Showing results for "For the Win" in World Literature

Europe, 1940. As war rages across the continent, America watches anxiously from the sidelines. And President Franklin Roosevelt has been keeping an even closer eye on developments in the Third Reich. At the president’s personal request, Lanny Budd gained the confidence of the Nazi high command and began transmitting valuable information back to the White House. Espionage is a dangerous game, however, and Presidential Agent 103 soon finds himself a target of the French Resistance fighters he is attempting to assist.

Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly White school, and too White to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too.

In the financial district of New York City, where the towering buildings witness the hustle and bustle of Wall Street, Graydon and Sophie forge their way, bound together by their purist dreams and resolute strength, to succeed in the business world. As they celebrate their 10th anniversary and prepare to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, little do they know that their world is about to be turned upside down. What begins as a joyous occasion soon spirals into a web of deceit and betrayal when a powerful banker steps in to crush their dreams.