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How to hack a heartbreak / by Rockaway, Kristin,author.(CARDINAL)416196;
"By day, Mel Strickland is an underemployed help-desk tech at a startup incubator, Hatch, where she helps entitled brogrammers who can't even fix their own laptops, but are apparently the next wave of startup geniuses. By night, she goes on bad dates with misbehaving dudes she's matched with on the ubiquitous dating app Fluttr. After one inappropriate pic too many, Mel has had it. Using her coding skills, she designs an app of her own, one that allows users to log harassers and abusers in online dating space."--Publisher description.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Single women; Computer programming; Online dating; Application software; Online dating.;

Land your dream career in college : the complete guide to success / by Terhune, Tori Randolph,author.(CARDINAL)402552; Hays, Betsy A.,author.(CARDINAL)402553; Terhune, Tori Randolph.Land your dream career.;
Start now -- Design, build, and protect your brand -- Immerse yourself: inside and outside the classroom -- Employ the magic of 75/25 -- Master every conversation -- Innovate to stand out -- Allow for wiggle room and celebration -- Network, network, network -- Use new media and online tools -- Become an expert -- Put it all together!Contrary to what students, and society, are conditioned to think, obtaining a college degree does not automatically result in a job, let alone a dream career. In the last year, alone, half of college graduates are either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't fully use their skills and knowledge. Authors Tori Randolph Terhune, a gainfully-employed young college graduate herself, and Betsy A. Hays, a college professor, show readers what they can do in college to successfully pave the way for future employment in Land Your Dream Career. The authors provide eleven easy-to-follow strategies for effectively using time on campus to start building a career.--Publisher description.
Subjects: College graduates;

Egypt on the brink : from Nasser to Mubarak / by Osman, Tarek,autahor.(CARDINAL)501255;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Egypt's world -- Nasser and Arab nationalism -- The Islamists -- The rise of liberal capitalism -- Egyptian Christians -- The Mubarak years -- Young Egyptians."Famous until the 1950s for its religious pluralism and extraordinary cultural heritage, Egypt is now seen as an increasingly repressive and divided land, home of the Muslim Brotherhood and an opaque regime headed by the aging President Mubarak. ... Tarek Osman explores what has happened to the biggest Arab nation since President Nasser took control of the countryin 1954. He examines Egypt's central role in the development of the two crucial movements of the period, Arab nationalism and radical Islam; the increasingly contentious relationship between Muslims and Christians; and perhaps most important of all, the rift between the cosmopolitan elite and the mass of the undereducated and underemployed population, more than half of whom are aged under thirty."--Back cover.

Handyman [large print] / by Nichols, Linda,1954-(CARDINAL)659873;
Jake, a carpenter, and Maggie, an underemployed, unwed mother, are the hero and heroine of this light romantic comedy, which is innocent enough to satisfy conservative public library readers. The implausible, slapstick storyline is based on mistaken identity. Jake, a contractor working on the redesign of a trendy psychologist's office, meets Maggie when she comes to the doctor, distraught with her life and seeking a "21-day overhaul." Unbeknownst to her, the real psychologist is in the hospital for heart bypass surgery. Jake likes Maggie's looks, so he sits her down in the office and listens to her story. When she asks the "doctor" why he's dressed so informally, he replies that it's "casual day." They fall in love, and Maggie doesn't discover his deception until the riotous climax.
Subjects: Large print books.; Romance fiction.; Impostors and imposture; Psychotherapist and patient;

Dead ex : a novel / by Kozak, Harley Jane,1957-(CARDINAL)687708;
wild Wollie Shelley must solve the cold-blooded murder of terminally ill David Zetrakis, producer of the popular TV soap At the End of the Day. Tall, unarmed and sometimes very dangerous if provoked, Wollie's an underemployed greeting card artist who starts moonlighting as the dating correspondent for the talk show SoapDirt. Getting the dirt on David's killer, however, proves to be a major challenge. Wollie and her best friend, fellow Dayactress Joey Rafferty, had both dated David, and Joey becomes the LAPD's top suspect when it turns out David bequeathed her a valuable Gustav Klimt painting. Wollie's faith in her friend is further tested when Joey's husband dies in a suspicious surfing accident and Joey disappears.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Women artists; Commercial artists; Greeting cards industry; Dating (Social customs); Television soap operas; Radio soap operas; Shelley, Wollie (Fictitious character);

