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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
" 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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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
When Abby Chandlis writes a best selling novel under a fictitious name she convinces a former assassin to pose as the work's writer but the arrangement soon turns to terror as she cannot convince anyone that she is the true author.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed author of A Very English Scandal, a thrilling and dramatic true-life account of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious media moguls of all time: Robert Maxwell. In February 1991, Robert Maxwell triumphantly sailed into Manhattan harbor on his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to buy the ailing New York Daily News. Taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand, children asked for his autograph, and patrons of the hottest restaurant...
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Novel & Short Story Writer's Market is the go-to resource you need to get your short stories, novellas, and novels published. The 40th edition of NSSWM features hundreds of updated listings for book publishers, literary agents, fiction publications, contests, and more. Each listing includes contact information, submission guidelines, and other essential tips"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A revolutionary look at Martin Luther and the Reformation details how the virtually unknown monk harnessed the power of the printing press to spread his ideas, triggering the wave of religious reform that changed the history of Europe.
Author
Series
Jack Parlabane novels volume 2
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
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11) Mary, Mary
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Bob (Barry Nelson) is a divorced book publisher who wants to reduce his alimony payments to ex-wife Mary (Debbie Reynolds) so he can afford to marry his high-living fiancee Tiffany (Diane McBain). When a snowstorm traps Bob and Mary in his apartment, their all night discussions lead to an eventual reconciliation in this amusing comedy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Candy and Karl are hitmen with a difference: they have scruples. They venture into the murky Manhattan publishing scene and come to the aid of a writer who is being sued by her unscrupulous literary agent, L. Bass Hess, a man determined to get a fifteen percent commission for a book he didn't sell. The contract killers join forces with publishing mogul Bobby Mackenzie and mega bestselling writer Paul Giverney to rid the mean streets of Hess, not by...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"What if there was an algorithm that could predict which novels become mega-bestsellers? Are books like Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl the Gladwellian outliers of publishing? The Bestseller Code boldly claims that the New York Times bestsellers in fiction are predictable and that it's possible to know with 97% certainty if a manuscript is likely to hit number one on the list as opposed to numbers two through fifteen. The...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Book scavenger volume 2
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Mr. Quisling is definitely up to something mysterious, and Emily and James are on high alert. First, there's the coded note he drops at a book event. Then Emily and James uncover a trail of encrypted messages in books by Mark Twain hidden through Book Scavenger. What is most suspicious is that each hidden book triggers an arson.
Author
Publisher
OR Books, in partnership with Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Here are the stories behind the filming of Norman Mailer's 'Maidstone' and Samual Beckett's 'Film'; the battles with the US government over 'Tropic of Cancer' and much else; the search for Che's diaries; the development of the legendary 'Evergreen review'; Rosset's romance with the expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, and more. At times appalling, more often inspiring, never boring or conventional: this is Barney Rosset, uncensored"--Front jacket...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
“A page-flipping tale of power, brutality and glamour (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Godfather. Played out in the underground worlds of high-stakes gambling, publishing, and the film industry, this epic thriller follows two brothers, Merlyn and Arite, as they delve into the dangerous underbelly of American life. From Las Vegas to New York to Hollywood, there is one thing that remains constant: organized crime and the law are...
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