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Author
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ghost meets The Bold Type in this sparkling adult debut about a disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, from nationally bestselling author Ashley Poston. Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A "brilliant and strikingly original reimagining of the classic whodunit (a la Agatha Christie) with a contemporary mystery wrapped around it"-- Provided by publisher.
After working with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years, editor Susan Ryeland is intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries in sleepy English villages. His traditional formula has proved hugely successful, so successful that Susan must continue...
Author
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"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...
4) The knockoff
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication Date
2015
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
7) Book lovers
Author
Language
English
Description
"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 laid back dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for...
8) My mistake
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
xi, 234 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Menaker started as a fact checker at The New Yorker in 1969. With luck, hard work, and the support of William Maxwell, he was eventually promoted to editor. Never beloved by William Shawn, he was advised early on to find a position elsewhere; he stayed for another twenty-six years. Now Menaker brings us a new view of life in that wonderfully strange place and beyond, throughout his more than forty years working to celebrate language and good...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "The Devil Wears Prada" finds Andy Sachs and her partner, Emily, blossoming throughout eight years at the head of a wildly successful high fashion bridal magazine only to be haunted by memories of their former boss on the eve of Andy's wedding.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 447 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This definitive biography of legendary fashion journalist and media mogul Anna Wintour follows her journey from the trendy fashion scene of swinging 1960s London to becoming the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine.
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xvii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A journey through the world of books, featuring personal reflections on Susan Sontag, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, W. G. Sebald, and Christopher Hitchens"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Nan A Talese/Doubleday
Publication Date
c2010
Physical Desc
350 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors, colleagues, and friends, this book mines this significant period of her life to reveal both the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Going Was Good is Graydon Carter's vibrant memoir, sharing his journey to becoming one of the most influential editors in the media world. From his early days in Canada to working at notable publications like Time, Life, The New York Observer, and Spy, Carter's career flourished when he was brought in to run Vanity Fair by Condé Nast chairman Si Newhouse. With Newhouse's support, Carter had the freedom to shape the magazine, introducing...
16) Smuggler's cove
Author
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up, Madison Taylor and her younger brother Lincoln lived in privilege, but their sheltered existence abruptly ended when their father was arrested for fraud and the family assets were seized. Since then, Madison has carved out a new path, studying fashion and working her way up to editor in chief of La Femme magazine, while Lincoln teaches wealth management at a small college outside the city. Both have separated themselves from their family...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Publication Date
2011
Physical Desc
ix, 274 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ed Breslin was a down-on-his-luck alcoholic until he bought a dog, Miss Dutchie. Caring for Miss Dutchie helped Ed overcome his drinking problem and completely reform his life. Here, he tells his heart-moving story.
18) Wordplay
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Publication Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([10] p. ; 18 cm.)
Language
English
Description
A journey into the world of Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor at The New York Times. Shortz has spent his entire lifetime studying, creating and editing puzzles, and has built a huge following along the way including Bill Clinton and Bob Dole.
19) The flatshare
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Publication Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tiffy and Leon share an apartment in London. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes her open minded, so she answers an ad for a flatshare. Leon, a night shift worker, will take the apartment during the day, and Tiffy can have it nights and weekends. He'll only...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
pages
Language
English
Description
"From an American master comes another "beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale" (Entertainment Weekly), this time of a newspaper editor's fateful decision to expose a small-town fugitive. Ned Ayres, the son of a judge in an Indiana town in midcentury America, has never wanted anything but a newspaper career--in his father's appalled view, a "junk business," a way of avoiding responsibility. The defining moment comes early, when Ned is city...

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