Julesburg Public Library

When a mining company discovers gold near the Badlands, South Dakota bank president Larry Sorenson moves to secure ownership of four cattle ranches that control access to the gold, beginning a feud between ranchers and developers.

A CIA director with presidential ambitions, but not the cash, hires Arabs to launch a campaign of terror to precipitate economic chaos in the U.S. This will enable him to buy property at a cheap price, later selling it at a profit. The main protagonist is the banker raising money for the purchases.

"The propulsive story of three scheming opportunists-a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extraordinary gift-whose lives collide in the wake of a devastating fire in the American West For the citizens of Spokane Falls, the fire of 1889 that destroyed their frontier boomtown was no disaster; it was an opportunity. Barton Heydale, manager of the only bank in Spokane Falls, is on the verge of ending his short, unpopular life. But when his city goes...

"The saga of the German-Jewish immigrants-with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Lehman and Seligman-who built the modern American finance system and shaped the world economy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came Henry and Emanuel Lehman, who would open a general store in Montgomery,...

Jim Leighton is thrilled when he is hired as a deckhand and personal trainer to a wealthy investment banker who is setting sail for Rio de Janeiro in his luxury yacht, but Jim's dream vacation is threatened when he learns his new boss is hiding a deadly secret.

"Reformed gangster Jack Robinson is working hard to bolster his image in Gilded Age New York City society as he prepares to become a new father. But when Hayden Norcross, the man who nearly ruined his wife, is shot in cold blood, Jack knows the police will soon come knocking on his door. Frank Malloy has to agree ... things don't look good for Jack. But surely a man as unlikeable as Hayden had more than a few enemies. And it's soon clear that plenty...

While on a trip to New York, the life of an international banker spirals out of control.

"Biography of a Colonial/Revolutionary-era American patriot, philanthropist, and founder of Girard College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who, by the early eighteen hundreds, had become the richest man in America"--

Living in the late 1970s, brothers J.T. and Roland Cole build an impressive economic empire from their father's humble bank enterprise. Now they have their eyes on endeavors promising more wealth and power--but at what cost?

Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 360 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family