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7) Like a boss
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[2020]
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Two best friends with very different personalities must address their differences in order to save their company from being stolen from them by a powerful industry titan.
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'Teresa 'Toots' Amelia Loudenberry is extending her stay in Charleston to help care for her ailing housekeeper, Bernice. Here in her beloved hometown, the air is rich with the scent of azaleas and honeysuckle and there's always a pitcher of sweet tea (or something a little stronger) close to hand. Not that the ladies have much time for relaxing. Ida's new line of cosmetics, 'Seasoned,' is about to launch, and Toots, Mavis, and Sophia are relishing...
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c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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When the family's drugstore is failing, seventh-grader Lucy uses her problem solving talents to come up with solution that might resuscitate the business, along with helping the environment. When a local homecoming queen shows up at Lucy Desberg's family's drugstore with a beauty disaster that Lucy helps to fix, word gets out, and suddenly Lucy has a line of makeover customers for every school dance and bat mitzvah in Connecticut.
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2014.
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"Discover the intersection of beauty and health with simple, all-natural body care. Best-selling author and respected herbalist Rosemary Gladstar shares over 30 recipes using herbs, essential oils, and other common ingredients to create gentle and effective treatments for your whole body, from head to toe. With cleansers, steams, toners, creams, serums, elixirs, shampoos, henna coloring, and even a five-step skin-care program, you'll have everything...
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2019.
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This fast-paced novel examines the lives, loves, and sacrifices of the visionaries who invented the modern cosmetics industry: Josiah Herzenstein, born in a Polish Jewish Shtlel, the entrepreneur who transforms herself into a global style icon and the richest woman in the world, Josephine Herz; Constance Gardiner, her rival, the ultimate society woman who invents the door-to-door business and its female workforce but whose deepest secret threatens...
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2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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"Lucy Desberg is in eighth grade and she's determined to make this year perfect. Over the course of the year, though, her talent for makeup and problem-solving will be put to the test, as she starts to make decisions about the type of person--and girlfriend and friend and daughter and sister--that she wants to be"--
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Miss Julia series volume 15
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2014.
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"Miss Julia masterminds a makeover in New York Times bestselling author Ann B. Ross's latest installment in her popular series It's summer in Abbotsville, and Miss Julia has visions of enjoying a life of leisure. But before she can even sip some iced tea on her front porch, a letter from her long-lost cousin Elsie informs her that Elsie's granddaughter is on a bus headed to Abbotsville that very day. Reminding Miss Julia of an old family debt, Elsie...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Rather than a summer of fun transforming her family's pharmacy into an eco-spa, Lucy Desberg must face her sister Claudia's new boyfriend Bean, investor Gary's irritating daughter Bevin, and a spa coordinator who is put in charge of the plans.
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[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
19) Robert Jones' makeup masterclass: a complete course in makeup for all levels, beginner to advanced
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2018.
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"Robert Jones' Makeup Masterclass is a comprehensive beauty education for women (and men!) of all ages and skill levels--from novices who feel "makeup-challenged" to those who are ready to take their skills to the professional level. The book includes: - Detailed, in-depth, step-by-step instructions and photos to build a makeup artist's repertoire and maximize natural beauty at any age - Techniques to highlight your best traits, meaning every face...
20) Catwoman
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Sensitive and shy artist Patience Philips is a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammouth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist...