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When Erin Duffy got her pink slip from Merrill Lynch back in August 2008, there was one silver lining. Unemployment gave her time to write a novel. The result was Bond Girl, a fun and highly autobiographical recounting of one young woman's adventures in love and bond sales on Wall Street.
Howard Schultz, the impulsive and mercurial founder of Starbucks, had already told his story once, in Pour Your Heart Into It. His new autobiographic tome, Onward, reveals how he retook control of his company -- and despite his best efforts to paint himself as a benevolent visionary, his many, many flaws shine through.
She lost her fortune, her marriage and her home -- and now Sarah Ban Breathnach, author of the 1995 self-help top seller Simple Abundance, may have written one of the best personal finance books ever.
This week marks the second anniversary of an event that shook the financial industry to its core. In her newly released book, The Weekend that Changed Wall Street, CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo gives an insider's look at the fateful days surrounding the fall of Lehman Brothers.
Stanford B-school professor Bob Sutton's The No Asshole Rule helped readers deal with office bullies. His follow-up, Good Boss, Bad Boss, gives managers lively advice on how to avoid being "bossholes".
Everyone knows the English adore their tea, but why is that? This stimulating and informative biography of the founder of Lipton Tea offers fresh insights and much more.
The unauthorized biography of billionaire Lily Safra is a tale of one of the world's richest and most elegant women -- a jet-setter who socializes in the same elite circles as Prince Charles and Elton John. What is so fascinating, however, is exactly how Safra was able to climb her way to the top.
In his new book, Made By Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World, BoingBoing co-founder Mark Frauenfelder shows us how to build a chicken coop -- and maybe save our souls in the process.
Throughout the pages of Walter Kiechel III's The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World, the author tells how one management fad succeeded since the mid-1960s. In doing so, Kiechel paints a picture of a culture where ideas, more than deeds, are the central product.
Each year, around the time of Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, new books about Oracle of Omaha appear. Among this year's are Buffett: Beyond Value and Buffett's Bites. Both draw heavily on his words, but don't say much that's new.

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