Nightwork

• Author : Irwin Shaw
• Publisher : Open Road Media
• Release Date : 2013-04-16
• ISBN : 9781480412378

New York Times Bestseller: The story of a down-on-his-luck desk clerk, a con man, and a fortune from the author of Rich Man, Poor Man. Pilot Douglas Grimes’s best days are long behind him. Grounded due to a medical condition, Grimes has resigned himself to working nights at a seedy hotel. But his fortune flips when he discovers a guest dead from a heart attack and, next to him, a tube jammed with a fortune in cold hard cash.

• Author : Nora Roberts
• Publisher : St. Martin's Press
• Release Date : 2022-05-24
• ISBN : 9781250278203

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces an unforgettable thief in an unputdownable new novel... Greed. Desire. Obsession. Revenge . . . It’s all in a night’s work. Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother’s head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago—but kept up his nightwork, developing into a master thief

• Author : Thomas Glavinic
• Publisher : Canongate Books
• Release Date : 2010-08-31
• ISBN : 9781847676344

There’s nothing moving outside. No cars. No buses. No people. No birds. Nothing. No one. Anywhere. An ordinary man wakes up on an ordinary day to find that he’s the only living creature in the entire city. The radio and TV are suddenly filled with white noise, there’s no newspaper, the Internet is down and no one’s answering the phone. Jonas is the last living being on the planet. What happened? How? Why? And why is

• Author : New York (State). Department of Labor. Division of Research and Statistics,Vera Freeman,Harry Newman
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1949
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105019990337

• Author : Anne Allison
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release Date : 2009-02-25
• ISBN : 9780226014883

In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen who came there on company expense accounts. Her book critically examines how such establishments create bonds among white-collar men and forge a masculine identity that suits the needs of their corporations. Allison describes in detail a typical company

• Author : Louis Dembitz Brandeis
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1914
• ISBN : PRNC:32101042497444

• Author : T. F. Peterson
• Publisher : Mit Press
• Release Date : 2003
• ISBN : 0262661373

Reed would die to work for Victoria McCoy--and she may get the chance to do just that Reed Monroe chose Salem University for one reason: the opportunity to study with Victoria McCoy, writer-in-residence and bestselling author of horror fiction. When she learns that a lingering illness is preventing McCoy from teaching any classes, Reed starts a fan club for other McCoy obsessives. Although it only attracts a few members, the club is her passion until she hears about the opportunity

• Author : Steve Hamilton
• Publisher : Minotaur Books
• Release Date : 2007-09-18
• ISBN : 9781429919777

With Night Work, award-winning author of the acclaimed Alex McKnight series Steve Hamilton delivers an atmospheric standalone thriller. Joe Trumbull is not a man who scares easily. But tonight he is scared to death. It's been two years since Joe's fiancée, Laurel, was murdered. Two years of grief and loneliness. On this hot summer night, he's finally going on a blind date, his first since Laurel's death. He's not looking for love, just testing the waters to see if

• Author : Laurie R. King
• Publisher : Bantam
• Release Date : 2009-07-22
• ISBN : 9780307567963

Night Work Kate and her partner, Al Hawkin, are called to a scene of carefully executed murder: the victim is a muscular man, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and candy in his pocket. The likeliest person to want him dead, his often-abused wife, is meek and frail--and has an airtight alibi. Kate and Al are stumped, until a second body turns up--also zapped, cuffed, and strangled...and carrying a candy bar. This victim: a

• Author : Christine Schutt
• Publisher : Knopf
• Release Date : 2012-11-28
• ISBN : 9780307828200

In this, her first collection of stories, Christine Schutt gives exquisite and provocative form to feelings and memories. Nightwork is a masterful dreamwork, revealing our lives with the startling clarity we long for. A young woman remembers, after a forbidden embrace, the exact quality of her father's skin, "pitted and stubbled under all that color." A girl recalls the strange kingdom that was her grandfather's estate, a place she came to inhabit only through betrayal. Romantic linkings are often unexpected:

• Author : Randall Maggs
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2018
• ISBN : 1771314966

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1915
• ISBN : UIUC:30112011574610

• Author : David C. Taylor
• Publisher : Forge Books
• Release Date : 2015-03-17
• ISBN : 9781466843431

*A 2016 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel *Winner of the 2016 Nero Wolfe Award for Best American Mystery David C. Taylor's Night Life takes us back to New York City in 1954. The Cold War is heating up. Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for Communists in America. The newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary US intelligence agency. And the bodies of murdered young

• Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1974
• ISBN : UCR:31210013531205

• Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1890
• ISBN : HARVARD:32044077697258