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1) Crossfire
Author
Language
English
Description
Shell-shocked and missing a foot-lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan-Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent "home" by the army and, at loose ends, returns to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined up at seventeen. But Josephine Kauri, the "first lady of British racing," has always put the horses she trains first and her family last. Tom soon finds himself strained to the breaking point with his mother and stepfather....
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life and times of gangster Al Capone, explains the government's plan to send Capone to jail for tax evasion, and describes Capone's time in jail and his death.
7) Secrecy world: inside the Panama papers investigation of illicit money networks and the global elite
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of the individuals who benefit from these activities, aided...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Forensic accountant Celia West is the powerless and estranged daughter of two of Commerce City's great heroes, Captain Olympus and Spark. When the city prosecutes the evil Destructor for tax evasion, Celia gets pulled in to track down evidence. As a new crime spree creates tension between the city's heroes and the police force, Celia's investigation uncovers long-buried secrets about her family and the city.
Author
Series
Tara Holloway novel volume 2
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Hitting the books, solving murders, and counting calories. It's all in a day's work for Tara Holloway, the U.S. Treasury's latest, greatest, soon-to-be-skinniest weapon against the biggest, richest tax cheats in the nation.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular--and biblically sanctioned--view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundane: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature--and how we know it--was at stake. Burnett...