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1) Charm!
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a spin-off tale from the popular daytime series "All My Children," Kendall Hart, the daughter of Erica Kane, pens the story of Manhattan resident Avery Wilkins, whose ambition to promote her cosmetics company launches a series of high-stakes adventures.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Bebe Moore Campbell is a best-selling author and an NAACP Image award winner. In What You Owe Me, an epic tale of friendship, betrayal, loss, accountability, and healing, she spans 50 years of African-American history. New to Los Angeles, Hosanna Clark, a farm worker from Texas, befriends Holocaust survivor Gilda Rosenstein. Together they build a cosmetics company and a deep friendship. Then Gilda disappears, taking with her the company's assets....
4) The only sin
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of Lilli Landau's rise to power, wealth, and international fame as the founder of the world's most successful cosmetics empire.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Seduction is the only way to save his company. But now who's seducing who? Could makeup artist Blair Westcott be the corporate saboteur who has infiltrated Deschamps Cosmetics? CEO Lucas Deschamps vows to get closer to her and find out"--
12) Rouge: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A modern-day Bridget Jones's Diary, this biting, entertaining, and transportive debut novel from award-winning writer Breanne Mc Ivor follows a young woman finding her voice and reclaiming her identity in Trinidadian society, perfect for readers of Such a Fun Age"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"A geeky, brilliant, cosmetic chemist, Anna Ellis, to win over Craig Kimball, the man of her dreams--and her boss--starts fake dating Craig's half-brother Marco, with whom Craig is super competitive, as an experiment in attraction, until her feelings for Marco become all-too real."--
15) Rouge
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
16) Too much drama
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Donneeka LeBeau is a smart, beautiful, intelligent woman. An executive at the high-profile Diva Four cosmetics company, Donneeka certainly does not need a matchmaker, especially if that matchmaker is her mother! However, Adeena LeBeau is used to getting what she wants, and right now she wants to set up her daughter with the perfect man. That's Braxton Dupree, the most eligible bachelor in town. Though Donneeka tries her hardest to ignore Braxton's...
17) Lady in waiting
Author
Language
English
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Description
Genevieve Penny, lady's maid to the matchmaking Featherton Sisters, has a bit of a shopping problem. As the illegitimate daughter of an unnamed baronet, Jenny yearns for the highborn status she feels she's been denied. Therefore, every copper she earns is quickly spent on sparkling accoutrements a woman of service has no business possessing. In no time at all, Jenny finds herself in such debt that her favorite shop refuses to let her enter. So when...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The satirical new suspense about a health and beauty company that accidentally develops a hand lotion that can overwrite your DNA. Lyle Fontanelle is the chief scientist for NewYew, a health and beauty company experimenting with a new, anti-aging hand lotion. As more and more anomalies crop up in testing, Lyle realizes that the lotion's formula has somehow gone horribly wrong. It is actively overwriting the DNA of anyone who uses it, turning them...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"They could have been allies: two self-made millionaires who invented a global industry, in an era when wife and mother were supposed to be the highest goals for their sex. Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein each founded empires built on grit and determination...and yet they became locked in a feud spanning three continents, two world wars, and the Great Depression. Brought up in poverty, Canadian-born Elizabeth Arden changed popular opinion, persuading...
