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1) Smoke screen
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Trevor Barnett has become the lead spokesman for the tobacco industry just as it's on the verge of extinction, and is forced to announce on national television that no cigarettes will be manufactured or sold until the industry is given ironclad protection from the courts, causing the economy to falter and chaos to take hold of the nation.
2) Citizen girl
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Another biting satire from Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Nanny Diaries.
Working in a world where a college degree qualifies her to make photocopies and color-coordinate file folders, twenty-four-year-old Girl is struggling to keep up with the essential trinity of food, shelter, and student loans. So when she finally lands the job of her dreams she ignores her misgivings and concentrates on getting...
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Overview: The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town's aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realize, is a nomenclature consultant. And, it turns out, the consultant needs them. But in a culture overwhelmed by marketing, the name is everything...
4) The ask
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"Milo Burker - husband, father, and development officer at a third-tier university in New York - has just joined the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo receives a second chance from his former boss: he must reel in a potential donor - a major "ask" - who, mysteriously, has requested Milo's involvement. The Ask is a tour-de-force from a writer who has already demonstrated that the truly...
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