Filter By Subjects
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction Large type books London (England) Fiction Moles (Spies) Fiction Motion picture actors and actresses United States Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Orphans Fiction Secretaries Fiction World War, 1939-1945 England Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Secret service Great Britain FictionFilter By Subjects
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction Large type books London (England) Fiction Moles (Spies) Fiction Motion picture actors and actresses United States Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Orphans Fiction Secretaries Fiction World War, 1939-1945 England Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Secret service Great Britain FictionTopp, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOPCookson, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOKnight, 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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KNICopies Available at Woodmere
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Interlochen
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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TURCookson, Catherine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOFeldman, Ellen
Summary: "Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble with You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Seven Sisters Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction FeldmanKelly, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Turner, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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 #5Arsén, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARSKelly, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M KELParker, Lucy
Summary: "Petunia De Vere enjoys being the personal assistant to lovable, bumbling Johnny Marchmont. But the job has its share of challenges, including the royal's giant, intimidating bodyguard, Matthias. Pet and Matthias are polar opposites--she's spontaneous and enthusiastic, he's rigid and stoic--but she can sense there's something softer underneath that tough exterior ... For Matthias Vaughn,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Trigiani, Adriana
Summary: The movie business is booming in 1935 when twenty-one-year-old Loretta Young meets thirty-four-year-old Clark Gable on the set of The Call of the Wild. Though he's already married, Gable falls for the stunning and vivacious young actress instantly. Far from the glittering lights of Hollywood, Sister Alda Ducci has been forced to leave her convent and begin a new journey that leads her to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRITrigiani, Adriana
Summary: "The movie business is booming in 1935 when twenty-one-year-old Loretta Young meets thirty-four-year-old Clark Gable on the set of The Call of the Wild. Though he's already married, Gable falls for the stunning and vivacious young actress instantly. Far from the glittering lights of Hollywood, Sister Alda Ducci has been forced to leave her convent and begin a new journey that leads her to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2015