Merchant Princes - Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel.
James D. Frost

‘Merchant Princes’ chronicles the history of the Stairs family of Halifax, their commercial evolution and considerable political involvement. A thorough and well written account.

The New Reality of Wall Street
Don Coxe

An Investor’s Survival Guide to Triple Waterfalls and Other Stock Market Perils Published by McGraw Hill

This is good read and a great reference to help all investors contend with a very challenging period ahead.

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Peter Bernstein

White Rhino Hotel
Bartle Bull

The Rythm Section
Mark Burnell

Getting To Normal
Sandra Campbell

Step inside the heart and mind of a sensitive child as she struggles to belong; beautifully written.

The Dark Valley; A Panorama of the 1930s
Piers Brendon

The Creature from Jekyll Island
A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
G. Edward Griffin

Hope of the Wicked
Ted Flynn

The New New Thing - ] A Silicon Valley Story [
Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis takes readers inside the now-familiar world of Silicon Valley excess, the frantic deal making, the absurdly hyped expectations, the phenomenal wealth. But the 39-year old best-selling author of Liar's Poker and The Money Culture brings something genuinely exotic to the mix: near-total access to one of the Valley's biggest and most enigmatic players. Wired "Must Read," November 1999

The Ultimate Investor
Dean LeBaron & Romesh Vritilingam

The Ultimate Book of Investment Quotations
Dean LeBaron & Romesh Vritilingam
with Marilyn Pitchford

"Mandatory reading and reference material for novice and experienced investors alike. A great compendium of investment insight"

Why Most Investors Are Mostly Wrong Most of the Time
William X. Scheinman

The Bear Book - Survive and Profit in Ferocious Markets
John Rothchild

"Rothchild writes crisply and with humor, too...even those investors who don't share his outlook can profit from the reminder that people who get out before market disasters aren't often surrounded by those who share their viewpoint"

Once in Golconda
The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60's.
John Brooks

This formerly out-of-print gem, originally published in 1969, has been hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a literate, analytical, easily read account of a crucial period in U.S. financial history." It focuses on how a small group of financiers eventually lost their control of the New York Stock Exchange, sending its president, Richard Whitney, to Sing Sing for embezzlement.

Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Investing: A Professional Investor's Guide.
William Crerend

"Unlike exchange based or regulated investment vehicles, hedge funds are complex, legal structures employing unique investment strategies. As such, they are difficult to identify, evaluate and track by even seasoned investment professionals. This book provides those charged with direct investment decision making or fiduciary responsibility a foundation for making hedge fund investment decisions. Combining the remedial issues surrounding this investment class with a thorough technical explanation of the allocation and evaluation issues, the authors have achieved the delicate balance of an authoritative and clear information guide".

A Soldier of the Great War
Mark Helprin

Sharing his past with an illiterate young factory worker, septuagenarian war hero and professor Alessandro Giuliani shares his adventures surrounding the Great War, during which he confronted lovers, madmen, and mafiosi.; NYT.

Winter's Tale
Mark Helprin

A breathtaking novel by the author of A Soldier of the Great War, this is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human soul, about God, love, and justice, and yet readers can lose themselves in it as if it were a dream. "A gifted writer's love affair with the language."--Newsday.

Memoir From Antproof Case
Mark Helprin

The bestselling author of A Soldier of the Great War and Winter's Tale combines adventure, satire, and flights of transcendence in this vivid and poignant novel. In a mountain garden overlooking the ocean in Brazil, an old American writes his memoirs, describing a life that reads like a song of the 20th century. "Compulsively readable."--The Wall Street Journal.

The Last Lion - Winston Churchill 1874-1932
William Manchester

"The long-awaited second volume of the best Churchill biography reveals the true portrait of this ambitious world leader. Discussion centers on the alarm he sounded about the terrible plot being hatched inside Hitler's deranged mind. Two 8-page photos inserts".

Alone - Winston Churchill; 1932-1940
William Manchester

"Manchester's two volume biography sparkles. Many biographers do no more than summarize the facts they uncover. Manchester does much more;he glues together the facts with superb writing. Manchester's volumes offer an encyclopedic treatment of Churchill and the era in which he lived. Because the volumes are written with style, clarity and wit, they are a pleasure to read. Manchester's work is the best biography I have ever read".

Thomas Jefferson - A Life - Biography
Willard Sterne Randall

"This gracefully rendered portrait offers stories from Jefferson's youth in colonial Virginia to his tragic final days at Monticello. Throughout the narrative, Randall shows Jefferson to be a dynamic and thoroughly modern man, who committed himself to a search for a meaningful, authentic way of life".

A Man in Full - Novel
Tom Wolfe

"A decade ago, "The Bonfire of the Vanities" defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as a major fiction chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. In his new novel, set in present-day Atlanta, Wolfe shows readers the disparate worlds of contemporary America, as he chronicles the story of an event that shatters the city's delicate racial balance".

Correlli"s Mandolin -Novel; World War II - Greece
Louis de Bernieres

"Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, this rich and lyrical, heartbreaking and hilarious novel has been widely hailed as a classic. Set on the peaceful island of Cephallonia, just as the horrors of World World II reach its remote shores, Corelli's Mandolin is "an exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review".

Truman; -Biography
David McCullough

"This warm biography of Harry Truman is both an historical evaluation of his presidency and a paean to the man's rock-solid American values. Truman was a compromise candidate for vice president, almost an accidental president after Roosevelt's death 12 weeks into his second term. Truman's stunning come-from-behind victory in the 1948 election showed how his personal qualities of integrity and straightforwardness were appreciated by ordinary Americans, perhaps, as McCullough notes, because he was one himself. His presidency was dominated by enormously controversial issues: he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, established anti-Communism as the bedrock of American foreign policy, and sent U.S. troops into the Korean War. In this winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, McCullough argues that history has validated most of Truman's war-time and Cold War decisions".

Flight of Eagles; Adventure; World War I & II
Jack Higgins