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Advertising agencies Fiction Advertising executives Fiction Advertising Fiction Advertising, Classified Fiction Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction Friendship Fiction Identity (Psychology) Fiction Loss (Psychology) Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Voyages and travels FictionSchnall, Susie Orman
Summary: In 1949, dutiful and ambitious Charlotte's dream of a career in advertising is shattered when her father demands she help out with the family business. Meanwhile, Charlotte is swept into the glamorous world of the Miss Subways beauty contest, which promises irresistible opportunities with its Park Avenue luster and local fame status. But when her new friend--the intriguing and gorgeous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHBrown, Marc Tolon.
Summary: When Arthur sees advertisements for the amazing doggy Treat Timer, he decides to earn enough money to buy it for his dog Pal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: P-J Basket BROKeller, Shana
Summary: Set in 1865, a young girl named Lettie saves her money so she and her uncle can place an advertisement to find the members of their family that were separated under slavery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KELCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KELPalmer, Liza
Summary: An account executive in a Mad Men world, Anna Wyatt is at a crossroads. Recently divorced, she’s done a lot of emotional housecleaning, including a self-imposed dating sabbatical. But now that she’s turned forty, she’s struggling to figure out what her life needs. Brainstorming to win over an important new client, she discovers a self-help book—Be the Heroine, Find Your Hero—that offers her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALSchaler, Karen
Summary: Haley Hanson’s idea of the perfect Christmas is escaping to the Caribbean to work so she can avoid all the traditional Christmas distractions. Over the years, she’s sacrificed her personal life to climb the corporate ladder at a prestigious Boston advertising agency. Now she just needs to land a coveted Christmas toy company account to make partner. But first, her boss, Larry, thinks she needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHDee, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEELester, Natasha
Summary: "Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor, but, as an orphan, never truly felt part of that world. In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, she lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills-persuasion, daring, quick-witted under pressure-catch the attention of the U.S. government and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESAtwood, Megan
Summary: Ten-year old Olive is going to be in a commercial, but she really is not sure she can land the gymnastics stunt written for it, and her cross-country email pal Molly is jealous and determined to get into a commercial herself (pretty much any commercial will do)--and now their friendship is threatened by their increasingly testy emails.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ATWLalli, Sonya
Summary: "Serena Singh is tired of everyone telling her what she should want-and she is ready to prove to her mother, her sister, and the aunties in her community that a woman does not need domestic bliss to have a happy life. Things are going according to plan for Serena. She is smart, confident, and just got a kick-ass new job at a top advertising firm in Washington, D.C. Even before her younger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lalli 2021Mackintosh, Clare.
Summary: Every morning and evening, Zoe Walker takes the same route to the train station, waits at a certain place on the platform, finds her favorite spot in the car, never suspecting that someone is watching her. It all starts with a classified ad. During her commute home one night, while glancing through her local paper, Zoe sees her own face staring back at her, a grainy photo along with a phone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACGuillory, Jasmine
Summary: "Two people realize that it's no longer an act when they veer off-script in this sizzling romantic comedy by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory. Ben Stephens has never bothered with serious relationships. He has plenty of casual dates to keep him busy, family drama he's trying to ignore, and his advertising job to focus on. When Ben lands a huge ad campaign featuring movie star...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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Summary: This classic novel, first published in 1920, tells the story of Amory Blaine's moral education and sexual awakening, brilliantly capturing the rhythms of postwar America and the spirit of a generation dedicated to the pursuit of excitement, sophistication, and success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITModesitt, L. E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODPhillips, Susan Elizabeth
Summary: Opera diva Olivia Shore and Chicago Stars quarterback Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens embark on a nationwide tour promoting a luxury watch brand and must find a way to get along when they are plagued by a series of dangerous encounters with an overzealous fan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PHIEvans, Richard Paul.
Summary: What would you do if you lost everything--your job, your home, and the love of your life--all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he's tempted by his darkest thoughts but then decides to take a walk, heading for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVAIde, Joe
Summary: "Isaiah Quintabe is no longer IQ, the genius of East Long Beach; instead, he's a man on the road and on the run, hiding in a small Northern California town when his room is broken into by a desperate young man on the trail of the state's most prolific serial killer. His old partner, Juanell Dodson, must go straight or lose his wife and child. His devil's bargain? An internship at an LA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IDEBauer, Ann
Summary: When Former Catholic priest Gabriel McKenna provides meaningful comfort to advertising executive Madeline Murray, she conceives of a religion-free form of confession as a business, with Gabriel at the center.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUDixon, Amy
Summary: Eleven-year-old Annie, who always feels not quite as good as her best friend, feels her time to shine has come when she gets to audition for a local show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DIXEvans, Richard Paul.
Summary: After losing all that is dear to him, Alan Christoffersen decides to take a walk from Bellevue, Washington, all the way to Key West, Florida.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVABerenstain, Stan
Summary: Brother and Sister Bear keep asking for all of the toys they see on TV commercials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival 2007
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Summary: Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star to raise her beautiful daughter, Billie, in Shakerag, Mississippi. Now, ten years later, in 1955, Betty Jewel is dying of cancer and looking for someone to care for Billie when she's gone. With no one she can count on, Betty Jewel does the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSMachado, Ana Maria
Summary: Manny Wolf rewrites a help wanted ad, clarifying that a real wolf is needed so that a documentary can be made to show people what real wolves are like and how different they are from their big, bad fictional counterparts who've applied for the job.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MACBrown, Marc Tolon.
Summary: When Arthur sees advertisements for the amazing doggy Treat Timer, he decides to earn enough money to buy it for his dog Pal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BROKenney, John
Summary: Struggling with encroaching middle age and a broken engagement, advertising agent Finbar Dolan is forced to cancel his Christmas plans to tackle a last-minute work assignment only to learn that his estranged and abusive father has taken ill and that his siblings are unwilling to help, a situation that forces Fin to re-evaluate his choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013