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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A twenty-something, fast-talking salesman's latest deal collapses the day he learns his father has suddenly died. Against his wishes, Sam is called home to put his father's estate in order and reconnect with his estranged family. While there, he uncovers a startling secret that turns his entire world upside down, he has a 30-year-old sister he never knew existed.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream
Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously...
Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously...
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Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series. In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©1995
Description
A comic novel on every American's dream to succeed, starring Hickum Looney, a door-to-door salesman for a rejuvenating soap. His problems begin when a woman helps him outsell his boss, a first in the company for 25 years, something the boss doesn't take kindly to. By the author of Scar Lover.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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"In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle-and profit from-our rising tide of discarded stuff, and asks a pressing question: In a world that craves shiny...
8) Small time
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Al Klein and his longtime friend, Ash Martini own a used car lot. These two know every trick in the book when it comes to selling cars. Klein still pines for his ex-wife Barbara, who left him years ago. After their son Freddy graduates high school, he decides to forego college in favor of selling cars with his old man. As Freddy quickly transforms from innocent young man into a jaded car salesman, Al is left with a tough decision to make.
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"Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by the author who created him: Brother, a mediocre spy novelist...
12) Slasher
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A frenetic and fascinating look at the bizarre life of used car salesman Michael Bennett, better known as 'The Slasher.' Share in one particularly crazed weekend as Bennett is called to help a struggling dealership, desperate to dump their inventory.
13) Jack of spies
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
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"It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city--Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York--he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing...
15) The return
Publisher
Universal Picture
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Joanna Mills is a tough young woman who is determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her. As a sales representative for a trucking company, Joanna has made a successful career for herself. But her private life has been difficult. She is estranged from her father, is being stalked by an obsessed ex-boyfriend, and fears that she is losing control. She sees and feels the brutal murder...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2004
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Welcome to the Bottom Dollar Emporium of Cayboo Creek, South Carolina, where everything from coconut mallow cookies to Clabber Girl Baking Powder costs only a dollar, and coffee and gossip are free. For Elizabeth, Mavis, and Attalee, the Bottom Dollar Girls, logging nine to five at the Bottom Dollar is not just work time, it's family time. So when news gets out that the Super Saver Dollar Store chain plans to run the Bottom Dollar out of town, things...
18) Flywheel
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A dishonest used car salesman turns his life around, after he is caught deceiving customers and must return their money.
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