By the Book : : a Meant to be Novel

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Romance / General / Guillory, Jasmine, Fiction / Guillory, Jasmine
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Romance / General / Guillory, Jasmine	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Romance / General / Guillory, Jasmine	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Guillory, Jasmine	4-week checkout	Due 05-13-2024
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Romance / General / Guillory, Jasmine	4-week checkout	Due 04-26-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Romance / General / Guillory, Jasmine	4-week checkout	Due 04-23-2024

Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. So when she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high-profile author who has failed to deliver his long-awaited manuscript, Isabelle sees an opportunity to finally get the promotion she deserves. All she has to do is go to the author's Santa Barbara mansion and give him a quick pep talk or three. How hard could it be? But Izzy quickly finds out she is in over her head. Beau Towers is not some celebrity lightweight writing a tell-all memoir. He is jaded and withdrawn and--it turns out--just as lost as Izzy. But despite his standoffishness, Izzy needs Beau to deliver, and with her encouragement, his story begins to spill onto the page. They soon discover they have more in common than either of them expected, and as their deadline nears, Izzy and Beau begin to realize there may be something there that wasn't there before.

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Fun retelling submitted by jillian on June 12, 2022, 8:51am A breezy retelling of Beauty and the Beast

Fine submitted by russelan on June 13, 2022, 7:21pm This was cute and the characters were likeable.

Tale as Old as Time submitted by khrobinson on August 11, 2023, 6:05pm I quickly caught on that this was a modern day telling of Beauty and the Beast… lots of little Easter eggs sprinkled throughout that were so charming. A sweet and very bookish love story that was a bit more chaste than other Jasmine Guillory novels.