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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

Guy Grand is an eccentric billionaire-the last of the big spenders-determined to create disorder in the material world and willing to spare no expense to do it.

The Magic Christian

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In Bittersweet, Danielle Steel has written a novel for our times, a story of choices and new beginnings. 
India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly maintained calendars: a merry-go-round of Little League, piano lessons, and Cape Cod summer vacations. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she married 17 years before. For India, this was the promise she made, the life she had chosen--not the award-winning career as a photojournalist she once had. It was a choice she had never truly regretted. Until she begins to regret it with all her heart. 
India couldn't pinpoint the exact moment. Perhaps it was the last time her agent called, begging her to take an assignment Doug insisted she turn down. Or perhaps it was when Doug told her he thought of her as a companion and someone to take care of their kids, and not much more. At that moment, the price of the sacrifices she'd made began to seem high. 
And then, she met Paul Ward. A Wall Street tycoon married to a bestselling author, Paul lived life on his own terms, traveling the world on his own yacht. India hadn't planned to become Paul's friend. Anything more was unthinkable. Yet talking to Paul was so easy. India could share her dreams with him, and offer comfort when Paul suffers a heartbreak of his own. And while Paul urges India to reclaim her career, Doug is adamantly against it, determined to keep her tied to the home. But with Paul's encouragement, India slowly, painfully, begins to break free, and find herself again. 
Rediscovering her creativity and her courage, India uses Paul like a beacon on the horizon, sharing intimate phoneconversations with a man half a world away, a man who never stops reminding her of all that is possible for her. India is changing, and nothing in her life will ever be the same again. Not her marriage. Not her friendship with Paul. And when India is presented with an irresistible opportunity, she makes a heart-wrenching decision, leaving a safe, familiar place-and the people she loves there-to move into the terror of the unknown. 
Bittersweet is her story, a story of freedom, of having dreams and making choices to find them. With unerring insight, Danielle Steel has created a moving portrait of a woman who dares to embark on a new adventure and the man who helps her get there. Her painful, exhilarating journey inspires us all.


Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arkansas

A Novel

In Bittersweet, Danielle Steel has written a novel for our times, a story of choices and new beginnings.

India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly maintained calendars: a merry-go-round of Little League, piano lessons, and Cape Cod summer vacations. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she married 17 years before. For India, this was the promise she made, the life she had chosen--not the award-winning career as a photojournalist she once had. It was a choice she had never truly regretted. Until she begins to regret it with all her heart.

India couldn't pinpoint the exact moment. Perhaps it was the last time her agent called, begging her to take an assignment Doug insisted she turn down. Or perhaps it was when Doug told her he thought of her as a companion and someone to take care of their kids, and not much more. At that moment, the price of the sacrifices she'd made began to seem high.

And then, she met Paul Ward. A Wall Street tycoon married to a bestselling author, Paul lived life on his own terms, traveling the world on his own yacht. India hadn't planned to become Paul's friend. Anything more was unthinkable. Yet talking to Paul was so easy. India could share her dreams with him, and offer comfort when Paul suffers a heartbreak of his own. And while Paul urges India to reclaim her career, Doug is adamantly against it, determined to keep her tied to the home. But with Paul's encouragement, India slowly, painfully, begins to break free, and find herself again.

Rediscovering her creativity and her courage, India uses Paul like a beacon on the horizon, sharing intimate phone conversations with a man half a world away, a man who never stops reminding her of all that is possible for her. India is changing, and nothing in her life will ever be the same again. Not her marriage. Not her friendship with Paul. And when India is presented with an irresistible opportunity, she makes a heart-wrenching decision, leaving a safe, familiar place-and the people she loves there-to move into the terror of the unknown.

Bittersweet is her story, a story of freedom, of having dreams and making choices to find them. With unerring insight, Danielle Steel has created a moving portrait of a woman who dares to embark on a new adventure and the man who helps her get there. Her painful, exhilarating journey inspires us all.

Bittersweet

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

California

A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money, Everything You Need to Know in Good and Bad Times

Provides information and practical advice on credit cards, retirement planning, stock options, pension plans, mutual funds, investment strategies, health and life insurance, mortgages, prenuptial agreements, wills, and taxes.

The Road to Wealth

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#hardcover #prep #boardingschool #youth #youngadult #highschool #growingup #rich #wealthy #botm 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A novel 

Prep

#rich #wealthy #romance #movie #comedy Some water damage

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.

Crazy Rich Asians

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#hardcover #wealthy corporations #business strategies 

Florida

Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation

If The Machine That Changed the World is a description of the Toyota system in the industry of its origin, Lean Thinking is a generalization of the basic concepts so they can be applied to any company in any industry. The authors begin by summarizing the five inherent principles in any lean system: 1 correctly specify value so you are providing what the customer actually wants, 2 identify the value stream for each product family and remove the wasted steps that don't create value but do create muda (waste), 3 make the remaining value-creating flow continuously to drastically shorten throughput times, 4 allow customer to pull value from your rapid-response value streams as needed (rather than pushing products toward the customer on the basis of forecasts), and 5 never relax until you reach perfection, which is the delivery of pure value instantaneously with zero muda. (The first part of Lean Thinking devotes a chapter to each of these principles.) In the second part, the authors describe in detail how managers in a wide range of companies and industries - small, medium and large, North American, European and Japanese - transformed their business by applying the principles of lean th

Lean Thinking

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#hardcover  #business #education #bestseller #college #economics #future #wealthy

New York

How College Makes or Breaks Us

"Indelible and extraordinary."--Tara Westover, author ofEducated: A Memoir,New York Times Book Review

ANew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice



The best-selling author of How Children Succeed returns with a powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the United States



Does college still work? Is the system designed just to protect the privileged and leave everyone else behind? Or can a college education today provide real opportunity to young Americans seeking to improve their station in life?



The Years That Matter Most tells the stories of students trying to find their way, with hope, joy, and frustration, through the application process and into college. Drawing on new research, the book reveals how the landscape of higher education has shifted in recent decades and exposes the hidden truths of how the system works and whom it works for. And it introduces us to the people who really make higher education go: admissions directors trying to balance the class and balance the budget, College Board officialsscrambling to defend the SAT in the face of mounting evidence that it favors the wealthy, researchers working to unlock the mysteries of the college-student brain, and educators trying to transform potential dropouts into successful graduates.



With insight, humor, and passion, Paul Tough takes readers on a journey from Ivy League seminar rooms to community college welding shops, from giant public flagship universities to tiny experimental storefront colleges. Whether you are facing your own decision about college or simply care about the American promise of social mobility,The Years That Matter Most will change the way you think--not just about higher education, but about the nation itself.



 

The Years That Matter Most

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#paperback #romance #wealthy #bodyguard #security #privilege #penthouse #forbidden

Texas

When a killer starts targeting rich Manhattan women, society beauty Grace Hall hires bodyguard John Smith and demands that he move in with her to protect her, an action that leads to romance as the lurking danger draws near.

An Unforgettable Lady

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#paperback #wealthy #freelancer #lifestyle #income

Iowa

12 Secrets to a Great Income and an Enviable Lifestyle

Millions of professionals are driven to freelancing by economic necessity or their personal desire to be their own boss. What those freelance professionals are looking for now is proven strategies for bringing their career to maturity ...... to earn the income and build the lifestylethey want. When you have both, you can truly call yourself a wealthyfreelancer.

In The Wealthy Freelancer, three highly successful freelance professionals, with the input of dozens of other wealthy freelancers from a broad cross-section of fields, have identified numerous key business strategies high achievers use to create a truly wealthy freelance income and lifestyle.

The Wealthy Freelancerexplains in detail how to build a high income in virtually any freelance occupation - writing, design, photography, and dozens ofothers. It shows readers how to build a client-attracting system that works almost on auto-pilot, earn more money while giving yourself more time off, use 'positioning' to earn higher fees, create alternate and passive income channels, and much more. Filled with practical strategies, success stories, insider tips, and advice from the pros, The Wealthy Freelancerhas the immediate credibility of having been written by three successful freelance professionals who are, collectively, very well known to their target audience through their books, seminars, columns, podcasts, newsletters, and speaking engagements.

