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"It’s 1991. Em moved to New York City for excitement and possibility, but the big city isn’t quite what she thought it would be. Working as a literary agent’s assistant, she’s down to her last nineteen dollars but has made two close friends: Emily, a firebrand theater director living in a Lower East Side squat, and Lucy, a middle-aged novelist and single mom. Em’s life revolves around these two wildly different women and their vividly disparate...
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A neurodivergent, hyperlexic book editor, Jo Jones, taking possession of a possibly haunted family estate in North Yorkshire, finds herself at the center of a murder investigation when the groundskeeper is found dead and a family portrait goes missing, and to clear her name, she must unearth the town's secrets-and her own.
23) On Fire Island
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"As a book editor, Julia Morse lived and breathed stories. Whether with her pen to a manuscript or curled up with a book while at her beloved Fire Island cottage, her imagination alight with a good tale, she could anticipate practically any ending. The ending she'd never imagined was her own. To be fair, no one expects to die at thirty-seven. So when the unthinkable happens to Julia, rather than following the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel,...
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"A talented young book editor in New York City, Leigh leads a rich life full of writing, parties, and romance, far from the dust of her grandfather's horse farm in Texas. And she is engaged to Joseph, a brilliant, generous man who adores her. Still, when she's invited to a writer's conference in Austin, Leigh can't help but feel that Texas, with all its tangled secrets, is calling her home. She tells herself the trip is just a few days away to catch...
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"After four months of unemployment, former book editor Clara Montgomery is officially stuck - stuck sleeping on her little brother's ugly couch in Queens, stuck scrolling through job listings in search of a new editorial position...and just desperate enough to take on a temporary gig clearing out abandoned storage units. If nothing else, she's determined to keep her rapidly dwindling savings account intact. Unfortunately, she is in no way prepared...
26) Choice: a novel
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"How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a young academic involved in a car accident that causes her...
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"As the senior editor for Stillwater Publishing, Abigail Cole was the editor from hell. She could bring the mightiest scribes and the biggest egos to heel with the stroke of her famed red pen. However when the days of the well-crafted book at Stillwater went out of the window in favor of celebrity tell-alls and novels written by the latest neophytes du jour, Abigail packed up her red pen, moved onto greener pastures and started a successful public...
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At a busy intersection on a crammed city hillside, an overworked book editor looks up long enough to watch a trio of houses go up in flames. Once the smoke clears, he becomes increasingly concerned by what he sees out his windows and starts asking questions he never bothered with before: Is the encampment in the park responsible for the fires--or are his new upscale neighbors somehow to blame? Has the man upstairs even bothered to notice, or is his...
29) This is pleasure
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"In this powerful short fiction, Mary Gaitskill--whose searing honesty about gender relations has been legendary since the appearance of Bad Behavior in the 1980s--considers our moment through the lens of a particular #metoo incident. The effervescent and well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has long been one of Margot's best friends. When several women in his field accuse him of inappropriate touching...
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"Kyle Broder has achieved his lifelong dream and is an editor at a major publishing house. When Kyle is contacted by his favorite college professor, William Lansing, Kyle couldn't be happier. Kyle has his mentor over for dinner to catch up and introduce him to his girlfriend, Jamie, and the three have a great time. When William mentions that he's been writing a novel, Kyle is overjoyed. He would love to read the opus his mentor has toiled over. Until...
31) The Pink ghetto
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The glamorous worlds inside romance novels are quite the opposite of the reality of the publishing world, as the heroine of this entertaining novel discovers after being hired as an editor. As she tries to juggle all her responsibilities, Rebecca learns that working in romance is nothing at all what she expected.
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Magpie murders volume 1
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Susan Ryeland ha sido durante años la editora del excéntrico escritor superventas Alan Conway. Los lectores adoran al protagonista de su serie más famosa, el detective Atticus Pünd, que se dedica a resolver crímenes en la década de los cincuenta por pueblecitos ingleses aparentemente tranquilos. Sin embargo, la última novela que ha entregado Conway, y a la que le faltan los últimos capítulos, no es como las demás y está a punto de cambiar...
34) Melt for you
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A wallflower gets seduction tips from a playboy athlete?until love changes the rules.Socially awkward Joellen Bixby has a date every Saturday?with her cat, a pint of ice cream, and fantasies of the way-too-handsome Michael Maddox. She?d give anything to win over the unattainable CEO of her firm, but how can she when she blends in so well with her cubicle? The answer may be closer than she thinks. Cameron McGregor is a cocky, tattooed Scottish rugby...
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John Lincoln, a 33-year old book editor in Chicago, dreams of joining the world of "real" writers and editors in New York. He needs a hot bestseller, and finds his salvation in Amy O'Malley, a recent Univ. of Chicago graduate who has worked on the school's famous sex survey. With Lincoln's prodding, Amy writes an erotic thriller. Her book opens doors for Lincoln but not in the way he imagined. This comic novel is about the hard work of understanding...
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"Instead of the full-length paranormal novel she promised her new (and super-dreamy) editor, successful writer Brooke Baker sends the fan fiction she's written about her crush...on him--including every detail of the hot, steamy "physical activity" she's fantasized about happening between them. And Chase Dawson may be the hottest man alive and a super-talented editor to boot, but he's completely oblivious that he's the star of the manuscript he just...
38) Redaktorka
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Poruszająca opowieść z niezapomnianą Jackie w roli głównej. Po latach niepowodzeń James Smale w końcu podpisuje umowę z nowojorskim wydawnictwem. Jego redaktorką zostaje nie kto inny jak… była Pierwsza Dama z Białego Domu, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Jackie (czy raczej pani Onassis) zakochuje się w autobiograficznej historii, w której autor przedstawia koleje losu swojej dysfunkcyjnej rodziny. Dzień premiery książki nieuchronnie...
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A Lanie las cosas le van realmente bien. Tiene una exitosa carrera como editora de novelas románticas y un compromiso matrimonial con un hombre que cumple los noventa y nueve requisitos de su detallada lista. ¿Qué más podría pedir? Pero entonces le llega la oportunidad de su vida: trabajar con la mismísima Noa Callaway, la autora a quien considera su mayor inspiración en el amor y en la vida. Lo único que tiene que hacer para obtener el ascenso...
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