Author: Janet Groth
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616203064
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Describes the author's career as a receptionist at the prestigious New Yorker magazine, recounting her relationships with famous poets, essayists, and playwrights, and chronicling the behind-the-scenes affairs of the magazine and its staff.
The Receptionist
Author: Janet Groth
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616203064
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Describes the author's career as a receptionist at the prestigious New Yorker magazine, recounting her relationships with famous poets, essayists, and playwrights, and chronicling the behind-the-scenes affairs of the magazine and its staff.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616203064
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Describes the author's career as a receptionist at the prestigious New Yorker magazine, recounting her relationships with famous poets, essayists, and playwrights, and chronicling the behind-the-scenes affairs of the magazine and its staff.
Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold)
Author: Kelly Yang
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338157809
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Inside Out and Back Again meets Millicent Min, Girl Genius in this timely, hopeful middle-grade novel with a contemporary Chinese twist. Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award for Children's Literature!* "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewMia Tang has a lot of secrets.Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed.Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language?It will take all of Mia's courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year. Will she be able to hold on to her job, help the immigrants and guests, escape Mr. Yao, and go for her dreams?Front Desk joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338157809
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Inside Out and Back Again meets Millicent Min, Girl Genius in this timely, hopeful middle-grade novel with a contemporary Chinese twist. Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award for Children's Literature!* "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewMia Tang has a lot of secrets.Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed.Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language?It will take all of Mia's courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year. Will she be able to hold on to her job, help the immigrants and guests, escape Mr. Yao, and go for her dreams?Front Desk joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!
The Receptionist Handbook
Author: Lisa Harmon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781450541749
Category : Office practice
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This no-nonsense guide to being a receptionist is just the handbook corporate America has been waiting for! Every front desk employee should be required to read this delightful, quirky little book. The illustrations keep it rolling, and the text is as insightful as it is humorous. It covers topics on clothing and image, core reception skills and more! With tips on how to get organized and examples of just what to say in every situation, this is a "must have" for any receptionist who has ever felt upstaged by the rest of the office!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781450541749
Category : Office practice
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This no-nonsense guide to being a receptionist is just the handbook corporate America has been waiting for! Every front desk employee should be required to read this delightful, quirky little book. The illustrations keep it rolling, and the text is as insightful as it is humorous. It covers topics on clothing and image, core reception skills and more! With tips on how to get organized and examples of just what to say in every situation, this is a "must have" for any receptionist who has ever felt upstaged by the rest of the office!
Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II, Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669, Deciphered by the Rev. John Smith ... from the Original Short-hand Ms. in the Pepysian Library, and a Selection from His Private Correspondence
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
I Was Killed by My Best Friend
Author: Alice Leszek
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465324488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Alice is a girl no different from any girl growing up today in America. She lives in Africa but has dreams and a family she loves and who loves her. Soon her life becomes nothing like what most girls here have to encounter. War becomes a looming threat and causes financial loss and periodic separation from loved ones. Gossip leads to mistrust and broken hearts. HIV and AIDS becomes a source of confusion and fear. An antiquated system of marriage leads to homelessness and total lonliness. A friendship is reconcilliated but turns into her biggest curse of all. All the while a relationship with God is all Alice can truly count on.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465324488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Alice is a girl no different from any girl growing up today in America. She lives in Africa but has dreams and a family she loves and who loves her. Soon her life becomes nothing like what most girls here have to encounter. War becomes a looming threat and causes financial loss and periodic separation from loved ones. Gossip leads to mistrust and broken hearts. HIV and AIDS becomes a source of confusion and fear. An antiquated system of marriage leads to homelessness and total lonliness. A friendship is reconcilliated but turns into her biggest curse of all. All the while a relationship with God is all Alice can truly count on.
Life and Letters of Robert Clement Sconce, Formerly Secretary to Admiral Sir John Duckworth
Author: Robert Clement Sconce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
From Secretary To Wife
Author: valle
Publisher: Mangatoon HK Limited
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Alexa has worked for Leandro, the womanizer, for 6 years, the only way she found to keep her job and not fall into the CEO's clutches was to pretend to be an ugly duckling. Leandro needs to get married so as not to lose the company that was inherited to him, he has less than a month to get a fake wife, so he proposes a deal to his secretary. Will Alexa accept the proposal? Will his secret be revealed?
Publisher: Mangatoon HK Limited
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Alexa has worked for Leandro, the womanizer, for 6 years, the only way she found to keep her job and not fall into the CEO's clutches was to pretend to be an ugly duckling. Leandro needs to get married so as not to lose the company that was inherited to him, he has less than a month to get a fake wife, so he proposes a deal to his secretary. Will Alexa accept the proposal? Will his secret be revealed?
Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior ...
Author: United States. Board of Indian Commissioners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description