Summary: John P. Merrick, the world's richest man, gets word that someone is trying to unionize a department store he owns. To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job at the store to catch the union activists without detection. Once he himself is subjected to the humiliating treatment by the department supervisor, Hooper, Merrick starts to wise up-and soften...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEVSummary: Set amidst the Victorian splendor of Britain's first department store, The Paradise is a rags-to-riches story of a young girl who falls in love with the intoxicating charms of the modern world. As Denise finds her feet as a lowly shop girl, she must navigate her way through power struggles, intrigues, and affairs. When the shop's dashing and reckless owner, John Moray, spots her talents, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: There's plenty of laughter when an unbelievably quirky contingent of sales clerks makes shopping at Grace Brothers the comic experience of a lifetime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ARESummary: The series begins a year after the dramatic events that saw Moray declare his love for Denise and lose The Paradise after breaking off his engagement to Katherine. The spurned Katherine has since married Tom Weston with a troubled history. Although she seems to be starting her life anew, her passion for Moray threatens to draw her back into a love triangle, competing with Denise. Moray and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSatow, Julie
Summary: "A glittering, glamorous portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. He plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SAFSteel, Danielle
Summary: Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's business-the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke's has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn't been an easy journey. Seven years after her father's death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEYi, Mi-ye
Summary: In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there's a department store that sells dreams. Day and night, visitors both human and animal shuffle in to purchase their latest adventure. Each floor specializes in a specific type of dream: childhood memories, food dreams, ice skating, dreams of stardom. Flying dreams are almost always sold out. Some seek dreams of loved ones who have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Kopytek, Bruce Allen.
Contents: Introduction -- Jacobson's ladder -- Sovereign Nathan -- You don't know Jackson -- A2 -- Cereal number -- A capital idea -- Isn't that just grand? -- Saginaw, superstore -- Get to the Pointe -- Flagship enterprise -- I've got a store in Kalamazoo -- Triple crown -- Snowbird store -- Never on Sunday -- Rochester, bring the car! -- Omnibus Jacobson's -- We all fall down -- Finding Jacobson's --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.141 KOPHauser, Michael.
Summary: "For over a century, the J.L. Hudson's Department Store on Woodward Avenue was more than just a store--it was a Detroit icon and a world-class cultural treasure. At 25 stories, it was the world's tallest department store, and was at one time home to the most exceptional offerings in shopping, dining, services, and entertainment. The store prided itself on stocking everything from grand pianos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.141 HAUPatterson, James
Summary: French Kiss: "Very handsome and charming French detective Luc Moncrief joined the NYPD for a fresh start—but someone wants to make his first big case his last. Welcome to New York."--book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATMayer, Mercer
Summary: A little creature and his grandfather have fun on a trip to the department store.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Book 1985
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2 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE CRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MAYMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: While working in the toy department of a family-run department store in New York City, Mrs. Miracle seizes the opportunity to connect Holly, who is searching for the perfect robot for her nephew, with Jake, the store owner's son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Sipherd, Ray.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1993
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Place a hold to request this item.Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: Two brothers take summer jobs at a department store where a series of peculiar events brings them under suspicion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1976
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARHart, Marjorie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.141 HARDelinsky, Barbara
Summary: The Caseys and the Yorks share a history laced with bitterness. But when Diandra Casey and Geg York - rivals since childhood - are forced to work together, competing family legacies and the uncovering of family disputes are not the only things they struggle with. The hostile atmosphere suddenly becomes charged with somethng quite different - something hot, primal, and eternal - a love they're...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Delinsky 2018St. John, Madeleine
Summary: "The women in black, so named for the black frocks they wear while working at an upscale department store called Goode's, are run off their feet selling ladies' cocktail dresses during the busy season. But in Sydney in the 1950s, there's always time to pursue other goals... Patty, in her mid-thirties, has been working at Goode's for years. She's married to Frank, who eats a steak for dinner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction St. John 2020Steel, Danielle
Summary: Spencer Brooke, the CEO of the most luxurious department store in New York City, refuses to be tempted by an investor's offer. But when bad luck strikes, suddenly she is backed into a corner.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC STETrigiani, Adriana.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TriBaird, Ginny
Summary: "New York City window dresser, Annie Jones, focuses on her job but doesn't really know her colleagues or any of her neighbors in her six-unit Brooklyn walk-up. When her Christmas window display gets upended by some kids on Christmas Eve, she has to start over, not knowing that she's also destined to repeat that day. The store Santa gives her a decorating tip and the friendly store security...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAIHowell, Dorothy (Dorothy A.)
Summary: L.A. fashionista Haley Randolph just spent two weeks in Europe with her boyfriend Ty Cameron, owner of Holt's Department Store. Life would be perfect if she could just get her hands on the new Sinful handbag--and if she could discover how her nemesis Tiffany Markham ended up dead in her trunk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWPlain, Belva.
Summary: Adam Arnring, the son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, leaves home in 1907 at the age of nineteen and travels to the American West where he is determined to shape his own destiny--creating what is to become one of the country's great retail companies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PLASpindler, Erica
Summary: Unconventional Veronique Delacroix enjoyed nothing more than shocking New Orleans society. A gambler by nature, she can't say no when a challenge comes from Brandon Rhodes, heir to one of the biggest business empires in the country ; but when Veronique accepts his dare, she finds herself linked to this man by an act of deceit that occurred many years before - a wrong that when made right, will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018