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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A push or kick of the door triggers something which is more grating car alarm than charming shop bell. To Arjan Banga, returning to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, his family's corner shop represents everything he has tried to leave behind - a lethargic pace of life, insular rituals and ways of thinking. But when his mother insists on keeping the shop open, he finds himself being dragged back, forced into big decisions...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The likeable, magnetic, bodega owner Usnavi saves every penny from his daily grind as he hopes, imagines, and sings about a better life. Meanwhile, his tight-knit community faces the challenge of gentrification, losing their homes while trying to better themselves and hold on to their cultures.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This warm and funny tale of an earnest preppy editor finding himself trapped behind the counter of a Brooklyn convenience store is about family, culture and identity in an age of discombobulation.
It starts with a gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store. Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, agrees to go along. Things soon become a lot more complicated....
6) Clerks
Series
Language
English
Description
It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys who brave a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, while managing to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and straighten out their offbeat love lives.
9) Clerks III
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Dante, Elias, and Jay and Silent Bob are enlisted by Randal after his heart attack to make a movie about the convenience store that started it all.
10) Sugar & spice
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A tale of capricious youth and cheerleading. The head cheerleader and the quarterback conceive a child and the mother-to-be finds that she must enlist the help of her squad to turn to a life of crime to support her lifestyle.
11) Turbo cola
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On New Year's Eve of 1999, a teenager decides to work overtime at a convenience store so he and a friend can rob it and be able to fund their dreams.
12) Clerks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Theatrical version.
Language
English
Description
The story of one really bad day in the life of convenience store employee Dante Hicks.
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
The funny, heartfelt story of the Kims, a Korean-Canadian family, running a convenience store in downtown Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Kim ('Appa' and 'Umma') immigrated to Toronto in the '80s to set up shop near Regent Park and had two kids, Jung and Janet who are now young adults. However, when Jung was 16, he and Appa had a major falling out involving a physical fight, stolen money and Jung leaving home. Father and son have been estranged since. In season...
14) Clerks
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The story chronicles a day in the life of Dante Hicks, who works at the Quick Stop Groceries, a pit stop for assorted loafers, layabouts, weirdos, ne'er-do-wells and derelicts. Dante's girlfriend, Veronica, turns up and incites a huge argument about her sex life. His antagonistic friend Randal, who runs the adjacent video store, causes more problems for Dante.
16) Sakamoto days: 1
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Shonen Jump edition.
Language
English
Description
"Time has passed peacefully for Sakamoto since he left the underworld. He's running a neighborhood store with his lovely wife and child and has gotten a bit...out of shape. But one day a figure from his past pays him a visit with an offer he can't refuse: return to the assassin world or die!"--
17) Sakamoto days: 2
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Shonen Jump edition.
Language
English
Description
"Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He’s now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! Shin faces off with a strange assassin who’s targeting Mr. Sakamoto, but how will he manage against a foe...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Collection of actual business plans from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries, with company names and addresses changed. Includes: business plan template, fictional business plans, listing of organizations, agencies, and consultants; a glossary; and an updated bibliography. Aimed at entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses in North America.
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