Being a wealthy freelancer isn't a lofty goal. It's a realistic, achievable business objective any freelance professional can attain. What freelancers need now is a resource that maps out the right strategies. The Wealthy Freelanceris that resource.

The Wealthy Freelancer

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"The Old Gringo is a perfect little #gemstone, faceted by a #master
#craftsman."
-CHARLES LARSEN, CHICAGO TRIBUNE BOOK WORLD Carlos Fuentes has been intrigued for forty years by stories of the cele-
brated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce and by his
#mysterious disappearance in #Mexico during the civil war there. In The
Old Gringo, Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among #PanchoVilla's
#troops and portrays the encounter of two cultures, the American and
the Mexican, through the passionate triangular relationship of Bierce, a
younger American woman named #HarrietWinslow come to Mexico to
teach the children of a #wealthy Mexican landowner, and Tomas Arroyo,
a Mexican general under Villa. This is a haunting and eloquent book in
which politics and history are inextricably woven into one of the most
unusual romantic stories of our time.

The old gringo

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Chosen as one of Summer's Best Books by People Magazine Featured in Time Magazine's Summer Reading Entertainment Weekly's Summer Must List Good Housekeeping Beach Reads Feature “Finally, a novel that admits ‘making it’ isn't just a makeover away.” -Vanity Fair Twenty-six-year-old Evelyn Beegan intended to free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto New York’s stately Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she lands a job at a social-network startup aimed at the elite, she has no choice but to infiltrate their world. Soon she finds herself navigating the promised land of Adirondack camps, Hamptons beach houses, and, of course, the island of Manhattan itself. Intoxicated by the wealth, access, and influence of her new set, Evelyn can’t help but try to pass as old money herself. But when the lies become more tangled, she grasps with increasing desperation as the ground beneath her begins to give way. A sparkling debut that is “full of ambition and grit” (Emma Straub), Stephanie Clifford's Everybody Rise is a story about identity and loss, and how sometimes we have to lose everything to find our way back to who we really are.

Everybody Rise

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#paperback #psychologicalthriller #neighbors #wealthy

Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island, its residents bound by their children, their work, and their illusion of safety in a rapidly changing world.

But menace skulks among this exclusive enclave. When the Wilde family arrive, they trigger their neighbours'' worst fears. Dad Arlo''s a gruff has-been rock star with track marks. Mum Gertie''s got a thick Brooklyn accent, with high heels and tube tops to match. Their weird kids cuss like sailors. They don''t fit with the way Maple Street sees itself.

Maple Street''s Queen Bee, Rhea Schroeder -- a lonely professor repressing a dark past--initially welcomed Gertie, but relations plummeted during one summer evening, when the new best friends shared too much, too soon. By the time the story opens, the Wildes are outcasts.

As tensions mount, a sinkhole opens in a nearby park, and Rhea''s daughter Shelly falls inside. The search for Shelly brings a shocking accusation against the Wildes. Suddenly, it is one mother''s word against the other''s in a court of public opinion that can end only in blood.

Riveting and ruthless, Good Neighbours is a chilling, compulsively readable novel that looks toward the future in order to help us understand how we live now.

''This book. This book. This book. Already been loaned 2 times, read and returned. Just like the rest of us, you will tear through it.'' -- Sarah Jessica Parker

''Insanely creepy, wildly entertaining and razor-sharp.'' -- Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

''A blistering satire of suburban life with serious emotional stakes. A fantastic literary thriller.'' -- Sarah Pinborough, Sunday Times #1 bestselling author of Netflix''s Behind Her Eyes

''One of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American suburbia I''ve ever read. Langan cuts to the heart of upper middle class lives like a skilled surgeon.'' -- NPR

''A modern-day Crucible, Good Neighbours brilliantly explores the ease with which a careless word can wreak havoc and the terrifying power of mob mentality. Langan deftly unveils the psychology behind her character''s actions with blistering prose and spot-on depictions. She is a writer to watch!'' -- Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs Parrish

