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1) The appeal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical...
2) Double take
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Wall Street hotshot Daryl Chase is framed for both financial wrongdoings and murder. He heads to Mexico after exchanging identities with fast-talking Freddie, who is either the key to his freedom or the engineer of his demise.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Enjoying life as a bond trader, Nick Farmer risks everything with nightlife pursuits and confronts ethical dilemmas in the face of dire predictions that explode with the financial meltdown and his wife's extramarital activities.
5) Wall Street
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious young Wall Street broker is lured into the illegal world of corporate espionage and insider trading as he pursues the favors of the powerful and wealthy financier, Gordon Gekko.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. A chance encounter with Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults twenty-five-year-old Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into a year-long journey in the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow....
7) Saving Jason
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Jason Stafford used to be a hot Wall Street trader, went too far, and paid for it in prison. Now a financial investigator, he's been asked to look into rumors of a hostile takeover of his firm, but he has no idea it will turn his whole life upside down. Suddenly embroiled in a grand jury investigation of Mob-related activities on Wall Street, and threatened by some very serious men, he is thrust into witness protection with his young autistic son....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A provocative new novel by bestselling author Randy Susan Meyers about the seemingly blind love of a wife for her husband as he conquers Wall Street, and her extraordinary, perhaps foolish, loyalty during his precipitous fall. Phoebe recognizes fire in Jake Pierce's belly from the moment they meet as teenagers. As he creates a financial dynasty, she trusts him without hesitation--unaware his hunger for success hides a dark talent for deception. When...
10) The penny jumper
Author
Publisher
Nightstand Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
James Grippando ventures into the world of astrophysics, high-stakes trading and the algorithms that up the game with The Penny Jumper, a thriller about a young scientist lured to Wall Street by the promise of a pay-day that will offset her student loans and jump start her life.
12) Need you now
Author
Series
Andie Henning novel volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Abe Cushman, the evil genius behind a $60 billion Ponzi scheme, has killed himself and taken his secrets to the grave. A young financial advisor and his girlfriend uncover a conspiracy that reaches from Wall Street deep into the halls of government. With nowhere to turn and no one to trust, Patrick and Lilly must uncover the truth before they become collateral damage in a "financial war" in which casualties are no longer measured in dollars and cents....
13) Long way down
Author
Series
Jason Stafford novel volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Working as a financial investigator after two years in federal prison, Jason Stafford looks into a biofuel engineer's claims about being set up by dangerous adversaries.
14) Kapitoil
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Story of a young mathematician from Qatar who goes to New York and creates a computer program that predicts oil futures and reaps record profits for his company.
15) The protege
Author
Language
English
Description
Having survived his rise to Chairman of Everest Capital, the world's largest private equity firm, and the ferocious attempts on his life that ensued, Christian Gillette finally seems safely perched atop the financial industry. David Wright, a young ambitious deal maker, reminds Gillette of himself just a few years back, and he's drawn to the thought of teaching him the ups and downs of the industry. But everything comes to a screeching halt when a...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese directs the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort. From the American dream to corporate greed, Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption in the late '80s. Excess success and affluence in his early twenties as founder of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont warranted Belfort the title 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'
19) The power broker
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Christian Gillette is confronted by a difficult choice when a mysterious organization sets out to gain a partnership in his company, Everest Capital, and charismatic politician Jesse Wood asks him to be his running mate in his candidacy for president.
Author
Language
English
Description
New York, 1920. The streets of Manhattan teem with seething resentments and inarticulate passions. Wall Street explodes-- literally. It is the most destructive and deadly terrorist attack ever committed on US soil. Three people caught in the blast are led on a harrowing journey from Paris to Prague, unraveling secrets and the shocking truth behind the terror in Wall Street.