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"A grand, brilliantly written work of American history We think we know the story of American religion: the Puritans were cold, austere, and pious, and Christianity continued pure and uncorrupted until the industrial revolution got in the way. InThe Money Cult, Chris Lehmann argues that we have it backwards: capitalism has always been entangled with religion, and so today's megapastors aren't an aberration--they're as American as Benjamin Franklin. The long-awaited first book by a hugely admired journalist,The Money Cult is a sweeping and accessible history that traces American Christianity from John Winthrop to the rise of the Mormon Church to the triumph of Joel Osteen"--.

In this continuation of a twist on Edgar Allen Poe's gothic short story, wealthy seventeen-year-old Araby Worth, betrayed and bereft, discovers that she will fight for her city and the people she loves, beginning at the prince's masked ball.

When her wealthy family loses everything, Lexi tries to clear her father's name by masterminding a bank heist, only to be surprised when another thief, one who was blackmailed by the Mexican mafia, steals her heart.

When her grandfather develops dementia, sixteen-year-old Tess, who has been keeping his Montana ranch going, is whisked away to Washington, D.C., by a sister she barely knows and thrown into a world of politics, power, wealth, love triangles, and family secrets.

Presents an introduction to financial literacy and the factors that affect a country's economy, such as natural resources, population, geography, climate, wealth, and more. Includes index, glossary, and discussion questions.

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.

Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.

Schuyler Van Alen, growing comfortable with her newfound vampire powers, seeks her grandfather in Italy, while back in New York plans are being completed for the fabulous Four Hundred Ball, to be followed by an elite, teens-only event at which masks hide a terrible secret.

When his invention of a computer application makes twelve-year-old Benji Franklin rich and famous, the Society of Scientific Discovery calls on him for a solution to their problem--their cloned dinosaurs have escaped and they need to recapture them.

Twelve-year-old Benji Franklin's problem-solving skills are put to the test when he is asked to find a way to stop an asteroid that is headed right for Earth.