Jerry Klein trades exotic derivatives for a major New York investment bank, happily minting money while mechanically progressing through the ranks as a self-described "perfect robot." When he's promoted to managing director and appointed to a client-facing role, Jerry experiences his firm for the first time in the context of the wider financial system where, driven by intense competition for profits and pay, the bank and its traders cut corners to take ever-greater risks. While senior exec...

When law enforcement agents disrupt his search for meaning in modern life, Jack Cover departs his native Wyoming to seek refuge and inspiration in New York City. Followed there by his girlfriend muse and accompanied by an expanding circle of followers, Jack moves among ranchers and romeos, nymphs and nerds, giants and aesthetes, some of them creative and some damned, and all seeking their way in a world where High Society live like homeless while generous bohemians reach for glory. Set ove...

It has often been said that information is power. This is more true in the information age than ever. The book profiles the tools used by criminal law to protect confidential information. It deals with the essence of information, the varieties of confidential information, and the basic models for its protection within the context of the Internet and social networks.Eli Lederman examines the key prohibitions against collecting protected information, and against using, disclosing, an...

At the age of 24, working with his wife at a car wash, Larry Winters was struggling to get by. He decided he needed to make a change for the better, so he seized control of his life and, day by day, built his own business. Along the way, he learned many lessons about sacrifice, personal responsibility, determination and independenceLive the Dream: No More Excuses, is Winters' inspiring story of his journey from a young man with no ambition to a man in control of his financ...

In 1990, Dana Blades, retired history professor, and her childhood Amish friend, Fannie Byler, solved the murder of the local Amish schoolteacher. It is now over ten years later and the two women find themselves embroiled in a series of fires, explosions, threats, and the suspicious death of a close friend in the usually tranquil village of Solitude. Once again, the two collaborate to determine what sinister forces are at work in their community as they come to grips with personal issues t...

It was an absolutely perfect day . . . until everything went absolutely perfectly wrong.Kent Anthony is a brilliant software engineer who is cashing in on a brilliant career. He's finally living the idyllic life, far from thoughts of theft and murder and other kinds of horrible criminal behavior.He's left his past far behind. Or so he thinks.In his very first novel, New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers a fascinating story o...

How better to stop his sister from eloping than to arrange the wedding? That way, Cade Porter's only family member will stay put on his Colorado ranch. He hires the best wedding planner in Denver, but Samantha Woodward, of the famed "Weddings by Woodwards" empire, thinks Cade is mighty arrogant. Shouldn't the bride have a say in the most important day of her life? As they work together, Cade assures the lovely and independent Sam that she can plan their wedding right down to the day.

His memory is clear. His suddenly severed identity, a mystery. With seemingly no means of proving who he is, he fights through the maze of societal convention, struggling to resurrect his existence, hoping against all hope to get his life back. It proves a daunting task until several clues surface, leading him down a completely unsuspected road.

James Bennett didn’t come to the Florida Keys to find a new father. As the rebellious, serially underemployed scion of an old-money New York family, he’d spent years disappointing the one he already had. But when smooth-talking ex-televangelist John Wainwright takes an interest in him, he spurns an invitation to grow up and finally join his family’s business on Wall Street in favor of staying in Marathon to help Wainwright rebuild his church.When James’ faith in his new mentor and ...

This latest volume in the critically-acclaimed One Buck Horror anthology series features five tales of terror from around the globe. These soon-to-be classics feature ghosts, monsters, and other things that haunt the night, offering plenty of scares for casual readers and dedicated horror fans alike!In "Hanal Pixan" by Erath Juarez, the Day of the Dead is a time for telling scary stories, and no one tells stories better than Grandfather. He spins his tale while the children listen,...

The Benson hotel in Portland, Oregon might look like your ordinary, swanky turn-of-the century hotel, but deep in the heart of this historic icon, lie a few restless souls with secrets that won't stay buried.Amateur ghost hunters Perry Palomino and Dex Foray spend an evening exploring the hotel for their Internet show "Experiment in Terror" - but this is no ordinary hotel and this is no ordinary episode. There's someone here in the Benson, someone dead, who will push the boundaries...

The "pitch perfect" (Los Angeles Times) first novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle.This "richly appointed and generously portrayed" (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in. Told from five perspectives, the novel spans an explosive week in the life of the Dunlaps, culminating in a seri...