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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xv, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tony Hsieh--CEO of Zappos, Las Vegas developer, and all-around beloved entrepreneur--was famous for spreading happiness. When Hsieh died suddenly in November of 2020, Wall Street Journal reporters Kirsten Grind and Katherine Sayre quickly realized the importance of the story because of Hsieh's stature in the industry, but as they dug into the details of his final months, they realized there was a bigger story to tell. They found that Hsieh's obsession...
63) The matador
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julian Noble is an unshaven, unnerved and unpredictable freelance assassin, who happens to encounter desperate businessman Danny Wright in the bar of a modern Mexico City hotel. Danny is intrigued when Julian reveals that he's a "facilitator of fatalities," and his wife becomes equally fascinated when Julian shows up unexpectedly, six months later, at Danny's home in Denver. Having lost his touch as a reliable hit-man, Julian needs Danny's help with...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxiv, 868 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography that draws on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and interviews with Kennedy family members and friends to tell the life story of a man who participated in the Depression, the New Deal, two world wars, a cold war and the birth of the New Frontier.
69) Pretty woman
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
15th anniversary special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A corporate raider pays a gorgeous hooker to be his escort for a business week in Beverly Hills ... and then falls for her. Fifteenth anniversary special edition packed with all-new, never-before-seen bonus features.
70) Isn't it Rich?
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Straitlaced tycoon Richard Carlton suspects that his aunt Destiny has more than business matters on her mind when she insists he meet klutzy PR executive Melanie Hart. Melanie might be brilliant--and beautiful--but Richard won't open his wounded heart to any woman, no matter how much she might make his pulse race. Yet when the press mistakenly reports that they're a couple, Richard convinces Melanie to pretend that they're engaged--to bolster his...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 532 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rollercoaster ride of Maurizio Gucci, from Guccio Gucci's leather shop in the early 1900s to the Investscorp takeover of the multimillion dollar corporation in 1993 and Maurizio's 1995 murder by his ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani.
73) The nest
Publisher
IFC Films/Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur, and former commodities broker persuades his American wife, Allison, and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the '80s. Sensing an opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison's horses and plans to build a stable. Soon the promise of a lucrative new beginning starts to unravel, the couple has to...
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Successful businessman Griffin Haddon just wants a quiet place to start over again...alone. Griff doesn't realize that in a small town like Serendipity, Texas, solitude's hard to come by. Especially at Redemption Ranch, where the stunning Alexis Grainger struggles to keep her ministry for troubled teens afloat. The last thing Alexis needs is a distraction like slick city-boy Griff with his designer jeans and boots. But her meddling, matchmaking twin...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
4 of 4 videodiscs (approximately 176 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A journalist named Daniel arrives to deliver the news that Emma has been left some money. There's a substantial sum to be claimed if Emma can prove her right to the money and there's a rags to riches story in it for Daniel's newspaper. As Robert and Emma contemplate their change in fortunes, Laura, who is fascinated to meet a real writer, shows Daniel around Lark Rise.
76) Mercy Falls
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor volume 5
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
EspaƱol
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 352 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Longtime CEO and chairman of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, shares his ideas on the new responsibilities of leaders, businesses, and citizens in American society today, through the intimate lens of his life and work.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 of 4 videodiscs (approximately 179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sees the arrival of a dashing and elegant stranger in Candleford. Rich, enterprising, worldly and without a wife, James Dowland is a successful businessman with a string of London hotels and has come to transform Candleford and bring it new prosperity. But not everyone welcomes his entrepreneurial efforts and it isn't long before he is sparring with the spirited yet suddenly flustered Dorcas.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of The Tea Planter's Wife comes a sweeping story of love and betrayal set in Ceylon in 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem to have it all. Except the one thing they long for: a child. After Elliott's sudden death, Louisa is left alone to solve the mystery he left behind.