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The misfortune of Marion Palm : a novel
\"A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather \"a woman who embezzles.\" Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment. But, now, when the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from their basement hiding places and flees, leaving her family to grapple with the baffled detectives, the irate school board, and the mother-shaped hole in their house. Told from the points of view of Nathan, Marion's husband, heir to a long-diminished family fortune; Ginny, Marion's teenage daughter who falls helplessly in love at the slightest provocation; Jane, Marion's youngest who is obsessed with a missing person of her own; and Marion herself, on the lam--and hiding in plain sight\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Betrayal
Tallie Jones is happy with life. She's at the top of her career as a hugely successful, renowned movie director, she's in a relationship with a handsome producer and her personal assistant is also her devoted best friend. But Tallie's perfect life comes crumbling down around her when she discovers that her boyfriend's been unfaithful and, worse yet, someone's been stealing from her for years.
All the things you are
When Carly Wheeler's mother is arrested for embezzling, Carly's perfect life begins to fall apart as friends at her prestigious private school stop talking to her, her beloved stepfather starts worrying about finances, and her image of herself and her family changes.
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The lying woods
Owen Foster is pulled from his elite New Orleans boarding school when his father's assets are seized and, back in his small town, begins to piece together his father's past despite mounting danger.
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Analysing the Effects of Corruption on Public Service Delivery in Banadir Region Mogadishu-Somalia
This study examined how corruption influences public service delivery in Mogadishu’s Banadir region, with a focus on bribery and embezzlement. It used a quantitative descriptive design and collected primary data through a structured questionnaire from 136 respondents selected from a group of 207 people, including public service professionals, service users, and representatives of anti-corruption agencies. Stratified random sampling and Slovin’s formula were used to determine the sample size. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and regression analysis using SPSS.The article reveals that bribery is widespread in public service delivery in Mogadishu and has a considerable impact on service quality and efficiency, such as in the provision of healthcare, education, and infrastructure. Moreover, the study expresses that bribery undermines public trust and confidence in government institutions. Nevertheless, despite institutional interventions, government efforts to curb bribery have yielded no statistically significant improvement in the quality or efficiency of public service delivery.The research further shows that the embezzlement of public resources is perceived as widespread and leads to the misallocation of resources, which negatively affects the delivery of public services. Nevertheless, the perception that embezzlement directly reduces service quality was not statistically significant. Additional research concludes that corruption has a significant effect on the delivery of public services in Mogadishu and the ability of institutions to meet the needs of citizens.
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