Bitter medicine / by Tsai, Mia,author.;
"As a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, ignored middle child Elle was destined to be a doctor. Instead, she is underemployed as a mediocre magical calligrapher at the fairy temp agency. Nevertheless, she challenges herself by covertly outfitting Luc, her client and crush, with high-powered glyphs. Half-elf Luc, the agency's top security expert, has his own secret: he's responsible for a curse laid from an old assignment. To heal them, he'll need to perform his job duties with unrelenting excellence and earn time off from his tyrannical boss. When Elle saves Luc's life, they begin a dangerous collaboration, but their chemistry blooms. Happiness, for once, is an option for them both. But Elle is loyal to her family, and Luc is bound by his true name. To win freedom from duty, they must make unexpected sacrifices"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Romance fiction.; Novels.; Immortalism; Elves; Secrecy; Magic; Gods, Chinese; Secrecy.;

Idiot's guides personal finance in your 20s & 30s / by Fisher, Sarah Young,author.(CARDINAL)651474; Shelly McGovern, Susan,author.(CARDINAL)651503;
Your financial foundation. Your financial base ; Choosing the right bank accounts ; Budgeting your living costs -- Building your credit. Your credit history, report, and score ; Finding the best credit cards ; The trush about credit card debt -- Paying off your student loans and debt. Student loan debt and costs of education ; Debt consolidation and payback options -- Your money and your career. Employed, unemployed, underemployed ; Employer-sponsored benefits ; Surviving on unemployment -- Your savings. Cutting costs ; Your saving options ; Your investing options -- Big-ticket purchases. Buying versus leasing a car ; Owning versus renting a home ; Insuring yourself and your property -- Relationships and money. Life, love, and money ; Choosing life insurance ; Wills, powers of attorney, and health-care directives -- Looking to your future. 401(k)s and IRAs ; Working with professional financial advisers.Revised and updated, this new edition of Idiot's Guides: Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s, Fifth Edition, explains all the basic information you need to get started in life and plan for your future. You'll learn how to manage all aspects of your personal finances, as well as enhance your financial plan to yield better returns on your investments.
Subjects: Generation X; Finance, Personal; Investments;

Deadbeats : what responsible parents need to know about collecting child support / by Spence, Simone.(CARDINAL)705500;
Subjects: Child support; Attachment and garnishment; Child support; Attachment and garnishment;

How to hack a heartbreak [large print] / by Rockaway, Kristin,author.(CARDINAL)416196;
"By day, Mel Strickland is an underemployed helpdesk tech at a startup incubator, Hatch, where she helps entitled brogrammers--"Hatchlings"--who can't even fix their own laptops, but are apparently the next wave of startup geniuses. And by night, she goes on bad dates with misbehaving dudes she's matched with on the ubiquitous dating app, Fluttr. But after one too many, Mel has had it. Using her brilliant coding skills, she designs an app of her own, one that allows users to log harrassers and abusers in online dating space. It's called JerkAlert, and it goes viral overnight. Mel is suddenly in way over her head. Worse still, her almost-boyfriend, the dreamy Alex Hernandez has no idea she's the brains behind the app. Soon, Mel is faced with a terrible choice: one that could destroy her career, love life, and friendships, or change her life forever"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Large print books.; Romance fiction.; Single women; Computer programming; Online dating; Application software; Online dating.;

Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South / by Merritt, Keri Leigh,1980-author.(CARDINAL)416027;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : The second degree of slavery -- The Southern origins of the Homestead Act -- The demoralization of labor -- Masterless (and militant) white workers -- Everyday life : material realities -- Literacy, education, and disfranchisement -- Vagrancy, alcohol, and crime -- Poverty and punishment -- Race, Republicans, and vigilante violence -- Class crisis and the Civil War -- Conclusion : A duel emancipation -- Appendix : Numbers, percentages, and the census."Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton--and thus, slaves--in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor whites could not compete--for jobs or living wages--with profitable slave labor. Though impoverished whites were never subjected to the daily violence and degrading humiliations of racial slavery, they did suffer tangible socio-economic consequences as a result of living in a slave society. Merritt examines how these 'masterless' men and women threatened the existing Southern hierarchy and ultimately helped push Southern slaveholders toward secession and civil war"--
Subjects: Labor; Land tenure; Poor white people; Poor white people; Slavery; Slavery; Social conflict;

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