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Wealth management : a novel / by Zuckerman, Edward,author.;
"In the lush world-banking capital of Geneva, Switzerland, three friends from Harvard Business School find their lives and their work unexpectedly intertwined. Catherine and Majid are handling investments for clients with dubious pedigrees. When their friend Rafe shows up in Geneva, he claims to be just another start-up hedge fund manager. But Rafe, after a moral awakening, is now an undercover agent with the U.S. Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and he's in Geneva secretly investigating his old friends, one of whom was his former lover. Catherine and Rafe pick up right where they left off, even though she's now seeing Majid, but she's soon in a tangle bigger than infidelity when her biggest client appears to be leading her into a trap of money laundering co-conspiracy. And then there's Majid, who would be more jealous of Rafe if he didn't have more worrisome problems, such as his biggest client shorting a Nigerian oil company stock right before a catastrophic "accident." As the CIA closes in on the terrorists themselves, Rafe, with the help of Detective Emmanuel Okoro of the Nigerian police, works to find a way to save his friends and the world at the same time"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; United States. Board of Treasury; Hedge funds; Money laundering; Portfolio managers; Terrorism; Terrorists;
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30 minutes or less [videorecording] / by Ansari, Aziz,1983-; Cornfield, Stuart.; Diliberti, Michael.; Eisenberg, Jesse,1983-; Fleischer, Ruben.; Kramer, Jeremy.; McBride, Danny,1976-; Ransson, Ludwig G.; Stiller, Ben,1965-; Sullivan, Matthew.; Swardson, Nick.; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm);
Cinematographer, Jes Hall ; composer, Ludwig G. Ransson ; edited by Alan Baumgarten.Jesse Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson, Michael Pena, Fred Ward.Nick is a small town pizza delivery guy whose mundane life collides with the big plans of two wanna-be criminal masterminds. The volatile duo kidnaps Nick and forces him to rob a bank. With mere hours to pull off the impossible task, Nick enlists the help of his ex-best friend, Chet. As the clock ticks, the two must deal with the police, hired assassins, flamethrowers, and their own tumultuous relationship.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD; NTSC, region 1, Anamorphic widescreen presentation (2.40.1) aspect ratio, Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Bank robberies; Comedy films.; Criminal behavior; Feature films.; Kidnapping victims; Male friendship;
© c2011., Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment,
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Istanbul passage : a novel / by Kanon, Joseph.;
A gripping tale of an American undercover agent in 1945 Istanbul who descends into the murky cat-and-mouse world of compromise and betrayal that will come to define the entire post-war era. A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even American businessman Leon Bauer has been drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs and courier runs for the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up and an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of post-war life, he is given one more assignment, a routine job that goes fatally wrong, plunging him into a tangle of intrigue and moral confusion. Played out against the bazaars and mosques and faded mansions of this knowing, ancient Ottoman city, Leon's attempt to save one life leads to a desperate manhunt and a maze of shifting loyalties that threatens his own. How do you do the right thing when there are only bad choices to make? Istanbul Passage is the story of a man swept up in the aftermath of war, an unexpected love affair, and a city as deceptive as the calm surface waters of the Bosphorus that divides it.
Subjects: Spy stories.; Americans; Cold War; Intelligence agents;
© 2012., Atria Books,
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How to make love like an Englishman [videorecording] / by Alba, Jessica,1981-; Brosnan, Pierce.; Hayek, Salma,1968-; Vaughan, Tom,1969-; Videoville Showtime.;
Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba.By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity College in Cambridge. By night, Richard indulges his own romantic fantasies with a steady stream of beautiful undergraduates. But Richard has grown tired of the game and is looking for something more meaningful and lasting. So when Kate, Richard's tanned, athletic, 25-year-old American girlfriend tells him that she is pregnant, Richard is thrilled. He looks forward to having a family of his own, being a father his children could be proud of, not some sex-fueled bobcat. There is only one problem. Richard's not in love with Kate. Richard is in love with Kate's sister, Olivia. He had been in love with her ever since he first saw her.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Surround 5.1.
Subjects: College teachers; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Romantic comedy films.; Sisters; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);
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King of kings / by Smith, Wilbur A.,author.; Robertson, Imogen,1973-author.;
An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war that brings together two of Wilbur Smith's greatest families in this long-awaited sequel to his worldwide bestseller,The Triumph of the Sun. Cairo, 1888. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancée, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking. But when Penrod's jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him and travels to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder Courtney. On a mission to establish a silver mine, they make the dangerous journey to the new capital of Addis Ababa, where they are welcomed by Menelik, the King of Kings. But Italy has designs on Abyssinia, and there are rumours of a plan to invade. Back in Cairo, a devastated Penrod seeks oblivion in the city's opium dens. When he is rescued by his old friend, Lorenzo De Fonseca, now in the Italian army, and offered the chance to assess the situation around the Abyssinian border, Penrod leaps at the chance of action. With storm clouds gathering, and on opposing sides of the invasion, can Penrod and Amber find their way back to one another - against all the odds?
