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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"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 for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A memoir chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a woman whose perfect life and perfect job vanishes when she goes from a six-figure career to unemployment, and, forced to do some soul searching, becomes an author.
Author
Series
Elizabeth Parker mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"A dedicated Anglophile and Janeite, Elizabeth Parker is hoping the trip to the Jane Austen Festival in Bath will distract her from her lack of a job and her uncertain future with her boyfriend. On the plane ride, she and Aunt Winnie meet Professor Zackary Baines, a self-proclaimed expert on all things Austen. He claims that within each Austen novel there is another darker secondary story, usually involving sordid behavior. He claims to know the true...
4) Weather girl
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Sylvia is quickly succumbing to the stresses of work and a romance-gone-wrong with a devilishly handsome newcaster. Sylvia is a Seattle morning weather anchor who has a melt down live on-air. At 35, she is now unemployed and lacks career prospects. She has to move in with her brother, but soon begins dating a younger man - her brothers best friend. Now, Sylvia has to reckon with the difference between growing old and growing up.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It comes a wise and laugh-out-loud debut novel that captures a young generation trying not to have it all, but to figure out what it all means. Claire has just resigned from her job without a plan for her next move. As she struggles to explain herself to friends and family, she experiences the emotions and minutiae of day-to-day life as only...
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