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1) Larry Crowne
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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"When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne (Hanks) enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher (Roberts). Now this simple guy will discover that when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might find your reason to live"--Container.
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Tom and Annie's children have grown up, the mortgage is doable and they're about to get a kitchen makeover. But beneath the veneer of professional success and domestic security, their marriage is crumbling, eaten away by years of resentment, loneliness, and misunderstandings. Then the economy falls apart and their lives are upended when Tom loses his job. Is it possible, they ask themselves, to start again?
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Don't trust low unemployment numbers as proof that the labor market is doing fine - it isn't. Not Working is about those who can't find full-time work at a decent wage - the underemployed - and how their plight is contributing to widespread despair, a worsening drug epidemic, and the unchecked rise of right-wing populism. In this revelatory and outspoken book, David Blanchflower draws on his acclaimed work in the economics of labor and well-being...
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 39
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
When her father loses his job, all eight of the Pike kids try to help out. Mallory's job in a ritzy neighborhood makes her realize that she needs the Baby-sitters more than ever.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When their dad loses his job just before the holidays, the materialistic George family ignores the severity of the situation and continues to live above their means. When the consequences catch up with them, they are left with nothing and nowhere to run. Taken in by an eccentric Christmas tree farmer, the family learns that miracles can come true.
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For the last five months, Tom Anderson has been without a job, and hiding the fact from his wife Jean. He leaves each morning and spends his day rotating through two coffee shops and the library, using their wi-fi to search for a job on the Internet. The stress is slowly destroying the bond between Tom and Jean. Can their mutual trust-- and love-- be restored?
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Lucky Harbor novels volume 3
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English
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When she gets into trouble yet again, free-spirited Chloe finds herself at the mercy of Sheriff Sawyer Thompson, who wants to tame her wild ways and prove to her that Lucky Harbor is the perfect place to settle down.
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Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. How strange--though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas time and Booky is trying to bring her family the best Christmas possible. But it looks like she is going to need a miracle when her family falls on hard times after her dad loses his job. Watch as Booky teams up with friends, family, and a very secret Santa to save Christmas.
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"Nearly one hundred years after the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange's indelible photographs remain vivid in our collective memory as the face of unemployment. Her portraits showed down and out men waiting in breadlines and the desperation of families living through the trauma of job loss. Though evocative, however, these pictures don't look much like today's unemployed. Instead of male laborers in breadlines or relief camps, today we see men and...
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A necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web--and that foreshadows the true future of work. Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment...
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After being laid off from her job, Tess Nelson travels to Hawaii for some rest and relaxation, but a twisted ankle, lost luggage, a hotel fire, a hurricane and handsome air traffic controller Carter McConnell are more than she bargained for, and Tess realizes she must surrender control to God and have faith in his plan for her.
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Jeff Lipsky creates a funny and beautifully idiosyncratic portrait of a 28-year-old unemployed astrophysicist about to make the most reckless decision of her life. The family and friends that surround her - some real, dead, and possibly imaginary, come and go as Molly observes the unbreakable bonds of family while deciding what really matters in her life and learning that death is merely a relative thing.
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
Spain’s transition from dictatorship to democracy, following the death of Franco, amazed the world. Today, Spain amazes for the wrong reasons. Billions wasted in public works. Astronomical unemployment rates, peaking at 58.5% youth unemployment. A royal princess accused of tax fraud and over 600 politicians and public officials implicated in corruption cases. Meanwhile, the massive Catalan pro-independence movement is questioning the very essence...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of supply side economics and the trickle down myth as exemplified by Pittsburgh's declining steel industry. The Business of America... is the first film to probe one of our most treasured economic assumptions: that private corporations can be trusted to make the investments upon which all Americans depend. The film contrasts two Pittsburgh steelworkers conventional faith in private enterprise with the actual strategies and priorities...
19) Ms. Demeanor
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"Jane Morgan is a valued member of her law firm--or was, until a prudish neighbor, binoculars poised, observes her having sex on the roof of her NYC apartment building. Police are summoned, and a punishing judge sentences her to six months of home confinement. With Jane now jobless and rootless, trapped at home, life looks bleak. Yes, her twin sister provides support and advice, but mostly of the unwelcome kind. When a doorman lets slip that Jane...
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