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"When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons attorney Brooke Trappnell to her 20,000 acre barrier island home, Brooke is puzzled. Everybody in the South has heard about the eccentric millionaire mistress of Talisa, but Brooke has never actually met her. Josephine's cryptic note says she wants to discuss an important legal matter, but why enlist Brooke and not the prestigious Atlanta law firm she has used for years? Brooke...
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English
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Details an achievable, step-by-step path to become a millionaire within the next three years. Whatever is currently stopping you from having seven figures in the bank--whether it is doubt, feeling overwhelmed, imposter syndrome, trying too many things, or simply not knowing where to begin--this book advises ways to clear your obstacles. Rodgers--mother of four, attorney, business owner, and self-made Black millionaire--shares the lessons she's learned...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
40th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 830 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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In 1905, Emma Harte, kitchen maid, leaves Fairley Hall. She is sixteen, single and pregnant. By 1968 she is one of the richest women in the world. But what is the price she has paid?
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Two bodies arrive at the morgue -- one was still breathing. A rich woman checks into a hotel room and entertains a man who is not her husband. A shooter blows away the lover and wounds the millionairess, leaving her for dead. Is it the perfect case for the Women's Murder Club -- or just the most twisted?" --
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English
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A self-made millionaire whose husband is cheating on her with two women, Adira Smith-Cortez, when his vengeful mistress offers her the perfect plan to get him back, is pushed to unthinkable extremes and, as her obsession overtakes her, must decide how much of herself she's willing to lose.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Elementary
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"Read about the life of Madam C.J. Walker, and find out how she created a hair care empire, and helped African Americans in the early 1900s"--Provided by publisher.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language
English
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Madam C. J. Walker is reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress. By the time of her death in 1919, however, Walker had refashioned herself into one of the most famous African American figures in the nation: the owner and president of a hair-care empire...
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Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Starting a successful business is not an easy task. It was even more difficult for a Black woman to accomplish this in the 1900s. Yet, this is what Madam C.J. Walker did"--Page 5.
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 362 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages)
Language
English
Description
The merchant of Venice: Shakespeare's comedy in which a young merchant attempts to extricate himself from an onerous contract with a vicious shylock.
The millionairess: Shaw's comedy in which a wealthy heiress seeks romance with an Egyptian doctor who only tends to the poor.
Talking heads: Bed among the lentils: A dramatic monologue by a jaded, alcoholic wife of a country vicar.
Suddenly last summer: A wealthy Southern matriarch tries to influence...
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Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the 1914 disappearance of eleven-year-old Sarah Rector, an African American who was part of the Creek Indian people and whose land had made her wealthy, and what it reveals about race, money, and American society.
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