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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, and pretending to be her just might get Clara some money to send back home. If she can keep up the ruse, that is. Serving as a lady's maid in the household of Andrew Carnegie...
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Examines the career paths, business achievements, leadership styles, business strategies and industry impact of Fortune 500 and Global 500 corporate leaders, as well as entrepreneurs and other notable businesspeople through in-depth biographical narratives. For business and trade audiences.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting on-the-edge-of-your-seat story about the famous 1970s Patty Hearst-style kidnapping of Baron Edouard "Wado" Empain, juxtaposed with the story of his famous grandfather, the first Baron, who built the Paris Metro, all with the fascinating alternating backgrounds of both Belle Epoque and 1970s high-fashion Paris. What does it take to create a dynasty? What does it take to keep one alive? And what does it take to keep one man alive, once...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of the iconic business titan from his modest upbringing in mid-1800s Scotland through his rise to one of the world's richest men, offering insight into his work as a peace advocate and his motivations for giving away most of his fortune.
11) The Gilded Age
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.
14) Henry Ford
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life a Henry Ford, the man responisible for mass producing the automobile in the early part of the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Traces the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration of space as navigated by billionaire entrepreneurs, sharing insights into how professional rivalry and Silicon Valley innovations are lowering the cost of space travel and exceeding the achievements of NASA.
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