Steel, Danielle.
Summary: A high-powered CEO and mother of two, a mom who gave up a promising law career, and a struggling artist and mother with an absent husband are forced to reevaluate their sacrifices and beliefs when they confront the realities of power and family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2014Steel, Danielle.
Summary: "Power Play takes readers into the boardrooms and playgrounds of top tier corporate America, exploring the costs of great power through the intersecting stories of three indelible women: a high-powered CEO, a long-time 'corporate wife,' and an aspiring artist struggling to raise a family with an absentee father. The lives of three women are linked in ways that none could have imagined. Fiona...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEStrohm, Stephanie Kate
Summary: High school senior Avery Dennis runs the prom committee, and she has always had a date for everything, but when a public breakup with her current boyfriend makes her start wondering about her own dating history, she sets out to investigate why her relationships never seem to work out--and ends up discovering some hard truths about herself and her dating choices.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION STRMorris, Kevin
Summary: "A prominent figure in the entertainment world who has turned to fiction in the last decade, Kevin Morris received wide literary acclaim with his story collection White Man's Problems, praised by David Carr as "remarkable" and Tom Perrotta as "revelatory." Now Morris cements his place as a bold new voice in American literature with his muscular debut novel, All Joe Knight. 1961. Outside...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORSummary: This video demonstrates the connections between personality, interests, and work preferences. Students get in touch with their primary interest patterns and aspects of their personality through various exercises.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This video presents simple methods for expanding self-awareness, and explores links between beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Students practice identifying personal beliefs about success, and begin to develop their Personal Career Profile.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The relationship between students' values and daily choices is discussed in this video, which also connects values to career decisions. Students identify some of their key values and consider how personal background may have shaped them.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Career planning is an essential part of life development-and it can take place at any stage in one's professional life. Taking into account the constantly evolving job market and the continual changes occurring in higher education, this program helps viewers develop a career pathway plan that identifies three areas of interest and the ways each of them can be achieved, short-term and long-term....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The differences between knowledge, skills, and abilities are made clear in this video, which presents basic skills required by employers and identified by the U.S. Department of Labor SCANS Report. Real-life uses for this information are shown.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: No one has all the answers when it comes to figuring out what to do for the rest of their lives..especially teens! But they do need to ask good questions..like What do I like to do? What am I good at? What is important to me? As they create individual profiles, and explore options, students will discover their personal interests, strengths, and values. These will become the basis for pursuing a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program illustrates how to relate interests, skills, education, training, values, and lifestyle to specific occupations in the world of work. Based on the commonsense notion that you do best at what you really like to do, this video shows viewers how to find an occupation with job requirements that closely match their interests. Nothing predicts high workplace satisfaction like a close...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: STOP! Before you start looking for a job, take a good look at your S.E.L.F. This program shows how to assess your Strengths, Experiences, Lifestyle, and the way you Function best. Each of these elements is part of your S.E.L.F. and all should be considered when choosing a career. This program stresses the importance of knowing who you are and what direction you want your life to take before...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Jeff wants to work in the information technology field. Cindy dreams of being a gourmet chef. Over the course of this program, these students learn how to write functional, chronological, combination, and newsletter-style resumes using information on their skills and experience that they identify through two exercises: Personal Inventory (to capture the "what") and Showing Your COLORS (to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The concept of life roles is introduced in this video, as well as the importance of support. Students evaluate their roles-work, family, leisure, self-improvement, and community-and begin to identify key people in their personal support system.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Steel, Danielle.
Summary: In Northern California two successful CEOs are both indispensable to their growing companies' futures. Both are brilliant at the power game. But the difference between them is huge. One is a man, the other a woman. In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores what that means as she takes readers into the rarefied world of those at the pinnacle of international business and reveals the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Steel 2014Summary: Techniques for generating a list of career possibilities are featured in this video. Students are encouraged to brainstorm ideas and emphasize quantity over quality of ideas at this stage of the process.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This video expands the Personal Career Profile by helping students recognize their preferred values and interests, as well as their current and potential skills.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program shows viewers how to select a rewarding and satisfying career by engaging in a reflective self-assessment process-a process designed to help them gain insights into themselves by looking at different aspects of their lives including their interests, skills, education, training, values, and lifestyle. Shows how to identify and organize a variety of personal information into a form...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Your Interests: Related to Work Activities is a thirteen-minute video which is part of the series, Career Guidance Videos.These five videotapes were developed for use with the CEPP Career Exploration and Assessment materials to deal with the topics of Career Exploration, Interests, Temperaments, Aptitudes, and Educational Planning. They also may be effectively used with other related Career...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Young people seeking employment usually do not have a great deal of job experience, yet they have probably already built up an impressive array of transferable skills without realizing it. This program helps students understand that skills they have acquired at school and in their personal lives may help them land their first job. Planning outings with friends, raising money for charity, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: I can't even make my own dinner, let alone food for hundreds of people! In this program a career specialist and a life coach have Kirstie, a free-spirited musician, work in a fast-food restaurant for a day so she can see what may lie ahead if she doesn’t get serious about her future: physically demanding, highly structured work that won't feed her artistic nature. It also gives them a chance...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: He's super-smart, he's student body president, and he's expected to follow family tradition by applying to medical school upon graduation. But though Chetan isn't opposed to being a doctor, he's also interested in designing cars. In this program a career specialist and a life coach help Chetan sort out which, if either, of his interests are realistic. He presents some sketches for a new...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: I get bored easily, Danielle admits. If something's hard, I just don't do it. Torn between a career in interior design or one as a police officer, Danielle must first work on her lack of motivation and identifying her skills and interests is a start. In this program a career specialist and a life coach help the teen find what draws her to two such different professions, what each actually...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Using a reality TV show format, this program pits three job seekers against a tough host, his assistant, and each other, to demonstrate the role that preparation, research, applications, cover letters, resumes, and interviews have in determining the best candidate for an open position. The competition is intense as the three are put through a number of challenges-the kind faced by any job...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011