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Meant to be volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing after college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, still living at home, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. So when she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high-profile author who has failed to deliver his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
3) Secret Santa
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Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
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"As soon as Lussi Meyer arrives at the prestigious Blackwood-Patterson publishing house, she finds herself the target of mean-spirited pranks by her coworkers. After receiving a strange present during the company's annual Secret Santa gift exchange, her coworkers begin falling victim to horrific accidents, and Lussi suspects her gift may be involved"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
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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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age—Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt—is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For twenty years she ran the country’s largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publishing, which chronicled postbellum America in dozens of weeklies and monthlies. A pioneer in an all-male industry, she made a fortune and became a national celebrity and tastemaker in the process. But Miriam Leslie was also a byword for scandal:...
6) No angel
Author
Series
Spoils of time trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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English
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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
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
Anne Schwartz Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography of legendary children's book editor, Ursula Nordstrom"--
"In this lively, lyrical picture book biography, meet the groundbreaking, outspoken, legendary editor of the best-loved books for children, and see how she inspired Maurice Sendak, Margaret Wise Brown, and others to create Where the Wild Things Are, Good Night Moon, and many more classics. "Ursula Nordstrom was a grown-up who never forgot what it was to be a child."...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rona Jaffe's beloved novel of mid-century NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Mad Men, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, in a 65th anniversary edition with an introduction by New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme. A Penguin Classic. When Rona Jaffe's superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked, but...
12) The Russia house
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English
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John le CarrE has earned worldwide acclaim with extraordinary spy novels, including The Russia House, an unequivocal classic. Navigating readers through the shadow worlds of international espionage with critical knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le CarrE tracks the dark and devastating trail of a document that could profoundly alter the course of world events. In Moscow, a sheaf of military secrets changes hands. If it arrives...
13) Into temptation
Author
Series
Spoils of time trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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