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"After a relatively calm and cozy holiday season, neither Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, nor her husband, Sheriff Milo Dodge, are surprised when their new year gets off to a rocky start. A woman's body has been found in a squalid motel. Her driver's license shows that Rachel Jane Douglas was in her late thirties and lived in Oakland, California--and the only connection between that town and Alpine is their gold-mining and...
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2024.
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"What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve--events known to the public as "Scarlet Christmas"--though Charlie knows she was much more than that. Now, Charlie has meticulously rebuilt her life: She's the editor-in-chief...
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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.
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Devil wears Prada volume 1
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English
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A small-town girl fresh out of an Ivy League college lands a job at a prestigious fashion magazine, but wonders if the glamorous perks are worth working for the editor from hell.
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"When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers' room is convinced it's something special. And the committee for France's highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, agrees. But when the shortlist is announced, there's a problem for editor Violaine Lepage: she has no idea of the author's identity. As the police begin to investigate a series of murders strangely reminiscent of those recounted...
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"In the small town of Granite Creek, Minnesota, Haze Evans suffers a stroke at the age of 89 and slips into a coma. Haze is a local legend, having written a daily column in the Granite Creek Gazette for fifty years running"--
When Haze Evans first appeared in the small-town newspaper, Granite Creek Gazette, she earned fans by writing a story about her bachelor uncle who brought a Queen of the Rodeo to Thanksgiving dinner. Now, fifty years later,...
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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.
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Fiona Monaghan lived a life as hectic and high-toned as the fashion world itself, jetting back and forth between her stylish Manhattan brownstone and the couture shows of Europe. Fiona was utterly content with her life, until the sweltering June day John Anderson strolled into her office.
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Bailey Weggins mysteries volume 1
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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When her boss's nanny is murdered, Bailey Weggins is persuaded to find the killer before the police, an investigation that takes her from New York City to the glamorous retreats of Bucks County, where everyone is a suspect.
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 4
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English
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In addition to being the nosiest and most sypathetic philosopher you are likely to meet, Isabel is now a mother. Charlies, her newborn son, presents her with a myriad wonders of a new life, and doting father Jamie presents her with an intriguing proposal: marriage. In the midst of all this, she receives a disturbing letter announcing that she has been ousted as editor of the Review of Applied Ethics by the ambitious Professor Dove. None of these things,...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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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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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 6
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English
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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.
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Mira
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[2019]
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English
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Promise me forever : Physical therapist Joy Nielsen has never been daunted by the challenges of her career. And her latest patient, businessman Sloan Whittaker, isn’t going to change that, no matter how hard he’s making things. After a serious accident, he’s refusing to relearn how to walk. Joy is determined to make sure he recovers, and once he does, she’s prepared to move on to her next patient. There’s only one...
15) The Alpine hero
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 8
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c1996
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English
16) The alpine fury
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Emma Lord mysteries volume 6
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995
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English
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Devil wears Prada volume 1
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Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2004, �2003
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English
18) The twisted ones
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Saga Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is packed to the gills with useless garbage. That would be horrors enough, but there's more. Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be the ravings of a broken mind. Until she encounters some of the terrifying things he described herself. Alone...
19) Lipstick jungle
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Hyperion
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English
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Three powerful and sexy women who have found success in their chosen fields confront personal turmoil and professional challenges as they face lifechanging choices.
20) Piglet: a novel
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When Piglet's fianc©Øe reveals a horrible betrayal two weeks before their wedding day, she decides to proceed with the event, but her life slowly starts unraveling in the lead-up to the big day"--
"Outside of a childhood nickname she can't shake, Piglet's rather pleased with how her life's turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, she's got lovely, loyal friends and a handsome fianc©Øe, Kit, whose rarefied family...
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