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The Banker's Wife

By: Cristina Alger

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A USA Today Bestseller "Immersive, satisfying, tense--and timely: This is probably happening for real right now."--Lee Child "First-rate...Slick, heart-hammering entertainment."--The New York Times Book Review On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar, and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, a banking insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, is left grappling with the secrets he left behind, including an encrypted laptop and a shady client list. As she begins a desperate search for answers, she determines that Matthew's death was no accident, and that she is now in the crosshairs of his powerful enemies. Meanwhile, ambitious society journalist Marina Tourneau has finally landed at the top. Now that she's engaged to Grant Ellis, she will stop writing about powerful families and finally be a part of one. Her entry into the upper echelons of New York's social scene is more appealing than any article could ever be, but, after the death of her mentor, she agrees to dig into one more story. While looking into Swiss United, Marina uncovers information that implicates some of the most powerful men in the financial world, including a few who are too close to home. The story could also be the answer to Annabel's heartbreaking search--if Marina chooses to publish it. The Banker's Wife is both a high-stakes thriller and an inside look at the personal lives in the intriguing world of finance, introducing Cristina Alger as a powerful new voice in the genre.

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0735218463

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The Darlings

A Novel

By: Cristina Alger

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The Darlings

A Novel

By: Cristina Alger

A Bonfire of the Vanities for our times, by an author who “knows her way around 21st-century wealth and power” (The Wall Street Journal). Since he married Merrill Darling, daughter of billionaire financier Carter Darling, attorney Paul Ross has grown accustomed to all the luxuries of Park Avenue. But a tragic event is about to catapult the Darling family into the middle of a massive financial investigation and a red-hot scandal. Suddenly, Paul must decide where his loyalties really lie. Debut novelist Cristina Alger is a former analyst at Goldman Sachs, an attorney, and the daughter of a Wall Street financier. Drawing on her unique insider's perspective, Alger gives us an irresistible glimpse into the highest echelons of New York society—and a fast-paced thriller of epic proportions that powerfully echoes Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children and reads like a fictional Too Big to Fail.

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0143122754

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This Was Not the Plan

A Novel

By: Cristina Alger

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This Was Not the Plan

A Novel

By: Cristina Alger

Forced to work long hours after losing his wife in his early 30s, legal partner hopeful Charlie struggles to bond with his unconventional 5-year-old son only to find himself unemployed and attempting to bridge gaps with his estranged father.

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Simon and Schuster

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150110375X

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9781501103759

Girls Like Us

By: Cristina Alger

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Girls Like Us

By: Cristina Alger

The instant New York Times bestseller, for the first time in mass market: Worlds collide when an FBI agent investigates a string of grisly murders on Long Island and faces the impossible question: What happens when the primary suspect is your father? FBI agent Nell Flynn hasn't been home in ten years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was murdered when Nell was just seven. When Martin dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house where she grew up so that she can spread her father's ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father's partner, Detective Lee Davis, Nell becomes involved in an investigation into the murders of two young women in Suffolk County. The further Nell digs, the more likely it seems to her that her father should be the primse suspect--and that his friends on the police force are covering his tracks. Plagued by doubts about her mother's murder, and her own role in exonerating her father in that case, Nell can't help but ask questions about who killed the two women and why. But she may not like the answers she finds--not just about those she loves, but about herself.

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0593331494

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The Darlings

A Novel

By: Cristina Alger

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The Darlings

A Novel

By: Cristina Alger

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The Banker's Wife

By: Cristina Alger

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By: Cristina Alger

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This Was Not the Plan

A Novel

By: Cristina Alger

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A Novel

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Girls Like Us

Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month and New York Times bestseller

By: Cristina Alger

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Girls Like Us

Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month and New York Times bestseller

By: Cristina Alger

Full of surprises you truly don't see coming' HARLAN COBEN 'Instantly gripping and compulsively readable' RILEY SAGER Guilty or innocent? The primary suspect in a murder case is her father ... FBI Agent Nell Flynn has come home for the first time in a decade following her father's death. But almost immediately she is drawn into one of his last murder investigations. Two women have been found dead, the second body showing up shortly after Nell's arrival. And Nell quickly realizes the evidence points to one clear suspect - her own father. His colleagues and friends are covering for him, and Nell has no idea who she can trust or what may have been hidden from her. Desperate for answers, she is drawn deeper into the case. But is she prepared for what she might find? What READERS are saying about GIRLS LIKE US 'I devoured every page of this novel, and stayed up way past my bedtime, because walking away wasn't an option' 'GIRLS LIKE US is a solid 5 star read!' 'Wow! Extremely atmospheric, well thought out and with great attention to detail, this book is just brilliant' 'I really couldn't put the book down as I followed Nell searching for answers' 'An excellent thriller!' 'This was a great pager turner and I had a hard time putting in down' 'I particularly enjoyed all of the strong, smart female characters. I was sorry for it to end!' What REVIEWERS are saying about GIRLS LIKE US 'Alger expertly ratchets up the suspense all the way to the explosive finale' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'Tension becomes nearly unbearable as Nell realizes she truly can't trust anyone' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'GIRLS LIKE US is a smart thriller that will keep you guessing' POPSUGAR

