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2024.
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English
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"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...
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English
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"One wrong word can ruin your life. No one knows that better than savvy crisis management expert Arden Ward, especially since she's been forced to handle a crisis of her own. Unfairly accused of having an affair with a powerful client, Arden's life and dreams are about to crash and burn. Then, Arden is given an ultimatum: she has just two weeks to save her career and her reputation. Is Cordelia Bannister the answer to her prayers? Cordelia needs Arden's...
4) The rival
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Four Corners Ranch volume 7
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English
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Cowboy Levi Granger is proud of his ranch, and of the siblings he brought up after the loss of their parents. When Quinn Sullivan looks into accessing his land for a business venture, the kick of attraction is both shocking and unwelcome. She can more than hold her own when it comes to arrogant cowboys, but there's something about Levi that gets under her skin.
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When she and her canine companion stumble upon the dead body of a sticky-fingered financial adviser who swindled millions from investors, Sarah Grayson and Charlotte's Angels, the senior citizen sleuths who work out of her secondhand shop, find the fur flying as they try to untangle the truth.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"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...
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Simon Element
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Bonnie Hammer's legendary career spans five decades in a turbulent, male-driven industry. Today, Bonnie is a powerful leader at the very top of her field, and women at all levels constantly ask her: What is your secret to success? Her power--and her staying power--comes from rejecting common myths about how women are "supposed" to act in the workplace. She knows that the conventional wisdom women are told about work--pithy phrases like "Don't mix...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"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...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Chelly Wilson escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema empire in New York City in the 1970s as a Greek-born, Christmas-celebrating, Jewish grandma, who married men but was openly gay. This documentary charts her unlikely rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on 'The Deuce,' aka New York's infamous 42nd Street.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"What happens to the women who choose to work in a country struggling to reconcile a traditional culture with the demands of globalization? In this sharply drawn, immersive portrait of Egyptian society, veteran reporter Leslie T. Chang follows three women as they establish businesses and careers in a country that throws up obstacles at every step, from economic upheaval to conservative marriage expectations to a failing education system. Working in...
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St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"From the self-made businesswoman and founder of the global platform Build Like A Woman comes the essential resource to unleash your business, take up space, and create your dream life. In a world of hustle culture and burnout, women don't want to lean in, they want to lie down. Now more than ever, women are looking to leave the corporate grind to break out into their own entrepreneurial ventures in a way that feeds their life rather than consumes...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Over the years the products of big tech companies and Silicon Valley have become indispensable to our lives. They impact the way we socialize, make purchases, and even our medical decisions. But what happens when a major segment of the population--in this case Black women--isn't included in these companies?"--
13) You, the leader
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Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"It's time for female leaders to stand out. Women often aren't seen for their leadership potential. We face a double bind, forced to choose whether to be liked or respected, while neither one alone is enough to secure a seat at the table. It's up to organisations to change, but until then, what's an aspiring female leader to do? You, the Leader tackles the obstacles you face as you chart your path to the top, from not getting credit for your work...
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Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"This collection showcases some of the most beloved leaders from the New York Times best-selling series, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. It also features brand new tales of women's activism, bravery, and vision"--
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Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"Collection of 25 captivating tales of women who have used their creativity, ingenuity, and drive to build businesses. Read about how they searched for solutions, invented products, shook up industries, and invested in the future"--
16) Until I'm yours
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Series
Bennett volume 4
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The world knows her face . . . but only one man knows her heart. Mean girl. Goddess. Bitch. Supermodel Sofie Baston has earned those labels . . . yet they don't scratch the surface of who she really is. Before she can follow her own dreams, Sophie must do her daughterly duty and reel in a "fish" for her father's business--a tall, brown-eyed entrepreneur who immediately hooks her. He's a big guy with an even bigger heart . . . but will that heart...
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Forbes Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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The author provides readers with a roadmap of how she and a dozen other women like her beat the odds. With clear eyes and hard-won insight, Steven-Waiss presents their exhilarating and sometimes disappointing experiences alongside her own, demonstrating the unique obstacles that await women founders and showing that there is hope. She offers inspiration, role models, and a clear path to empower women to get into the game.
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Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Persian
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"Inside this traditional Iranian dating agency, the manager, Mrs. Sadri, and her female employees are determined to find their clients a husband - regardless of their personal feelings or preferences ... They constantly remind their mortified customers that it's the man who gets to choose, and that a woman without a spouse doesn't have an identity. Even a temporary marriage would be better than remaining unwed, they say. Which doesn't mean these surprising...
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A biography of Lydia Hamilton Smith (1813-1884), a prominent African American businesswoman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the longtime housekeeper and life companion of the state's abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens"--
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