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Three generations of the Cazalet family in the shadows of WWII.

Reveals that the accumulation of wealth in the United States is most often done through hard work, diligent savings, and living a frugal lifestyle. Can you spot the millionaire next door? Who are the rich in this country? What do they do? Where do they shop? What do they drive? How do they invest? Where did their ancestors come from? How did they get rich? Can I ever become one of them? Get the answers in The Millionaire Next Door, the never-before-told...

Put a great entrepreneurial idea together with one or two hardworking people and you may just get a global business. This CNBC program shows how that happened with the following companies: Merlot Skin Care, founded by entrepreneur Wayne Beckley after he heard about the power of antioxidants in red wine and was convinced they could be utilized in topical form; Method, an eco-friendly cleanser manufacturer started by two friends who maxed out their...

Draws on interviews with five hundred residents from America's most affluent areas to reveal the financial decisions, setbacks, and strategies that enabled financially successful people to achieve their wealth.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary People comes a gripping novel of suspense, exploring fragile family dynamics in the aftermath of tragedy ... Acclaimed author Judith Guest makes a triumphant return with this poignant and powerful novel that's sure to add luster to her reputation as one of the most thoughtful observers of the human condition. Taking as part of her inspiration a baffling, unsolved true-life crime, Guest achieves...

Don Delillo's finest novel since Underworld - An o de to language and humanity, a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them...

Details the transformation of a noble Athenian from a reckless spendthrift to a mad misanthrope.

"Each of the six stories in Your Duck is My Duck, Eisenberg's first collection since 2006, has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable but utterly unpredictable logic and her almost uncanny ability to conjure the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through her characters--a tormented woman whose face determines her destiny; a group of film actors...

"Privilege--the word, the idea, the j'accuse that cannot be answered with equanimity--is the new rhetorical power play. From social media to academia, public speech to casual conversation, "Check your privilege" or "Your privilege is showing" are utilized to brand people of all kinds with a term once reserved for wealthy, old-money denizens of exclusive communities. Today, "privileged" applies to anyone who enjoys an unearned advantage in life, about...

A young man drifts into Newport and in his short stay of four months gently influences the lives of various people during the 1920's.