department stores

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department stores

The after hours

2008
A woman buys a gold thimble on the ninth floor of a department store, but discovers later that the store has only eight floors.

A valentine for Tommy

2003
Tommy and the other babies create chaos in the department store when they try to free his valentine hippo Harry from a window display.

Shopping with Samantha.

1991
After hearing "Don't touch!" several times during a trip to the store, Samantha receives a surprise from her mother.

Emmy, beware!

1981
Although her first few days at Bartell's have gone smoothly, a young sales clerk begins to suspect that all is not well in her department.

The secret of the wooden witness

2003
"Someone knocked out Todd and Noelle's friend Pops Verner, the night watchman at the department store, and stole his treasured pocket watch. He's pretty sure the robber is one of the three men who work in the storeroom. But how can he figure out which one ..."--Cover back.

Max's dragon shirt

2000
On a shopping trip to the department store, Max's determination to get a dragon shirt leads him away from his distracted sister and into trouble.

Milly and the Macy's parade

2002
Concerned that the immigrant employees of New York City's Macy's department store are homesick at Christmas, a young girl inspires the store's head to hold the first Macy's Parade. Based on a true story; includes historical note.

Jordan, March Illustrated Catalog of 1891

An Unabridged Reprint
1991
A facsimilie of the 1891 catalog published by a Boston department store, that contained everything from basics to luxuries.

Eyes in the fishbowl

1988
Locked in one evening with the vast wealth of the Alcott-Simpson department store, a fourteen-year-old boy meets an unusual girl who hints about the mysterious "they" and tells him of strange goings-on in the building.

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