Kamet, a successful secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire if his master does well. But when his master is murdered, he must flee for his own safety and is forced onto a very different path. Kamet suddenly finds himself fighting to survive a rugged terrain, slave catchers, and bounty hunters alongside an enemy soldier with whom he forms an unexpected and powerful friendship.
"At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dares publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world - using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, and under Sally's tutelage quickly learns how to blend in, make drops and invisibly ferry classified documents"--Amazon.com.
Presents information on the duties, training, earnings, and employment outlook of receptionists, stock clerks, shipping and receiving clerks, customer service representatives, secretaries, clerical managers, insurance adjusters, and court reporters.
"Kamet, a secretary and slave to his Mede master, has the ambition and the means to become one of the most powerful people in the Empire. But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away, and he is forced onto a very different path"--Provided by publisher.
When twenty-one-year-old actress Loretta Young meets the dashing thirty-four-year-old movie star Clark Gable on the set of a movie they're filming together, the two are instantly attracted to each other, despite the fact that Gable is married. And when Sister Alda Ducci comes into her life, the two women form a friendship that spans the decades and carries Loretta through the turmoils and joys of her life.
Charlotte Hale, a secretary for a local newspaper in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1900, is given the chance to prove herself as a reporter when her boss asks her to go undercover as a governess to investigate a scandal about Daniel Wilmont, a young, widowed religion professor who writes a controversial column in a rival paper, but she begins to have qualms when she discovers Daniel to be honorable, sincere, and easy to love.
John Hay, John Nicolay, and the war for Lincoln's image
Zeitz, Joshua
2014
Follows Lincoln's presidential secretaries, John Hay and John Nicolay, through the Civil War years, including letters, diaries, and memoirs as primary sources.
