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55, underemployed, and faking normal : your guide to a better life / by White, Elizabeth,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-254) and index.After being forced to re-enter the workforce in her mid-fifties, the author describes how to survive the new normal of being financially insecure at an advanced age.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Retirement; Retirement.; Age and employment.; Old age.; Older people; Finance, Personal.;
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Dark ride : a thriller / by Berney, Lou,author.;
Twenty-one-year-old easy-going stoner Hardy "Hardly" Reed steps up to the responsibility when he encounters two children who are clearly being harmed by someone.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Abused children; Abused children; Child abuse; Drug dealers; Heroes; Underemployment; Young adults;
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Why we can't sleep : women's new midlife crisis / by Calhoun, Ada,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age, problems that were being largely overlooked. Speaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to "have it all," Calhoun found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, underemployed, and overwhelmed. Instead of their issues being heard, they were told instead to lean in, take "me-time," or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. In Why We Can't Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X's predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss-and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering, and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them"--
Subjects: Generation X; Middle-aged women; Midlife crisis;
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The verifiers / by Pek, Jane,author.;
"Claudia Lin is looking at a cliched post-college future as a chronically underemployed English major--much to the consternation of her mother, who wants her to settle down and start dating a nice Chinese boy already; her brother, who pushes her to follow in his model-minority footsteps; and her sister, who can't get over Claudia's privileged place in their mother's affections. But Claudia is used to keeping secrets from her family. Such as the fact that she prefers girls--and that she's embarking on an unsuitable but supremely fun career. Veracity, a two-and-a-half-person detective agency that operates out of a Manhattan townhouse and verifies people's online dating personas, has recruited Claudia via an online murder mystery game. A lifelong reader of mystery novels, Claudia takes to her new job sniffing out cheaters and catfishers like a latter-day lovechild of Elizabeth Bennet and Sherlock Holmes. But when one of her very first clients turns up dead, Claudia breaks with Veracity's protocols to investigate what happened, unconvinced by the story everyone else believes. The deeper she digs, the more she discovers that nothing--her client, the death, the dating platforms that claim to know us better than we know ourselves, Veracity, even her own family--may be as it seems"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Lesbian fiction.; Chinese Americans; Lesbians; Murder; Online dating; Secrecy;
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