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Bebe Moore Campbell is a best-selling author and an NAACP Image award winner. In What You Owe Me, an epic tale of friendship, betrayal, loss, accountability, and healing, she spans 50 years of African-American history. New to Los Angeles, Hosanna Clark, a farm worker from Texas, befriends Holocaust survivor Gilda Rosenstein. Together they build a cosmetics company and a deep friendship. Then Gilda disappears, taking with her the company's assets....
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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...
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"This fast-paced novel examines the lives, loves, and sacrifices of the visionaries who invented the modern cosmetics industry: Josiah Herzenstein, born in a Polish Jewish Shtlel, the entrepreneur who transforms herself into a global style icon and the richest woman in the world, Josephine Herz; Constance Gardiner, her rival, the ultimate society woman who invents the door-to-door business and its female workforce but whose deepest secret threatens...
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2023.
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"For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic...
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William Morrow
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[2023]
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English
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"Bianca Bridge has always dreamed of becoming a writer. But Trididadian society can be unforgiving, and having an affair with a married government official is a surefire way to ruin your prospects. So when Obadiah Cortland, a notoriously tyrannical entrepreneur in the island's beauty scene, offers her a job, Bianca accepts, realizing that working on his magazine is the closest to her dreams she'll get. As Bianca begins to embrace her power and...
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Vera Hart has it all: a successful cosmetics company, a devoted daughter, and a worldwide adulation. But someone is sabotaging her company by killing women through the cosmetics that bear her name. Marti Phelps, a military doctor in the first Gulf war who wants a quiet life with her child, is Vera's estranged daughter whom Vera wants back. Greta Hart is the dutiful daughter whom Vera has taken for granted. How intense is the rivalry between the sisters?...
9) The switch
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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When wealthy, spoiled, thirteen-year-old Tad Spencer wishes he were someone else, he awakens as Bob Snarby, the uncouth, impoverished son of carnival workers, and as he is drawn into a life of crime he begins to discover truths about himself and his family.
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Rebel girls (Chapter books) volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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"Sarah is the first in her family to be born free in Delta, Louisiana. But being free doesn't mean that Sarah doesn't have to work. She cooks, she cleans, she picks cotton, she does laundry, and she babysits. And when she works, she wraps up her hair. One day, Sarah's hair starts to fall out! It's itchy, crunchy, patchy, and won't grow. Instead of giving up, Sarah searches for the right products. And then she invents something better than ahy shampoo...
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Tor
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2016.
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English
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"Lyle Fontanelle is the chief scientist for NewYew, a health and beauty company experimenting with a new, anti-aging hand lotion. As more and more anomalies crop up in testing, Lyle realizes that the lotion's formula has somehow gone horribly wrong. It is actively overwriting the DNA of anyone who uses it, turning them into physical clones of someone else. Lyle wants to destroy the formula, but NewYew thinks it might be the greatest beauty product...
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Suma de Letras
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2022.
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Español
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"When all seemed lost, a mysterious letter has awakened a ray of hope in Sophia: the son she thought was dead may still be alive in Paris. But when she arrives in town for confirm this, Sophia runs into an unforgiving wall of silence. She then decides to accept a job offer from Elizabeth Arden, the great rival of Helena Rubinstein, her former boss. A glamorous ambiance greets the young chemist but when Madame Rubinstein unexpectedly returns to her...
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Los colores de la belleza volume 1
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Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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An unexpected departure, Berlin, 1926. Agitated, Sophia leaves her parents' house. Her father never wants to see her again, her mother is in tears. Only when she stands in front of her lover does Sophia realize that she has to raise the child on her own, unmarried. Desperate, she travels to a friend's house in Paris, where she has an incredible opportunity. The great Helena Rubinstein is enthusiastic about Sophia's charisma and one of her homemade...
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Hachette Australia
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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1918, England. Armistice Day should bring peace into Leonora's life. Rather than secretly making cosmetics in her father's chemist shop to sell to army nurses such as Joan, her adventurous Australian friend, Leo hopes to now display her wares openly. Instead, Spanish flu arrives in the village, claiming her father's life. Determined to start over, she boards a ship to New York City. On the way she meets debonair department store heir Everett Forsyth...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In New York City, you can disappear into the crowd. At least that's what Gloria Downing desperately hopes as she tries to reinvent herself after a devastating family scandal. She's ready for a total life makeover and a friend she can lean on--and into her path walks a young, idealistic woman named Estée. Their chance encounter will change Gloria's life forever. Estée dreams of success and becoming a household name like Elizabeth Arden, Helena Rubinstein,...