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Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The night Caroline Presley makes a wish on the first star her life changes overnight. When Lila Cutler, Editor-in-Chief of Lilac, decides she wants to move on, she picks Caroline as her replacement. Despite Caroline's misgivings about whether the online magazine can continue its success, she accepts. Within a month, the media world is buzzing about Lilac's new style maker. Soon the country's most fabulous aestheticians, stylists, make-up artists,...
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Encountering high-flying financier Minty Auchterlonie while attending a birthday party, Isabel learns of Minty's complicated monetary troubles and wonders if the ambitious woman is perpetuating a fraud.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie gets caught up in a highly unusual affair of the heart. When Isabel is asked to cover for vacationing Cat at her delicatessen, Isabel meets a man with a most interesting problem. He recently had a heart transplant and is suddenly haunted by memories of events that never happened to him.
The situation piques her...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
From internationally best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith, creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, comes a new mystery series brimming with the same wit and charm. Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher by training, and an amateur sleuth by choice. When a young man falls from a balcony to his death, Isabel does not believe it was an accident. Plunging deep into the shady business community of Edinburgh, she is determined to root out the truth....
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When friends from Dallas arrive in Edinburgh and introduce Isabel to Tom Bruce, a bigwig at home in Texas, several confounding situations unfurl at once. Tom's young fiancě's roving eye leads Isabel to believe that money may be the root of her love for Tom. But what, Isabel wonders, is the root of the interest Tom begins to show for Isabel herself? And she can't forget about her niece, Cat, who's busy falling for a man whom Isabel suspects of being...
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious philosopher and woman detective. Whether investigating a case or a problem of philosophy, the indefatigable Isabel Dalhousie, one of fiction's most richly developed amateur detectives, is always ready to pursue the answers to all of life's questions, large and small. In the fourth installment of this enchanting, beloved series,...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Leigh Merrill, a successful young editor at a New York publishing house, returns to her home state of Texas for a writers' conference, where her plans for a quiet retreat are disrupted when she discovers a stack of deeply personal letters from her past in her hotel room.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
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.
11) Island apart
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Seeking to convalesce from a serious illness and finish a literary project, New York book editor Claire Doheney house-sits an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick Island, where she falls in love with a mysterious loner who harbors a devastating secret.
Author
Series
Devil wears Prada volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Andrea Sachs is the personal assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine. As can be imagined, the relationship of Ms. Priestly to Ms. Sachs is one of unmitigated oppression, enormous egoism, and blatant disregard for human feeling. Andrea is given a series of increasingly degrading and mind-bogglingly menial tasks, and must complete all of them, around the clock, without complaint. What induces...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Grace Barnum's life is precariously balanced on sensible choices and uncomfortable compromise. She dutifully edits textbooks that, she fears, may be more harmful than helpful to kids. She is engaged to a patent attorney who is steady and reliable. She has a cautious relationship with her fascinating father, a renowned New York painter, and she prefers her mom slightly drunk. Always a planner, Grace feels prepared for most eventualities. Until the...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation. Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London. There, as a fat and much admired young war widow, she spent her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher (“of very good books”) and...
Author
Series
BookShots volume novel
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Magazine editor Jane Avery spends her nights alone with Netflix and Oreos--until the Dress turns her loose. Suddenly she's surrendering to dark desires, and New York City has become her erotic playground. But what began as a fantasy will go too far--and her next conquest could be her last.
Author
Series
Bailey Weggins mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Glamorous Margot Jones is the fashion editor at glossy magazine Haute. Pregnant with her first child, Margot's carefully curated life is the object of other women's envy--who wouldn't want her successful career, loving husband, beautiful house, and stylish wardrobe? Maggie, a freelance journalist, certainly knows she doesn't measure up. But when she gets the temp job covering Margot's maternity leave, Maggie seizes the chance to live a flashier life--even...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A "novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor-in-chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twenty-something former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app"--Amazon.com.
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