Fort Morgan Public Library

When elderly bookseller Carl Christian Kollhoff, who delivers books to special customers after closing time, unexpectedly loses his job, he forms an unlikely friendship with a nine-year-old girl who encourages him and his friends to embrace the power of books and rebuild their bonds with one another.

Divorcing her unmotivated, non-working spouse only to find herself stuck with paying alimony, Manhattan financial planner Melanie Banks secretly hires a matchmaker who will end the alimony by getting her ex into another relationship.

Former history professor David Mapstone returns to his Pheonix, Arizona, boyhood home and is unhappy with the changes he finds--a feeling that is exacerbated by his new line of work as a detective.

Tammy is having a bad day. She's totaled her car, gotten fired from her job at a burger joint, and finds her husband getting comfortable with the neighbor in her own house. It's time to take her boom box and book it. The bad news is she's broke and without wheels. The worse news is her grandma, Pearl, is her only option-with a car, cash, and an itch to see Niagara Falls. Not exactly the escape Tammy had in mind. But on the road, with grandma riding...

There's no denying the devastating impact that losing a job can bring. Besides the obvious financial stress, unemployment often impacts the way we feel about ourselves. For many of us, the contributions we make from our work build our self-esteem. Work often provides us with a sense of purpose and a social support network. It's no wonder that people who are out of work find themselves feeling despondent and isolated. Given all of this, maintaining...

After a bad fall, Tom, in constant pain and addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, realizes he can never work again and ends up in subsidized housing, where he hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud with neighbors he considers lowlifes.

Bounce back from losing your job and get your career back on track!

"A dedicated Anglophile and Janeite, Elizabeth Parker is hoping the trip to the Jane Austen Festival in Bath will distract her from her lack of a job and her uncertain future with her boyfriend. On the plane ride, she and Aunt Winnie meet Professor Zackary Baines, a self-proclaimed expert on all things Austen. He claims that within each Austen novel there is another darker secondary story, usually involving sordid behavior. He claims to know the true...

"In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally gendered understandings of work--that it's a requirement for men and optional for women--loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men's unemployment...