Summary: The story of Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl who overcomes her impoverished Yorkshire beginnings in her quest to become an international retailing magnate and one of the richest women in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2001
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WOMSummary: The final episodes follow the indomitable heroine through the turmoil and terror of World War I to the 1920s. Based on a true story of Rosa Lewis, a culinary genius and the owner of London's Cavendish Hotel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DUCSummary: Ever since she was a young girl, Melinda Gordon has been able to see and talk to dead people. Earth-bound spirits who have yet to cross over to the other side seek her help in communicating and resolving unfinished business with the living.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GHOSummary: In northern India, a breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan community attracts tourists by commingling South Asian and Swiss Alps aesthetics. One local woman competes with her neighbors for business while battling the strictures of patriarchy, a local infrastructure from hell, and religious superstitions. She saves money, uses feminine wiles to subvert the corrupt powers-that-be, and piggy-backs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "It is for Melinda and Jim when death turns their lives upside down, but also gives them a second chance at love. Journey with Melinda ... and see how her relationships with Jim, Delia, Eli and Ned are put to the ultimate test."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GHOSummary: Best friends Mia and Mel are living their best lives running their own cosmetics company they've built from the ground up. Unfortunately, they're in over their heads financially, and the prospect of a big buyout offer from a notorious titan of the cosmetics industry Claire Luna proves too tempting to pass up, putting Mel and Mia's lifelong friendship in jeopardy. The beauty business is about to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIKSummary: During the busy Christmas period, Merry and Bright Candy Cane Company owner Cate meets a mysterious man and assumes he is the man her determined mother is trying to set her up with.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MERSummary: From a Latinx LGBTQ activist to a Black Catholic school principal, six small businesswomen hit California's newly legal cannabis trade. But as aggressive regulations bogart the market, can they each keep their green American dream alight?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LADSummary: Jordan is a take-no-prisoners mogul who torments her long-suffering assistant and employees daily. She soon faces an unexpected threat to her personal life and career when she magically transforms into a thirteen-year-old version of herself after the pressures of adulthood become too much to bear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LITSummary: A big box store worker, Maya, reinvents her life story to land a job in the corporate side of the company she works for. After the aid of a fabricated resume and social network profile, she is offered the position. She accepts the position to try to prove what street smarts can do.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Second 2019Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SeSummary: A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Joy 2016Summary: In the 1950s, American women discovered they could earn thousands, even millions of dollars, from bowls that burped. "Tupperware ladies" fanned out across the nation's living rooms, selling efficiency and convenience to their friends and neighbors through home parties. The secret behind Tupperware's success: the women of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds who discovered they could move up in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TUPHale, Lucy
Summary: When a businesswoman decides to achieve success without compromising her ethics, she discovers that she has become attracted to her cold and efficient office nemesis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distribution Solutions 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HATSummary: Kate is a successful and single businesswoman who has long put her career ahead of a personal life. At 37, she's finally determined to have a child on her own. Unable to get pregnant, a driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. After learning that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode. She reads childcare books,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Baby 2008Summary: Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COCSummary: The beauty and strength of the women of the Juchitán have inspired legends and songs for centuries, as well as recent tabloid stories of male harems and free love. Separate fact from folklore and sensationalism from sociology.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BLOSummary: "Set in the 1890s, West plays a brash barroom entertainer with a soft spot for men in trouble, especially the mission director, young Cary Grant. She unknowingly gets caught up in a murder, as well as a white slavery ring, and sets about clearing things up as only Mae can. In between rescues she manages to perform some of her heated, hip-swinging classics including a steamy belting of 'Frankie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHEDe Niro, Robert
Summary: When a retired man takes on an internship at a growing company, he becomes a mentor for the female founder of the company.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INT RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Intern 2016Summary: In Barcelona, Spain during the last decade of the Cold War, Ted Boynton, the Spanish representative for a Chicago electric engine firm, plays host to his cousin, Fred Boynton, a lieutenant in the Navy. Ted is earnest and ambitious, but not a typical American salesman. Fred is an advance man for the Sixth Fleet's upcoming shore leave. They are smart but somewhat naive white-collar workers, who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARSummary: When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel with known casino owner Willy Bank in Las Vegas, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal by the loathsome Bank. Bank even goes so far as to find amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won't...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007