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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Assault with a deadly glue gun	Lois Winston	When Anastasia Pollack's gambling-addicted husband permanently cashes in his chips in Vegas, her life craps out. Anastasia's job as crafts editor at American woman magazine makes life even stickier w…	OL15883924W
Friday was the bomb	Nathan Deuel	"In 2008, Nathan Deuel, a former editor at Rolling Stone and the Village Voice, and his wife, a National Public Radio foreign correspondent, moved to the deeply Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to see…	OL17874454W
Who knows tomorrow	Lisa Lovatt-Smith	Describes the author's life after she quit her glamorous job at Vogue and moved to Ghana to help the country's children, orphaned through the AIDS epidemic, by moving away from institutional orphanag…	OL17898625W
Breakfast with Scot	Michael Downing	When Scot's mother dies, Sam and Ed, although childless and enjoying it, decide to take him in, only to get more than they bargained for when Scot reveals his love of feather boas and expresses his d…	OL18169243W
Mulk Raj Anand, shaping the Indian modern	Annapurna Garimella	On the life and work of Mulk Raj Anand, b. 1905, Indian art patron and novelist; contributed articles by his associates on his contribution to Indian cultural traditions and Mārg̲, Indian serial.	OL18333317W
Not pretty enough	Gerri Hirshey	"A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural icon When Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, pre…	OL20032232W
I Wish I Might	Lisa De Pasquale	249 pages ; 22 cm	OL21309520W
A menina que brincava com fogo	Stieg Larsson	On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fi…	OL31188669W
Playing Partners	George Peper	Teenagers are notorious for differences with their parents, but the author has been lucky to share a special friendship with his 18-year-old son, Scott.	OL3459279W
The enthusiast	Charlie Haas	Henry Bay has his own America going. If there's an offbeat interest or extreme sport that's poised to sweep the nation, chances are there's a magazine for its enthusiasts, and chances are also good t…	OL5134485W
How to knit a wild bikini / Christie Ridgway	Christie Ridgway	"AN IRRESISTIBLE READ" (SUSAN WIGGS) from Berkley's newest bestselling author.The beachside knitting shop Malibu & Ewe is the perfect place for L.A.'s hip young crowd to enjoy colorful yarn and intim…	OL554465W
Austin Harrison and the English review	Martha S. Vogeler	"Examining Austin Harrison as editor--his writings and opinions, his public life and relations--Vogeler offers a new perspective on British literary culture and political journalism in the years just…	OL5606228W
The Americanization of Edward Bok	Edward William Bok	The autobiography of the Dutch-born American editor, Edward Bok.	OL5771555W
Life on planet Rock	Lonn Friend	For the generation coming of age in the years from 1987 to 1994, RIP magazine was every bit as crucial as Rolling Stone. Life on Planet Rock describes how Friend, the editor of RIP, became the Zelig-…	OL5853582W
Der Spiegel-Komplex	Oliver Gehrs	Ende der 60er Jahre schrieb Stefan Aust bei konkret über Sex und Drogen. Später polemisierte er in den St. Pauli Nachrichten gegen Axel Springer, die USA und Franz Josef Strauß. Dreißig Jahre später …	OL5878242W
A Life of Privilege, Mostly	Gardner Botsford	A dull story of a young officer who spent his time avoiding any risk and cheating on his wife.	OL5958660W
The falling angels	John Walsh	The story of rootlessnes, of a London-Irish boy who has two identities and feels at home with neither. By his mother's bedside in a Galway hospital, he starts to unpick the past, looking for clues to…	OL6057460W
Articles of faith	Neil Berry	Neil Berry's Articles of Faith is a study of British literary reviews and their editors, among them the pioneering Edinburgh Review, the New Statesman, and the London Review of Books. This new editio…	OL6073574W
The Grand Surprise	Leo Lerman	A remarkable life and a remarkable voice emerge from the journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer, critic, editor at Condé Nast, and man about town at the center of New York’s artistic an…	OL7304162W
Swapping Lives	Jane Green	The New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman returns with a wry tale of two women who discover the grass is not always greener on the other side of the AtlanticVicky Townsley is single, s…	OL7976691W