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Language
English
Formats
Description
In this poignant story of two parallel destinies, a young New York lawyer and his wife link their destinies forever in a follow-your-dream move to rural Wyoming. Thirty-eight years later a Manhattan publisher and a young Amish woman become irresistibly drawn together through her writing. Somehow these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected and surprising ways, as lovers are lost, and find each other again.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
196 p.: ill.; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor.
4) Consent
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First HarperCollins edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 194 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A French memoir in the age of #metoo. A literary sensation, Vanessa Springora's Consent weaves her personal narrative of a relationship during her childhood with a famous, much older writer into a stunning and forceful indictment of the literary world that allowed sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company someday. At twenty-eight, she arrives in New York to start a job at Fletcher and Benson, a prestigious talent agency. Eager to impress her new colleagues, Jane jumps right in as an assistant to Hailey West, one of the agents in the literary department.
Hailey is dedicated to the authors she represents, but her home life is chaotic and challenging. After her husband’s...
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe the history of books and how important they have been to civilization.
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Physical Desc
889 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The book will guide you through the process of getting published and paid for your writing with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literay agents. This listings feature contact and submission information to help writers get their work published. Features up-to-date listings of publications, editors, magazines, contests, awards, and literary...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1953 at a distinguished New York publishing firm, Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate, is tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg--a project that makes him realize that the people around him are not what they seem.
16) Book scavenger
Author
Series
Book scavenger volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it's the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger (a game where books are hidden in cities all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles).
Author
Series
Book Scavenger volume 2
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.