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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"At twenty-two, a naïve Midwesterner, Adrienne Miller got a lucky break when she was hired as an editorial assistant at GQ. The mid-nineties were still the golden age of print journalism, and a publication like GQ then seemed the red-hot center of the literary world, even if their sensibilities were manifestly mid-century-the martinis, the male egos, and the unquestioned authority of kings. Still, Adrienne learned to hold her own in a man's world,...
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Series
Language
English
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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,...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob haircuts of swinging 1960s London, she grew into a fashion-obsessed teenager. Her father, an influential newspaper editor, loomed large in her life, and once he decided she should become editor-in-chief of Vogue, she never looked back. Impatient to start her career, she left high school and got a job at a trendy boutique in London—an...
Series
Sweetwater Springs volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As an editor at a major New York City magazine, Josie Kellum is always on the go...until an injury sidelines her in the small town of Sweetwater Springs. Luckily, her new physical therapist is easy going and easy on the eyes. When their sessions start to heat up, in more ways than one, Josie is intrigued. But she has a city and career she loves waiting for her. So why does the thought of leaving him suddenly feel a lot like leaving home? Tucker Locklear...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families. On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble for a wedding at a rambling family mansion on the beach in East Hampton, in the last days of the area's quietly refined country splendor, before traffic jams and high-end...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor in chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a forty-three-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brain stem. After twenty days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body that had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking,...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books ; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural icon When Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation of second wave feminism. Brown declared that it was okay, even imperative, to enjoy sex outside of marriage; that equal rights for women should extend to the bedroom; that...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The captivating inside story of the man who helmed National Geographic for six decades is a front-row seat to audacious feats of exploration, from the successful hunt for the Titanic to Jane Goodall's field studies. Offering a rare portrait of one of the world's most iconic media empires, this revealing autobiography makes an impassioned argument to know―and care for―our planet. Though his career path had been paved by four generations of his...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Swapping lives
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
What if a successful, single londoner and a comfortable, Connecticut mother of two were to walk in each other's shoes for a month? Vicky Townsley, director of Poise! magazine, lives a glamorous London life and has everything she wants; except marriage, children, and a house in the country. Amber Winslow has a mansion in Connecticut, two kids, and a nanny; but she hasn't found the fulfillment she expected from being a wife and mother. When she spots...
13) Very bad men
Author
Series
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mystery magazine editor David Loogan receives a sinister manuscript that begins with a murder confession and names individuals who are being stalked and killed for their involvement in a notorious robbery years earlier.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The diaries of the author's years as editor-in-chief of "Vanity Fair" provide a portrait of the 1980s in New York and Hollywood, describing her summons from London to save Condâe Nast's troubled periodical and her experiences within the cutthroat world of glamour magazines.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The editor, journalist, and publishing entrepreneur traces his storied career, sharing insights into his tenures with "Rolling Stone" and "Sports Illustrated," as well as his literary encounters with such personalities as Hunter S. Thompson, Jimmy Buffett, and Steve Jobs.
17) 13 going on 30
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Jenna makes a wish on her 13th birthday to be 30 and grown up. When she wakes up the next day she finds herself, miraculously, just weeks away from her 30th birthday. The new, older Jenna is a successful magazine editor with friends in high places and a lion's share of potential suitors. The problem is that her mind hasn't matured with her body and Jenna finds it a little more terrifying than cool to be living on her own.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion/Voice
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Throughout her life, Alexandra Penney's worst fear was of becoming a bag lady. Even as she worked several jobs as a single mother, wrote a bestselling advice book, and became editor in chief of Self magazine, she was haunted by the image of herself alone, bankrupt, and living on the street--she even went to therapy to alleviate the worry. And then, one day, that's exactly what happened. She had taken a friend's advice and invested nearly all of her...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
"Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New YorkerPeople tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved...
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