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The great Gatsby

The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.
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The great Gatsby

1998
The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.

Saturn Apartments

bk. 4
2011
Window washer Mitsu inadvertantly risks Kageyama's life while trying to save his coworker after Kageyama collapses on the job. In recovery, Kageyama discovers that his immune system has been compromised by exposure to UV rays and he must choose between his job and his health.
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The nanny diaries

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.
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The last Mrs. Parrish

a novel
2017
"Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and philanthropist--and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple straight out of a fairy tale. Amber's envy could eat her alive...if she didn't have a plan. Amber uses Daphne's compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family's life--the first step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her"--Provided by publisher.

The Dazzling heights

2017
Someone is watching every move of five teenagers who are keeping dangerous secrets in a world atop a high-tech luxury skyscraper in New York City one-hundred years into the future. Someone with thoughts of revenge.

Born on third base

a one percenter makes the case for tackling inequality, bringing wealth home, and committing to the common good
As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor?all while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further from the poor and working class. On the other side, those who find it increasingly difficult to keep up or get ahead lash out?waging a rhetorical war against the rich and letting anger and resentment, however justifiable, keep us from seeing new potential solutions.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2009
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattoed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age -- and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness -- assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, an astonishing corruption at the highest ecehelon of Swedish industrialism -- and a surprising connection between themselves.

Great lives from history

the incredibly wealthy
2011
Contains 445 critical essays on the lives and achievements of incredibly wealthy men and women from around the world, providing information on their early lives, first ventures, mature wealth, and legacies and featuring sidebars and photographs.

The thousandth floor

2016
Five teens struggle to find their footing in the world atop high-tech luxury in New York City one-hundred years into the future.

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