Financial Fiction

Discover Financial Fives, the game-changing book that revolutionizes personal finance with its refreshingly engaging approach, providing you with a treasure trove of practical advice, money-saving strategies, and invaluable tips to take control of your financial future.

For New Yorker Nick Dalca, wealth is a birthright. But his perfect life is starting to crumble. During a flight to Europe, his private jet goes missing with his wife and son aboard. They are presumed dead. Having no one left, Nick makes a shocking decision: to negotiate the sale of his business conglomerate, a deal which may turn him into one of the richest men in the world. Faced with making many decisions alone, he is drawn to his longtime secretary, Anne. She has one special gift. A gift that can radically alter his destiny.

This volume explores how financial literacy can enhance peoples' ability to make informed economic choices. It proposes that financial literacy determines how well people make and execute saving, investing, borrowing, and planning decisions. It examines causality using controlled settings to disentangle whether financial literacy causes saving or vice versa, and demonstrates that financial education programs do indeed enhance financial decision-making and asset accumulation.

This is an incredible story. The author, a failed, alcoholic Wall Street trader, had retreated to a monastery. It, too, was failing. Then, one fateful day, Brother Ty decided to let God be his broker--and not only saved the monastery but discovered the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth. Brother Ty's remarkable success has been studied at the nation's leading business schools and scrutinized by Wall Street's greatest minds, but until now the secret to his 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth have been available only to a select few.

Michael Limmerburg, Besitzer der größten Buchmacherfirma Englands, hat sich durch betrügerische Machenschaften ein Vermögen aufgebaut. Doch als er wegen unsauberer Manipulationen vor den Jockeyklub-Ausschuss geladen wird, wittert Anthony, bekannt als "der Preller", seine Chance. Mit einem raffinierten Plan will er Limmerburgs unrechtmäßig erworbenes Geld abschöpfen und ihm eine Lektion erteilen. Der Buchmacher glaubt, den Ausgang des Rennens kontrollieren zu können – dabei ahnt er nicht, dass er selbst das Ziel eines raffinierten Betrugs ist.

来自北京的温妮与来自江南的肖言在美国留学时相识，相爱，并同居。不料，肖言在临回国前决意与温妮分道扬镳……來自北京的溫妮與來自江南的肖言在美國留學時相識，相愛，並同居。不料，肖言在臨回國前決意與溫妮分道揚鑣……

In the beginning was Jacqueline, and crossings on the Star Ferry with warm Hong Kong breezes blowing strands of long, black hair across her face as her eyes gazed into his. When investment banker Alexander “Dusty” Street returns to Hong Kong 20 years later, everybody wants him to save a huge acquisition, stabilize panicking financial markets, and return home to New York. The choice is obvious, until the love of his life reappears.

Young, bright and sexy, Carla Vitale has been handpicked to run Supertech, Africa’s leading independent engineering firm. Then one Friday afternoon in Cape Town, her dream is shattered. Her boss and mentor, Nial Townley, disappears, his luxury vehicle is found in a crevice at the bottom of Chapman’s Peak and $USD 20m is missing from the Supertech’s overseas accounts. Three months later and the police are no closer to solving the riddle. No job, no car, no phone, Carla turns to the one person she believes can help: software hacker turned day-trader, Daniel Le Fleur.

In Ma, What’s Investing, Si, Elz, and Wizzy help their Ma to plant a garden. Excited to make money from selling extra produce, the children talk about what they want to spend it on. Ma suggests they invest instead, but the children aren’t sure what investing means. With a charming story about a garden and two neighbors different approaches to caring for their crops, Ma teaches the children about investing. Through the analogy of planting different seeds at different times, she teaches diversity in not only the garden or investing money, but also in one’s self.

A USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Private Investigator Clint Shockey is on the trail of a savage killer whose cruelty knows no bounds. Shockey is quickly swept up in a shocking case that takes him on a whirlwind of jaw-dropping twists and turns. PYTHON is the first book in a brand-new series of stories that are impossible to put down with pages that seem to turn themselves. "Ames is a sensation among readers who love fast-paced thrillers." -MysteryTribune

MURDER IS ON TAP. When a history professor at Marquette University is murdered, Private Investigator Burr Ashland takes on the case. Burr's investigation plunges him into a violent struggle not just between the present and the past, but between good and evil. It turns out that the dead professor had uncovered some very valuable information about one of the city's wealthiest families, and someone will do anything to keep the truth buried forever. "BEER MONEY is intoxicating!" - Amazon.com "Dan Ames is a sensation among Kindle owners who love fast-paced thrillers." -Mystery Tribune "Swept me ...

This is the third of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, who gets to the bottom of things by cutting through various business goings-on. He's a famous accountant who swoops down on a company to examine the books, dissident shareholders, community groups, and others to examine the financial motives in order to nail the killer. A humorous romp for those who like humor and good writing in their mysteries.

Death Shall Overcome: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This is the fifth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers, featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. A rollicking and witty adventure about a Wall Street brokerage firm that puts up its first Black partner for the first seat on the New York Stock Exchange to be held by a Black American. Fascinating, witty, humorous, with the elegant light touch of Emma Lathen.

Die ersten drei spannenden Romane um den Kunstfälscher Felix Ambach in einem Sammelband. Die Auktion: Felix Ambach kann nichts so richtig gut – außer schnitzen. In den Augen seines Bruders Christian, eines angesehenen Kunsthistorikers, zählt das jedoch wenig: Er behandelt Felix wie einen Versager. Bis Felix genug hat. Um sich zu rächen, fälscht er einen alten Kunstschatz. Er will ihn Christian unterjubeln und ihn dann als Fälschung enttarnen – schon wäre der Ruf seines Bruders zerstört. Doch die Dinge laufen nicht ganz nach Plan.

A USA TODAY Bestselling Author Money buys everything...even murder. When the young daughter of a powerful Senator is kidnapped from a shopping mall in Iowa, her father calls in his old friend, retired FBI profiler Wallace Mack. Soon, Mack begins to uncover a frightening prospect: an online marketplace where wealthy psychopaths can buy their next victim. It's a race against time as Mack fights to save a young girl's life by putting The Murder Store...out of business. "Ames is a sensation among Kindle readers who love fast-paced thrillers." -MysteryTribune

Each section in the Money Challenge series will encourage you to live for something much larger than yourself. Are you ready to align with Goddess' plan? Lets get started.

A #1 Mystery in both the US and the UK. Mary Cooper is back, and this time she's searching for a killer who seems to enjoy playing with his victims' minds as much as he does with their lives. The book begins with the brutal slaying of a corporate executive under circumstances that can only be considered bizarre. Mary is hired to find out who killed him, and why. Soon, she is caught up in the often lurid world of celebrity psychologists and their infamous patients. "Mary Cooper is a riot!" - Amazon.com

This book tackles the concept of saving money to start children on the path to a bright financial future. Research shows that money habits are set by age seven, yet this important topic is often neglected. The Moneytopia series is designed to help teach invaluable money habits and concepts in easy-to-understand, child-friendly terms. This fun story follows along with a bunny, a bear, and a fox as they’re given a school assignment to save “Topians”, the book’s fun term for money. Your child will learn the three key elements to saving money—a lesson that’ll last a lifetime.

Research shows that money habits are set by age seven, yet this important topic is often neglected. The Moneytopia series is designed to help teach invaluable money habits and concepts in easy-to-understand, child-friendly terms. This fun story follows along with a bunny, a bear, and a fox as they’re given a school assignment to earn “Topians”, the book’s fun term for money. Your child will learn the three key elements to earning money—a lesson that’ll last a lifetime.

Wall Street banker John Thatcher is drawn into this mystery as a financial man seeking to get his bank repaid. Thatcher gets involved to try to recover a loan/debenture done by the Sloan's incompetent investment manager on the way out.