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Tycoons and entrepeneurs

1998
Alphabetical articles profile the life and work of notable business leaders and entrepreneurs from antiquity to the present, beginning with Ah Quin and concluding with Linus Yale. Includes the following: John Jacob Aster, William E. Boeing, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Colt, John Deere, George Eastman, Malcolm Forbes, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, David Geffen, J. Paul Getty, Armand Hammer, William Randolph Hearst, Henry John Heinz II, Milton Hershey, Howard Hughes, Steven Jobs, Will Keith Kellogg, Raymond Kroc, Cyrus McCormick, J.P. Morgan, Robert Murdock, Ross Perot, George Pullman, Cecil Rhodes, John David Rockefeller, Stephen Spielberg, John Stetson, Levi Strauss, John Studebaker, Donald Trump, Ted Turner, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sam Walton, Oliver Winchester, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Wozniak.

Road to riches

2006
Introduces a number of people who have made a fortune, including Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey, and Russell Simmons.

The girl with the dragon tattoo

2011
Forty years after the disappearance of a young scion to one of Sweden's wealthiest families, Mikael Blomkvist is hired to find out what he can. He teams up with Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old genius hacker, and together they discover evidence of inequity within the missing person's family, corruption throughout the higher-ups of Swedish industrialism, and an odd connection between one another.

Beach road

a novel
2006
Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy is hired to represent a high-profile triple-murder suspect, local star athlete Dante Halleyville; but the case becomes complicated by his client's popularity and a dangerous secret being protected by members of East Hampton's elite class.

The nanny diaries

a novel
2002
In order to pay her way through NYU, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of a wealthy family, where she soon realizes her real job responsibility is making sure the Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day.

Mansfield Park

2001
Miss Fanny Price, the poor relation of a wealthy family, possesses only natural goodness to aid her against a witty and lovely rival as they compete for the man they both love.

Rich dad, poor dad

what the rich teach their kids about money--that the poor and middle class do not!
2000
Learn to have money working for you, instead of the other way around.

After the fall

an illustrated novel
2012
An eccentric Upper East Side family loses all their money and their penthouse and seeks refuge in Central park, in a picture book for grown-ups.

Elliot Allagash

a novel
2010
Dubbed a cruel nickname for his plus-sized body, obedient eighth grader Seymour resigns himself to a lonely life before meeting an arrogant heir who uses his considerable resources to transform Seymour's image, with unexpected results.

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