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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A profound and gripping memoir by Nicole Walters, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants who became a self-made multi-millionaire by showing others how to recognize their own strengths-and her own harrowing journey to the discovery that she was worthy all along of the life of her dreams"--
As the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, Walters was raised by parents who emphasized education and hustle but themselves lived a life of lack. In response, she developed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Adira Smith-Cortez is a self-made multi-millionaire who takes exquisite care of herself and her husband, Gabriel. She knows he is cheating on her two women: sexy...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvi, 147 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (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.
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 a young neurosurgeon...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Why is Madam C. J. Walker important? She invented a brand of hair care products just for African Americans! Follow her journey from the cotton fields to a seat at the millionaires' table. It's a story of big dreams, hard work, and life-changing inventions!"--Page 4 of cover.
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