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"The first biography of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration, Marguerite 'Missy' LeHand, FDR's de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked throughout history ... until now"-- "Journalist Smith (A Necessary War) grants readers an unusual insider's view of F.D.R.'s political career by profiling his longtime private secretary. Marguerite 'Missy' LeHand, a young...

"1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one of the girls at work is murdered, and Evelyne must use...

Reimagines the midlife world of Edith Wharton and the impact of her affair with a young journalist on her longtime friendship with disapproving literary secretary Anna Bahlmann, in a tale told against the backdrop of Gilded Age Paris.

"Only two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. David and Adele seem like the ideal pair. He's a successful psychiatrist, she is his picture-perfect wife who adores him. But why is he so controlling? And why is she keeping things hidden? As Louise, David's new secretary, is drawn into their orbit, she uncovers more puzzling questions than answers. The only thing that is crystal clear is that something in this marriage is very, very wrong. But...

At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world -- using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets...

A superstar singer and her overworked personal assistant are presented with a choice that could alter the course of their respective careers.

Three secretaries live every female worker's dream after discovering they share the same resentment towards their sexist boss.

"Plain-Jane assistant Eleanor Perrie underwent a stunning transformation in the hope of making herself irresistible to the man she adored--her boss, Curry Matherson. Her miraculous makeover unleashed an awareness between them, but Curry was a die-hard bachelor. Winning him over would be no easy feat. Eleanor was determined to follow through with her plan no matter the obstacles, because in the end, she knew all her dreams rested in the hands of Curry"--Publisher....

Lucille Ball's character on The Lucy Show was a newly widowed secretary named Lucy Carmichael, who worked for a branch of the First National Bank located in Danfield, CT. Her irritable supervisor Mr. Barnsdahl was replaced in 1963 with a new, and equally irritable boss, Theodore J. Mooney. Lucy played her well-known and well-loved character, Lucy from the I love Lucy show.

In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia...