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Astronauts in trouble

2003
The world's richest man decides to mount an expedition to the moon and claim it as his personal property, and he takes Channel Seven News along to record the events.

The truth about diamonds

a novel
2006
Chloe Parker's high-society life of star-studded parties, publicity, and drugs takes an unexpected turn when her long-lost birth father suddenly shows up.

Bailout

How washington abandoned main street while rescuing wall street
The author describes his role as the special inspector general in charge of overseeing the spending of the $700 billion TARP bailout in 2008, and discusses the fraud, corruption, and hostility that he witnessed from Treasury and bank officials. Argues that the bailout sacrificed the average citizen to save Wall Street.

The girl who had everything

2004
Alexandra Shaw, the daughter of a very wealthy man, has turned to her bodyguard Jerrilyn for friendship, believing her fellow students are just interested in her money, and is shocked and disappointed when Jerrilyn betrays her.

Little Little

1991
The shenanigans of two dwarfs as they compete for the heart of Little Little, a dwarf heiress who's tired of being treated like a pretty doll.

Pink innocent

2010
Sixteen-year-old Kokona's inability to get a grip on reality extends to her choice of a boyfriend, Renji, who is more interested in computers than girls.

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.

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