Ball, Erica
Summary: Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALKER, C.J. BALSummary: Follows the lives of the Robertson family who managed to become multimillionaires with their thriving business selling handmade duck calls in the Louisiana bayou.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DUCMauldin, John
Summary: "This book provides a unique and personal money management perspective taking a look at the investment habits, lessons to live by, and techniques of the affluent. It offers revelatory insight to those aspiring to financial heights, investment managers looking to know more about their clients, all the way to other millionaires wanting to learn valuable lessons from their peers. This is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 MAUHobkirk, Lori.
Summary: "Starting a successful business is not an easy task. It was even more difficult for a Black woman to accomplish this in the 1900s. Yet, this is what Madam C.J. Walker did"--Page 5.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WALSummary: When 21-year-old hippie millionaire Michael Brody Jr. decided to give away his fortune to anyone in need, he ignited a psychedelic spiral of events. An instant celebrity, Brody was mobbed by the public, scrutinized by the press, and overwhelmed by the crush of personal letters responding to his extraordinary offer. Fifty years later, an enormous cache of these letters is discovered unopened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEASummary: Howard Hughes tells his story for the first time. Through his own words, taken from his actual memos, conversations and interviews, the man who broke aviation records, survived three plane crashes, built RKO studios, comes to life in this engrossing film
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOWBraun, Lilian Jackson.
Summary: While Moose County is in an uproar over a string of lucrative inheritances, Polly departs for Paris, Koko the irrepressible Siamese meets a piano tuner, Qwill writes a play, and a mysterious bee sting-related death occurs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRABryan, Ford R. (Ford Richardson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 BRYCooper, Anderson
Summary: Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US CooperHansen, Mark Victor.
Contents: Why "enlightened" wealth? -- The four key wealth codes -- The destiny code -- How to turn your buried treasures into millions -- The prism code -- WOW -- The angel code -- Inside the enlightened enterprise -- The star code -- Hundredfolding -- Residual philanthropy--giving your way to wealth -- Money!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 HANHigham, Charles
Summary: Provides a portrait of the private life of billionaire Howard Hughes, from his affairs with Hollywood stars to his possible involvement with Nixon and Watergate to his shocking death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, HOWARD HIGMays, Andrea E.
Summary: "Today it is the most valuable book in the world. Recently one sold for over five million dollars. It is the book that rescued the name of William Shakespeare and half of his plays from oblivion. The Millionaire and the Bard tells the miraculous and romantic story of the making of the First Folio, and of the American industrialist whose thrilling pursuit of the book became a lifelong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOLGER, HENRY MAYD'Agostino, Ryan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 DAGReginato, James
Summary: "Oil magnate J. Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, is the patriarch of an extraordinary cast of sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. While some have been brought low by mental illness, drug addiction, and one of the most sensational kidnapping cases of the 20th century, many of Getty's heirs have achieved great success. In addition to Mark Getty, a cofounder of Getty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 REGStanley, Thomas J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.5234 STAHogan, Chris
Summary: "Millionaire status doesn't require inheriting a bunch of money or having a high-paying job. No. The path to becoming a millionaire is paved with more-ordinary tools--tools that you either already have or that you can learn. If you thought you could never become a millionaire, think again. Listen and learn from over 10,000 everyday millionaires who have done it and believe it's possible for you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ramsey Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 HOGStanley, Thomas J.
Summary: Examines the ways wealthy businesswomen earn, manage, and generously share their money, discussing the lifestyles, beliefs, and spending habits of successful American women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1082 STAThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Hugh Breedlove is far from the most agreeable client private investigator Frank Malloy has ever had, but his case is impossible to refuse: his young niece, Julia, has been wrongfully committed to an insane asylum by her cruel and unfaithful husband, Chet Longly. Though Breedlove and his wife seem more interested in protecting the family reputation than their niece's safety, Frank and Sarah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOBryan, Ford R. (Ford Richardson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, HENRY BRYHack, Richard.
Summary: Based on newly uncovered personal letters, sealed court testimony, recently declassified FBI files, and never-before-revealed autopsy findings, this book by an investigative journalist and Hollywood insider is the definitive biography of Howard Hughes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Millennium Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, HOWARD HACStanley, Thomas J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Pub. 2000
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Summary: Learn the seven common denominators that show up again and again among people who have built their personal fortunes from scratch -- then put these lessons to work for you!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Longstreet Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 STAFarrell, Justin
Summary: "Billionaire Wilderness offers an unprecedented look inside the world of the ultra-wealthy and their relationship to the natural world, showing how the ultra-rich use nature to resolve key predicaments in their lives. Justin Farrell immerses himself in Teton County, Wyoming-both the richest county in the United States and the county with the nation's highest level of income inequality-to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2020