For The Love Of Money

From hardknocks Philly all the way to glamorous Hollywood, Tracy Ellison has truly walked the walk. Now twenty-eight yea... (more)

From hardknocks Philly all the way to glamorous Hollywood, Tracy Ellison has truly walked the walk. Now twenty-eight years old and a big-time movie star, Omar Tyree's infamously uncompromising, erstwhile "Flyy Girl" is going back to her East Coast roots. As she drops in to reconnect with friends, Tracy seems on the brink of a happily-ever-after existence, bountifully armed as she is with over-the-top beauty, unstoppable attitude, and mountains of cash. But what is life, after all, if not a continuous stream of challenges? Tracy's homecoming stirs up a string of difficult questions about past loves, ambivalent family ties, and her artistic ambitions. Crackling with honesty and passion, For the Love of Money is a triumphant continuation of the singular adventures of one of contemporary fiction's most outrageous young heroines. (less)

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An unflinching memoir about coming of age on Wall Street, fighting to overcome the ghosts of his past, and the radical n... (more)

An unflinching memoir about coming of age on Wall Street, fighting to overcome the ghosts of his past, and the radical new way he now defines success. At just thirty years old, Sam Polk was a senior trader for one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, on the verge of making it to the very top. When he was offered an annual bonus of $3.75 million, he grew angry because it was not enough. In that moment he knew he had lost himself in his obsessive pursuit of money. And he had come to loathe the culture, the shallowness, the sexism, the crude machismo, and Wall Street's use of wealth as the sole measure of a person's worth. He decided to walk away from it all. (less)