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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's extraordinary novel celebrates life, love, and the power of sisterhood—proving that friends, like fine wine, only get better with age...
Gorgeous, successful executive Teri Stewart spends her days working for L.A.'s hottest record company—and her nights all alone. Her best friend Nicole is determined to find Teri a man, but she hasn't had much luck...because Teri wants...
Gorgeous, successful executive Teri Stewart spends her days working for L.A.'s hottest record company—and her nights all alone. Her best friend Nicole is determined to find Teri a man, but she hasn't had much luck...because Teri wants...
2) True love
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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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True love... or the ultimate revenge? Don't miss this reader favorite from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson.
Corporate executive Shayla Kirkland has landed her dream job with one of Chicago's top new firms, Chenault Electronics. Now she's in a perfect position to destroy the company for unjustly ruining her mother's career. But she never expected that handsome CEO Nicholas Chenault would spark a passion that challenges her resolve-and...
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English
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"A relentlessly optimistic memoir by one of the most influential Black business leaders in America today, offering hope and practical guidance for navigating life's most difficult challenges, inspired by the author's cancer journal that went viral "Focus. Pray. Act. Serve. And we'll get through this together." Cynthia "Cynt" Marshall has spent her life beating the odds. Growing up in the public housing projects of Richmond, California, Cynt never...
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English
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"Madam C. J. Walker--reputed to be America's 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...
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Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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If love is an adventure, Kenya McQueen has yet to be embarked upon it. A beautiful L.A. career woman, Kenya works as a senior manager at a prestigious accounting firm, and is on the verge of making partner. But she has yet to find her own partner and a fulfilling personal life. After another Valentine's Day spent working late, Kenya agrees to a blind date with Brian, a sexy and free-spirited landscape architect who is not exactly what she'd pictured...
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Publisher
Mango Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"I'm Not Yelling is part strategy for savvy black business women navigating a predominantly white corporate America and part vessel empowering black women to find their voices in toxic work environments and be successful business women. Statistical and anecdotal evidence guide the way. Explore the data and hear the accounts of Black women in business who face, work through, and rise above workplace discrimination. Finding your voice as women entrepreneurs....
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Publisher
Harvard Business School Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Gender equality is at a crossroads. Let your diverse talent shine.
In Our Separate Ways, Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo take an unflinching look at the differences between Black and White women's experiences at work. Based on groundbreaking research, the book compares and contrasts the experiences of 120 first-generation Black and White female managers in the American business area. In-depth histories bring to life the women's powerful and often...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Bundles, a journalist and great-great-granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker, offers a lively portrait of an American businesswoman. Walker, the first freeborn child of slaves, rose from poverty to establish a successful hair-care business, became one of the wealthiest women in the U.S., and devoted herself to a life of activism and philanthropy toward race and women's issues. photo insert.
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Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
There's nothing Marcus Reed hates more than the pretentiousness of upper class people. And he's got a chip on his shoulders the size of Mt. Rushmore when it comes to Black American Princesses in particular, women who place more value on what a man wears and owns rather than his character. He's a successful, practical and no-nonsense brother who is the vice president of Summer Security, and he's next in line for CEO. So when Nicole Summers Benoit inherits...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"The daughter of slaves, Madam C.J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then, with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women, everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented...
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Publisher
Pebble, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"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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