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Hachette UK

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1529351715

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When Stories Travel

Cross-Cultural Encounters Between Fiction and Film

By: Cristina Della Coletta

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When Stories Travel

Cross-Cultural Encounters Between Fiction and Film

By: Cristina Della Coletta

Adapting fiction into film is, as author Cristina Della Coletta asserts, a transformative encounter that takes place not just across media but across different cultures. In this book, Della Coletta explores what it means when the translation of fiction into film involves writers, directors, and audiences who belong to national, historical, and cultural formations different from that of the adapted work. In particular, Della Coletta examines narratives and films belonging to Italian, North American, French, and Argentine cultures. These include Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, Federico Fellini’s version of Edgar Allan Poe’s story "Never Bet the Devil Your Head," Alain Corneau’s film based on Antonio Tabucchi’s Notturno indiano, and Bernardo Bertolucci’s take on Jorge Luis Borges’s "Tema del traidor y del héroe." In her framework for analyzing these cross-cultural film adaptations, Della Coletta borrows from the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and calls for a "hermeneutics of estrangement," a practice of mediation and adaptation that defines cultures, nations, selfhoods, and their aesthetic achievements in terms of their transformative encounters. Stories travel to unexpected and interesting places when adapted into film by people of diverse cultures. While the intended meaning of the author may not be perfectly reproduced, it still holds, Della Coletta argues, an equally valid and important intellectual claim upon its interpreters. With a firm grasp on the latest developments in adaptation theory, Della Coletta invites scholars of media studies, cultural history, comparative literature, and adaptation studies to deepen their understanding of this critical encounter between texts, writers, readers, and cultural movements.

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JHU Press

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142140365X

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9781421403656

The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy

By: Cristina Lafont

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The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy

By: Cristina Lafont

Cristina Lafont draws upon Hilary Putnam's work in particular to criticize the linguistic idealism and relativism of the German tradition, which she traces back to the assumption that meaning determines reference.

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MIT Press

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026262169X

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9780262621694

The Makings and Unmakings of Americans

Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924

By: Cristina Stanciu

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The Makings and Unmakings of Americans

Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924

By: Cristina Stanciu

Challenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern European immigrants In this cultural history of Americanization during the Progressive Era, Cristina Stanciu argues that new immigrants and Native Americans shaped the intellectual and cultural debates over inclusion and exclusion, challenging ideas of national belonging, citizenship, and literary and cultural production. Deeply grounded in a wide-ranging archive of Indigenous and new immigrant writing and visual culture--including congressional acts, testimonies, news reports, cartoons, poetry, fiction, and silent film--this book brings together voices of Native and immigrant America. Stanciu shows that, although Native Americans and new immigrants faced different legal and cultural obstacles to citizenship, the challenges they faced and their resistance to assimilation and Americanization often ran along parallel paths. Both struggled against idealized models of American citizenship that dominated public spaces. Both participated in government-sponsored Americanization efforts and worked to gain agency and sovereignty while negotiating naturalization. Rethinking popular understandings of Americanization, Stanciu argues that the new immigrants and Native Americans at the heart of this book expanded the narrow definitions of American identity.

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Yale University Press

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0300224354

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9780300224351

Nations Unbound

Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States

By: Linda Basch,Nina Glick Schiller,Cristina Szanton Blanc

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Nations Unbound

Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States

By: Linda Basch,Nina Glick Schiller,Cristina Szanton Blanc

Nations Unbound is a pioneering study of an increasing trend in migration-transnationalism. Immigrants are no longer rooted in one location. By building transnational social networks, economic alliances and political ideologies, they are able to cross the geographic and cultural boundaries of both their countries of origin and of settlement. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations, the authors demonstrate that transnationalism is something other than expanded nationalism. By placing immigrants in a limbo between settler and visitor, transnationalism challenges the concepts of citizenship and of nationhood itself.

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Routledge

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1000159264

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9781000159264

Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia

By: Roger Benjamin,Cristina Ashjian

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Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia

By: Roger Benjamin,Cristina Ashjian

Paul Klee experienced his 1914 trip to Tunisia as a major breakthrough for his art: ÒColor and I are one,Ó he famously wrote. ÒI am a painter.Ó Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia sets the scene for KleeÕs breakthrough with a close study of the parallel voyage undertaken in 1904Ð5 by Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele MŸnter, who would later become Klee's friends. This artist couple, then at an early stage in their celebrated careers, produced a rich body of painting and photography known only to specialists. Paul KleeÕs 1914 trip with August Macke and Louis Moilliet, in contrast, is a vaunted convergence of cubism and the exotic. Roger Benjamin refigures these two seminal voyages in terms of colonial culture and politics, the fabric of ancient Tunisian cities, visual ethnography, and the tourist photograph. The book looks closely at the cities of Tunis, Sousse, Hammamet, and Kairouan to flesh out a profound confrontation between European high modernism and the wealth of Islamic lifeways and architecture. Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia offers a new understanding of how the European avant-garde was formed in dialogue with cultural difference.

