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Dogs United States Drama Presidential press secretaries United States Biography Press secretaries United States Biography Private secretaries Fiction Secretaries Secretaries Drama Secretaries Fiction Secretaries United States Drama United States United States Politics and government 2001-2009Summary: Peggy is a happy-go-lucky secretary who is a great friend, employee, and sister. She lives alone with her beloved dog Pencil. But when Pencil unexpectedly dies, Peggy must find meaning in her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YEATopp, Elizabeth
Summary: "Anna's job is simple: prevent the unexpected from happening and do everything better than perfectly. An artist at heart, Anna works a day job as a private assistant for Bambi Von Bizmark, a megarich Upper East Side matriarch who's about to be honored at the illustrious Opera Ball. Caught between the staid world of great wealth and her unconventional life as an artist, Anna struggles with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOPContents: Disc 1. Lucy and George Burns ; Lucy and the submarine ; Lucy and the Bean Queen ; Lucy and Paul Winchell ; Lucy and the ring-a-ding ring ; Lucy flies to London; Lucy gets a roommate; Lucy and Carol in Palm Springs ; Lucy gets caught up in the draft; Lucy and John Wayne Disc 2. Lucy and Pat Collins ; Lucy and the monkey; Lucy and the efficiency expert ; Lucy's substitute secretary; Viv visits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allegro Corp. 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LUCSummary: In the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as US Secretary of Labor, the first woman to sit on a presidential cabinet. Against overwhelming odds, she became a driving force behind the New Deal social safety net, including Social Security, the 40-hour workweek, the 8-hour day, minimum wage, and unemployment compensation. Featuring compelling interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUMGuillory, Jasmine
Summary: "Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie's work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can't refuse. She's excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn't expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain Private Secretary and his charming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: FIC GUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Guillory 2019Rogan, Charlotte
Summary: For Maggie Rayburn--wife, mother, and secretary at a munitions plant--life is pleasant, predictable, and, she assumes, secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively takes it, an act that turns her world, and her worldview, upside down. Propelled by a desire to do good--and also by a newfound taste for excitement--Maggie starts to see injustice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROGSpicer, Sean
Summary: No job is more of a pressure cooker than being a White House press secretary especially in this White House. For more than two decades, Sean Spicer had been a respected political insider, working as a campaign and communications strategist. But in December 2016, he got the call of a lifetime. President-elect Donald J. Trump had chosen him to be the White House press secretary. And life hasn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SPICER, SEAN SPISummary: In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISS RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MISCookson, Catherine.
Summary: Discouraged by her prospects after a broken engagement, twenty-one-year-old secretary Jinny Brownlow accepts an assignment working directly for her company's difficult boss and garners respect when she refuses to cower before him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOCookson, Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: Louisa Brannigan is a Washington D.C. press secretary whose annoying neighbor gets her involved in the case of a missing pig. Little does she know that the quest for this MIA swine might just lead to unexpected romance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVAFleischer, Ari
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.931 FLEPerino, Dana
Summary: Dana Perino is a popular and beloved host on Fox's The Five, with over two million followers on social media. While readers admire Dana for her charm, warmth, and insight, she also knows who the real star in her family is: her Vizsla, Jasper-A.K.A. America's Dog. and partisanship. She also talks about how dogs bring families together -like Dana's own, from her career in Washington through her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B PERINO PERPerino, Dana.
Summary: "From her years as a presidential press secretary to her debates with colleagues on Fox News' The Five, Dana Perino reveals the lessons she's learned that have guided her through life, including stories from behind the scenes at the White House with President George W. Bush that the cameras never captured. Thoughtful, inspiring and often surprising, AND THE GOOD NEWS IS... traces Dana's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERINO, DANA PERSanders, Sarah Huckabee
Summary: "A candid, riveting account of the Trump White House, on the front lines and behind the scenes. Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as White House Press Secretary for President Donald J. Trump from 2017 to 2019. A trusted confidante of the President, Sanders advised him on everything from press and communications strategy to personnel and policy. She was at the President's side for two and a half...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANDERS, SARAH HUCKABEE SANSummary: Three secretaries live every female worker's dream after discovering they share the same resentment towards their sexist boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD NINSummary: A superstar singer and her overworked personal assistant are presented with a choice that could alter the course of their respective careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HIGArsén, Isa
Summary: "Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood memories dimmed by loss, she has left behind her home, her family, and her first love in pursuit of intellectual fulfillment. When she finally lands a job as a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, the work is everything she dreamed, and while she feels a budding attraction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARSFleischer, Ari
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 FLEKelly, Julia
Summary: "1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M KELMacNeal, Susan Elia.
Summary: After German Luftwaffe bomb London, Maggie Hope--trained in math and code breaking, but only able to find a job as Winston Churchill's secretary--uses the access her position demands to try to unravel an assassinate plot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperback 2012
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMyers, Dee Dee.
Summary: When President Bill Clinton was elected, Dee Dee Myers was told she would act as his Press Secretary--but only for the transition. There was no guarantee she would keep the position after his inauguration. But in January 1993, Myers did become Press Secretary--the youngest person ever and the only woman ever to hold the position. As she writes, "I wasn't the first woman to be the first woman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.920 MYECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 Myers1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.9290 MYE
Parker, Lucy
Summary: "Petunia De Vere enjoys being the personal assistant to lovable, bumbling Johnny Marchmont. But the job has its share of challenges, including the royal's giant, intimidating bodyguard, Matthias. Pet and Matthias are polar opposites--she's spontaneous and enthusiastic, he's rigid and stoic--but she can sense there's something softer underneath that tough exterior ... For Matthias Vaughn,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023