An adventurous tomboy since childhood, big city reporter Colleen Collins admits she knows next to nothing about cooking and the intricacies of food preparation. So she's not happy when she's given an assignment writing articles about...
Businessmen
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Author:Wingate, LisaSummary: -
Author:Knight, PhilSummary:In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic,...
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Author:Sir Richard BransonSummary: - Author:Walton, SamSummary:
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant...
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Author:Culver, David M., Freeman, Alan, Gonthier, ChristineSummary:David Culver, figure clé tant du milieu des affaires que du milieu culturel canadien, raconte son enfance à Montréal, ses études aux universités McGill et Harvard et son service militaire pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Il décrit...
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Author:Tombs, GeorgeSummary:Robber Baron is an unauthorized biography of Conrad Black, who built the world's third-largest media empire and is now facing criminal charges in Chicago for alleged fraud, money laundering, and racketeering. Robber Baron...
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Saloon proprietor Vin Lockhart is known throughout Denver as a respectable businessman. He also has a reputation for quickness on the draw--a skill sure to come in handy when his old Oglala friends solicit his aid. It seems treacherous...
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Le premier roman signé par cet auteur perspicace raconte, en un mélange bien dosé d’humour, de franche lucidité et de sarcasme, la phase finale de lalente mais sûre dérive de Georges, un homme étouffé par sa cravate, asphyxié par les...
- Author:Whitman, DaveSummary:
The McNeils and Mombourquettes established a joint heritage that first began in Cape Breton, then to Spryfield and it continues in Upper Granville in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. Stephen, our present Premier and the twelfth of...
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Charlie Trager knows he’s lucky to have a successful career as a television producer, supportive friends and family, and Joshua — the man he loves. But Joshua is struggling with an election and a spiteful ex-wife threatening custody of...
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Author:Hock, Dee, Senge, PeterSummary:Dee Hock, VISA’s founder, details the revolutionary "chaordic" organizational philosophy that was instrumental in VISA’s success. Hock skillfully weaves together the story of VISA with his own remarkable life story and elaborates the...
- Author:KELLY, CathySummary:
Kenny's Department Store, with its handsome Edwardian facade and unique cherry-picked goods, is the jewel in the Irish town of Ardagh's crown. Star Bluestone sells her beautifully crafted tapestries at Kenny's. Made with...
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Author:Jennings, LukeSummary:We last saw Eve and Villanelle in a spy vs. spy race around the world, crossing powerful criminal organizations and dangerous governments. But they aren't finished yet.
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Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed...
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Author:Sherwood, KateSummary:Jack Lawson grew up poor and can’t forget it. He’s a huge success in the business world, but it won’t be enough until the image of “poor little Jack” is completely wiped away. When Jack runs into his old friend, Noah Mercier, he decides...
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Author:Gilles LaporteSummary:A l'été 2009, l'acquisition du club de hockey Canadien par les frères Molson était accueillie par un concert d'éloges. On assiste ainsi au retour d'une grande tradition, et on ramène à la mémoire des gens le...
- Author:Hall, Wynton C., Greenfield, MartinSummary:
Taken from his Czechoslovakian home and transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Martin Greenfield was divided forever from his family. Here he remembers that horrific time-and how an impulsive decision to steal an SS soldier...
- Author:Millhauser, StevenSummary:
Presents Martin Dressler, son of an immigrant cigar maker, who, in dedicating his life to the American dream, becomes a symbol of it.
- Author:Klassen, Henry C.Summary:
In Luther H. Holton: A Founding Canadian Entrepreneur, Henry Klassen has made accessible the story of one of early Montreal's most remarkable citizens. Rising from humble origins, Luther H. Holton became an entrepreneur...
- Author:Hunting, HelenaSummary:
As two neighborhood shop owners battle for business, they prove opposites attract in this "deliciously sweet and savory new romantic comedy" (USA Today bestselling author Abby Jimenez). Blaire Calloway has planned every...
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