KCUR Bibliophiles: The Work Show June 2019Like this list

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• The Bibliofiles: Books about Work

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  The Bibliofiles discuss how jobs and careers define even fictional characters as well as real people whose writing takes us behind the scenes in their professions.

• Other People's Dirt

  a Housecleaner's Curious Adventures

  Rafkin, Louise, 1958-

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• Waiter Rant

  Thanks for the Tip--confessions of a Cynical Waiter

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• Kitchen Confidential

  Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly /

  Bourdain, Anthony,

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• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

  and Other Lessons From the Crematory

  Doughty, Caitlin

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• Heads in Beds

  a Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-called Hospitality

  Tomsky, Jacob

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• Free for All

  Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library

  Borchert, Don

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• Mop Men

  Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners

  Emmins, Alan, 1974-

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• Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women by Alexa Albert

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  When Harvard medical student Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study as the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only state in the union where prostitution is legal, neither she nor the brothel could have predicted the end result. Having worked…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Severance

  a Novel

  Ma, Ling, 1983-

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• My Hollywood

  a Novel

  Simpson, Mona

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• The Imperfectionists

  a Novel

  Rachman, Tom

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• A Manual for Cleaning Women

  Selected Stories

  Berlin, Lucia

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• Red Harvest

  Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961

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• Little Fires Everywhere

  Ng, Celeste,

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• A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov

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  With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of freezing rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nightmare Alley

  Gresham, William Lindsay, 1909-1962

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• Studs Terkel's Working

  a Graphic Adaptation

  Pekar, Harvey

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• Gig

  Americans Talk About Their Jobs at the Turn of the Millennium

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• Call the Midwife

  a Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

  Worth, Jennifer, 1935-2011

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