''You have to read Good Neighbours. All of it -- the characters, the setting, the sinkhole, the heat--made this book the masterpiece that it is. Real and sad and almost painfully moving, Good Neighbours is a novel I will never forget.'' -- Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law

''Ah, sinkholes. So random, so terrifying, they turn neighbourhoods into ''oozing wounds'' -- especially when grievances fester angrily underneath the surface. Sarah Langan plumbs these literal and metaphorical depths as they rip apart a once-bucolic suburb in her disturbing and mordantly funny new novel, Good Neighbours, a departure and an extension of her early horror fiction.'' --Sarah Weinman, New York Times Book Review

''This sharp, propulsive novel pulls off a maximalist variation on suburban gossip gone wrong.'' -- Publishers Weekly

''A creepy standout for readers who want an extra kick to their suburban dramas.'' -- Booklist, starred review

''A sinkhole opens on Maple Street, and gossip turns the suburban utopia toxic. A taut teachable moment about neighbours turning on neighbours.'' -- People

''Extraordinary.'' -- Josh Malerman, author of Netflix''s Bird Box

''Sarah Langan is a phenomenal talent with a wicked sense of wry humor. Good Neighbours knocked me out. Like Shirley Jackson, Langan''s work blends a bleak streak with an underlying sense of the humane that wrung my heart.'' -- Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling

''Good Neighbours is a riveting critique of American suburbia. Langan deftly confronts social mores and beliefs as she tears all the ugliness down to make something dangerous and beautiful. The monsters of Maple Street have never been so us.'' -- Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World

''There''s a monster in each of us, in all of us, and there''s a sinkhole in our hearts, too. Good Neighbours will walk you right up to the lip of that cavity, and make you look in, at your own monstrousness.'' -- Stephen Graham Jones, acclaimed author of The Only Good Indians

''Where the hell has Sarah Langan been? Because she suddenly pops up again after being MIA for eleven years and shotguns everyone in the face with an all-American horror novel about friendships-- deep, shallow, toxic, true--that''s unpredictable enough to make every page-turn stomach-crampingly stressful.'' -- Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club''s Guide to Slaying Vampires

''Transcendent. Astonishingly insightful, heartbreaking, and profoundly wise. It''s hard to imagine I''ll find a more impressive novel this year.'' -- Christopher Golden, author of Red Hands

Good Neighbours

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South Carolina

The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford Legendre, Heiress, Explorer, Socialite, Spy

Gertie lived a 20th century life full of fun, adventure, derring-do and drama. Read all about her Gilded Age girlhood, explorations on three continents, hijinks on the French Riviera with the Lost Generation, work for the OSS - the original American spy agency - during World War II, and her imprisonment by the Nazis. And that's less than half the story! Gertrude Sanford Legendre was a woman whose adventurous life spanned the twentieth century, beginning in Aiken, S.C. in 1902 and ending at her plantation outside Charleston in 2000. She was a daring and fearless woman whose adventures included being the first American woman in uniform held as a POW by the Germans during World War II. She also partied on the Riviera with the Murphys, the Fitzgeralds and Harpo Marx in the 1920s, undertook numerous challenging expeditions for natural history museums (and lead four) and befriended some of the greatest personalities of the 20th century, including Dr. Albert Schweitzer, General George S. Patton, Lilly Pulitzer, and Bing Crosby. In her later years, she became an ardent conservationist, fighting for habitat preservation on the South Carolina coast and leaving her 7,000-acre plantation in a conservation easement, a place where the beasts can grow old and die. Gertie is a rollicking read about a woman who was not afraid to say yes to life!

Terry Southern

The Magic Christian

Danielle Steel

Bittersweet

Suze Orman

The Road to Wealth

Curtis sittenfeld

Prep

Kevin Kwan

Crazy Rich Asians

James womack

Lean Thinking

Paul Tough

The Years That Matter Most

J. R. Ward

An Unforgettable Lady

Steve Slaunwhite; Pete Savage; Ed Gandia

The Wealthy Freelancer

Carlos Fuentes

The old gringo

Stephanie Clifford

Everybody Rise

Sarah Langan

Good Neighbours

Kathryn Smith

Gertie