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Author
Series
Lazarus volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian near-future, government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and possession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as their protector, their Lazarus.
Author
Series
If only novels volume 6
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Holly Mathews lives at a retirement home for the super wealthy that her mother manages on expensive Mercer Island, but when she meets Malik Buchannan, grandson of one of the residents, she allows him to think that she just visiting, so he will accept her as belonging to his A-list world--it is just supposed to be a summer fling, but soon she finds herself falling in love.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
On her eighteenth birthday, spoiled party girl Lexington Larrabee learns that her days of making tabloid headlines may be at an end when her ever-absent father decides she must learn some values by working a different, low-wage job every week for a year or forfeit her multimillion-dollar trust fund.
Author
Series
(Jennifer Lynn).Inheritance games volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Ella viene de la nada. Avery tiene un plan: pasar desapercibida, trabajar duro para aspirar a un futuro mejor. Entonces un exc�entrico multimillonario fallece y le deja casi toda su fortuna. Y nadie, tampoco Avery, sabe por qu�e. Ellos lo ten�ian todo. Ahora tiene que mudarse a la mansi�on que ha heredado, que est�a llena de secretos y c�odigos, y en la que residen los parientes del fallecido: una familia dispuesta con el �unico objetivo...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Documents the era of global hyper-wealth through the stories of contemporary Brazil's colorful billionaires, tracing the rise and fall of Eike Batista and other Latin American tycoons and how their success has been shaped by politics, soccer, and violence.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this book Nate Kelly argues that rising concentrations of wealth creates a politics that makes reducing economic inequality more difficult. Kelly convincingly demonstrates that the concentration of economic resources in a small group leads to a concentration of economic and political power that in turn creates a self-perpetuating plutocracy or an "inequality trap." As economic resources become concentrated, those who control them engage in a variety...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"After her mother's death, penniless May Kimble lives a lonely life until an aunt she didn't know existed summons her to San Francisco. There she's welcomed into the wealthy Sullivan family and their social circle. Initially overwhelmed by the opulence of her new life, May soon senses that dark mysteries lurk in the shadows of the Sullivan mansion. Her glamorous cousin often disappears in the night. Her aunt wanders about in a laudanum fog. And a...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg isn't exactly looking forward to the summer before her senior year. She's just broken up with her first boyfriend and her friends are all off in different, exciting directions for the next three months. Abby needs a plan--an adventure of her own. Enter: the letters. They show up one rainy day along with the rest of Abby's recently deceased grandmother's possessions. And these aren't any old letters; they're love...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"The first half of Chris Hughes' life played like a movie reel right out of the American Dream. He grew up in a small town in North Carolina. His parents were people of modest means, but he was accepted into an elite boarding school and then Harvard, both on scholarship. There, he met Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz and became one of the co-founders of Facebook. In telling his story, Hughes demonstrates the powerful role fortune and luck play...
Author
Series
Billionaire Island volume 2
Publisher
Ahoy Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Billionaire Island, tax-free, unregulated hideaway of the richest people on Earth, is no more! Two years after its fall, the global economy lies in ruins and the President of the United States must resign in disgrace. But a cult has risen up around Business Dog, canine inheritor of what's left of Billionaire Island. Can this unlikely savior stop the world's descent into climate change? Where is B.D., anyway? And who's the man behind the dog? Series...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For decades, trillions of dollars in “smart money” has been making outsized returns using private equity, private credit, venture capital and other alternative investments. Robbins teams up with renowned private equity investor Christopher Zook, founder of CAZ Investments, to sit down with more than a dozen of the world’s greatest alternative investment managers, collectively managing over half a trillion dollars on behalf of investors"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Perenial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Meet Ramesh Kumar, "examinations consultat," who makes a lucrative living taking tests for the sons of India's elite. He is just a cog in the wheel that keeps the middle classes thriving, until he takes India's national university entrance exam for a lackluster student and inadvertently comes in first. Ramesh sees an opportunity--perhaps even an obligation--to cash in on the newfound celebrity of his client Rudi, who's soon juggling stardom and his...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Details an achievable, step-by-step path to become a millionaire within the next three years. Whatever is currently stopping you from having seven figures in the bank--whether it is doubt, feeling overwhelmed, imposter syndrome, trying too many things, or simply not knowing where to begin--this book advises ways to clear your obstacles. Rodgers--mother of four, attorney, business owner, and self-made Black millionaire--shares the lessons she's learned...
Author
Publisher
BiggerPockets Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Building wealth is always possible, even while working full-time, earning a median income, and paying off debt. By layering philosophy with practical knowledge, Set for Life gives young professionals an action plan to conquer their financial goals early in life."--Page [4] of cover.
215) Mummy darlings
Author
Series
Glorious Guinness girls volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"It's the dawn of the 1930s and the three privileged Guinness sisters, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh, settle into becoming wives and mothers: Aileen in Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin, Maureen in Clandeboye in Northern Ireland, and Oonagh in Rutland Place in London. But while Britain becomes increasingly politically polarized, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh discover conflict within their own marriages. Oonagh's dream of romantic love is countered by...
216) Rich dad poor dad
Author
Publisher
Plata Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
April of 2022 marks a 25-year milestone for the personal finance classic Rich Dad Poor Dad that still ranks as the #1 Personal Finance book of all time. And although 25 years have passed since Rich Dad Poor Dad was first published, readers will find that very little in the book itself has changed -- and for good reason. While so much in our world is changing a high speed, the lessons about money and the principles of Rich Dad Poor Dad haven't changed....
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Moving from coin flipping to real world investing, there's a large body of evidence suggesting that investors also do a poor job when it comes to sizing major financial decisions. One example is that in aggregate, individual investors severely under-perform market returns. Some of this underperformance comes from paying high fees, but much also arises from having too much or too little at risk, usually at just the wrong times. As Victor suggested...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The ultimate collection of books for life-changing wealth and success. It's time to stop living your life on the margins and claim the financial success you deserve. Essential Prosperity is a treasury of wisdom that will empower you to move from a life of want-defined by debt, fear, and missed possibilities-to one of true success. You have the power and potential to create the life of abundance you've always imagined and Essential Prosperity will...
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