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By Payne, Alexander. 1961- Taylor, Jim. 1962- Besman, Michael Gittes, Harry Nicholson, Jack Davis, Hope. 1967- Mulroney, Dermot Cariou, Len Hesseman, Howard Bates, Kathy. 1948- Squibb, June. 1935 Winston, Matt Glennon, James. 1942 Tent, Kevin Kent, Rolfe Chuck, Wendy Stewart, Jane Ann Begley, Louis New Line Cinema Corporation New Line Home Entertainment. (Firm)2003, New Line Productions : Distributed by New Line Home Entertainment Call No: DVD VID Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Warren Schmidt is at sea after being left a widower shortly after retiring from a lifetime as an actuary at Woodmen of the World Insurance in Omaha, Nebraska. He matter-of-factly explains that, since he is 67, retired, and a widower, he should be dead within nine years--this in a letter to the African boy he is sponsoring through a charitable relief organization. As daughter Jeannie's wedding to waterbed salesman fiance Randall looms, Warren sets out for Denver in his Winnebago Adventurer to attend, and discovers along the way that slavish devotion to an insurance company hasn't exactly made a life well spent.
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2012., Adult, Little, Brown Call No: FIC ROW Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock and the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen.
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c1992., Adult, Poseidon Press Call No: FIC GOL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Three first wives band together to take their due from the men who used them, abused them, and then dumped them.
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2024., Adult, Flatiron Books Call No: FIC ROS Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A gripping, darkly comic novel from the national bestselling author of Bad Summer People about a team of wealthy and powerful executives on retreat in Miami when one of them goes missing . . . Every year, executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company's top employees for an exclusive retreat in Miami and this year, Caitlin Levy--Aurora's newest hire--is joining the team as Head of Events. The benefits are outstanding: a seven-figure salary, stock shares, a discretionary bonus, limitless vacation days-what could possibly go wrong? When another high-level executive vanishes after the first night, the disappearance has the potential to derail the future of the company's sale and cost everyone on the team millions. Now, more than ever, Caitlin and her colleagues must continue the charade--partaking in team building exercises, group brainstorms, dinners--in order to keep the future of Aurora afloat amid all the fatal speculations. Compulsively readable, Very Bad Company is a slick send up of corporate culture wrapped in a captivating mystery"--
