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  • Updated 11 months ago
  • 59 Books
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The Waitress Was New
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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
Independent People
Midnight's Children
The Most Human Human
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Snapper
Between You & Me
The Shift
Last Night at the Lobster
A Working Stiff's Manifesto
I Don't Know How She Does It
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Staying Home Instead: How to Quit the Working-Mom Rat Race and Survive Financially
In Praise of Slowness
Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
What Do People Do All Day?
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Other People's Dirt

Odd Jobs: Portraits of Unusual Occupations
Odder jobs
Waiting the true confessions of a waitress
Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work
With Any Luck, I'll Drive a Truck
Rain
Death of a Salesman
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Sous Chef
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
Future Astronaut
Papa Put a Man on the Moon
Because
The Little Snowplow Wishes for Snow
Very Lulu: The (Mostly) True Story of a Training School Dropout
Personal days
Then We Came to the End
How Starbucks Saved My Life
Tightrope
The Paper Kingdom
Home Base: A Mother-Daughter Story
Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market Dilettante
Roadtrip Nation: A Guide to Discovering Your Path in Life
Humans of New York
War and Peace
Brazen
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write
Working Cotton
Amber and Clay
The Book of Tea
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Fred Rogers

That Sounds Fun
Driving Hungry
Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son
Nigel and the Moon
This Could Be You: Be Brave! Be True! Believe! Be You!
Yellowstone Summer
If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It: How 25 Inspiring Individuals Found Their Dream Jobs
Papá's Magical Water-Jug Clock

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