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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie...
2) Iron Man 2
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Now that the world knows billionaire inventor Tony Stark is the armored super hero Iron Man, his life has suddenly become even more intense. Everyone wants in on the Iron Man technology, whether for power or profit, but for Ivan Vanko, it's revenge. With Pepper Potts and James Rhodes at his side, Stark must once again suit up and face his most dangerous enemy yet.
3) Annie
Language
English
Description
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his brilliant VP, Grace and Guy, makes a thinly-veiled campaign...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This gloriously illustrated picture book biography tells the inspiring story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of one of the world's most beloved toys. A perfect fit among favorites like The Day the Crayons Quit and Balloons Over Broadway"--
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Poorly made in China is a look at China's export manufacturing sector, one that reveals what really goes on behind the scenes. The story follows the author from one project to the next, taking the reader through a diverse set of industries and revealing a number of challenges. Provides insight on the rising Chinese economy, providing a closer look at the rough-and-tumble environment in which so many of our consumer products are being made.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a best-selling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which revolutionized the mass production of food and what we eat for breakfast. In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of these...
10) An American phoenix: the remarkable story of William Skinner, a man who turned disaster into destiny
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Traces the rise, fall and improbable comeback of a leading founder of the American silk industry, looking at how his knowledge and business acumen helped him establish a successful silk mill and later rebuild after a disastrous flood.
12) TMNT
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Master Splinter, their sensei, is struggling to keep them together. He becomes worried when strange things begin brewing in New York City. Tech-industrialist tycoon Max Winters revives four ancient stone warriors and enlists the help of the foot clan to help capture ancient monsters.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Traces the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration of space as navigated by billionaire entrepreneurs, sharing insights into how professional rivalry and Silicon Valley innovations are lowering the cost of space travel and exceeding the achievements of NASA.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Reveals how the Scottish immigrant arrived in the United States at the height of the Industrial Revolution, made his fortune in by investing in the railroads before using his wealth to fund over 2,500 public libraries around the world.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries. Hiltzik shows how the vicious competition between empire builders such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, J. P. Morgan, and E. H. Harriman sparked stock market frenzies,...
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