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Forest Ave. Library - Social Science - Adult
320.52 M
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320.52 M
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
320.52 M
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320.52 M
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Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? --Publisher.
2) we that are young
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Straub, E.
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Straub, E.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Straub, E.
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Straub, E.
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North Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Straub, E.
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Straub, E.
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For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course...
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Hewitt, A.
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B Hewitt, A.
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North Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Hewitt, A.
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B Hewitt, A.
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At the turn of the twentieth century, American women began to reject Victorian propriety in favor of passion and livelihood outside the home. This alarmed authorities, who feared certain "over-sexed" women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects. Set against this backdrop, The Unfit Heiress chronicles the fight for inheritance, both genetic and monetary, between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her mother Maryon. In 1934,...
5) Age of vice
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Central Library - Fiction - Adult
Kapoor, D.
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Kapoor, D.
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Kapoor, D.
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Kapoor, D.
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Kapoor, D.
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Kapoor, D.
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - New Books
Kapoor, D.
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Kapoor, D.
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New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb, and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic action-packed story...
6) Trust
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Diaz, H.
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Diaz, H.
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South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Díaz, H.
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Díaz, H.
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"An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Ausubel, R.
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Ausubel, R.
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"From the award-winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us, an imaginative novel about a wealthy New England family in the 1960s and '70s that suddenly loses its fortune--and its bearings. Labor Day, 1976, Martha's Vineyard. Summering at the family beach house along this moneyed coast of New England, Fern and Edgar--married with three children--are happily preparing for a family birthday celebration when they learn that the unimaginable has...
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Rieger, S.
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Rieger, S.
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Six months after Rupert Falkes dies, leaving a grieving widow and five adult sons, an unknown woman sues his estate, claiming she had two sons by him. The Falkes brothers are pitched into turmoil, at once missing their father and feeling betrayed by him. In disconcerting contrast, their mother, Eleanor, is cool and calm, showing preternatural composure.
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Paul Ross accepts a job working on the legal team for his billionaire father-in-law's hedge fund and must determine where his loyalties lie when a scandal and a regulatory investigation threaten the family business.
10) The nest
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Sweeney, C.
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Sweeney, C.
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East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Sweeney, C.
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Sweeney, C.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Sweeney, C.
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Sweeney, C.
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Sweeney, C.
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Sweeney, C.
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Franklin Ave. Library - Audiobooks
Sweeney, C.
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Sweeney, C.
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South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Sweeney, C.
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Sweeney, C.
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Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old...
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Chang, J.
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Chang, J.
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South Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Chang, J.
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Chang, J.
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Chang, J.
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Chang, J.
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"A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent--and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together. Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go...
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"The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who first broke the news In 2016, the fate of Paramount-the entertainment conglomerate that includes Viacom, CBS, and Simon Schuster-hung precariously in the balance....