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Saturn Apartments

2013
Sixteen-year-old Mitsu, a window-washer on the Ring System, a space colony in orbit around Earth, must decide if he should descend to the Earth in an experimental device to try to change the Ring System.

Saturn Apartments

2012
When sixteen-year-old Mitsu, a window-washer on the Ring System, a space colony in orbit around Earth, is asked to man an illegal craft headed for the planet's surface, he must decide between duty and obeying the law and taking the journey of a lifetime.

The divide

American injustice in the age of the wealth gap
2014
Discusses the widening wealth gap in the United States and how it is affecting the culture and quality of life.

The collected plays of Paul Rudnick

2010
Collects the comedies of playwright and humorist Paul Rudnick, including "I Hate Hamlet," a play about a struggling actor living in an apartment haunted by John Barrymore, and "Jeffrey," which takes a humorous look at gay life during the AIDS crisis.

El gran Gatsby

2009
Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, a dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.

The Reserve

a novel
2008
Beautiful heiress Vanessa Cole, the twenty-nine-year-old adopted daughter of a New York brain surgeon and his socialite wife, appears to have found the man of her dreams when she meets Jordan Groves, a mysterious artist who is the current darling of high society, and he is equally smitten until the death of her father and a secret from her past causes Vanessa's behavior to spiral out of control.

The rise of Silas Lapham

2002
Yankee Silas Lapham, a self-made millionaire, attempts to crash Boston's old-guard, aristocratic society.

Twelve

2002
A young drug dealer chronicles a week in the lives of several bored, rich Manhattan teens who entertain themselves with drugs and sex while their parents vacation overseas, which culminates in a brutally violent New Year's Eve party.

Rich boy

2010
After he rises from a working-class New York Jewish neighborhood in the 1970s to the highest circles of Manhattan society, Robert Vishniak sees his carefully crafted identity start to unravel after he bumps into a beautiful woman from the old neighborhood.

The privileges

a novel
2010
Becoming wealthier and more socially connected throughout their marriage, Adam and Cynthia Morey also find themselves increasingly subject to the temptations of excess and risky behavior while their children struggle with their own privilege-based challenges.

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