Ben Mezrich
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House—the sources for the film The Social Network and 21—comes the larger-than-life rags-to-riches tale of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local dive bar into AbsolutePoker.com, one of the largest online companies in the world.
Based on extensive insider
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires tells his most incredible story yet: A true drama of obscene wealth, crime, rivalry, and betrayal from deep inside the world of billionaire Russian oligarchs that Booklist called "one more example of just how talented a storyteller [Mezrich] is."
Meet two larger-than-life Russians: former mathematician Boris Berezovsky,...
Meet two larger-than-life Russians: former mathematician Boris Berezovsky,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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
2017.
Language
English
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Description
The bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel tells the fascinating Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic restoration of an extinct species—the woolly mammoth. "Paced like a thriller...Woolly reanimates history and breathes new life into the narrative of nature" (NPR).
With his "unparalleled" (Booklist, starred review) writing, Ben Mezrich takes us on an exhilarating...
With his "unparalleled" (Booklist, starred review) writing, Ben Mezrich takes us on an exhilarating...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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. She grabs her winnings and makes her escape. With guards closing in, she dives into an unlocked room to hide...only to find a dead body. Recently released from prison, 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...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
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 Roman...
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A mathematically gifted sixth-grader is recruited by a group of students to game the system at the biggest theme park in the world and win the big prize.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy. Like "Agent Mulder" of The X-Files, computer programmer and sheriff's deputy Zukowski is obsessed with tracking down UFO reports in Colorado. He would take the family with him on weekend trips to look...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ben Mezrich takes listeners on an exhilarating 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, 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 be able to turn the hybrid...
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