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404) Imitation of life
Language
English
Formats
Description
The emotionally charged story about two widows -- one white, one black -- and their daughters. In the 1934 version, the women start a pancake business, in the 1959 version, one is an actresss, the other out of work. In both versions, trouble begins when one daughter falls for her mother's beau and the other decides to pass as white.
405) United States entrepreneurs and the companies they built: an index to biographies in collected works
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwood
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
406) She done him wrong
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (65 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Lady Lou--a bawdy nightclub singer in the 1890s, who spends most of her time tossing witty barbs at the overheated clientele. With her old man locked up in the slammer, Lou is forced to amuse herself with the legions of men fighting for her attentions. She keeps her many admirers at arm's length, even if she does accept the generous diamond-studded gifts they bestow upon her. But the tough cookie soon finds her heart melting...
407) The seventh moon
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In our lifetime, the US has seen a major shift in dominant economic thought, yet few women can identify or talk about its influence. Screwnomics issues a wake-up call for today's women to join what has been a nearly exclusively male conversation for the past 2,500 years. It explains the sexual history of economics, and the unspoken but widely applied economic theory that females, including our mother earth, should always work for less, or better,...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 187 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color)
Language
English
Description
Janine Allis explains how she grew Boost Juice bars into a global phenomenon. How do you turn a single juice bar into a global company with more than 6000 employees and 160 million in global sales? Ask Janine Allis. In The Secrets of My Success, Australia's hottest entrepreneur tells the inside story of the growth of Boost Juice, including her personal journey from housewife with no formal business training to successful entrepreneur. Along the way,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the businesswoman who was born in poverty on a Louisiana plantation, founded her own hair care business, and made more money than any woman, black or white, had ever made before in America.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father's passing and her uncle's decline into dementia, the family business is at risk. In the Victorian era, unmarried Eleanor cannot run Sheffield Brothers alone. The death of a longtime client, Baron Lydney, offers an unexpected complication when Eleanor is appointed the temporary trustee of the baron's...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
44 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of Sarah Breedlove Walker who, though born in poverty, pioneered in hair and beauty care products for black women, and became a great financial success.
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anya's new prominence brings out friends, foes, and ghosts from the past. Certain scores must be settled; certain debts must be paid. Surviving a crime-ridden New York City in the 2080s is looking harder and harder for Anya"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age--Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt--is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For twenty years she ran the country's largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publishing, which chronicled postbellum America in dozens of weeklies and monthlies. A pioneer in an all-male industry, she made a fortune and became a national celebrity and tastemaker in the process. But Miriam Leslie was also a byword for scandal:...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Trixie Nguyen is determined to make her sex toy business a success, proving to her traditional Vietnamese parents that she can succeed in a nontraditional career. She's made a fresh start in Washington DC, and her first pop-up event is going well--until she runs into the ex who dumped her. With a Post-it note. The last person Andre Walker expected to see in his soul food restaurant was the woman he left behind in New Orleans. Their chemistry is still...
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