Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
By: Ben Mezrich
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An exclusive blackjack club came up with a system to take the worldUs most sophisticated casinos fo…
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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By: Michael Lewis
4.30
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Time is a variable continuum."-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
2. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
By: Sebastian Mallaby
4.10
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Based on author Sebastian Mallaby's unprecedented access to the industry, including three hundred h… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
3. Liar's Poker
By: Michael Lewis
4.15
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael L… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
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- memoir
"Buy potatoes,"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
"A commercial banker wasn’t any more a troublemaker than Dagwood Bumstead."-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
4. Mr. Nice
By: Howard Marks
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 companies throughout… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
5. Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
By: James McManus
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In the spring of 2000,Harper's Magazinesent James McManus to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of… read more
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- history
- memoir
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- crime
6. Ace on the River: An Advanced Poker Guide
By: Doyle Brunson , Barry Greenstein
3.86
Format: None pages,
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- nonfiction
- biography
7. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
By: Ben Mezrich
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An exclusive blackjack club came up with a system to take the worldUs most sophisticated casinos fo… read more
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- history
- biography
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- true crime
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crime
8. Long Shots: Jay Wright, Villanova, and College Basketball’s Most Unlikely Champion
By: Jay Bilas , Dana O'Neil
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
31 years after the Perfect Game - Villanova's shocking national championship upset over Georgetown … read more
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- nonfiction
9. Trading Bases: A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order )
By: None
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An ex-Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball's famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat t… read more
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10. Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker
By: Molly Bloom
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Molly Bloom was a little girl growing up in a small Colorado town, she watched her brothers wi… read more
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11. The Firm
By: John Grisham , Robin Waterfield
4.06
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Adaptation for younger readers. Mitch McDeere is a young, intelligent and ambitious lawyer. When… read more
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"Her thoughts could not escape the present."-John Grisham, The Firm
"love yourself,.,.,.,for the sake of your better future"-John Grisham, The Firm
"Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected."-John Grisham, The Firm
"I've loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you."-John Grisham, The Firm
12. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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- history
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
13. One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey, 'The Kid', Ungar, The World's Greatest Poker Player
By: Peter Alson , None
4.00
Format: None pages,
A legend before he was of legal age, Stuey Ungar became an underground card-table sensation and wen… read more
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14. Patriot Reign: Bill Belichick, the Coaches, and the Players Who Built a Champion
By: Michael Holley
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
When Bill Belichick arrived in New England, the Patriots were a laughingstock, an organization with… read more
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15. Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison (The Wolf Of Wall Street, #2)
By: Jordan Belfort
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In the go-go nineties Jordan Belfort proved to Wall Street that you didn't need to be on Wall Stree… read more
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16. Lying Awake
By: Mark Salzman
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a Carmelite monastery on the outskirts of Los Angeles, life has continued virtually unchanged fo… read more
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17. Valley Girls
By: Sarah Nicole Lemon
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
When 17-year-old Rilla is busted for partying 24 hours into arriving in Yosemite National Park to l… read more
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18. Elon Musk
By: Walter Isaacson
4.40
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk
19. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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- crime
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- true crime
20. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more
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- biography
- true crime
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- crime
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
21. The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
By: Lou Marinoff
4.26
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
The description tells potential customers about your title. A good example of an appropriate book s… read more
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- nonfiction
"For the first time in human history, a significant percentage of heterosexual males are unable to become sexually aroused by women and need drugs or vacuum pumps to help them do nature’s work. Why?"-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
"By uniting your mind with nature, you will experience the inner transformation that renders your thoughts radiant and your heart benevolent, surrounding you with an aura of purest golden light. When …"-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
"Every civilization rests on these four pillars: marriage, family, society, and polity. If all four remain solid, then most people will know happiness and their civilization will flourish. But if any …"-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
"From nuclear families to communities of nations, others without whom we cannot live get on our nerves at times, becoming sources of everything from mild irritation to deadly conflict. Balancing the t…"-Lou Marinoff, The Power of Dao: A Timeless Guide to Happiness and Harmony
22. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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23. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
24. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
By: Tom Wright
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters, Bil… read more
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- crime
25. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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26. Rogue Trader
By: Nick Leeson
3.93
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
When Leeson was arrested in 1995 for bringing Barings Bank to its knees, it initially seemed as if … read more
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27. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk
By: Billy Walters
3.84
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “An insightful read…Walters is a larger-than-life character.” —Sports I… read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Power Foods Diet: The Breakthrough Plan That Traps, Tames, and Burns Calories for Easy and Permanent Weight Loss
By: Neal Barnard
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Neal Barnard’s new diet and plan offers an evidenced-based, food-as-medicine protocol for kicks… read more
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29. Molly's Game
By: Molly Bloom
4.07
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
The true story of the 26-year-old woman behind the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker ga… read more
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30. Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America
By: Seth Abramson
4.21
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER " Spirited, thorough, and thunderously foreboding.… read more
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31. American Sfoglino: A Master Class in Handmade Pasta
By: Evan Funke
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"Evan Funke's respect for tradition and detail makes American Sfoglino the perfect introduction to … read more
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