped and raised by serial killers, Charlotte Rowe suffered an ordeal which made her infamous. Everyone in the world knew who she was, but no one in the world has any idea what she's become. Charlotte is an experiment and a weapon. Enabled by a superpower drug, she's partnered with a shadowy pharmaceutical company to hunt down and eliminate society's most depraved human predators. But her latest mission goes off the rails in a horrifying way....
164) Hunted: a novel
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c2003
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When big corporate coal strip-mining interests begin to take over a ranching town in southeastern Montana, all hell breaks loose. It seems the land is fighting back: vast sage flats erupt in fire, massive storms blast down from all directions, rattlesnakes strike from out of nowhere, and an extinct buffalo wolf is heard howling in the night. One man tries to hold back the tide of disaster caused by corporate greed: Joe Graves, a rancher whose family...
165) The future: a novel
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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 fathers fox and rabbit sermononce a parable to...
167) Nonprofit financial oversight: the concise and complete guide for boards and finance committees
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[2017]
170) Firebreak
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c2021.
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"New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side....
171) Longer than
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©1991.
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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?
172) Billy Strobe
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c2001
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Ambition and intelligence carry Billy Strobe to the top of his law school class and into a stock market scam gone south. After a stint at a high-security prison, he finally takes on the fight of his life: clearing the names of the two men he respects most. One is a soft-spoken lifer he befriended in jail, and the other is Billy's father, the best criminal defense lawyer in Oklahoma, until alcoholism, allegations of fraud, and a suicide on the eve...
177) Off with their heads: traitors, crooks & obstructionists in American politics, media, & business
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[2003]
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Are you appalled by the antiwar tone the news media has taken since the war on terror began -- especially "objective" news outlets like the New York Times and the network news? Are you wondering when liberal celebrities like Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, and Susan Sarandon suddenly became geopolitical oracles whose advice we're supposed to value above the wisdom of tenured experts? Are you at a loss to decide who has betrayed us more outrageously:...
178) The Corporation
Pub. Date
[2005]
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The Corporation charts the spectacular rise of the corporation as a dramatic, pervasive presence in our everyday lives. With a deft mix of humor, visual panache and seriousness, this documentary is a timely, entertaining critique of global conglomerates.
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[2015]
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"There is now proof that business and philanthropy form a powerful platform for positive change. Shari Arison has shown this through her leadership in over three decades of philanthropy and 15 years of running her own global business, the Arison Group. In her previous New York Times bestseller, Activate Your Goodness, Shari revealed the ways doing good enriches the lives of individuals and those around them. Now in her new book, The Doing Good Model,...
180) The Patriot's Club
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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Finally putting his difficult childhood behind him, Thomas Bolden is carving out a successful Wall Street career, until a bizarre kidnapping sends him on the run from a mysterious organization framing him for crimes he did not commit.