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1) Like a boss
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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 get ugly.
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 667 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Woman of substance: 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. Hold the dream: continues the saga of Emma Harte, who rose from servant girl to head of an international retail dynasty. At 80, Emma passes control of the Harte-McGill empire to her beloved granddaughter Paula. To be...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sundance's triple award-winning film is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. To provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering...
4) Joy
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
6) Little
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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 love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
8) Finding Thea
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (25 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Although her name is found on a waterway, a park and other places in Tacoma, Thea Foss' personal story is not well known. An immigrant from Norway and a pioneer business woman, she founded, with her husband, the Foss Launch Company. This small venture grew to be the Foss Launch and Tug Company, and is now the Seattle-based Foss Maritime Company, reputedly the largest tugboat company on the West Coast. The Tugboat Annie character made popular in the...
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