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Series
Publisher
Compass Point Book
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
Presents photos, illustrations, and information about Madam C.J. Walker, an African American woman who became a millionaire after starting a hair-care business for black women. Discusses her childhood and upbringing, the beginnings of her business in St. Louis, the spread of her success, and her lasting legacy. Includes a timeline, glossary, index, Common Core connection, and resources for further information.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Briefly explores the life of Madam C.J. Walker, who was not only an inventor but a political activist and a woman of business who fought for civil rights and to this day is one of the most successful African-American business owners ever.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This wasn't how Kelsey Worthington's day was supposed to go. She wasn't supposed to be picking up Starbucks for her smarmy boss. She wasn't supposed to get hit by a car that jumped the curb. And she certainly wasn't supposed to wake up in a hospital room next to Georgina Tate--the legendary matriarch of New York City businesswomen. Kelsey and Georgina couldn't be more opposite. Kelsey's a dreamer, a writer who questions her own skill. And Georgina...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvi, 147 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Madam C. J. Walker--reputed to be Americas first self-made woman millionaire--has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. 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, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and working-class African American women. By the time of her death in...
8) Rouge
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This fast-paced novel examines the lives, loves, and sacrifices of the visionaries who invented the modern cosmetics industry: Josiah Herzenstein, born in a Polish Jewish Shtlel, the entrepreneur who transforms herself into a global style icon and the richest woman in the world, Josephine Herz; Constance Gardiner, her rival, the ultimate society woman who invents the door-to-door business and its female workforce but whose deepest secret threatens...
10) What you owe me
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
533 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bebe Moore Campbell is a best-selling author and an NAACP Image award winner. In What You Owe Me, an epic tale of friendship, betrayal, loss, accountability, and healing, she spans 50 years of African-American history. New to Los Angeles, Hosanna Clark, a farm worker from Texas, befriends Holocaust survivor Gilda Rosenstein. Together they build a cosmetics company and a deep friendship. Then Gilda disappears, taking with her the company's assets....
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ix, 214 pages)
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating and nuanced study, Paula Black strips away many popular assumptions about the beauty industry, including the one that says it exploits people's insecurity by projecting an illusory beauty myth.
12) The switch
Author
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
When wealthy, spoiled, thirteen-year-old Tad Spencer wishes he were someone else, he awakens as Bob Snarby, the uncouth, impoverished son of carnival workers, and as he is drawn into a life of crime he begins to discover truths about himself and his family.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
They could have been allies: two self-made millionaires who invented a global industry, in an era when wife and mother were supposed to be the highest goals for their sex. Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein each founded empires built on grit and determination...and yet they became locked in a feud spanning three continents, two world wars, and the Great Depression. Brought up in poverty, Canadian-born Elizabeth Arden changed popular opinion, persuading...
14) Like a boss
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Mia and Mel are living their best lives running their own cosmetics company they've built from the ground up. Unfortunately, they're in over their heads financially, and the prospect of a big buyout offer from a notorious titan of the cosmetics industry Claire Luna proves too tempting to pass up, putting Mel and Mia's lifelong friendship in jeopardy. The beauty business is about to get ugly.
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 423 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Former CEO of Estée Lauder, Leonard Lauder, shares the business and life lessons he learned while turning the company his mother founded into a multi-billion dollar enterprise"--
Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Esťe Lauder Companies Leonard A. Lauder shares the business and life lessons he learned as well as the adventures he had while helping transform the mom-and-pop business his mother founded in 1946 in the family kitchen into the...
16) Believe it
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Shares the wild but true story of how a once struggling waitress turned her against-the-grain idea into an international bestselling sensation, eventually selling the company for over a billion dollars and becoming the first female CEO of a brand in L'Oréal's 100+ year history. Faced with self-doubt, body-doubt, God-doubt, Jamie reveals how she almost didn't make it, how she learned to trust herself, and the powerful lessons you, too, can use to...
18) Youthjuice
Author
Publisher
Hell's Hundred
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Sophia Bannion's first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York City's glitziest neighborhood, it's clear something is deeply amiss. But Sophia, pushing thirty with plenty of skeletons in her closet next to the designer knock-offs, doesn't care. Though she leads an outwardly charmed life, she aches for a deeper meaning to her flat existence--and a cure for her brutal nail-biting habit. She finds...
19) Charm!
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a spin-off tale from the popular daytime series "All My Children," Kendall Hart, the daughter of Erica Kane, pens the story of Manhattan resident Avery Wilkins, whose ambition to promote her cosmetics company launches a series of high-stakes adventures.
20) Rouge: a novel
Author
Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Marysue Rucci Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic...
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