Topp, Elizabeth
Summary: "Anna's job is simple: prevent the unexpected from happening and do everything better than perfectly. An artist at heart, Anna works a day job as a private assistant for Bambi Von Bizmark, a megarich Upper East Side matriarch who's about to be honored at the illustrious Opera Ball. Caught between the staid world of great wealth and her unconventional life as an artist, Anna struggles with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOPContents: Disc 1. Lucy and George Burns ; Lucy and the submarine ; Lucy and the Bean Queen ; Lucy and Paul Winchell ; Lucy and the ring-a-ding ring ; Lucy flies to London; Lucy gets a roommate; Lucy and Carol in Palm Springs ; Lucy gets caught up in the draft; Lucy and John Wayne Disc 2. Lucy and Pat Collins ; Lucy and the monkey; Lucy and the efficiency expert ; Lucy's substitute secretary; Viv visits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allegro Corp. 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LUCGuillory, Jasmine
Summary: "Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie's work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can't refuse. She's excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn't expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain Private Secretary and his charming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Guillory 2019Rogan, Charlotte
Summary: For Maggie Rayburn--wife, mother, and secretary at a munitions plant--life is pleasant, predictable, and, she assumes, secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively takes it, an act that turns her world, and her worldview, upside down. Propelled by a desire to do good--and also by a newfound taste for excitement--Maggie starts to see injustice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROGSummary: In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MISCookson, Catherine.
Summary: Discouraged by her prospects after a broken engagement, twenty-one-year-old secretary Jinny Brownlow accepts an assignment working directly for her company's difficult boss and garners respect when she refuses to cower before him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCookson, Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: Louisa Brannigan is a Washington D.C. press secretary whose annoying neighbor gets her involved in the case of a missing pig. Little does she know that the quest for this MIA swine might just lead to unexpected romance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVASummary: Takes you into Hitler's bunker, in 1945, during the brutal and harrowing last days of the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler's infamous secretary Traudl Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear that Germany's defeat is inevitable. As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DOWCookson, Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOKelly, Julia
Summary: "1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: A young boy is late to school and he dreads having to go the office to get a late slip from the school secretary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THATurner, Megan Whalen
Summary: Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire, but he is forced onto a different path that compels him to undertake a hero's mission.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: YA CD FIC TUR #5Summary: Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ADVSummary: During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IDESummary: Lee Holloway has a few strikes against her when she applies for a secretarial position at the law office of E. Edward Grey. At first the work seems quite normal, but soon, in between typing, filing and coffee making, Lee and Mr. Grey embark on a more personal relationship together, crossing the lines of conduct that would give and human resourses director the vapors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SECBrubaker, Ed
Summary: "From the best-selling creators of CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER comes VELVET, a slick and sexy new take on the cold war spy genre. What if the secretary to the man running the world's most top secret spy agency was actually their most dangerous weapon, once upon a time? VELVET is groundbreaking new work from one of the best-selling teams in comics, and now Velvet Templeton's first major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BRUFeldman, Ellen
Summary: A fictional account of Franklin Roosevelt's romance with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, follows their pre-World War I affair, its impact on his marriage, and their reacquaintance years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELKnight, Renee
Summary: From her first day as Personal Assistant to the celebrated Mina Appleton, Christine Butcher understands what is expected of her. Absolute loyalty. Absolute discretion. For twenty years, Christine has been a most devoted servant, a silent witness to everything in Mina's life. So quiet, you would hardly know she is there. Day after day, year after year, Christine has been there,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNIPrescott, Lara
Summary: At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRETrigiani, Adriana
Summary: Reimagines the career of actress Loretta Young, tracing the decades she shared with her assistant Alda, a former nun, as they face successes, scandals, and obstacles that threatened their bond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Trigiani 2015Turner, Megan Whalen
Summary: "Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire. But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away, and he is forced onto a very different path"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TURSummary: A superstar singer and her overworked personal assistant are presented with a choice that could alter the course of their respective careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HIGArsén, Isa
Summary: "Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood memories dimmed by loss, she has left behind her home, her family, and her first love in pursuit of intellectual fulfillment. When she finally lands a job as a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, the work is everything she dreamed, and while she feels a budding attraction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023