Refine Your Search
Limit Search Result
Type of Material
  • (25)
  • (2)
  • (1)
  • (1)
  •  
Subject
  • (1)
  • (1)
  • (2)
  • (1)
  •  
Author
  • (1)
  • (1)
  • (1)
  • (1)
  •  
Series
  • (1)
  • (1)
  • (1)
  •  
Publication Date
    Target Audience
    • (7)
    • (6)
    • (2)
    •  
    Accelerated Reader
    Reading Count
    Lexile
    Book Adventure
    Fountas And Pinnell
    Collection
    • (11)
    • (8)
    • (2)
    • (2)
    •  
    Library
    • (29)
    •  
    Availability
    Search Results: Returned 29 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 20
    • share link
      By Ellis, Bret Easton
       1991., Vintage Books Call No: Fic Ell   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Vintage contemporaries.Summary Note: In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films, released Spring 2000, starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day, while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.
    • share link
      -- Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth
      By Kempe, Frederick
       c2011., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: 943 K32b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Based on a wealth of new documents and interviews, filled with fresh--sometimes startling--insights, written with immediacy and drama, "Berlin 1961" is a masterly look at key events of the 20th century, with powerful applications to these early years of the 21st.
    • share link
      By Duffy, Erin
       c2012., Adult, William Morrow Call No: Fic Duf   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Alex Garrett, a recent college graduate who began her Wall Street career in 2006, dreams of fast-talking days on the trading floor while living a life tied to a government bond desk and performing other peculiar tasks.
    • share link
      By Kimmerer, Robin Wall
       2013., Milkweed Editions Call No: IND 305.8 K49b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.
    • share link
      By Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)
       c2014., Adult, W.W. Norton & Company Call No: 332.62 L675f   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Flash Boys -- small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately; but after they discover one another, the flash boys band together and set out to reform the financial markets. This they do by creating an exchange in which high-frequency trading -- source of the most intractable problems -- will have no advantage whatsoever. Several of the Flash Boys have walked away from jobs in the financial sector that paid them millions of dollars a year. From their new vantage point they investigate the big banks, the world's stock exchanges, and high-frequency trading firms as they have never been investigated, and expose the many strange new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you. The Flash Boys have perceived an institutionalized injustice and are willing to go to war to fix it"--Provided by publisher.
    • share link
      By Kimmerer, Robin Wall
       c2003., Adult, Oregon State University Press Call No: IND 588.2 K49b    Availability:0 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering moss is a mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us. Drawing on her experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.
    • share link
      By Lawson, Guy
       c2012., Adult, Crown Business Call No: Bio I73l   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: This story is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of a hedge fund fraud and the wild search, for a secret market beneath the financial market we all know. Sam Israel was a man who seemed to have it all, until the hedge fund he ran, Bayou, imploded and he became the target of a nationwide manhunt. Born into one of America's most illustrious trading families, Israel was determined to strike out on his own. So after apprenticing with one of the greatest hedge fund traders of the 1980s, Sam founded his own fund and promised his investors guaranteed profits. With the proprietary computer program he had created, he claimed to be able to predict the future. But his future was already beginning to unravel. After suffering devastating losses and fabricating fake returns, Israel knew it was only a matter of time before his real performance would be discovered, so when a former black-ops intelligence operative told him about a secret market run by the Fed, Israel bet his last $150 million on a chance to make billions. Thus began his year-long adventure in the "Upperworld", a society populated by clandestine bankers, shady European nobility, and spooks issuing cryptic warnings about a mysterious cabal known as the Octopus. Whether the secret market was real or a con, Israel was all in, and as the pressures mounted and increasingly sinister violence crept into his life, he struggled to break free of the Octopus' tentacles.
    • share link
      By Reich, Christopher, 1961-
       c2013., Adult, Random House of Canada Limited Call No: Fic Rei   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: When his father, a chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, is killed in a brazen attack on the White House lawn, Bobby Astor, a rising hedge fund manager, untangles a web of lies to reveal a sophisticated plot against the U.S. financial system.