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Gallery Books
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"In the post-pandemic publishing industry, two rival editors are forced to share a “hot desk” on different days of the week, much to their chagrin. Having never set eyes on each other, Rebecca Blume and Ben Heath begin leaving passive-aggressive Post-it notes on the pot of their shared cactus. But when revered literary legend Edward David Adams (known as “the Lion”) dies, leaving his estate up for grabs, their banter escalates as both work...
2. Hot Desk
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Two strangers. Same desk, different days. One post-it note is all it Alice loves her job and wants to keep it - whatever the price. But then she's told the company is switching to flexible working and hot Alice's desk might look a mess, but she knows exactly where everything is. Or she did. Until she found out she's going to share it with the most annoying guy in the office. Jamie can work from anywhere. He's quite happy to sweep his work life into...
3. Be cool
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Get Shorty's Chili Palmer is back in Be Cool, a classic novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. But this time it's no more Mr. Nice Guy. After a smash hit and a flop, B-movie-producer Chili Palmer is looking for another score. Lunching with a record company executive, Chili's exploring a hot new idea-until the exec, a former "associate" from Chili's Brooklyn days, gets whacked. Segue from real life to reel life. Chili's...
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English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
They were just friends. Best friends. Allies. They spent entire summers sitting on Shiloh's porch steps, dreaming about the future. They were both going to get out of North Omaha--Shiloh would go to college and become an actress, and Cary would join the Navy. They promised each other that their friendship would never change. Well, Shiloh did go to college, and Cary did join the Navy. And yet, somehow, everything changed. Now Shiloh's thirty-three,...
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Publisher:
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date:
[2016]
Lexile measure:
880L
Language:
English
Description:
"Step back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free! On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that would sever this country's ties with Britain and announce a new nation--The United States of America. Colonists were willing to risk their lives for freedom,...
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Gourmet Detective volume 7
Language:
English
Description:
Murder, madness, and Cajun mayhem follow the detective to New Orleans For five generations, the Belvedere family restaurant has been a Louisiana landmark. Unfortunately, the Belvedere clan inherits more than a talent for cooking from each otherthey also have an unfortunate tendency of becoming insane. When the latest Belvedere patriarch loses his mind, his son attempts to take over the business, only to find that the ancient family cookbook has vanishedand...
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"Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her life. For twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books she reads, rather than the life she leads. Or does it? Over time, it's become clear that this Book of Books, or Bob, as she calls him, tells a much bigger story....
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Toby Peters volume 11
Language:
English
Description:
A hotel murder involves Toby Peters with one of Hollywood's toughest stars Toby Peters wakes up with a headache, a gun in his face, and a body on the hotel-room bed. He is less surprised by the gun than by the man holding it: Marion Morrison, John Wayne. Both of them were lured here by the dead man. The next arrival is a prostitute named Olivia, and hot on her heels is the house detective, who's come to check on the commotion in Room 303. Reasoning...
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Series:
Homefront news mystery volume 1
Language:
English
Description:
Irene Ingram has written for her father’s newspaper, the Progress Herald, ever since she could grasp a pencil. Now she’s editor in chief, which doesn’t sit well with the men in the newsroom. But proving her journalistic bona fides is the least of Irene’s worries when crime reporter Moe Bauer, on the heels of a hot tip, turns up dead at the foot of his cellar stairs. An accident? That’s what Police Chief Walt Turner thinks, and Irene is inclined...
12. Theirs to Share
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Publisher:
Layla Valentine
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
One delicious self-made billionaire,One smoking-hot media mogul,And one newbie journalistAll wrapped up in one scorching hot power struggle that will set the city on fireWhat do normal folk know of what happens between billionaires?Well I'm about to find out.Because this time, baby,Good things really do come in threes… I'm just a newbie reporter, cutting my teeth,Sent to write an exposé on the hottest billionaire in town,Or he would be, if my tycoon...
13. Hot cocoa calm
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Publisher:
Rodale Kids, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
Description:
An introduction to mindfulness shows readers how to take control of their emotions and breathe their way to calm.
"With Hot Cocoa Calm, kids learn to how to take control of their emotions and breathe their way to calm. The perfect soothing read for bedtime before the winter holidays, this board book celebrates the peacefulness of the season. Best of all, it can be performed anywhere: in the backseat of a car, at home, or even at a child's desk at...
14. Noontime follies
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Rutherford's Property Crimes division is on a hot streak. Having recently attracted a string of New Science businesses, the town has had fourteen office break-ins in just five days, though nothing seems to have been taken. A series of threatening notes are left by an environmental group, and curiosity soon turns to alarm when a lead scientist is found dead at his desk at one of the invasion sites. As the small start-ups that received the messages...
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Looking back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, and reflecting on projects he never got around to - people to profile, regions he meant to portray, a literary legend presents a collection of vignettes and a "reminiscent montage" froma writing life.
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Pub. Date:
2014
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 720L
Language:
English
Description:
High school junior Leila's Persian heritage already makes her different from her classmates at Armstead Academy, and if word got out that she liked girls life would be twice as hard, but when a new girl, Saskia, shows up, Leila starts to take risks she never thought she would, especially when it looks as if the attraction between them is mutual, so she struggles to sort out her growing feelings by confiding in her old friends.
18. The murder book
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Cold case investigation volume 2
Language:
English
Description:
Cold case detective Lauren Riley wakes up in the hospital certain of two things: she was stabbed and left for dead...and the person who did it was a cop. After being brutally stabbed at her desk late one night, Lauren Riley works her way backwards through the haze to piece together who attacked her and why. A mysterious phone message forces her to enlist the help of a retired lieutenant to track down a witness who is desperate not to be found. As...
19. Snapdragon
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English
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From USA Today bestselling author Kilby Blades, the smoking-hot book that started it all… The rules are simple: unattached companionship, toe-curling sex and a clean break whenever it ends. And either one of us can say the single word that will break it off: Snapdragon. Falling in love is a luxury people like us don't have. He's at the top of his field and I'm at the top of mine. It's only a matter of time before ambition calls and one of us walks...
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Includes more than 25 illustrations WALTER LORD NEVER STARTS FROM SCRATCH. For months before a word of this book was written, he could be found roaming the country, ferreting out the fascinating people who helped shape these years. One week it might be Elijah Baum, who piloted Wilbur Wright to his first lodgings at Kitty Hawk…the next, and old fireman who fought the flames at San Francisco…the next, some militant suffragette. Even in his raids...