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Univ of California Press

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0520283651

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9780520283657

Havana USA

Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994

By: María Cristina García

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Havana USA

Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994

By: María Cristina García

A Cuban refugee raised in Miami, Maria Cristina Garcia presents a comprehensive and revealing account of the unprecedented Cuban migration into South Florida since Fidel Castro came to power. Garcia's exploration of the complicated realm of Cuban American identity sets a new standard in social and cultural history.

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0520211170

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9780520211179

Principles of marketing

By: Cristina Calvo Porral, John L. Stanton

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Principles of marketing

By: Cristina Calvo Porral, John L. Stanton

Mrketing reversed prior business logic 50 years ago and said «the customer is king», and the companies began to recognize that it was not just the product that was the most important aspect of their business. Companies recognized that consumers had a myriad of choices of product offerings and marketing was responsible to ensure that the company?s products had the benefits and attributes that customers wanted and were willing to pay for. Today, considering the technology development, which influences every function of the company, the focus of the successful marketing oriented companies has changed from «the customer is king» to «the customer is a dictator!!!». However, and despite the new trends in marketing, like any social science, marketing has basic principles, and these principles need to be considered when making any type of marketing decisions. So, the major step of a student of marketing, whether it is a young university student or an experienced business executive, is to understand the principles of marketing, and reading the present book will be the first step in accomplishing this task. This book describes these basic principles of marketing, and while the authors recognize that each decision may be slightly different from any previous decision, the rules or principles remain the same. The present book presents these basic marketing principles and tries to capture the essence of practical and modern marketing today. Therefore, the purpose of Principles of Marketing is to introduce readers to the fascinating world of marketing today, in an easy, enjoyable and practical way, offering an attractive text from which to learn about and teach marketing.

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ESIC

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8417129456

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The Darlings

An absolutely gripping crime thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat

By: Cristina Alger

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The Darlings

An absolutely gripping crime thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat

By: Cristina Alger

Cristina Alger's debut novel offers a fresh and modern glimpse into New York's high society. I was hooked from page one' Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada From the author of The Banker's Wife and Girls Like Us comes an explosive drama about family, greed and high society scandal. The Darlings of New York are untouchable. But no one is safe from a scandal this big. When Carter Darling's business partner commits suicide, it triggers a huge financial investigation. The allegations are serious. The danger of it exposing their private lives is equally threatening. In times of crisis, the Darlings have always stuck together. But with the stakes so high, how long will their loyalty last? Praise for The Darlings: 'Forget Gossip Girl: If you really want a peek into the scandalous lives of New York City's elite upper class, Alger's debut novel . . . gets you pretty close' Entertainment Weekly 'A suspenseful, twisty story' Wall Street Journal 'Penned by a former banker, this is a dishy yet thoughtful portrait of greed gone too far . . . A page-turner' Good Housekeeping

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Hachette UK

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1529351774

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Park Avenue

By: Nathalie Cunnington,Cristina Alger

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Park Avenue

By: Nathalie Cunnington,Cristina Alger

En épousant Merrill par amour, le jeune avocat Paul Ross est entré dans le clan Darling avec son cortège de privilèges : un appartement sur Park Avenue, un job en or, des week-ends dans les Hampton et des soirées avec le tout Manhattan. Mais bientôt Wall Street plonge et les grandes banques menacent de s'effondrer. Un scandale vient éclabousser la famille Darling, la propulsant sous les feux des médias et Paul doit choisir son camp. Sauver sa peau en trahissant sa femme et les siens ou les protéger, coûte que coûte. Issue elle-même d'une grande famille de financiers, ancienne avocate et analyste chez Goldmann Sachs, la jeune Cristina Alger connaît parfaitement le monde qu'elle décrit, cette haute société new-yorkaise, prisonnière de ses succès et de ses richesses. Dans ce Bûcher des Vanités du XXIe siècle, elle pose un regard subtil et implacable sur ces privilégiés dont la crise financière de 2008 va faire voler en éclat les certitudes. Un roman étincelant, drôle et féroce, aussi tendu qu'un thriller, sur lequel plane l'ombre de Madoff.

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Albin Michel

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2226286128

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Park Avenue

By: Cristina Alger

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Park Avenue

By: Cristina Alger

Paul Ross a épousé Merrill, fille de Carter Darling, un financier milliardaire. Le jeune avocat sudiste s’est vite habitué au luxe de sa vie new-yorkaise : appartement sur Park Avenue, week-ends dans les Hamptons. Lorsque Paul perd son emploi, Carter lui propose de diriger l’équipe d’avocats de son fonds spéculatif, une fabuleuse opportunité alors que le pays connaît sa pire crise financière depuis la Grande Dépression. Mais la chance ne va pas durer : à la suite d’un événement tragique, les Darling se retrouvent sous les feux des médias, compromis dans un scandale qui pourrait radicalement changer leur vie. Paul doit alors choisir son camp : sauver sa peau et trahir sa femme et sa belle-famille, ou bien protéger l’entreprise familiale coûte que coûte. Cristina Alger, qui connaît parfaitement le monde dont elle parle, trace un portrait au vitriol de la haute société new-yorkaise face à la grande crise financière de 2008.

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