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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When we meet Carrie Sun, she can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduated early from MIT, and climbed up the corporate ladder, all in pursuit of the American dream. But at twenty-nine, she's left her analyst job, dropped out of an MBA program, and is trapped in an unhappy engagement. So when she gets the rare opportunity to work at one of the most prestigious hedge funds...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Josephine N. Leary is determined to build a life of her own, and a future for her family. When she moves to Edenton, North Carolina from the plantation where she was born, she is free, newly married, and ready to follow her dreams. As the demands of life pull Josephine's attention-deepening her marriage, mothering her daughters, supporting her grandmother-she struggles to balance her real estate aspirations with the realities of keeping life going...
363) Heels of steel
Author
Publisher
Mira Books, an imprint of Harlequin Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bridget Steele's father taught her two things: how to build and how to fight. With those skills, she created her own company and began building for New York City's elite. Often the only woman in the room, she's faced sexism, corruption and harassment, but armed with her designer hard hat and steel-toed stilettos, she's up for any challenge. Bridget figured out quickly she had to be ten times better just to be considered equal. Even with a stellar...
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Re-imagining the classic wealth-building, self-help masterwork THINK AND GROW RICH as a guide for modern women, this new book--officially authorized by the Napoleon Hill Foundation--analyzes the lives of outstanding women from the past and today, and uses their stories to support Hill's Thirteen Steps for Riches"--
"Women are the future of American business. According to a recent Nielsen report, women will control two-thirds of American consumer...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The cofounder of BET and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journey through love and loss, tragedy and triumph--an inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self, and at last finding happiness in her work and life. From humble beginnings as a schoolgirl and young violinist in Maywood, Illinois, Sheila Johnson rose to become one of the most accomplished businesswomen in America. A cofounder...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Audacity of a Kiss tells the story of Leslie Cohen, from her youth in Queens, New York during the "Mad Men" era of the 1950s, to her young adulthood and coming of age in the turbulent 1960s and 70s, through her involvement in the women's movement and the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of 1970s NYC. Through it all, she narrates with honesty and humor her attempts to reconcile her feelings for other women with her upbringing during a time when the...
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Series
Grilled cheese mystery volume 4
Publisher
Beyond the Page Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"With the summer heat sizzling, grilled cheese restaurant owner Carly Hale is thrilled to have Ross Baxter delivering her sandwiches to local seniors. She's never met a more polite or hardworking young man, and she brushes it off when one of her more difficult customers complains about him. But then Ross returns to the woman's home to make another delivery--and finds her dead body. The police and half the town immediately suspect he killed her, so...
370) Pride
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The 7 Deadly Sins series that inspired several Lifetime original movies continues with this unputdownable novel following mortgage broker Journee Alexander as she tries to escape the secrets of her past without losing all she has worked to build in the present. Journee Alexander grew up believing that the only person she could depend on was herself. After being abandoned by her mother, burning bridges with friends, and narrowly escaping bad business...
371) Crown of lies
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Series
Publisher
EverAfter Romance
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Noelle Charlston lives a fairy-tale life: a doting father, a powerful job, and a future blessed with financial security. However, two meetings with two men changes her happy existence forever. First, she meets the man who makes her heart sing. Three years later, she meets the man who makes her blood quiver. Broken-hearted from a teenage romance, Noelle's freedom is no longer hers. It belongs to the stranger her father believes is her perfect match....
372) Coral Café
Author
Series
Coral Cottage at Summer Beach volume 2
Publisher
Sunny Palms Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A beach café. An event to remember. The summer heats up with friendship and fun. When Marina Moore decides to expand her farmer's market and pop-up dinner business, the next step is a café on the shores of Summer Beach. But challenges loom, and Marina must quickly become more creative than ever, especially when her children need help. Her sister Kai's position in a musical theater troupe forces more changes, especially when she becomes engaged....
373) No escape claws
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Grayson and her feline ally, Elvis, get a chance to see if their sleuthing skills are up to scratch in the sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling Second Chance Cat Mysteries.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1954 on far-flung Verona Island, a tropical paradise with a fragile economy and a rising crime rate. Prostitution is legal and Lila Gulliver is proud of her business, a high-end brothel where her clients are guaranteed privacy and discretion. When Carità Bercy, a young, destitute, and beautiful blind woman arrives at her door seeking employment, Lila decides to give her a chance. Carità proves a valuable asset to the house, as well as a psychological...
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The scenario is as simple as it is uncomfortable: a college student falls in love (once and for all, despite everything that transpires afterward) with a classmate whose devotion to Kerouac and an untidy writerly life precludes any personal commitments--until she meets a considerably older and far more sophisticated businesswoman. It is through this wormhole that she enters Murakami's surreal yet humane universe, to which she serves as guide both...
376) Totally pawstruck
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Although Sarah Grayson is often tending to the contained chaos of her delightful secondhand store in North Harbor, Maine, plus dealing with the quirky personality of her rescue cat, Elvis, she still takes an occasional night off. But her evening out comes to an abrupt end when Sarah discovers Stella Hall, a member of the library board, standing over a body in the street. Although Stella admits that she and the victim had fought about several things...
377) Crime in Cornwall
Author
Series
British book tour mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Camel Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Claire Barclay is enthusiastic about her British Mystery Book Tour business. She enjoys taking her guests, usually from America, to the settings of mystery novels where bodies are long dead. Her neighbor's plea for help to deal with a recently murdered well-known author unsettles her. She leaves the body to the police and takes her guests to Cornwall, including a British tourist who far is too interested in the dead author"--Provided by publisher....
378) The tea rose
Author
Series
Tea rose trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Maren Winter is a world-renowned restaurateur who has built an empire. No one heeds the whispers of her retirement more closely than her three daughters, all in service to their mother's legacy. On the night of Maren's annual New Year's Eve party, a line is crossed, and word of a humiliating family meltdown spreads like a Northern California wildfire through the culinary elite. It's a golden opportunity for one of them to step into power and a trigger...
380) Claw enforcement
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Grayson owns a delightful secondhand shop in the small town of North Harbor, Maine, where she and her rescue cat, Elvis, are always finding themselves up to their whiskers in trouble. With the help of a quirky group of senior citizens--who call themselves Charlotte's Angels and work out of the store--they solve crimes both new and vintage. Local squabbles about property development have the town in quite a state of drama--and it seems like...
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