The book is an expose of high-frequency trading (HFT) on Wall Street, detailing how a small group of outsiders discovered that the stock market was being rigged and set out to fix it.
The story follows up-and-coming photographer Kristin Ryder. Her life is turned upside down when she begins receiving anonymous and sinister emails that suggest the sender has an intimate knowledge of her past. As her life spirals out of control, she must discover the sender's identity before it's too late
Based on their Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting, Kristof and WuDunn examine the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. The book chronicles stories of extraordinary women who are fighting terrible circumstances, with the authors arguing that gender equality is the central human rights challenge of the 21st century.
Sulloway's central idea is that siblings develop different personality traits as they compete for parental attention in the "family niche". The strategies they use in this competition shape their long-term behavior.
Firstborns: The first to arrive, these children identify more strongly with their parents and authority. They are more likely to support the status quo, and exhibit traits like being conscientious, responsible, and ambitious.
Later-borns: These children must compete for attention in a different way, leading them to develop different strategies. They tend to be more rebellious, sociable, adventurous, and open to new experiences.
The Haj is a historical saga that follows a Palestinian Arab boy named Ishmael through the birth of Israel and the subsequent displacement and turmoil.
The novel takes readers from Cambridge to the desolate Suffolk coast, where Penrose uncovers a connection between the victims that dates back twenty-five years. As the body count rises and the stakes get higher, both Penrose and Tey must race to stop the killer before another person is attacked.
Golden Soak is a 1973 adventure and thriller novel by British author Hammond Innes, known for his well-researched adventure stories set in hostile and remote locations. The book follows a disgraced mining engineer to the arid expanses of Western Australia, where he becomes entangled in a dangerous web of greed, family secrets, and a long-lost mineral strike
 When two new murders occur in Halifax, the investigation draws Taggart and Welles to Lunenburg. They discover a connection to a brutal, unsolved murder that took place 30 years prior and uncover a dark secret within the seemingly picturesque town.Â
The story is set in contemporary Mumbai and explores the complex relationship between two women from different social classes: Sera Dubash, a Parsi housewife, and Bhima, her domestic servant
A Year of Life in China. The book is a memoir based on the year the South African writer Robert Berold spent teaching at a university in Hangzhou, China. It includes contributions from the author's students and touches on China's developing economy, its everyday life, and its respect for ancient texts
This is the towering story of two families struggling against the tide of history. Some, pushed beyond the threshold of despair, do not survive. The others must find their way back to a place of peace and forgiveness. Through anger, injustice and betrayal, the family discovers that there is a force stronger than war.
Klima's achievement lies in his humane understanding of moral confusions and his sympathetic rendering of them, and especially in his ability to question while avoiding the polemical. Irish Times
Winner of the Orange Prize. This novel is a captivating exploration of climate change, poverty, and human resilience set in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee.
Kowalski introduces Haley Bombauer (a.k.a Flash Jackson), a girl who is longing to burst out of the confines of her provincial upbringing. With compassion and humor, the novel tells of her emergence into a world that 'was not designed with girls in mind'.
EVEN Boston has its tender- loin districts. One of them slopes off the fringes of Beacon Hill and is known as Scollay Square. Scollay was a "liberty town" through World War II, and it is of this time in this place that Pearl Schiff writes in a first novel at once distin- guished for its brutal candor and reportorial skill.
Scollay Square is "a catchy tune with dirty lyrics," and among those singing it within the taverns, movies and penny arcades sprawling along its brightly lit course are derelicts, bookies, short-order cooks, bar- tenders, drunks, sailors and girls. Especially sailors and girls. Not all the liberties in- volved come free, of course, and sometimes the price is to be measured in heartaches and despair rather than money. But some of the temporary attach- ments of the square come to bloom. It is to Miss Schiff's credit that she sees the humani-ties as well as the nihilisms of her scene.
Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil nation, is on the brink of revolution. Inside the opulent palaces and lavish mansions, the royal family is ransacking the country's dwindling coffers while the desert kingdom seethes with unrest.
Published by Simon & Schuster on 19 October 1998, this contemporary romance follows Olivia Lewis as she navigates life following the tragic death of her husband, Robert. It is described by Luton Libraries as an unconventional and emotionally powerful love story
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Based on the remarkable true story of a woman who sacrificed everything - love, loyalty and maybe life itself - in a bid to save her world, The Shogun's Queen is epic, romantic historical fiction at its finest.
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