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  The Accidental Billionaires

  The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

  by Ben Mezrich

  The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured... (more)
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  Rigged

  The True Story of an Ivy League Grad's Wild Adventures from Wall Street to Dubai

  by Ben Mezrich

  From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House , this is the startling rags-to-riches story of an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn who claws his way into the wild, frenetic world of the oil exchange. After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business School, he enters the testosterone-laced warrens of the Merc Exchange, the asylumlike oil... (more)
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  21: Bringing Down the House

  The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

  by Ben Mezrich

  #1 National Bestseller! The amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Vegas -- and lived to tell how. Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.'s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the guidance of an eccentric mastermind. Their small blackjack club develops from an experiment in counting cards on M.I.T.'s campus into a... (more)
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  Busting Vegas

  A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds

  by Ben Mezrich

  He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine -- but it would nearly cost him his life. Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. A legend at age twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop -- a system... (more)
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  Ugly Americans

  The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions

  by Ben Mezrich

  Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House , returns with an astonishing story of Ivy League hedge-fund cowboys, high stakes, and the Asian underworld. John Malcolm was the ultimate gunslinger in the Wild East, prepared to take on any level of risk in making mind-boggling sums of money. He and his friends were hedge-fund cowboys, living life on the adrenaline-, sex-, and... (more)