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Audiobooks. bibliography biography essay Essays. fiction Large type books. Pictorial works.Ehrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.569 EHRCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business Ehrenreich 2001Ehrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: Barbara describes the, often unsucessful, process of trying to get a new job in today's society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 650.14 EHRNowlan, Alden.
Contents: The star brides -- Three boys and the giants -- The man who hated winter -- The invisible boy -- The captive -- The snow vampire -- The chief who refused to die -- Brother to the bears -- The man who wanted to live forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lancelot Press 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 NOWBelden, Allen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: s.n. 1980
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 BELEhrenreich, Barbara
Summary: In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence. She set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of mystical experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 EHRENREICH, BARBARA EHREhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: From the Publisher: A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 EHREhrenreich, Barbara
Summary: A collection of articles and excerpts from Barbara Ehrenreich's long-ranging career that highlight her social consciousness and wry wit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EHREhrenreich, Barbara
Summary: Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. She describes how we over-prepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. One by one, Ehrenreich topples the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life, from the importance of preventive medical screenings to the concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from dietary fads to fitness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.9 EHREhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism, existential clarity and courage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.2 EHRAlden, Ginger.
Summary: Breaking her thirty-year silence, the former fiancée to Elvis Presley tells the story of her whirlwind romance with the King and what it was like being in Graceland when fifty thousand mourners arrived to pay their respects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PREWicker, Alden
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Alden Wicker breaks open a story hiding in plain sight: the unregulated toxic chemicals that are likely in your wardrobe right now, how they're harming you, and what you can do about it. In To Dye For, Wicker reveals how clothing manufacturers have successfully swept consumers' concerns under the rug for more than 150 years, and why synthetic fashion and dyes made from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 WICAlden, Nancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potter Craft 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 JONEhrenreich, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 EHREhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism, existential clarity and courage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 155.2 EHREhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: "In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EHRENREICH, BARBARA EHRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit EhrenreichEhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: To discover how others exist on minimum wage, the author leaves her home, takes the cheapest lodgings she can find, and accepts whatever jobs she's offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she works variously as a waitress, nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She learned many things, including the fact that one job is not enough: you need at least two if you intend to live...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.569 EhrEhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: Ehrenreich's second work of satirical commentary reflects on one of the cruelest decades in memory--the 2000's--in which she finds a nation scarred by deepening inequality, corroded by distrust, and shamed by its official cruelty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 EHREhrenreich, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 EHRPalden Gyatso.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PALVaughan, Alden T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMISilva, Alen.
Summary: "Basque-born photographer Alen Silva has travelled twice across war-torn Afghanistan, to places few foreigners dare to venture. He brought back these soul-searing photographs of a devastated land. Among the ruins--of Kabul, of the Bamiyan Buddhas, of Soviet tanks, of Afghan society -- the hope for peace still lights the weary faces of the Afghan people who welcomed him."--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oliver Arts & Open Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld SilvaWatson, Aldren.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton Publishers 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 682.0974 WATLeigh, Arden.
Contents: Persona -- The flexible identity -- Personal brands -- Engaging the senses -- Seductive environment : home -- Self-sufficiency -- Social status -- Marketing the self -- Create your following -- Create desire -- Party posturing -- Attraction -- Approach -- Seductive conversation -- Contact : a delicate balance -- Isolate -- Emotional connection -- Find a need -- Seductive environment : the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2011