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61) Canyon passage
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A businessman is torn between his love for two different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend.
Author
Description
"Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young widow and an engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love. In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial...
Author
Description
Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems—if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is, some very bad men are also looking for the treasure, and they know Jesse...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
389 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"In one way or another, Donald Trump has been a topic of conversation in America for almost forty years. No one in the world of business-not Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Warren Buffett-has been as famous as Trump for as long. First associated with high-profile real estate development in 1970s Manhattan, his name has since become synonymous with success defined by wealth and luxury. What does one make of a grown man who, when he argues with women, stoops...
65) House of Gucci
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Description
"As a young working-class German immigrant, Levi Strauss left his family's dry goods business in New York City to journey out west for the California Gold Rush. Only Levi wasn't looking for gold -- he wanted to provide the miners with sturdy clothes to wear while they worked in the dusty river beds. His solution? Blue jeans -- pants made of strong denim fabric -- which have become one of the most beloved and fashionable clothing items in the world."--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xvii, 251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
From the author who gave us "Cod," "Salt," and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xvi, 408 pages : illustrations; 24cm
Description
Presents the author's story of turning his life sentence in prison into a journey of self-improvement, using hard work and a master plan of everything he expected to accomplish to ultimately convince a judge to reduce his sentence.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (704 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
70) Texas Proud
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Series
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Description
A powerful businessman seeks refuge
…but his secrets never stay hidden.
Before he testifies in an important case, businessman Michael “Mikey” Fiore hides out in Jacobsville, Texas. On a rare night out, he crosses paths with softly beautiful Bernadette, who seems burdened with her own secrets. He hears whispers about a life-threatening condition, her solitary existence. This doesn’t stop him from wanting her, which endangers them both. Their...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (719 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 842 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Description
The definitive life of one of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century, this biography draws on thousands of newly available documents and interviews, including Rockefeller's own unpublished reminiscences. Grandson of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, Nelson coveted the White House from childhood. Before he was thirty he had helped his father develop Rockefeller Center and his mother establish the Museum of Modern Art. At 32...
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Investigating the murder of an English businessman who was universally despised in Cambury but respected in London, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge sifts through a list of potential killers and begins to believe he may not be able to prove his suspicions.
75) Mambo man
Publisher
Film Movement
Formats
Description
Based on a true story. In 2017, after more than half a century since Castro’s revolution, Cuba opens her arms to the West and the Yankee dollar. Born into communism, JC (Héctor Noas) is a ‘big fish in a small pond’ – a local music producer and promoter, farmer and small-time hustler who lives by his wits and imagination. To support his family and small circle of ‘business associates’ and maintain his local “Godfather” status, JC lives...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Description
"Thomas Carrick is determined to make his own life in the bustling port city of Glasgow, far from the demands of the Carrick clan, eventually with an appropriate wife on his arm. But disturbing events on his family's estate force him to return to the Scottish countryside--where he must ask for help from the last woman he wants to face. Thomas has never forgotten Lucilla Cynster and the connection that seethes between them, but to marry Lucilla would...
77) Jobs
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Steve Jobs' rise to fame from the time he was a college dropout in 1974 to the invention of the iPod in 2001.
80) What if
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What if God gave you a second chance? Fifteen years ago, Ben Walker left his girlfriend and his ministry calling for a business opportunity. Now with a high-paying career and a trophy fiancee, he is visited by an angel, who gives him a glimpse into what his life would look like had he followed his calling.
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