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Author
Series
Avery Keene thrillers volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before...
3) The cabinet
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A harried office worker finds his job looking after cabinet 13, which houses files on "symptomers"--humans whose strange abilities and experiences may mark the emergence of a new species--a huge headache.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eyes aren't the windows to the soul. Emails are. Cassie Woodson is adrift. After suffering an epic tumble down the corporate ladder, Cassie finds the only way she can pay her bills is to take a thankless temp job reviewing correspondence for a large-scale fraud suit. The daily drudgery amplifies all that her life is lacking--love, friends, stability--and leaves her with too much time on her hands, which she spends fixating on the mistakes that brought...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Bjorn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works--a secret room that no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Bjorn is in his room, what his co-workers see is him standing by the wall and staring off into space looking dazed, relaxed, and decidedly creepy. Bjorn's bizarre behavior eventually leads his co-workers to try and have him fired, but Bjorn will turn the tables on them...
9) Jillian
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-four-year-old Megan may have her whole life ahead of her, but it already feels like a dead end, thanks to her dreadful job as a gastroenterologist's receptionist and her heart-clogging resentment of the success and happiness of everyone around her. But no one stokes Megan's bitterness quite like her coworker, Jillian, a grotesquely optimistic, thirty-five-year-old single mother whose chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles. Megan...
10) The new me
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. Misanthropic and morose, she spends her days killing time at a thankless temp job until she can return home to her empty apartment, where she oscillates wildly between self-recrimination and mild delusion, fixating on all the little ways she might change her life. Then she watches TV until she drops off to sleep, and the cycle begins again. When the possibility of a full-time job offer arises, it...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Bob Maconel [is] a bullied office drone with hate in his heart, voices in his head, and a loaded gun in his desk drawer. When a bizarre twist turns him into an instant hero, Bob begins a tender relationship with a disabled co-worker who asks Bob for the ultimate favor."--Container.
Author
Series
Matthew Corbett mysteries volume 1
Publisher
River City Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A sweet 'fake engagement' romance about quiet coworkers. The J.T.C. travel agency is looking for someone to manage its brand-new branch in Irkutsk. But for employees Oohara Takuya and Honjouji Rika, they'd rather just stay home in Tokyo! Thankfully, they've discovered a way out--their manager has narrowed down the recruits to bachelors, so what if they just...got married? The problem is they barely know each other at all! Can they convince their...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After losing her job as a journalist and the security of a good salary, Caitlin Kelly took a part-time job at an upscale outdoor clothing company at her local mall. In this memoir, Kelly recounts her mid-career misadventures in the absurd world of American retail.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Based on the popular British series of the same name, the American version follows the daily interactions of a group of idiosyncratic office employees at the Scranton, Pa. office of the Dunder Mifflin paper supply company via a documentary film crew's cameras. Features earnest, but clueless, regional manager Michael Scott, who believes himself an exceptional boss, and his office staff, who tolerate Michael's inappropriate behavior only because he...
16) Office space
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When white-collar peon Peter Gibbons decides he's had enough and neglects his job, he is quickly promoted to upper management.
Author
Series
Avery Keene thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Description
Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn, the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases, has slipped into a coma, Avery's life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions for her to serve as his legal guardian and power of attorney. Plunged into an explosive...
18) The promotion
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
At a grocery store in Chicago, two employees fight for a big promotion. How far will each man go in order to receive the coveted job?
19) Living
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful after receiving a terminal diagnosis.
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