avarice

"Mouse and Chipmunk covet the same nut"--.

"Mouse and Chipmunk covet the same nut"--.

"No one loves Christmas more than Pig. And the world's greediest pug will stay up all night to get his presents! When Pig yips at Santa and finds himself joining in on the flying sleigh ride, things quickly get out of hand in a way that is pure Pig pandemonium"--Back cover.

Greedy Henry Shortbull wants to have everything in the whole world, but when he swallows the sun one day, he realizes that he has gone too far.

Traces Anthony and Gloria Patch, a spoiled couple, through various romantic pursuits which leave them after six years of marriage with Anthony a mental and physical wreck and Gloria's beauty waning.

When three teenagers hear that the meteor they saw fall from the sky might be valuable, they each sneak back separately to grab a chunk, but this meteor is oozing with something else, and as they fight over a piece something terrible happens, and what is left of them afterward ends up in Professor Igor's lab.

Traveling to the mountains of 1929 North Carolina to forge a timber business with her new husband, Serena Pemberton champions her mastery of harsh natural and working conditions but turns murderous when she learns she cannot bear children.

A cumulative rhyme in which a greedy parrot keeps taking fruit from the other creatures of the rainforest until his beak can hold no more.

Provides a comprehensive examination of financial fraud including such as AIG, Goldman Sachs, Enron, and twentieth century Ponzi schemes.

Prairie dogs learn about greed and the value of community after a fuzzy green ball suddenly drops into their underground world.