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1. Agency
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Series:
Peripheral volume 2
Publisher:
Berkley
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
""One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working" (The Boston Globe) returns with a sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
"Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted. During the course of the investigation, Rhonda and Baby become entangled in a dangerous case...
4. Agency
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Publisher:
Author's Republic
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
It is said how actions differ from mere causes and, therewith, how selves differ from mere objects.
Publisher:
Home Box Office
Pub. Date:
[2009]
Language:
English
Description:
Follows Mma Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help - from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her father, to...
6. Agency Mania
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Publisher:
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Why do some client/agency relationships thrive while others fail? At a time of unprecedented change and complexity in marketing and advertising, Agency Mania will transform the way you look at client/agency relationships and invite you to build sustained partnerships that deliver unmatched work and results. The world of marketing is a trillion-dollar industry and is changing at a drastic pace. The advertiser/agency relationship is under incredible...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
"Agency Amplifed: Achieving Scale in a Shifting Digital Landscape" is a step-by-step guide built upon two decades of experience as well as insight from some of the top-performing agencies nationwide. Not only does this book address critical issues encountered by both small and large agencies, but it lays out a "paint-by-numbers" plan to amplify your people, systems, and processes at scale.
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Publisher:
Trafford Publishing
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
Jack and the coach stood beside him on the sidelines out from Varfolomeys view as he readied the weapon, and dialed in the scope, across from him, three others did the same. After the chant, Jack ran out onto the field and shook hands with Jamal, and the game started, as a sense of security was among the players, as Varfolomey was watching his prey. Jack was running all over the place, as Varfolomey shot, no muzzle flash as he silenced the barrel...
Author:
Publisher:
Escargot-Books
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
In Up the Agency, originally published in 1990, Peter Mayle turns his mind back to what drove him to the south of France in the first place: the advertising business, where he lost thirteen perfectly good years of his life. Once known as "the greatest copywriter alive," Mayle's uproarious and telling retrospective of the foibles of the ad man's life wittily dissects this odd and fascinating industry, where clients are "pigs with checkbooks"
...Publisher:
Intellect Books
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Notoriously difficult to define as a genre, Live Art is commonly positioned as a challenge to received artistic, social and political categories: not theatre, not dance, not visual and often wilfully anti-mainstream and anti-establishment. But as it has become an increasingly prevalent category in international festivals, major art galleries, diverse publications and higher education streams, it is time for a reassessment. This collection of essays,...
Publisher:
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
When a black ops division of the Government suspects that a sudden surge of supernatural activity and violent attacks on Earth are the work of an evil Demon-God capable of destroying worlds, it must call upon the services of super soldier Summer Vale to prevent the coming apocalypse. But no one is prepared for who and what they find behind these attacks. It's time to bring out the Big Guns!
Author:
Series:
Die "Agency for Scandal"-Reihe volume 1
Publisher:
argon Kinder- und Jugendhörbuch
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
German
Description:
Brave Ladys folgen den Regeln - mutige schreiben ihre eigenen. Historical Romance mit feministischer Detektiv-Handlung: Das perfekte Wohlfühl-Hörbuch für alle Hörer*innen ab 13! Izzy Stanhope hat viele Geheimnisse: etwa, dass sie Hals über Kopf in einen Duke verliebt ist, der nicht einmal weiß, dass sie existiert. Oder dass ihre Familie hoch verschuldet ist, was niemand je erfahren darf. Und dann ist da noch die Tatsache, dass sie mühelos jedes...
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
Children of different ages live in different worlds. This is partly due to learning: as children learn more and more about the world they experience it in different ways. But learning cannot be the whole story or else children could learn anything at any age-which they cannot. Michael Tomasello argues that children of different ages live and learn in different worlds because their capacities to cognitively represent and operate on their experience...
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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2010
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 680L
Language:
English
Description:
Introducing an exciting new series! Steeped in Victorian atmosphere and
intrigue, this diverting mystery trails a feisty heroine as she takes on a precarious secret assignment. (Age 12 and up)
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan (and thief) Mary Quinn is surprised to be offered a singular education, instruction in fine manners — and an unusual vocation. Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls is a cover for an all-female
Publisher:
The Great Courses
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
CIA expert Hugh Wilford transforms decades of research into a 24-episode series that helps you better understand the roles the CIA has played in recent American history, from the eve of the Cold War to the 21st-century War on Terror. You'll explore the CIA's successful (and disastrous) operations, its technological innovations, and its complex relationship with presidents and pop culture.
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Series:
Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 820L
Language:
English
Description:
In a tale steeped in action, romance, and the gaslit intrigue of Victorian London, Mary Quinn's detective skills are pitted against a cunning and desperate opponent.
Mary Quinn has a lot on her mind. James Easton, her longtime love interest, wants to marry her; but despite her feelings, independent-minded Mary hesitates. Meanwhile, the Agency has asked Mary to take on a dangerous case: convicted fraudster Henry Thorold is dying in prison,
Author:
Series:
Little Lady Agency volume 1
Language:
English
Description:
Gentlemen! No Little Lady in Your Life? Call the Little Lady Agency: everything organised, from your home to your wardrobe, your social life to you. No funny business or laundry. When Melissa is made unfairly redundant from her job at an estate agents' office, she decides it's time for a change. Instead of working for other people, Melissa will go into business for herself: using her organisational skills to whip the lives of London's socially and...
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Series:
Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2010
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 760L
Language:
English
Description:
Mary's second adventure as an undercover agent forces her to relive some harrowing childhood experiences as she seeks the identity of a murderer. (Ages 12 and up)
Mary Quinn is back, now a trusted member of the Agency, the allfemale detective unit operating out of Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls. Her new assignment sends her into the grimy underbelly of Victorian London dressed as a poor boy, evoking her own childhood memories of fear,
Author:
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Every child deserves to know that a path to a successful life exists and that they have the power to follow it. But many never set foot on that path because they grow up hearing the message that systemic forces control their destinies, or that they are at fault for everything that has gone wrong in their lives. Yet this phenomenon is not universal. Some children thrive where others do not. Why? Are there personal behaviors and institutional supports...