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2) Elon Musk
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"From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter"--
As a kid in South Africa, Musk was regularly beaten by bullies; he once was in the hospital for a week after...
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Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail.
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I've lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It has been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents are coming, I've lost it. The very same day! Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive! Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her "happily ever after" begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her...
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326 pages ; 24 cm
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A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
"The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge...
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1 videodisc (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, The Four Horsemen resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry, a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet.
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363 pages ; 24 cm
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"Charlie Finn had to grow up fast, living alone by age sixteen. Highly intelligent, he earned a life-changing scholarship to Harvard, where he learned how to survive and thrive on the outskirts of privileged society. That skill served him well in the cutthroat business world, as it does in more lucrative but dangerous ventures he now operates off the coast of Miami. Charlie tries to separate relationships from work. But when his choices produce devastating...
9) Ubik
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227 pages ; 21 cm
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The employees of an agency dedicated to blocking telepathic spying begin receiving messages from their supposedly dead boss, Glen Runciter, while reality seems to slip into the past.
10) Cut me in
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237 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert a whole lot, not the men he ruthlessly did business with, not the women who discovered his other lovers, not even his partner in the Gilbert and Blake literary agency - me. But when I found him shot to death on the floor of his office, I had no choice. I had to track down the person responsible. And not just to lay Del to rest, either. Next to his body, the office safe was wide open, and a contract worth millions was...
11) The hike
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278 pages ; 24 cm
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When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania, he decides to spend the afternoon before his dinner meeting on a short hike. Once he sets out into the woods behind his hotel, he quickly comes to realize that the path he has chosen cannot be given up easily. With no choice but to move forward, Ben finds himself falling deeper and deeper into a world of man-eating giants, bizarre demons, and colossal insects.
12) Babbitt
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Describes the life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor, reflecting an image of middle-class America.
13) Locke
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1 videodisc (approximately 84 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A feat of bold, dynamic storytelling from Oscar-nominated writer-director Steven Knight. A successful businessman receives a series of phone calls which sets into motion a chain of events that unravels his perfect life, all of which takes the course of one absolutely riveting and intense car ride.
14) Evil, Inc
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Ken Olson thought he had it all-a loving wife, a beautiful baby, and a career on the fast track. But soon, after his big promotion, his whole world is shattered by a monstrous crime. A crime committed by the CEO of his own company. A crime his company will cover up at any cost.
Stripped of everything but his passion to bring the CEO to justice, Olson uncovers the dark and dangerous world behind the corporate jets and executive mansions-the private...
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"After a turbulent childhood, the Morgan brothers went their separate ways, leaving the family cattle ranch and their cowboy days far behind. But now, one by one, they're being called back home to California. Have they been summoned to save the land-- or to start a new legacy?"--Back cover.
16) Camino al placer
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366 pages ; 22 cm.
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Si perseveras, todas las fantasías tarde o temprano se hacen realidad. Pero Natalia, una apasionada lectora de novelas románticas y escritora oculta, no lo cree así. Reparte sus días entre enseñar Literatura, seguir atada al pasado y atender con agobio los reclamos de su madre. No sabe ni imagina siquiera que un extraño puede cambiar su vida. Entre la multitud que invade las calles de Quilmes y la intimidad de un bar, está Julián, un empresario...
17) After a fashion
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"In 1882, Miss Harriet Peabody is a shop girl with high hopes in New York City, but her love of fashion isn't enough to smooth her launch into fashionable society on the arm of businessman Mr. Oliver Addleshaw, especially in light of their unusual arrangement"--
20) The River House
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343 pages ; 17 cm.
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After a brief but failed attempt at a career as a financial analyst, Felicity returns to Knights Bridge. Her life gets a shake-up when her childhood friend Gabriel Flanagan returns to their tiny hometown, and they soon realize their reunion is stirring up long-buried emotions.
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