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"In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle--and profit from--our rising tide of discarded stuff, and asks a pressing question: In a world that craves shiny...
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Edgar award-winning author of the popular historical novels A Conspiracy of Paper and A Spectacle of Corruption, David Liss showcases his amazing versatility with this brilliant new tale of contemporary suspense: a literary thriller set in Florida, where killing is a matter of conscience.
No one is more surprised than Lem Altick when it turns out he’s actually good at peddling encyclopedias door to door. He hates the predatory world of sales,...
No one is more surprised than Lem Altick when it turns out he’s actually good at peddling encyclopedias door to door. He hates the predatory world of sales,...
5) Tin men
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two less-than-honest aluminum siding salesmen meet in a fender bender, but their bruised egos and quick tempers turn the minor accident into a major vendeta against each other's symbols of success--their prized Cadillacs.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Free-spirited Maggie meets her match in a charming Viagra salesman named Jamie. Maggie and Jamie leap into a no-strings-attached affair, but no matter how hard they try to keep things 'casual,' they can't help falling under the influence of the ultimate drug: love!
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Jack McColl novels volume 1
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English
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"It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city--Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York--he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing...
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[Michael Frederick]
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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"Floyd Harvey Deason is a second-generation paper man, trained by his father to sell toilet paper by any means possible ... Floyd is the rough salesman who can roll into town ... and punish his customers with brutal sales tactics and unscrupulous tricks of the trade ... Harvey is his softer side --the one who entertains his customers and loves his dog, his music, and the 'young girl' ... who ... cast a spell that would one day lead to the most incredible...
10) First snow
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After his car breaks down in a desolate town, a slick salesman, Jimmy Starks visits a fortune teller to kill some time. But the psychic's ominous reading sends Jimmy's life into a tailspin when he learns that his life will soon end, but he is safe at least, until the coming winter's first snow. Now, with his ultimate fate looming nearer, Jimmy becomes obsessed with revisiting his past in hopes of changing his destiny before it's too late
12) The big kahuna
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Three industrial lubricant salesmen at a convention where anything can happen and careers can be made or ruined on a handshake. Now, with their futures on the line, they must put their trust in a greenhorn sales rep as they pursue the ultimate sale
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Series
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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"Although Eugene O'Neill completed The Iceman Cometh in 1939, he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a long run of performances in 1946 after receiving mixed reviews. The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics and misfits who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and on Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams."--Jacket.
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Bottom dollar girls novels volume 1
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English
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Welcome to the Bottom Dollar Emporium of Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, where everything from coconut mallow cookies to Clabber Girl Baking Powder costs only a dollar, and coffee and gossip are free. For Elizabeth, Mavis, and Attalee, the Bottom Dollar Girls, logging nine to five at the Bottom Dollar is not just work time, it's family time. So when news gets out that the Super Saver Dollar Store chain plans to run the Bottom Dollar out of town, things...
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Wilma Porter novels volume 1
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English
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When a traveling salesman mysteriously appears in smalltown Ebb, Nebr., he quickly settles in at Wilma Porter's Come Again B & B and sets about solving all the problems plaguing Ebb's small social circle in this chatty, earnest novel. While no one fully believes that the impeccably dressed Vernon Moore has truly come to sell games of chance (there are no prospective buyers, for one thing), they are eager to keep him around for excitement and advice....
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Elmwood Springs volume 2
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English
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Good news! Fannie’s back in town—and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel.
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly...
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly...
20) Bed & breakfast
Publisher
Green Apple Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A romantic comedy about a saleswoman from a large department store in Rio who discovers she has inherited property in the wine country of California. She could never expect what she would find in Webster, a small country town
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