Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9780976270645 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 76
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In these extraordinary black-and-white photographs and essays, students new to America present first-person stories of the working lives of immigrants from their New York City neighborhoods.
Author: Manny Hillman Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462833152 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 172
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After an absence of almost fifty years, Larry looked for a cabaret that he had worked in as a waiter and found that it had been replaced by a parking lot. In his youth he was an innocent, aspiring writer, just out of college, looking for a place to work where hopefully he could obtain material for short stories. He found Neils, the cabaret, and talked his way into a job as a waiter despite the dangers and his slight appearance. Neils was a clip joint that was frequented mainly by servicemen and prostitutes. Larrys education removing him from navet began quickly. Larry describes his first meeting of prostitutes, an alcoholic man whose intoxication increased without even drinking the rum he had ordered, and encounters with servicemen who were benign and threatening. He also describes the musical entertainment provided by the cabaret that helped entice people to enter the place, women who came to Neils who may or may not have been prostitutes, army stories that some of the soldiers told him, a wedding in the cabaret, nights of fear, fights that he had to avoid, and a musician who had survived the second world war and dreamt some weird dreams. Incidents about Larrys non-cabaret life enter the narration, including his meeting the woman he married. Flo, an artist, would have supported him in his effort to write, but other matters intervened, and Larry had to wait almost fifty years to resurrect his notes and write his tale.
Author: Andrea Stanfield Publisher: Prometheus Books ISBN: 1615923772 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 218
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I loved Phony! How I Faked My Way Through Life...because it is her true story of telling a lie in 1998 that got her hired by a Florida engineering firm's accounting department. She claimed to have a bachelors degree when, in truth, she only had a high school diploma. What followed was a very successful professional life because, despite her lack of college, she had smarts, native intelligence. As she made her way to another firm and up the corporate ladder, she eventually became the manager of the two largest financial districts in a firm. Still in her thirties, she oversaw twenty offices and forty employees. In the end, she just didn't want to live with the succession of lies required to justify her otherwise outstanding job performance. Today, she's a certified dog trainer and, I suspect, a lot happier.-Bookviews.comA striking and informative read and recommended for both business and general-interest collections.-The Bookwatch, MidwestBookReview.comIn 1998, Andrea Stanfield told a lie that became the foundation of her professional life. In an interview with the accounting department of a Florida engineering firm, she claimed, verbally and on paper, that she held a bachelors degree in business from a large midwestern university. In fact she had only a high school diploma. Through sheer moxie and impressive interviewing skills, she got the job, and eventually this lie became the steppingstone for a very successful professional life.This is the story of a liar, not a born liar but someone who as a young person full of ambition started taking shortcuts and realized she could get away with it. Blessed with native intelligence and the ability to think quickly on her feet, Andrea navigated her way through professional management circles and a series of salary increases. When the opportunity to move to another company arose, she took the chance of being caught and interviewed again. Faced with a background check, she compounded her previous deceptions by arranging for a very realistic but fake diploma. Once again, the lie worked and she went on to succeed in her new company as never before.Eventually, the girl with the high school diploma ended up as the manager of the two largest financial districts in the firm. Still in her early thirties, she oversaw twenty offices and forty employees, traveled frequently, became an adept public speaker and regional trainer, and was singled out for her leadership talent.In the end, the guilt of living under false pretenses took its toll. Part of her job involved advising employees in annual reviews to go back to school to advance their careers. How could she just look people in the eye and lie? What would she tell her growing daughter someday about the secret of her success?Part confessional, part morality play, this intriguing autobiographical tale of a white lie that snowballs into an avalanche is a warning to personnel managers, employers, and employees that people are not always all that they seem.Andrea Stanfield is the founder of a dog rescue group. Her previous positions included business manager and district administrative manager for two engineering firms
Author: Teresa Solana Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press ISBN: 1904738559 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 151
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Marina Dolc, media figure and bestselling author, is murdered in the Ritz in Barcelona on the night she wins an important literary prize. The killer has cold-bloodedly battered her to death with the trophy she just won. That same night, the Catalan police arrest their chief suspect, Amadeu Cabestany, the runner-up to the prize. The detective twins Borja and Eduard are hired to prove his innocence. The unlikely duo is plunged into the murky waters of Barcelona's literary scene and will need all their wit and improvisational skills to solve this crime.
Author: Ralph F. Brady Publisher: First Edition Design Pub. ISBN: 1622876733 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 254
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Richard Carpenter, a forty year old boatyard worker living on Long Island in New York, has just been told by his doctor that he has cancer again and that it will kill him within one year's time. He has been plagued by medical problems for most of his life and recent genetic research seems to indicate that he has inherited faulty DNA from some relative whose own health was negatively affected by environmental factors. All of this points to Richard's grandfather who was an alcoholic and exposed to numerous noxious chemicals during his time of working on the U.S. Navy's first submarines. Things get worse when the boatyard that Richard has been working at is forced to shut down, but he answers a job ad run by the Brookhaven National Laboratory for a position that requires many of the welding and construction skills that he has learned. He is hired to work on a top secret project that turns out to involve time travel, and when the project funding is cut and they have to rush their final testing, Richard volunteers to be the test subject sent back into the past. His only stipulation is that they send him back to 1899 where he hopes to meet his grandfather and help him to get sober and avoid some of the hazardous conditions at the submarine plant. Richard recognizes that this may be the only chance that he has to alter his defective DNA and save his life. He adopts a false identity, meets his grandfather and is hired to work along- side him at the Holland Torpedo Boat Company. Having brought certain knowledge with him from his own time (around 1985), Richard is able to play a key role in the building of these early submarines. He becomes somewhat famous due to the success of some early trials of the submarine "Holland VI", and after several failed attempts is finally able to keep his grandfather sober and reduce his exposure to harmful gasses and exhaust fumes on the submarines. Along the way he meets and falls in love with the owner of local boarding house, but is tormented by guilt for having been unfaithful to Susan, the wife that he left behind. He also spends a Christmas holiday with his grandfather and grandmother in unusual circumstances since they are both younger than him at the time of his visit in 1899. Author Ralph Brady is a retired executive from the transportation industry with a lifelong thirst for travel and adventure. He has traveled throughout Europe and the United States as well as to China and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Checking off items on his bucket list has allowed him to SCUBA dive, skydive, fly gliders and small aircraft and attend a race car driving school. Ralph holds a second degree black belt in Shorin Ryu karate and has completed more than twenty full marathon road races. "Borrowed Time" is Ralph's third book and his first attempt at a novel. His other works involve the histories of Long Island and the Glendale section of New York City where he spent his childhood. He is married to his childhood sweetheart, has three married children who have given him seven grandsons. Ralph and his family all live on Long Island in New York. Keywords: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Nostalgia, Romance, Action, Time Travel, Naval History, Alternative History
Author: Charlotte Chandler Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416544224 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 577
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Charlotte Chandler met Groucho in 1972 and as their friendship grew, she came to know all sides of his personality. This tribute to the master of ad lib recounts the major events of Groucho's life--from his birth in 1890 to his death in 1977--and features personal remembrances of his friends and leading ladies. 16 pages of photos.
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