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The Second Assistant: A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder

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Jemima J

Jane Green · 464 pages

Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, better paid), her only consolation is food. That and a passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben. Her life needs to change and soon. But can Jemima reinvent herself? Should she? A novel about attraction, obs

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Shopaholic to the Stars

Sophie Kinsella · 479 pages

"#1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella returns to her beloved Shopaholic series with Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) newly arrived in Hollywood and starry-eyed. She and her two-year-old daughter, Minnie, have relocated to L.A. to join Becky's husband, Luke, who is there to handle PR for famous actress Sage Seymour. Becky can't wait to start living the A-list lifestyle, complete with c

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Thirty-Two Going on Spinster

Becky Monson · 346 pages

Julia Dorning's life is turned upside down when there is a new hire at work, her instant crush on Jared nudges her to make some changes in her boring spinster life. After she has revamped her life, is she strong enough to overcome any changes that might come her way?

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I Heart New York

Lindsey Kelk · 336 pages

Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella, get ready for the summer debut of the year...It's official. Angela Clarke is in love – with the most fabulous city in the world.Fleeing her cheating boyfriend and clutching little more than a crumpled bridesmaid dress, a pair of Louboutins and her passport, Angela jumps on a plane, destination - NYC.Holed up in a cute hotel room, Angela gets a New York makeover

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The Little Lady Agency

Hester Browne · 480 pages

Reviled by her snobby family but adored by her friends, unemployed etiquette expert Melissa Romney-Jones reinvents herself as Honey, and goes into business as a matchmaker for inept bachelors.

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The Waitress

Melissa Nathan · 455 pages

The AppetizerKatie has lofty career aspirations that seem to change almost hourly: writer, film director, teacher, educational psychiatrist. In the meantime, she's waiting tables and waiting for "Mr. Right" to arrive out of the blue -- which seems unlikely, considering her romantic track record is as pitiful as her job history.The Main CourseStill, a girl can dream, even when she's rushing a hot p

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The Unidentified Redhead

Alice Clayton

"The first in USA TODAY bestselling author Alice Clayton's Redhead series is a playful and erotic romance between an aspiring actress and Hollywood's hottest new leading man.When Grace Sheridan returns to Los Angeles to become a working actress, it's a second shot at a life-long dream. With some help from her best-friend agent, will that dream become a reality--or at thirty-three, has Grace missed

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Air Kisses

Zoe Foster · 312 pages

Hannah Atkins -- the girl most likely to be sporting unblended foundation, orange wriss or a wobbly trail of liquid eyeliner -- has bluffed her way into the position of beauy editor at Gloss magazine. Just as she's carving a path into the shiny world of guerrilla air kisses, achingly hip PR campaigns and goodie -- bag overload, she reads about her boyfriend and another girl in the gossip pages of

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Little White Lies

Gemma Townley · 320 pages

WHAT'S ONE LITTLE WHITE LIE?Okay, so it isn't that little. It's kind of a whopper. It's just that when Natalie Raglan ups and quits her job at a Bath advertising firm, breaks up with her loser-ish boyfriend, and moves--to London! Things don't quite turn out the way she planned. Having made the brave move to the Big City, the lifelong country mouse finds that living chic is still a long way off. Ev

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Sushi for Beginners

Marian Keyes · 545 pages

Three women in Dublin are going through a period of change in their lives. Bitchy, ambitious and beautiful, Lisa has been sent to Dublin to launch a brand new Irish Women's Magazine, however as she thought her next move was to New York she feels like she is in exile and is none to happy with the alternative. On arrival she decides that her new boss, the attractive if not somewhat scruffy Jack Devi

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Just the Sexiest Man Alive

Julie James · 307 pages

A fabulously fun, romantic comedy from a dynamic new talent.Nothing fazes Taylor Donovan—not in the courtroom and not in her personal life. So when she’s assigned to coach People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for his role in the next big legal drama, she refuses to fall for the Hollywood heartthrob’s charms. Even if he is the Jason Andrews.

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Love Unscripted

Tina Reber · 668 pages

Ryan Christensen just wanted to be an actor. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine a life where fans would chase him, paparazzi would stalk him, and studios would want to own him. Filming in Seaport, Rhode Island, Ryan ducks into a neighborhood bar to escape screaming fans ... and finds much more than he expected. Nursing a recent heartbreak, pub owner Taryn Mitchell is keeping men at a safe

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From Notting Hill to New York... Actually

Ali McNamara · 412 pages

Movie fanatic Scarlett O'Brien is convinced Sean is Mr. Right, but with him away on business all the time, she heads to New York with her new best friend Oscar. They see a lot of landmarks and make a lot of friends in NYC. But when Scarlett is drawn to Jamie, and TV reporter, she has to ask herself why she's reacting to another man like this when she's so in love with Sean ...

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Boy Meets Girl

Meg Cabot · 272 pages

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Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding · 297 pages

A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An iconic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?

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Celebutantes

Amanda Goldberg, Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper · 312 pages

Hollywood during the glitter, glamour, and hype of Oscar week forms the backdrop for the adventures of Lola Santisi, the daughter of Hollywood royalty, and her friends, Kate, a Hollywood talent agent, and Cricket, a struggling model and actress.

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Attachments

Rainbow Rowell · 336 pages

"Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you . . . " Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives

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Skip Beat!, Vol. 01

Yoshiki Nakamura · 184 pages

Kyoko followed her true love, Sho, to Tokyo and supported him while he made it big as an idol. Now, he says she means nothing to him, so Kyoko sets out to become even bigger than Sho, but finds that her bitter heart may be her undoing.

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The Next Best Thing

Jennifer Weiner · 389 pages

Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.

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Someday, Someday, Maybe

Lauren Graham · 360 pages

The hilarious story of a struggling young actress trying to get ahead--and keep it together--in New York City.

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How to Sleep with a Movie Star

Kristin Harmel · 317 pages

26-year-old Claire Reilly is on top of her game as one of the youngest celebrity reporters and editors in the business. At Mod magazine, she is a consummate professional, interviewing dreamy Hollywood hunks and staying on top of every story. Unfortunately, her live-in boyfriend seems intent on setting the worlds record for celibacy, yet she finds herself penning articles LIKE Ten Reasons You Shoul

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Scared Scriptless

Alison Sweeney · 309 pages

"Maddy Carson loves her job as a Script Supervisor on the hit show, The Wrong Doctor, as much as she loathes fake boobs, juice cleanses, oversized designer sunglasses, and all other things "Hollywood." Super-organized and down-to-earth, Maddy has maintained a strict dating rule throughout her ten years in L.A.: "No Actors!" But she is seeing someone in the industry, Craig, one of the Executive Pro

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Jack with a Twist: Engaging Your Adversary and Other Things They Don't Teach You in Law School

Brenda Janowitz · 375 pages

Manhattan attorney Brooke Miller lands her first big case while planning her wedding, and when it turns out that the opposing attorney is her fiancee she finds out he will pull every dirty trick in the law books, and begins to wonder if he really is the man she thought he was.

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Notorious Nineteen

Janet Evanovich · 311 pages

Book 19 in the Stephanie Plum series After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. N

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