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Duster plunged forward and grabbed Brice before she could move, then slammed her head against the metal railing, rendering Brice unconscious. With ease, Duster tossed Brice over the railing and into the vat of toxic waste.Greer screamed as Brice landed with a sickening splash. The green fluid was thick and viscous. Brice slowly sank, face-first into the glowing sludge. "Brice! Brice!" Greer screamed.But Brice Johnson was gone. In the continuing Extraordinary...
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MaryJanice Davidson is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. Her Undead books are extremely popular paranormal romances. Betsy needs a job and amazingly lands the perfect one-selling designer shoes at Macy's. But the other vamps, including sexy Sinclair, don't want their queen selling shoes. And the vampire hunters are becoming a real pain-murdering innocent vampires. It seems that everyone wants something from Betsy.
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Revenge of America's Unemployed captures the shifting mood of the unemployed, underemployed and uncounted. More than 30 million Americans lost their jobs, saw their pay slashed or left the workforce during the Great Recession. Many lost their homes, marriages, savings, self-esteem and self-confidence and, finally, their patience with a political elite that could not deliver on their promises of jobs, jobs, jobs. This book chronicles the passions that...
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Iris-the narrator and heroine-guides the reader through twenty-four episodes from her life, pausing now and then for meditations on love, sex, work, loneliness, insomnia, arctic exploration, cannibalism, the Higgs boson, Greek mythology, memory, costumes parties, time travel, Rocky I, II, V, IV, VI, and III respectively, literary immortality, real estate trends, and growing up and growing old. Evoking the screwball heroines of a bygone era as she...
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The report was dated June 16, 2020, and read, "There are currently twenty-one million unemployed Americans but around thirty million Americans collecting unemployment benefits." Patrice Myers stared at the information she had googled out of curiosity and tried to imagine what it would be like or feel like to be unemployed-to live every day with escalating bills, the threat of being homeless, no medical insurance, and no means of transportation. Yet...
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Have you lost your job or are out of work? Are you down in the doldrums wondering how God let this happen to you? Have you been questioning your faith? In Ten Reminders for the Christian Unemployed, Dr. Pamela Q. Fernandes talks about staying optimistic as a Christian.
A practicing doctor, Pamela tells how she went from the wilderness of unemployment to her promised land. Through scripture, anecdotes, and dozens of practical tips, she shows the way...
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Desperate and overwhelmed by the mind-numbing sameness of each day during ten months of unemployment and no interviews, our heroine Laurie slowly unravels as she lowers her employment expectations. Coming apart at the seams from the pounding boredom, she accepts a job she is extremely overqualified for, because she is willing to take anything at this point. Watch as Lauries flawed and negative thinking takes her anything job from bad to worse to intolerable....
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Companionship and strategies for job seekers
Millions of people become unemployed every year, yet when job loss happens to us, we typically feel completely alone and often lost, ashamed, and afraid. No one knows how to comfort us, when we lose our job. Unlike other griefs, when someone can say, "I'm sorry for your loss", joblessness leaves family, friends, and acquaintances awkwardly searching for words.
Jobs Lost, Faith Found is for those who feel...
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After receiving a PhD in mathematics from MIT, Larry spent three decades working at prestigious companies in the tech industry. Initially he was not worried when he lost his job as part of a large layoff, but the prolonged unemployment that followed decimated his finances and nearly ended his marriage. Larry's story is not an anomaly.
In The Stigma Trap, Ofer Sharone explains how the stigma of unemployment can render past educational and professional...
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"From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market...
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In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for the care of the urban poor remained with local governments, but when the farms failed that year, and the Depression deepened, western Canadian cities suffered...
12) Two by two
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At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear, and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted turned upside...
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Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
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This is a first in a series of books designed to guide the unemployed in the ever changing job market. This first book is directed to the long term unemployed and outlines tips and advice in how to increase the odds of getting back into the workforce. It offers real world examples, including techniques and ideas you can use to get more interviews and eventually a job.
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A must-read for anyone trying to get a job in a struggling economy. Challenges common assumptions and tells it like it really is from the perspective of a street-smart employment expert who works daily with the unemployed and those with not-so-hot backgrounds. Covers everything from writing resumes and letters, completing applications, and networking to conducting interviews, starting the job, and getting fired. Includes special chapters on ex-offenders...
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Have you ever imagined what it would be like to earn millions while you sit on the beach and enjoy your life? In The Unemployed Millionaire, you'll learn why it's no longer a pipe dream but a real possibility. The lowering of trade barriers and the emergence of the Internet have made it possible for almost anyone to set up a business from anywhere. Whether you're on a beach in Bali or a cruise ship in Alaska, the Internet lets you instantly market...
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"Kit Noonan's life is stalled: unemployed, twins to support, a mortgage to pay--and a frustrated wife, who is certain that, more than anything else, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father's identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman. But it is another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy (the journalist who died...
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"Roberto ... once had a promising career in advertising. Now out of work because of the economic downturn, he struggles to keep his family afloat and their dire situation a secret from his adoring wife Luisa... After yet another dead end interview, Roberto's chances for a promising future seem slim--until a freak accident places him at the center of a wild media storm. Realizing his opportunity, Roberto hires a brazen agent to help him leverage his...
19) Tammy
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Tammy is having a bad day. She's totaled her car, gotten fired from her job at a burger joint, and finds her husband getting comfortable with the neighbor in her own house. It's time to take her boom box and book it. The bad news is she's broke and without wheels. The worse news is her grandma, Pearl, is her only option--with a car, cash, and an itch to see Niagara Falls. Not exactly the escape Tammy had in mind. But on the road, with grandma riding...
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