David Liss
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Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocrat clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family--until he is asked to investigate his father's sudden death. Thus Weaver descends into the deceptive world of the English stock jobbers, gliding between coffeehouses and gaming houses, drawing rooms and bordellos. The more Weaver uncovers,...
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A gripping novel of a conspiracy that threatens to topple the fledgling banking system of the post-Revolutionary War United States, featuring the unforgettable characters of Ethan Saunders and Joan Maycott, with Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton in secondary roles.
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On the world's first commodities exchange in Amsterdam, 1659 - a mysterious world of trade populated by schemes and rogues, where deception rules the day, Miguel Lienzo has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. He enters into a partnership with a seductive Dutchwoman who pitches the newest commodity: coffee.
6) Randoms
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[2015]
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First edition.
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English
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"A twelve-year-old boy is chosen to join a four-person applicant team to work towards membership in the Confederation of United Planets, and stumbles across conspiracies resembling science fiction he's been a fan of his entire life"--
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[2011]
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First edition.
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English
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Lucy Derrick, a young Regency woman of good breeding and poor finances, is warned by a beautiful stricken man not to marry Mr. Olson, the local mill owner. Soon it becomes clear that there is more at stake than her own happiness--and that she is caught between two forces, one ancient and one modern.
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[2006]
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English
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While working as a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman as a means of paying for his college tuition, seventeen-year-old Lemuel Altick witnesses the double assassination of two clients to whom he's about to close a sale. Surprised by Lemuel's presence, the assassin forces Lemuel to become complicit in the murder an event that instigates Lemuel's exposure to the previously hidden underworld surrounding him. Soon, Lemuel must contend with a boss involved...
10) Mystery men
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2012.
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English
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"A group of New York City's wealthy elite is turning the suffering of the Great Depression into soaring profits, with an even greater evil planned! Dennis Piper, the masked man known as the Operative, seeks to settle the score by thieving from the rich and giving to the poor. But when his girlfriend, Broadway starlet Alice Starr, is murdered, and Piper is fingered for the crime, the charismatic cat burglar becomes a fugitive, hunted by a corrupt police...
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[2012]
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English
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Black Panther, now patrolling the streets of Hell's Kitchen, searches for a former employee who has been changed by a mad scientist's experiments, but he must find him before Kraven the Hunter does. Then,during Fear Itself, T'Challa must deal with the Hate Monger spreading fear among the citizens of Hell's Kitchen and whipping them into an angry mob as well as being arrested by Homeland Security.
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