Springer, Nancy
Summary: Enola Holmes, now independent and pursuing her profession as a scientific perditorian, joins forces with her brother Sherlock to solve the mysterious disappearance of Wolcott Balestier, a friend of Rudyard Kipling, as they uncover the ruthless world of book publishing and seek to bring him back safely.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRBertman, Jennifer Chambliss
Summary: Twelve-year-old Emily is on the move again. Her family is relocating to San Francisco, home of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger, a game where books are hidden all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles. But Emily soon learns that Griswold has been attacked and is in a coma, and no one knows anything about the epic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BERBertman, Jennifer Chambliss
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BERPatterson, James
Summary: "I'm Jimmy, and I've got an awesome idea to start a kids' book company -- run by kids! It'll be like an amusement park, mad scientist's laboratory, and secret club headquarters all in one. But can a kid like me really make such a big, crazy, outrageous dream come true? Listen on and find out!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: Imaginative middle schooler Jimmy follows his dream to start a unique book company while he is still a child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PATHarris, Zakiya Dalila
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HarrisBarnett, Mac.
Summary: Presents the journey of a book's creation, from its initial writing and illustrating to its misadventures with pirates and an angry tiger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARBertman, Jennifer Chambliss
Summary: Could the Mark Twain books hidden through Book Scavenger contain clues about the string of recent arson fires plaguing the city? And will Emily and James uncover the mystery before the arsonist comes after them?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BERRoux, Madeleine
Summary: "Madeleine Roux's next season in Regency England follows a rebellious writer and the man who risks everything to publish her. In a world where women are expected to be demure and dainty, Margaret Arden would much rather be passionate and daring like the characters in her novel. The idyllic life at Mosely Cottage with her two younger sisters and mother is fine, but Margaret knows there's so much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROUGrimes, Martha.
Summary: Cindy Sella struggles with writer's block and a lawsuit by her unscrupulous former agent, L. Bass Hess, who is targeted by bumbling hitmen Candy and Karl's zany efforts to drive him out of New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grimes 2014Guillory, Jasmine
Summary: Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2022
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Summary: Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily's hero, publisher Garrison Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BERWoods, Sherryl.
Summary: Gina Petrillo thought she was on the run from her troubles...but they followed her home to Winding River, Wyoming. Struggling with single-motherhood and career pressures, Denver attorney Emma Rogers comes home for a reunion with the Calamity Janes in desperate need of their support.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Woods 2015Camden, Elizabeth
Summary: Stella West's artistic talent made her the toast of London, but when her beloved sister dies under mysterious circumstances, she abandons everything, heads for Boston, and tries to pierce the ring of secrecy surrounding her sister's death. When she meets Romulus White, a publisher with innumerable connections, she decides he could be a valuable ally. He decides to help her as a means to induce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Camden 2016Steel, Danielle
Summary: Five successful women play for high stakes in their careers at a boutique literary and talent agency where newcomer Jane Addison quickly discovers there are damaging secrets hidden behind its doors. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEMuller, Marcia.
Summary: Sharon McCone investigates the apparent suicide a man who takes a fatal plunge from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, while trying to deal with her own anguish after her brother takes his own life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MULFraser, Gail R. (Gail Robin)
Summary: "Turning a humorous but insightful lens on the value of truth--within families and within a community--Pam Walker steps off the mayoral campaign trail to return to her childhood home, where she discovers that she is not alone in the world."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Fraser 2017Michener, James A (James Albert)
Summary: Writer Lucas Yoder, editor Shirley Marmelstein, critic and would-be author Karl Streibert, and reader Jane Garland, who treasures the written word, play key roles in a study of the people who create, publish, critique, and enjoy books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICJames, P. D.
Summary: In London, the managing director of a stately publishing house is found dead, a stuffed snake in his mouth. The suspects are many: a rejected author, a discarded mistress, a resentful employee, to mention just a few. Commander Adam Dalgliesh sifts through their lives and the company's finances in order to find the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMSteel, Danielle
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STERindell, Suzanne
Summary: "From the author of the "thrilling" (The Christian Science Monitor) novel The Other Typist comes an evocative, multilayered story of ambition, success, and secrecy in 1950s New York. In 1958, Greenwich Village buzzes with beatniks, jazz clubs, and new ideas--the ideal spot for three ambitious young people to meet. Cliff Nelson, the son of a successful book editor, is convinced he's the next...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINSteel, Danielle.
Summary: A couple destined to be together forever meet an untimely demise and wind up reincarnated as a hardened New York City publisher and a shy Amish woman writer, both of whom feel an uncanny attraction to each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2013Steel, Danielle.
Summary: Jenny and Bill are a married couple whose love is absolute. They're certain they're fated to be together until the end of time, but tragedy strikes when they least expect it, cutting their lives and their happiness short. More than thirty years later, Bob, a hardened New York City publisher, will meet his match in Lillibet, a shy Amish girl who is a talented writer. Though these two couldn't be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012