stockbrokers

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The Sunday philosophy club

2005
After witnessing a man kill himself off the Edinburgh concert hall, Isabel Dalhousie becomes determined to figure out why. Isabel ignores warnings from her housekeeper and her niece not to get involved and begins investigating his death. At the same time, she works to end the increasingly serious relationship between her niece and a man she does not approve of.

The bonfire of the vanities

1987
Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan, becomes involved in a freak accident, and prosecutors, politicians, press, police, clergy, and assorted hustlers close in on him.

The pursuit of happyness

2007
Dramatizes the struggle of Chris Gardner, a San Francisco salesman and single father who endured homelessness and hardship while trying to win a spot in a competitive stockbroker training program and turn that experience into a career--all the while caring for his young son.

The pursuit of happyness

2006
Chris Gardner shares the story of his life, focusing on the time he spent as a homeless single father, trying to care for his young son while at the same time building a career as a stockbroker, and discusses some of the many people who helped him on the road to his enormous success.

Changing the rules

adventures of a Wall Street maverick
2002
Mickie Siebert discusses how she became the only woman to head a publicly traded national brokerage firm and shares the secrets to her success.

Buffett

the making of an American capitalist
2001
Inside account of the life and career of Warren Buffett, and the unique qualities and abilities which enabled him to amass a fortune in excess of ten billion.

Freedom

a novel
2010
In this sequel to "Daemon," Daemon is close to controlling the world and civil war erupts in the American Midwest. Pete Sebeck, Daemon operative, leads a group of people in a populist attempt to protect the new world order. NSA agent Natalie Philips, hacker Jon Ross, and darknet master Loki are caught up in democracy's last stand.

Warren Buffett

2008
A brief biography of investment mogul, Warren Buffett, that profiles his childhood and introduction to business, his education, and lifetime achievements.

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