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Conventional fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1170 Collections and/or Records:

you look nice today / Bing, Stanley., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43824-45920
Scope and Contents From Publishers Weekly: With this sardonic, entertaining legal thriller about a discrimination suit brought against a high-level corporate executive by his administrative assistant, Fortune columnist Bing tells a story of sexual harassment that's not about sex. Robert Harbert, or Harb, executive vice-president of Global Corporation's Total Quality department, falls for gorgeous uber-temp of indeterminate race CaroleAnne Winters, who saves the day on an important project. Recognizing her talent, Harb hires CaroleAnne full-time, but their cordial business relationship quickly grows too cozy: Harb gets CaroleAnne a corporate apartment to help her escape an abusive husband, gives her his aging car and brings her on business trips, which include boozy late nights that stop short of physical intimacy. CaroleAnne's behavior becomes erratic, though, when her spiritual side surfaces and she begins holding prayer meetings with a companion in the company's empty offices. Her tightly wound...
Dates: 2003

Your Fortune / Wiz, Boom Boom., 1994

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Identifier: CC-28321-29499
Scope and Contents

The pages iIlustrate on facing pages, in cartoon style, well known advice given in astrology charts and fortune cookies; the texts are presented in a concrete poetic style, e.g., Today everything will seem LARGER than life, WARNING: There is a long road ahead of you, travel lightly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Zwischen Bunt und Bestaialisch: All Die Toten Albanier Meines Surfbretts / Holst, Matthias Baader ; Gotze, Moritz., 1990

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Identifier: CC-09014-9191
Scope and Contents

The author Matthias Baader Holst died at the age of 28 years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990