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21) Last Christmas
Description
Kate is a young woman who faces an endless streak of bad luck and poor decision-making. Working as an elf in a year round Christmas store is not good for the wannabe singer. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn. For Kate, it seems too good to be true.
Author
Series
Haley Randolph mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
When professional fashionista Haley Randolph is cursed by an irate customer and then experiences a run of bad luck, including the discovery of a dead former classmate in the menswear department, she races against time to catch the real killer.
Author
Description
Paradise: When corporate raider Matthew Farrell targets a department store empire, he crosses paths with stunning blonde Meredith Bancroft -- and a once-in-a-lifetime passion and bittersweet memories are rekindled for each of them. Can Matt and Meredith believe in each other at last? Or will a hostile takeover shatter their tenuous trust? Tender triumph: Stunning Katie Connelly submerged her painful past in a fast-track career and men she could keep...
26) Truckers
Author
Series
Bromeliad trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Reluctant to believe that there is a world outside the department store in which they live, Torrit, Dorcas, and the other nomes look to Masklin, a newly arrived "outsider," to lead them to a safe haven when the store goes out of business.
Author
Series
Bottom dollar girls novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Meet Elizabeth Polk, 26, in her natural habitat, the Bottom Dollar Emporium in Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, where she works with widowed store owner Mavis Loomis and Attalee Gaines, who's "knee deep in her eighties." On the mend from a sudden breakup with her fiance and busy cooking up plans to fight the store's competition, Elizabeth isn't looking for romance--but that's what she gets when one of her wealthy customers pushes Timothy Hollingsworth...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Concerned that the immigrant employees of New York City's Macy's department store are homesick at Christmas, a young girl inspires the store's head to hold the first Macy's Parade. Based on a true story; includes historical note.
29) Window shopping
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. I'm standing alone in front of the famous Vivant department store, when a charming man named Aiden asks my opinion of the décor. It's a tragedy in tinsel, I say, unable to lie. He asks for a better idea with a twinkle in his eye. Did I know he owned the place? No. He put me on the spot. Now I'm working for that man, trying to ignore that he's...
30) Girl in a box
Author
Series
Rei Shimura mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Taking a freelance assignment from a Washington, D.C., agency with possible ties to the CIA, Japanese-American investigator Rei Shimura goes undercover as a clerk in a big Tokyo department store to unmask a killer.
Author
Series
Wilma Porter novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
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....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Over the course of eleven decades, The Denver Dry Goods and its predecessor, McNamara Dry Goods, proudly served Coloradoans, who knew they could "shop with confidence" for the best quality at the fairest prices. Much more than the goods it sold, the store was a major institution that touched the lives of nearly every Denverite. Comforting culinary traditions like Chicken à la King in the vast fifth-floor tearoom and breakfast with Santa delighted...
36) 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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018].
Description
Denverites once enjoyed a retail landscape rich with personal touches. Revisit May-D&F's animated holiday windows or the ice skating rink in front of the store. Reminisce about the Christmas chandeliers that stretched for four hundred feet on the main floor of the Denver Dry Goods or the elegance of Neusteters, with its fashion shows and exclusive merchandise. Recall finding that perfect outfit at Fashion Bar and going back-to-school shopping at Joslins....
Author
Series
Bottom dollar girls novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
It isn't every day a movie star steals your husband. When that day comes for Chiffon Butrell of Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, she looks to the Bottom Dollar Girls to help her out of one fine mess. A rollicking, hilarious novel of friendship and sisterhood, A Dollar Short is a delicious page-turner worth every last cent.