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; Sisters; Silver mines and mining; Adventure and adventurers;
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Dust / by Cornwell, Patricia Daniels.;
"After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination in the sea of red mud where the body has been left also reveals a bizarre residue that fluoresces blood red, emerald green and sapphire blue. Physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital Murderer. The cases all connect and yet seem to conflict. Gail Shipman was murdered for financial gain-or was she? It will require the usual ensemble of characters to find out the truth, including Scarpetta's sidekick Pete Marino, who has undergone a drastic change in his life that places him center stage in a Cambridge investigation that puts everyone at risk" --Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Forensic pathologists; Medical examiners (Law); Murder victims; Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character); Serial murders;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Ruination / by Reynolds, Anthony(Science fiction author),author.;
"Discover an epic tale of magic, revenge, and an empire on the verge of ruin in the first ever novel set in the blockbuster universe of League of Legends. Camavor is a brutal land with a bloody legacy. Where the empire's knights go, slaughter follows. Kalista seeks to change that. When her young and narcissistic uncle, Viego, becomes king, she vows to temper his destructive instincts, as his loyal confidant, advisor, and military general. But her plans are thwarted when an assassin's poisoned blade strikes Viego's wife, Isolde, afflicting her with a malady for which there is no cure. As Isolde's condition worsens, Viego descends into madness and grief, threatening to drag Camavor down with him. Kalista makes a desperate gambit to save the kingdom: she searches for the long lost Blessed Isles, rumored to hold the queen's salvation, if only Kalista can find them. But corruption grows in the Blessed Isles' capital, where a vengeful warden seeks to ensnare Kalista in his cruel machinations. She will be forced to choose between her loyalty to Viego and doing what she knows is right--for even in the face of utter darkness, one noble act can shine a light that saves the world."--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Epic fiction.; Novels.; League of legends (Video game); Adventure and adventurers; Imaginary places; Kings and rulers; Loyalty; Magic; Quests (Expeditions); Revenge;
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At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York / by Gopnik, Adam,author.;
"A vivid memoir that captures the energy, ambition, and romance of New York in the 80s from the beloved New Yorker writer, to stand alongside his bestselling Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife Martha Parker left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young and the arty and ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of greed, where both life's consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder. At the Stranger's Gate builds a portrait of this moment in New York through the story of their journey -- from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family. Gopnik transports us to their tiny basement room on the Upper East Side -- the smallest apartment in Manhattan -- and later to SoHo, where he captures a unicorn: an affordable New York loft. Between tender, laugh-out-loud reminiscences, including affectionate portraits of New York luminaries from Richard Avedon to Robert Hughes and Jeff Koons, Gopnik takes us into the corridors of Condé Nast, the galleries of MoMA and many places between to illuminate the fascinating world capital of creativity and aspiration that is New York, then and now"--
Subjects: Gopnik, Adam; Gopnik, Adam;
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Sing Street [videorecording] / by Carney, John,1972-film director.; Gillen, Aidan,1968-actor.; Kennedy, Maria Doyle,actor.; Reynor, Jack,1992-actor.; Walsh-Peelo, Ferdia,actor.; Bord Scannán na hÉireann.; Elevation Pictures.;
Ferdia Walsh-peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jack Reynor, Lucy Boynton, Kelly Thornton.See 1980s Dublin through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Conor, who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, uber-cool Raphina. With the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band's music videos. There's only one problem: he's not part of a band yet.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements including strong language and some bullying behavior, a suggestive image, drug material and teen smoking.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Musical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Rock music; Teenage boys; Man-woman relationships;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dust [sound recording] / by Cornwell, Patricia Daniels.; Reading, Kate.;
Read by Kate Reading."The new Kay Scarpetta novel . . . . After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination in the sea of red mud where the body has been left also reveals a bizarre residue that fluoresces blood red, emerald green and sapphire blue. Physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital Murderer. The cases all connect and yet seem to conflict. Gail Shipman was murdered for financial gain-or was she? It will require the usual ensemble of characters to find out the truth, including Scarpetta's sidekick Pete Marino, who has undergone a drastic change in his life that places him center stage in a Cambridge investigation that puts everyone at risk" -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Forensic pathologists; Medical examiners (Law); Murder victims; Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character); Serial murders;
© p2013., Penguin Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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