Ben Mezrich
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Like Agent Fox Mulder of The X-Files, computer programmer and sheriff's deputy Chuck Zukowski is obsessed with tracking down UFO reports in Colorado. He would take the family with him on weekend trips to look for evidence of aliens. But this innocent hobby takes on a sinister urgency when Zukowski learns of mutilated livestock, and sees the bodies of dead horses and cattle -- whose exsanguination is inexplicable by any known human or animal means....
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women.
Eduardo figured their ticket to social...
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women.
Eduardo figured their ticket to social...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASA's precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts' downfall.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Hailey Gordon is looking to make some fast cash to help pay her tuition when she's caught counting cards at the Encore casino in Boston...and makes her escape. With guards closing in, she dives into an unlocked room to hide...only to find a dead body...Nick Patterson hasn't felt hope in a long time, but the job he 'inherited' in prison promises to change that. He enters hotel room 633 to find that the person he was supposed to meet has been murdered....
6) The accidental billionaires: the founding of Facebook , a tale of sex, money, genius and betrayal
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times
Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s elite, competitive, and accomplished student body. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ben Mezrich's 2009 bestseller The Accidental Billionaires is the definitive account of Facebook's founding and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network. Two of the story's iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic rowers, and foils to Mark Zuckerberg. Bitcoin Billionaires is the story of the brothers' redemption and revenge in the wake of their epic legal battle with Facebook....
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows a group of hard-partying frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local Missoula bar into one of the largest online poker companies in the world--and who became fugitives on the run after the Feds shut down their operation.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Ben Mezrich takes us on a true adventure story from the icy terrain of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetic labs of Harvard University. A group of young scientists, under the guidance of Dr. George Church, the most brilliant geneticist of our time, works to make fantasy reality by sequencing the DNA of a frozen woolly mammoth harvested from above the Arctic circle, and splicing elements of that sequence into the DNA of a modern elephant. Will they...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This book offers a gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia's most famous oligarchs from New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House. 'Once upon a time in Russia' is the story of modern day Russia through the eyes of some of the most powerful and wealthy people in the world: the oligarchs. The story starts in the early 1990s with the formation of the huge oil company Sibneft owned by...
Author
Publisher
RatPac Press in collaboration with Running Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Jack Grady, a field anthropologist and 21st century Indiana Jones, lives for the thrill of adventure and the joy of discovery. When his estranged brother, the introverted mathematician Jeremy Grady, is murdered, Jack is determined to find out what happened. His first clue: his brother was stabbed in the chest with an ancient ivory spear. It reminds him of the weapons of the Amazons, a fierce tribe of female warriors dating all the way back to the...
13) Reaper
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A killer virus which travels on the Internet is discovered after nine lawyers die in a Boston conference room. Dr. Samantha Craig of the U.S. Army races to locate it before the launch of a TV-via-the-Internet network which could infect millions of people.
15) Ugly Americans: the true story of the Ivy League cowboys who raided the Asian markets for millions
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, high stakes, and the Asian underworld.
John Malcolm was the ultimate gunslinger in the Wild East, prepared to take on any level of risk in making mind-boggling sums of money. He and his friends were hedge-fund cowboys, living life on the adrenaline-, sex-, and drugs-fueled edge-kids running billion-dollar...
16) Rigged: the true story of an Ivy League kid who changed the world of oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, this is the startling rags-to-riches story of an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn who claws his way into the wild, frenetic world of the oil exchange. After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business School, he enters the testosterone-laced warrens of the Merc Exchange, the asylum like oil exchange located in lower Manhattan. A place...
17) Skin
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperEntertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When moonlighting medical students harvesting skin from a corpse for temporary use accidentally take it from the wrong donor, the results are catastrophic: a New York City hospital ward is destroyed in a bloodbath, and an elderly professor, admitted for a routine skin graft, is suddenly the city's most wanted fugitive. Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are the only ones to suspect something more ominous than a medical procedure gone awry. As the FBI...