Two teen vigilantes set off on an action-packed investigation to expose corruption and deliver justice in Valiant Ladies, Melissa Grey's YA historical fiction novel inspired by real seventeenth century Latinx teenagers known as the...
Corrupt practices
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Author:Grey, MelissaSummary: -
Author:Hardin, Chet, Natalie, ToniSummary:Many have heard of NXIVM and its creator, Keith Raniere, the unassuming Albany man now prosecuted for ensnaring tens of thousands of people in the US, Mexico, Canada and elsewhere, to do his bidding and pay millions of dollars to...
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Author:Shah, LondonSummary:At the end of the twenty-first century, the world has changed dramatically, but life continues one thousand feet below the ocean's surface. In Great Britain, sea creatures swim among the ruins of Big Ben and the Tower of London,...
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
"The master of ticking-bomb suspense" ( People ) returns with a devilishly good thriller, and reward seeker Colter Shaw's most personal case to date. Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye...
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What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in...
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Author:Saramago, JoséSummary:On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. At four, voters rush...
- Author:Bensinger, Ken.Summary:
The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal--the biggest international corruption case of recent years, spearheaded by US investigators, involving dozens of countries, and implicating nearly every aspect of the world's...
- Author:Le Carré, JohnSummary:
In the wake of the collapse of Lehmann Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one...
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Author:Boochani, BehrouzSummary:Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text...
- Author:McDonald, IanSummary:
Corta Hélio, one of the five family-corporations that rule the moon, has fallen. Only Lady Sun suspects that the last appointed heir, Lucas Corta, is not dead. Corta Hélio needs allies; and to find them the fleeing son undertakes an...
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Author:McDonald, IanSummary:In the moon's near-feudal society, you must fight for every inch you want to gain. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. Now, at the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation surrounded by the many enemies she made during...
- Author:Mbue, ImboloSummary:
'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...
- Author:Abbott, JeffSummary:
What causes a nightmare? For federal witness Miles Kendrick it is the crippling memory of killing his best friend. For teenager Amanda Groote it is the terror of being trapped in a car wreck next to her mother's mangled body. They are...
- Author:Goodman, AmySummary:
Amy Goodman breaks through the corporate media’s lies, sound-bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects, the “experts” who, in Goodman’s words, “know so little about so much,...
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Author:Campbell, GregSummary:Journalist Greg Campbell leads the reader down the international diamond trail of brutality, horror, and profit - providing an on-the-ground and in-the-mines story of global consequenceFirst discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra...
- Author:Snider, LaureenSummary:
When corporations misbehave the consequences are devastating. The monetary costs of the 2008 financial crisis, a direct result of financial mismanagement, were in the trillions, and yet none of those responsible were held to account....
- Author:Brown, Rita MaeSummary:
When Baxter the wirehaired dachshund and his owner Mags leave New York for Nevada, they find themselves embroiled in a real head scratcher. First, the local water-pumping station is sabotaged. Then, a murdered man's bones--dating back...
- Author:Van Rooy, MichaelSummary:
Monty Haaviko, Winnipeg's favourite househusband, babysitter, and ex-con, is running for chief of Winnipeg's new police commision. It's almost honest work, except that he's been bribed to throw the election to his opponent, an ex-cop...
