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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Everybody in the South has heard about the eccentric millionaire mistress of Talisa, but when ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons attorney Brooke Trappnell to her island home, her note says she wants to discuss an important legal matter. Josephine's home is a crumbling pink mansion at the edge of the turquoise sea, and Josephine spins a tale of old friendships, dark secrets, betrayal, and a long-unsolved murder. She is...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Leadership
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Details an achievable, step-by-step path to become a millionaire within the next three years. Whatever is currently stopping you from having seven figures in the bank -- whether it is doubt, feeling overwhelmed, impostor syndrome, trying too many things, or simply not knowing where to begin -- this book advises ways to clear your obstacles. Rodgers -- mother of four, attorney, business owner, and self-made Black millionaire -- shares the lessons she's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2023.
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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A biography series highlighting the work and social impact of BIPOC inventors"--
"Meet the inventors and scientists of color who changed the world! Born Sarah Breedlove near Delta, Louisiana, in 1867, Madam C. J. Walker was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America. Among her many accomplishments, she invented a Black hair care method, known as the "Walker...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the 1914 disappearance of eleven-year-old Sarah Rector, an African American who was part of the Creek Indian people and whose land had made her wealthy, and what it reveals about race, money, and American society.
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