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2017.
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"When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs--the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's...
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Shy, depressed, young, lonely and usually broke, Vermont-bred Mirabelle Butterfield sells gloves at the Beverly Hills Neiman Marcus; at night, she watches TV with her two cats. The plot follows Mirabelle's search for love or at least romance and companionship with middle-aged Ray Porter, a womanizing Seattle millionaire who may, or may not, have hidden redeeming qualities.
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Once on the fast track to success, Helen Hawthorne is now going nowhere fast. She traded in her chic life for a shabby one. And now she's on the run, jumping from city to city and dead-end job to dead-end job, trying to stay one step ahead of her past. After two weeks as the new salesclerk at Juliana's, Fort Lauderdale's ultra-exclusive clothing boutique, Helen still feels out of fashion. And since the only crime likely to be committed around here...
4) Shop girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Working as a salesgirl at the Beverly Hills Neiman Marcus, Mirabelle, a beautiful aspiring artist, embarks on a love affair with Ray Porter, a wealthy, lonely businessman she meets at the store.
5) Humble pie
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
A well meaning but socially awkward grocery clerk struggles with his troubled family and huge waistline as he seeks dignity, a higher purpose in life, and, at long last, a driver's license.
7) Funny Face
Pub. Date
c2001, p1956
Description
A musical with a Paris location; the editors of a fashion magazine find a sweet & naive girl, the perfect fulfillment for their fashion ideas. She has other ideas.
8) Clerks
Series
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys who brave a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, while managing to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and straighten out their offbeat love lives.
10) Shopgirl
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Ray Porter is a button-down 50-something executive who reaches out to a much younger woman as his Los Angeles playmate. Mirabelle a 20-something with a pile of promises, debt, and depression, fades away into a slow corner of Saks, while trying to sell unneeded formal gloves. She's a wisp of a person, with a cat who doesn't love her, and when she finds a suitor, it's Jeremy, a scruffy artist who babbles on about speakers. When the gentlemanly Porter...
12) Empire Records
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
The manager of a struggling record store is desperately trying to avoid a corporate takeover by the mega-chain Music City, while handling the problems of his teenage workers.
13) Be Kind Rewind
Pub. Date
2008
Description
After inadvertently erasing their complete videotape collection, two store clerks create homemade remakes of popular movies ("sweding") and receive local fame.
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Hilarious high jinks from the Grace Brothers team as they troop off to sunny Spain for the staff trip of a laugh-time! Cheerfully they disgrace themselves on the Costa Planka. Mr. Humphries is free while Captain Peacock wants everything under the sun from Miss Brahms. Mrs. Slocombe only hopes her pussy survives as the comedy capers carry on abroad in the funniest film you will ever witness!
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
No more Mr. Nice Spy! Chuck is back and he's the Chuck you know: the hapless Nerd Herder hopelessly devoted to sexy superspy Sarah. And he's the Chuck you don't know: a master martial artist whose brain is locked and loaded with the new Intersect 2.0. How the two Chucks clash, bash, and (sometimes) cooperate makes Season Three total action-packed fun.
19) Clerks. X
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A deadpan comedy about a day in the life of two nowhere-bound convenience and video store clerks and the two eccentric drug dealers who constantly loiter outside the stores.