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Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Reclaim God's vision for your life. Many Christians fall victim to one of two main problems when it comes to work: either they are idle in their work, or they have made an idol of it. Both of these mindsets are deadly misunderstandings of how God intends for us to think about our employment. In The Gospel at Work, Sebastian Traeger and Greg Gilbert unpack the powerful ways in which the gospel can transform how we do what we do, releasing us from the...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Clover Twig has been warned about The Perilous Path, but when her baby brother goes missing she and her friend Wilf must travel that tricky trail to rescue him from the clutches of Mesmeranza, the evil sister of Clover's employer, Mrs. Eckles.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and inactions--have defined the course of our country. Since George Washington, presidents have depended on the advice of key confidants. But it wasn't until the twentieth century that the White House chief of staff became the second most powerful job in government. Unelected and unconfirmed, the chief serves at the whim of the president, hired and fired...
164) The silent monologue
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We hear the thoughts of Amy, a girl from a rural area of Senegal who works as a domestic for a well-to-do family in Dakar. She complains about her employer, who continuously criticizes her and gets on her case, and she talks about her dream of one day opening her own eatery. In Dakar, some 150,000 young women work as housekeepers for rich families in Dakar to survive and help their families instead of going to school.
Author
Publisher
AMACOM
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Every manager and human resources department has seen it time and time again--candidates whom they viewed from across the table as promising individuals loaded with potential turning out to be disappointing and underwhelming employees. Meanwhile, numerous resources are wasted yet again while the company continues to seek out the right fits for their needs. Is this just a rite of passage for all businesses, or is there a way to simplify the hiring...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Leadership
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's the same cycle: you diligently sort through résumés to find the cream of the crop. You have amazing interviews and confidently land on the one, but two weeks into the job and the one turns out to be the wrong one. What gives? Well, you're clearly screwing something up, and it's time to find out what it is. It's frustrating. You're up to date on all the newest interview techniques. You know what to look for on candidates' résumés. You inspect...
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Claire and Tess are the McLeod daughers who live on the Drover's Run ranch. They have been building on their relationship and have come to trust each other. They continue to develop their relationship with the neighboring Ryan brothers, as well as others in the district. Hearts will be broken, love will be found, and lives will be put in danger.
168) Exposed
Author
Series
Rosato and DiNunzio novel volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary DiNunzio wants to represent her old friend Simon Pensiera, a sales rep who was wrongly fired by his company, but her partner Bennie Rosato represents the parent company. When she confronts Mary, explaining this is a conflict of interest, an epic battle of wills and legal strategy between the two ensues -- ripping the law firm apart, forcing everyone to take sides and turning friend against friend. Sometimes loyalty can be lethal.
169) The Unseen: A Novel
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Occult happenings, romantic passion, and murder disrupt the peace of a Berkshire village in 1911 in this hauntingly good novel." - Marie Claire (UK) Katherine Webb's debut novel, The Legacy, was an international bestseller-and her remarkable second effort, The Unseen, is as gripping, thrilling, and unforgettable as her first. In this compelling story of love, deception, obsession, and illusion, the arrival of two dangerous strangers in a small village...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Many subject matter experts are just that, subject matter experts--not experts in the art of teaching, facilitating, or designing. Thousands of authors, trainers, and speakers have great content, but they lack the skills required to convey their content in a way that inspires learners to unleash their brilliance and move the learning to practice... They often spend 70% of their time on WHAT they are going to teach, and 30% of their time on HOW, when...
173) Upstairs downstairs
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Depicts life in the house at Eaton Place, now inhabited by its new owners, Sir Hallam Holland, his wife lady Agnes, and his mother Maud. Focuses on the lives of the aristocratic family, who live upstairs, and their servants downstairs.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even when your job can be done from anywhere, the place you call home still matters, a lot.
By the old rules of work, your dream career determines where you live. If you want to make movies, move to Los Angeles. If you want to work in publishing, you must be in New York. And if you're launching a start-up, you'll only succeed in Silicon Valley.
But with the meteoric rise of remote and freelance work, more people than ever are becoming location independent....
175) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
176) Daddy day care
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When two fathers find themselves out of work, they decide to start a day care center. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious childrens' academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.
177) Southern comfort
Author
Language
English
Description
Special agent Kate Rush resigns from the DEA and moves back to her native Miami where she is intrigued by a job offer to watch a property suspected of being a center for human trafficking, and teams up with former homicide detective Patrick "Tick" Kelly, who has been hiding and writing novels since his family was murdered, but through their work together, Kate and Tick find an opportunity for a second chance at happiness.
178) The rope
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[Jan 17, 2012]
Language
English
Description
What started as a simple hike through the park turns into a nightmare when Anna Pigeon wakes up in the bottom of a dry well, naked, without any of her supplies, and no memory as to how she got there. Using her own wits and nothing else, Anna must fight to escape this deadly prison, and then find out who put her there.
179) The Night Gardener
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
180) Tail of the tip-off
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When winter hits Crozet, Virginia, it hits hard--and hangs on for months. That's nothing new to postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her friends, who keep warm with hard work, hot toddies, and rabid rooting for the University of Virginia's women's basketball team at the old stadium affectionately dubbed "The Clam." But the usual postgame high spirits are laid low when contractor H. H. Donaldson drops dead in the parking lot. And pretty soon...
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