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This time out John Dortmunder and his merry band of crooks return to the scene of the crime world in an attempt to steal a fleet of automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing. The mark is Monroe Hall, corrupt CEO of a now defunct conglomerate, who spent more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined. Having escaped prosecution, Hall is holed up on his massive Pennsylvania farm and Dortmunder,
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"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple"--
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English
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On Jeep Reed's Wings Ranch near Reno, Jeep, her great-niece, former Wall Street banker Magdalene Mags Rogers, and their two dogs King and Baxter investigate a pump company employee's disappearance, along with an environmentalist's shooting suicide and the identity of a really cold corpse.
6) Firebreak
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In a future world ruled by corporations in a perpetual civil war, expert gamer Mallory is offered a dangerous side job looking for a missing girl who may be linked to an online character.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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When a radical band of teen activists claim that Alix's powerful father covers up wrongdoing by corporations that knowingly allow innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds--
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Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The award-winning author of the Justice Hustlers series follows the FBI recruitment of a savvy young lawyer who uses the wits of her impoverished youth to infiltrate an extremist activist group that is being exploited by a biotech company.
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Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Abby Williams left Barrens, Indiana and is working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago. When a new case takes her back home, the successful life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to a scandal from more than a decade ago, involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends-- just before Kaycee...
10) Now and again
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Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
12 sound discs (900 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For Maggie Rayburn, wife, mother, and secretary at a munitions plant, life is pleasant, predictable, and secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively takes it, turning her world upside down. Propelled by a desire to do good, and a newfound taste for excitement, Maggie starts to see injustice everywhere. Soon, her bottom drawer is filled with 'evidence,' her town has turned against her, and she must decide...
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Series
The singular menace volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shay Remby and her friends must use the secrets implanted in Fenfang's brain to take down the Singular Corporation that experimented on her and killed one of Shay's own to protect its dirty secrets in this second book of the series.
13) Comedy of power
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 105 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
The latest thriller from French New Wave veteran Claude Chabrol opens with a tongue-in-cheek claim that it does not depict real events, even though it's timely and provocative account of corporate and political corruption was inspired by a real-life scandal involving a French oil giant and several top-level politicians. The stunning and accomplished Isabelle Huppert (I heart huckabees) stars as Jeanne, a tenacious magistrate known as "the piranha"...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to...
15) Kickback
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Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts,...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 45 min.)
Language
English
Description
Exposing the invisible - but all-pervasive - public relations industry, Toxic Sludge Is Good for You helps viewers understand the tools PR professionals use to shape public opinion. Naomi Klein, acclaimed journalist and author of the best-selling book No Logo, examines the rise of international branding and the grassroots anti-corporate campaigns it has inspired. She asks viewers to consider the costs of globalization, including the disappearance...
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Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1999, and Chris is living her dream: working at Vinyl Destination by day and fighting for (musical) justice by night in the world's coolest teen girl vigilante fight club, and playing in a band during her free time. When the girls enter a Battle of The Bands, they learn that the shadowy corporate masters of the music industry plan to destroy the fledgling world of digital music and blame it on Y2K."--Provided by publisher.
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English
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"It's the pesticide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it's in the air we breathe, our water, our soil, and even found increasingly in our own bodies. Known as Monsanto's Roundup by consumers, and as glyphosate by scientists, the world's most popular weed killer is used everywhere from backyard gardens to golf courses to millions of acres of farmland. For decades it's been touted as safe enough to drink, but a growing body of evidence indicates...
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A Dez Limerick novel volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Desmond Aloysius Limerick ("Dez" to his friends and close personal enemies) is a man with a shadowy past, certain useful hard-won skills, and, if one digs deep enough, a reputation as a good man to have at your back. Now retired from his previous life, Dez is just a bloke with a winning smile, a bass guitar, and bullet wounds that paint a road map of past lives. Jaleh Swann, a business journalist hot on the trail of an auditor who was mugged and killed,...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxi, 360 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political elites have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us-and how we can take back our economy for all. It's easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an era marked by war, climate crisis, political polarization, and acute inequality-and...
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