Is finding true love as easy as an attitude change?Thirty-something Emma Beckett has always looked down on 'the glass is half full' optimists, believing it's better to be realistic than delusional. But when she loses her high-powered job and fiancé in the same week, even Emma has difficulty keeping calm and carrying on.With her world spinning out of control, and bolstered by a challenge from her best friend, Emma makes a radical decision. From here on in, she'll behave like Pollyanna: attempting to always see the upside, no matter how dire the situation.Can adopting a positive attitude give Emma the courage to build a new life, or is finding the good in everything a very bad idea?

Product Description: For twenty-five years, readers have enjoyed watching Drover, Hank's trusty sidekick, try to finagle himself out of every dangerous situation that arises on the ranch. But what happened before Drover came to the ranch? Well, it's all here - from his early days as runt of the litter through his fruitless search for a job to his ultimate position as Hank's right-paw man...read more

When the Pirate Council tells Backbeard that he must stop wearing colorful clothing and look more fearsome, he decides to quit being a pirate and get a job on shore, if only he can find work that matches his particular skills.

Product Description: Walter Davis is young, handsome, intelligent, dynamic and personable. The product of a bi-racial marriage but abandoned by his father as a young child, he prides himself on three things: his drive to succeed, his fine clothes and never having been late for anything in his life...read more

Twenty-one-year-old Alexa confronts a variety of misadventures, missteps, changes, and choices as she races against time to find the perfect job, doing everything from participating in a clinical sleep study for cash, to trying to gain employment as the voice of a cartoon cat, to trying to decide whether or not to move in with her boyfriend, Jared. A first novel. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: Freedom's fifteen minutes are over!Software pirates! Mostly extinct dinosaurs! Giant barbarians! Crooning criminals! Captain Freedom's beat them all, saved the world, and looked fantastic doing it—but he couldn't fend off middle management...read more

A republication of the long-unavailable debut fiction work by the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity follows the experiences of a man who struggles to come to terms with his place in an increasingly hostile corporate arena while holding fast to his humanity and sense of humor. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Left unemployed and broke after her film company goes under right before Christmas, twentysomething Sarah Pelletier embarks on a quest to find the perfect job in New York City, but her search is complicated by her parents' efforts to bribe her into law school and by her own habit of falling in love at the most inconvenient times. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

A hilarious memoir chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a woman whose perfect life, perfect job, and perfect man vanish when she goes from a six-figures career to unemployment. Original.

One of Cloe's paintings, inspired by her friends, is going to be exhibited in a gallery, but her credit card is over the limit and she cannot buy a fabulous dress for the opening unless she can get--and keep--a job.

One of Cloe's paintings, inspired by her friends, is going to be exhibited in a gallery, but her credit card is over the limit and she cannot buy a fabulous dress for the opening unless she can get--and keep--a job.

Product Description: Winner of The Age Book of the Year in Australia, Three Dollars is about Eddie, an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of thirty-eight, with a wife, a child, and three dollars. At any other time the world would have smiled on him...read more

Warm, watercolor illustrations enhance the story of a young girl, Laura, as she deals with the loss of her father's job and shows how she tries, in her own special ways, to assist and support him in his efforts to find something new.