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  • Unhappy both with her weight and her low-level editorial job for celebrity magazine Sass!, Nola Devin embarks on a weight-reduction pact with her two best friends and applies for an opening at the magazine to become its new advice columnist.
    Book, 2006New York : Dutton, [2006], ©2006. — FICTION Str
  • Raised on a commune by inattentive hippie parents, Georgia girl Jill White was an outcast at her New England prep school before a predictably eye-opening stint at Bennington. After Jill descends on New York, a succession of magazine gigs leads her…
    Book, 2007New York : Kensington, 2007. — FICTION Yam
  • Imogen Tate, the editor-in-chief of Glossy magazine, 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…
    Book, 2015New York : Doubleday, 2015. — FICTION Syk
  • Nico O'Neilly is the glamorous, brilliant editor of Bonfire Magazine - the pop-culture bible for fashion, show business, and politics. Considered one of the most powerful women in publishing, she seems to have it all. But in a mid-life crisis, she…
    Book, 2007New York : Hyperion, 2007.
  • Once there was a little girl from Fargo, North Dakota, named Maggie Goldfarb who grew up, moved to Manhattan, and morphed into Magnolia Gold, the highly paid editor in chief of Ladymagazine. With a corner office, a designer wardrobe, and dozens of…
    Book, 2007New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2007], ♭2007. — FICTION Kos
  • At the helm of the must-read Snap magazine, veteran style guru Sara B. has had the job - and joy - for the past fifteen years of eviscerating the city's fashion victims in her legendary DOs and DON'Ts photo spread. But now on the unhip edge of…
    Book, 2010Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA, [2010], ©2010. — FICTION Kla
  • Kate is a young woman who is unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat world of New York City private school admissions as she attempts to understand city life, human nature, and falling in love.
    Book, 2016New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2016. — FICTION Poe
  • Shot like a bullet from a mundane past, 22-year-old Tess has come to New York to escape the provincial, to take on her destiny. After she stumbles into a coveted job at a renowned Union Square restaurant, we spend the year with her as she learns the…
    Book, 2016New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. — FICTION Dan