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1) Book lovers
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"A by-the-book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. Nora Stephens life is books-she's read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 4
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English
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In addition to being the nosiest and most sypathetic philosopher you are likely to meet, Isabel is now a mother. Charlies, her newborn son, presents her with a myriad wonders of a new life, and doting father Jamie presents her with an intriguing proposal: marriage. In the midst of all this, she receives a disturbing letter announcing that she has been ousted as editor of the Review of Applied Ethics by the ambitious Professor Dove. None of these things,...
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2022.
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English
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" Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll (Bruce Springsteen). Jann Wenner has been called by his peers “the greatest editor of his generation.” His deeply personal memoir vividly describes and brings you inside the music, the politics, and the lifestyle of a generation, an epoch of cultural change that swept America...
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Magpie murders volume 1
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English
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"When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pund who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has...
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Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.
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St. Martin's Griffin
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©2015.
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English
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"Serena has the job she's always dreamed of and Chase, the man her heart never dared to. As a new editor at Vogue, she bags the biggest interview of the year with Yvette Renault, the infamous former editor of French Vogue, in The Carlton-InterContinental Hotel during the Cannes Film Festival. She eagerly jets off to France while Chase stays home, working with her father, a former senator, on his upcoming mayoral campaign. Everything feels unbelievably...
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From the author of The Italian Teacher, this acclaimed debut novel set in Rome follows the topsy-turvy lives of the denizens of an English language newspaper.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Janet Maslin, The New York Times • The Economist • NPR • Slate • The Christian Science Monitor • Financial Times • The Plain Dealer • Minneapolis Star Tribune...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Janet Maslin, The New York Times • The Economist • NPR • Slate • The Christian Science Monitor • Financial Times • The Plain Dealer • Minneapolis Star Tribune...
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When Tom Kristoll, mystery magazine publisher, is murdered, David Loogan, a friend to Tom and a lover to Tom's wife, teams up with Ann Arbor's finest detective, Elizabeth Waishkey, to find the culprit. Loogan, a recluse with a broken past, believes Tom's death is just one piece in a grand puzzle. And as the body count rises, his theory proves right. As suspicions fall on everyone including Loogan, Waishkey must not only solve the homicide mysteries,...
11) The story keeper
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Carolina heirlooms novels volume 2
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2014.
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English
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Successful New York editor, Jen Gibbs, is at the top of her game with her new position at Vida House Publishing until a mysterious manuscript from an old slush pile appears on her desk. Turning the pages, Jen finds herself drawn into the life of Sarra, a mixed-race Melungeon girl trapped by dangerous men in the turn of the century Appalachia. A risky hunch may lead to The Story Keeper's hidden origins and its unknown author, but when the trail turns...
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Henry Holt and Company
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2020.
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English
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"There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. The rest is just shuffling the sequence. Expanding the permutations. Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out - calculating the different orders and possibilities of a mystery into seven perfect detective stories he quietly published. But that was thirty years ago. Now Grant lives in seclusion on a remote Mediterranean...
13) Envy
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Grand Central Publishing
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English
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When New York publisher Maris Matherly Reed receives a tantalizing manuscript from someone identified only as P. M. E., its blockbuster potential- and perhaps something else- compels her to meet its author. On an eerie, ruined cotton plantation on a remote Georgia island she finds Parker Evans, a man concealing his identity and his past. Maris is drawn into his tale of two young friends and a deadly betrayal... and to Parker himself. But there's...
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Ballantine Books
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[2022]
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English
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"Dilettante reveals Brown's most memorable moments from the halcyon days of the magazine business, explores his own journey as an unpedigreed outsider to established editor, and shares glimpses of some of the famous and infamous stories (and people) that tracked the magazine's extraordinary run all keenly observed by Brown. He recounts tales from the trenches, including encounters with everyone from Anna Wintour, Lee Radziwill, and Conde Nast owner...
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Devil wears Prada volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Eight years have passed since Andrea "Andy" Sachs quit the job "a million girls would die for" working for Miranda Priestly at Runway Magazine--a dream that turned out to be a nightmare. Now Andy's on the top of the world: she's writing and reporting to her heart's content; running The Plunge, her wildly successful high fashion bridal magazine with Miranda's other ex-assistant, Emily; and most importantly, getting married to the scion of a storied...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2016.
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English
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A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and The American Way of Death, among other bestsellers. At Knopf, Gottlieb...
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Touchstone
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[2012]
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English
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Investigating a series of burglaries in the homes of Starvation Lake seniors whose personal effects are explored but not stolen, newspaper editor Gus Carpenter teams up with an agenda-driven senior reporter to solve the case when a break-in results in the death of a beloved citizen.
19) Mademoiselle C
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Cohen Media Group
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©2013.
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Français
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Carine Roitfeld ran French Vogue for ten years, building a reputation as one of fashion's most influential movers. Her inner circle of friends includes Donatella Versace, Tom Ford, Karl Lagerfeld, Diane Von Furstenberg, and Alexander Wang. Yet few people outside the fashion world have heard of her until now.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2018.
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English
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The award-winning journalist and author of Ground Up recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia, a tenure marked by a dubious election, mass anti-government rallies and his scripting of a top-grossing domestic film.
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