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41) Blood brothers
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of World War II. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner's story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next, spending their nights in underground bars and makeshift hostels, struggling together...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Take Dave Barry, Jack Welch, Homer Simpson, and Ray Romano, mix in a family, a little weight gain, failure, introspection, and redemption, and you have Nigel Marsh's international best-selling autobiography.
As a stressed husband and father of four small children under the age of eight, Nigel Marsh was enslaved to his mortgage, recuperating from an embarrassing surgery, and suddenly fired from his corporate career. Deciding to venture "off the treadmill"...
44) Tammy
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Tammy is having a bad day. She's totaled her car, gotten fired from her job at a burger joint, and finds her husband getting comfortable with the neighbor in her own house. It's time to take her boom box and book it. The bad news is she's broke and without wheels. The worse news is her grandma, Pearl, is her only option-with a car, cash, and an itch to see Niagara Falls. Not exactly the escape Tammy had in mind. But on the road, with grandma...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
After being let go from his job on an ostrich farm a man leaves his small village to find work in the big city. As a motorcycle taxi driver, he soon becomes consumed with his passengers' lives, and is swept up in a world of greed. Now it is up to his family back home to help restore his caring and generous nature.
49) Sunlight Jr.
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A convenience store clerk, Melissa, and her paraplegic boyfriend, Richie are barely making ends meet when they find out they are having a baby. Genuinely excited, they are overjoyed until Melissa loses her job, and the motel where they are living at evicts them. They must now face the difficult choices about their lives and relationship.
50) The big Lebowski
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski is pulled into the seedy underworld of criminal Los Angeles when two incompetent mobsters mistake him for an evil millionaire with the same name.
51) Rocky Road
Pub. Date
2014
Description
When Harrison, a young hot shot Wall Streeter, loses his job and expensive lifestyle due to a failed merger, he's forced to move back in with his parents and take over his old ice cream truck route for his father's dwindling business. Having spent a lifetime looking up to the power brokers of Wall Street and looking down on the simple ways of his small-town father, Harrison starts to appreciate his father's values and find the faith that he lost along...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"A dedicated Anglophile and Janeite, Elizabeth Parker is hoping the trip to the Jane Austen Festival in Bath will distract her from her lack of a job and her uncertain future with her boyfriend. On the plane ride, she and Aunt Winnie meet Professor Zackary Baines, a self-proclaimed expert on all things Austen. He claims that within each Austen novel there is another darker secondary story, usually involving sordid behavior. He claims to know the true...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Parks' home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
56) On a Clear Day
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
It's the ultimate personal challenge--swimming the English Channel. As Frank Redmond (Peter Mullan_ plunges headlong into his new life, his friends get swept up in his quest, filling his training with laughter and camaraderie as he prepares for the most extraordinary test of human endurance.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally gendered understandings of work--that it's a requirement for men and optional for women--loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men's unemployment...
58) Rice and beans
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Marty has lost her job. Unable to work, she has no option other than to apply for welfare. She meets lively, intelligent Thea in the crowded waiting room of Tucson's unemployment office. Thea's optimism brings Marty out of her depression, and the two women decide to pool their resources. They wind up in a barrio apartment with no hot water, no refrigerator, no bathtub. But they have a diverse assortment of new neighbors, including the matriarchal...
59) The full monty
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Six unemployed men, inspired by a touring group of male strippers, decide they can make a fortune by putting on a striptease show of their own.
60) Tune
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Andy's life is going nowhere, fast. He left art school with his career all worked out ahead of time, but to say it didn't work out is the understatement of the century. Unemployed and living with his overbearing parents, Andy struggles to keep sight of the lofty goals that once drove him. But it's hard, even when he reconnects with his old art school crush, Yumi. Things look better, briefly, with Yumi back in the picture and an actual job offer on...