Ferber, Edna
Contents: Roast beef, medium -- Representing T. A. Buck -- Chickens -- His mother's son -- Pink tights and ginghams -- Simply skirts -- Underneath the high-cut vest -- Catching up with Christmas -- Knee-deep in knickers -- In the absence of the agent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERRushdie, Salman
Summary: "Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Rushdie 2019Frederick, Michael
Summary: "A tired salesman (Gary Stone) and jaded romance novelist (Becky Dungmire/Sylvia Jayne) discover an abandoned baby boy at Woodstock with a mysterious note left by the mother, causing them to raise Bunny Love in the Midwest." -- Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Michael Frederick] 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREKelby, N. M. (Nicole M.)
Summary: In the tiny south Florida town of Whale Harbor, the Christmas holidays are turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious drifter in a loincloth who is walking around town claiming to be Jesus Christ.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELFlagg, Fannie.
Summary: The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzingly bright future. Once agian, Fannie Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FLADowning, David
Summary: "It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city--Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York--he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWGillespie, Karin.
Summary: For Elizabeth, Mavis, and Attalee -- the Bottom Dollar Girls -- logging nine to five at the Bottom Dollar is not just work time, it's family time. So when news gets out that the Super Saver Dollar Store chain plans to set up shop and run the Bottom Dollar out of town, things go catawampus. Manager Elizabeth, who has a good head for business even though she flunked pin-curling in beauty school,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILGillespie, Karin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILKarasyov, Carrie
Summary: Skewers the upper crust young people of Manhattan's Park Avenue in the story of Julie, a hip, downtown salesgirl at Pelham's jewelry store, who is adopted by wealthy Lell Palham and her friends who pass her off as an heiress as a joke.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KarasBacker, Sara
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACWhitehead, Colson
Summary: It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence, Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown, furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: ""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked. To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his fac̜ade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Whitehead 2021Lansdale, Joe R.
Summary: From the Edgar Award-winning author of the Hap and Leonard series, a hard-boiled novel set in 1960s Texas in which a no-nonsense car salesman faces a tempting decision, a dangerous deal, and an alluring affair. Ed Edwards is in the used car business, a business built on adjusted odometers, extra-fine print, and the belief that "buyers better beware." Burdened by an aging, alcoholic mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "It s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked. To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIWilder, Thornton
Summary: George Marvin Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is determined to lead a virtuous life, despite peddling his wares in less than virtuous places during the Great Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCave, Nick
Summary: Struggling to maintain a grasp on reality after his wife's suicide, a soul-searching and inebriated traveling salesman peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely southern England housewives while his son waits in their car.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAVGillespie, Karin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GILCave, Nick
Summary: Set adrift by his wife's suicide and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. To his son, waiting patiently in the car while his father peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely housewives in the south of England, Bunny is a hero. But Bunny himself, haunted by what might be his wife's ghost, seems only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan (Faber & Faber) 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAVGillespie, Karin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILSnyder, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SNYMacomber, Debbie
Summary: While working in the toy department of a family-run department store in New York City, Emily Merkle aka. Mrs. Miracle, seizes the opportunity to connect Holly, who is searching for the perfect robot for her nephew, with Jake, the store owner's son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010