Business Adventure Fiction

From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America. What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible...

Alex - a.k.a. Jack Alltrades - just wanted to play a game and make some money for himself and his family. After a string of incredible luck and a few wise decisions, he finds himself responsible for an entire company based in the game. It's not all rainbows and gold coins, though. Real life threats, angry NPC merchants, and shady deals with the elves and dwarves are giving Jack a massive headache.

Meet frat boy Harrison Bloom. He’s a narcissist, but he loves his family. He’s spoiled, but he works hard. Naturally, he feels terrible about choosing a career path his father dislikes, but he makes up for it by dating women Dad would approve of. Hold on... he does what?? He can’t get a break. His brand-spanking new, one-day-old Mustang convertible is stolen and wrecked before he can purchase insurance. All he can afford is a haunted hearse.

Dark Wizards gather in Seattle for a meeting. Alison isn't about to let them set up business in her town. Her friends have her back, even if one of them may be a traitor. A dark wizard escapes the raid. Doesn’t he realize a Brownstone won't give up? After he frees the Fremont troll, Alison has to think fast to protect innocents. But wrangling a stone giant wasn’t on her agenda.

King Cullin may be known as "the Dragon Slayer", but he fears his son’s legacy will be as "King Maurice Who Speaks with Proper Grammar". The boy keeps his nose buried in parchments, starry-eyed at the idea of noble knights and eager to hand royal gold to any con man hawking a unicorn horn. Tonight, though, Cullin will educate the prince in the truth behind minstrels’ silly songs of glory….

The Extravaganza of the Seas is a 5,000 ton cash cow, a top-heavy tub whose sole function is to carry gamblers three miles from the Florida coast, take their money, then bring them back so they can find more money.

T'Chezz is upping the effort with the war and unleashing an unbound demon on San Diego while Katie/Pandora and Calvin happen to be in town. However, to save Calvin, Katie is going to have to divulge more abilities that could get back to Korbin. With the special weapons taking a toll on his plans, T'Chezz finds out he isn't the only one who has new capabilities. So, he decides to increase the burn. Katie and Pandora are having to learn how to work together...and yet make sure that Korbin believes Katie isn't being taken on a ride by a demon with centuries of guile under her belt.

A goblin changeling caught between the human and fey worlds must find a way to save her home in this warm and heartfelt fantasy from the author of Toto and the Hell’s Library series. Being a changeling is hard enough, but Toast was older than most changeling children when her goblin parents...

National Bestseller Winner of the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Award, and shortlisted for The Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Childhood is renowned and critically acclaimed author André Alexis' stunning first novel. Originally published in 1998...

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Guilt and The 13th Juror comes an electrifying new thriller--a novel in which San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy faces the case of his career. This time his family is involved--and for Hardy, a devoted husband and father, the...

Meet Mr. Business: third-grade student and business-savvy entrepreneur! Follow BK around his neighborhood and school as he learns about life. In this adventure, BK hears something interesting at school and shares it with his grandparents. He learns that some things are better not said, even if they are true. Children and parents alike love the values of this dynamic story and how it encourages children to be true to who they are.

Meet Mr. Business: third-grade student and business-savvy entrepreneur! Follow BK on his adventures in business and learning about life. Children and parents alike love the values of this dynamic story and how it encourages children to be true to who they are.

In this adventure, BK thinks it's not "cool" to get a golden honors tassel. He learns that his friends really wanted him to get the golden tassel. Find out what he does. Children and parents alike love the values of this dynamic story and how it encourages children to be true to who they are.

Mr. Business is Little BK, a third-grade student who finds out that he needs to get glasses. He was upset that he had to get glasses, until he realized that his glasses gave him a superpower! Follow BK on his adventures in handling his business and learning about life. Children and parents alike love the values of this dynamic story and how it encourages children to be true to who they are.

Mr. Business is Little BK, a third-grade student, and he loves his favorite thing! When he doesn't have enough money for his favorite thing one morning, he searches until he finds the jackpot...or so he thinks!

Mr. Business is Little BK, a third-grade student on his way to the science fair. But when a classmate says something that surprises him, BK has to figure out what it means to him. Follow BK on his adventures in business and learning about life. Children and parents alike love the values of this dynamic story and how it encourages children to be true to who they are.

Mr. Business is Little BK, a third-grade student. When his grandma comes to visit, he wants to teach her all that he has learned in school, but ends up with a brand new lesson about caring about others and himself. Follow BK on his adventures in handling his business and learning about life. Children and parents alike love the values of this dynamic story and how it encourages children to be true to who they are.

Unfinished Business: Pursuit of an Antarctic Killer is Book II of The Antarctic Murders Trilogy. It continues the story of Captain Roberto Muoz of the Lientur and the hunt for the millions of dollars in US and British cash, negotiable securities, gold coins, and jewelry that were stolen from the Banco Central de Chile following the Chilean Earthquake of May, 1960.

On the face of it, this is the story of Dave Smart, business studies lecturer, as he leads a group of three colleagues on a tour of discovery to the Smiling Disc star system, 19 light years from home. Their main purpose is to investigate business practice on Kalista-mm, the larger of the system's two planets, and gather material for Dave's new book, 'Doing Business on Other Planets'.