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Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps...
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert who flies all over the world on business. Just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles, and meeting the frequent traveler woman of his dreams, his company grounds him. When Bingham goes on his last cross country firing expedition, he will learn that life isn't about the journey, but about the connections made along the way.
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 3
Description
After Karen Sommerfield is suddenly forced to deal with the threat of cancer at the same time her company downsizes her, she returns to the rural Missouri Ozarks and her grandmother's old farm on an odyssey to find herself.
4) The ax
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Burke Devore, a victim of downsizing after twenty-five years with Halcyon Mills, is driven to unbelievable extremes in his attempts to secure another job.
5) Desk set
Series
Studio classic volume 18
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A strategic foreign consultant with over a decade of working for the US shows how the downsizing of our armed forces lowers the nation's defense and puts us at risk. In this stunningly detailed account of US military power in the Obama era, Mark Moyar reveals how Obama's military decisions have led to the international catastrophes of his second term. While our current downward spiral did not grab the attention of the American people until 2014, Moyar...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A biting, hilarious literary satire of war, business, and contemporary masculinity, set in the cutthroat-but-ridiculous world of management consulting
King of the Mississippi is an incisive, uproarious dissection of contemporary male vanity and delusion, centered around a "war" for dominance of a prestigious Houston consulting firm. On one side of the conflict is Brock Wharton, an old money ex-jock whose delight in telling clients to downsize is...
11) Grievance
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"Crumbling, empty buildings, a real-estate infrastructure sputtering out, next-to-no tax base for the town and its schools, a population thrown to the mercies of the welfare state ... to many of Rocksburg's citizens, this was the bitter legacy of the mid-1980s. A brutal regimen of downsizing had shut down steel production and eliminated two-thirds of the factory's workforce - a policy enforced by steel magnate J. D. Lyons." "If Lyons accomplished...
13) Covet
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Chris and Claire Canton's marriage is on life support. Out of work for a year, Chris retreats to a dark place where no one can reach him. When he's offered a job that will keep him away from home four nights a week, he dismisses Claire's concern that time apart could be the one thing their fragile union can't weather. Police officer Daniel Rush goes home to an empty house every night. He pulls Claire over during a routine traffic stop. When Claire...