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Publisher's summary
“Amanda Gallo is my kind of girl: funny, self-aware, and unable to resist a makeover.... I loved this novel.” (Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons)
“Entertaining.” (People)
When Amanda Gallo, fresh from the backwater of local TV, lands the anchor job of her dreams at FAIR News, she thinks she’s finally made it: a six-figure salary, wardrobe allowance, plenty of on-air face time, and a chance to realize her dreams, not to mention buy herself lunch. Instead, she finds her journalistic ideals shredded as she struggles to keep up with the issues in a ratings-crazed madhouse: battling for hair and makeup time; coping with her sexist (but scathingly handsome) coanchor, Rob; mixing up the headlines with pajama modeling on the street, and showing Benji Diggs, her media maestro boss, that she's got what it takes.
As the news heats up in a hotly contested election season and a wild-card candidate, former Hollywood actor Victor Fluke, appears on the scene, Amanda's pressure-cooker job gets hotter while her personal life unravels. Walking a knife's edge between ambition and survival, and about to break the biggest story of her career, Amanda must decide what she's willing to give up to get ahead - and what she needs to hold on to to save herself.
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"Amanda Wakes Up uses a breezy story to provide an insider’s guide to a closed world.” (The New York Times)
“When Amanda Gallo signs on for the job of her dreams at FAIR news, she expects a life-changing career move. What she finds is chaos, vipers, and relentless competition. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry.” (Glamour)
“A hilarious, eye-opening glimpse into the TV-news trenches, from one who’s had to navigate them backwards and in heels.” (Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and author of I Know I Am, but What Are You?)
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Almost as entertaining as the MTV garbage
- By Monica on 05-02-12
By: Lauren Conrad
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Size 12 Is Not Fat
- A Heather Wells Mystery
- By: Meg Cabot
- Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Heather Wells rocks! Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two - and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges.
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If you are over 30, pass this by.
- By Laura on 05-20-18
By: Meg Cabot
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Red Hot Lies
- By: Laura Caldwell
- Narrated by: Nancy Liem
- Length: 14 hrs
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They say bad things happen in threes. When her fiancé, Sam, disappears on the same day her mentor and biggest client is killed, hotshot Chicago attorney Izzy McNeil starts counting. But trouble keeps coming. Sam is implicated in the client's death, her apartment is broken into and it's not just the authorities who are following her.
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A bit uneven, but fun!
- By Marie on 03-14-10
By: Laura Caldwell
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Spying in High Heels
- By: Gemma Halliday
- Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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LA shoe designer Maddie Springer lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. And things only get worse when her boyfriend disappears - along with $20 million in embezzled funds - and her every move is suddenly under scrutiny by the LAPD's sexiest cop. With the help of her post-menopausal bridezilla of a mother, a 300-pound psychic, and one seriously oversexed best friend, Maddie finds herself stepping out of her stilettos and onto the trail of a murderer.
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Very fun listen
- By Annette on 08-05-12
By: Gemma Halliday
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How to Be a Grown-Up
- By: Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
- Narrated by: Tara Sands
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Rory McGovern is entering the prime of her life when her husband loses his dream job and announces he feels like "taking a break". Rory was already spread thin and now, without warning, she is single-parenting two kids, juggling their science projects, flu season, and pajama days, while coming to terms with her disintegrating marriage. Without Blake, her only hope is to accept a full-time position working for two full-time 20-somethings.
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- By Jill on 02-10-16
By: Emma McLaughlin, and others
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Five
- A Mister Standalone, Book 0.5
- By: JA Huss
- Narrated by: Anna Riordan, Teddy Hamilton
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Five Aston has known Rory Shrike for as long as he can remember. He played with her in the sandbox. He went to every damn horse show just to be supportive. He helped her with her French, walked her home from school, and faked his test scores just to stay with her a little longer and not be sent off to college early. But eventually he had to move on. And so did she. Never has a second chance meant so much to a boy who loves a girl.
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✫✫ 5 Stars ✫✫
- By 🎧 Cyndi Marie 🎧 on 02-02-18
By: JA Huss
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Smile and Look Pretty
- A Novel
- By: Amanda Pellegrino
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Best friends Cate, Lauren, Olivia and Max are overworked and underpaid assistants to some of the most powerful people in the entertainment industries. Like the assistants who came before them, the women know they have to pay their dues and abide the demeaning tasks and verbal abuse from their bosses in order to climb the ladders to their dream jobs.
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Relevant Story Well Written and Narrated
- By A. Battaglia on 05-16-22
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The Never Never Sisters
- By: L. Alison Heller
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Marriage counselor Paige Reinhardt is counting down the days to summer, eager to reconnect with her workaholic husband at their cozy rental cottage in the Hamptons. But soon a mysterious crisis at Dave's work ruins their getaway plans. Paige is still figuring out how to handle the unexplained chill in her marriage when her troubled sister suddenly returns after a two-decade silence. Now, instead of enjoying the lazy summer days along the ocean, Paige is navigating the rocky waters of a forgotten bond with her sister in the sweltering city heat.
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Julia Whelan makes it worth the credit.
- By Ellen Zelda on 09-15-15
By: L. Alison Heller
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Domestic Violets
- A Novel
- By: Matthew Norman
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 11 hrs
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Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned 35, he’d have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of the day. The reality, though, is far different. He’s got a wife, but their problems are bigger than he can even imagine. And he’s written a novel, but the manuscript he’s slaved over for years is currently hidden in his desk drawer while his father, an actual famous writer, just won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His career, such that it is, involves mind-numbing corporate buzzwords....
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What a rollicking ride!
- By Pamela Harvey on 08-13-11
By: Matthew Norman
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Weekend Warriors
- Sisterhood, Book 1
- By: Fern Michaels
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be - but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to a legal system that often doesn't do its job. Now, drawn together by tragedy, they're forging a bond that will help them right the wrongs committed against them and discover an inner strength they didn't know they had. The Sisterhood is learning that when bad things happen, you can roll over and play dead...or you can get up fighting...
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Weekend Warriors
- By Ms Mare on 04-04-09
By: Fern Michaels
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Nappily Ever After
- A Novel
- By: Trisha R. Thomas
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Venus Johnston has a great job and a long-term, live-in boyfriend who happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous doctor. She also has a weekly beauty-parlor date to keep her long, nappy hair slick and straight. But the tedious hours and harsh chemicals in the salon have long grated on Venus. One frustrating day, she trades in the long hair for a dramatically short, natural cut and sends her commitment-balking boyfriend packing. It's a bold declaration of independence and one that has effects she never could have imagined.
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Great
- By Laura K. on 08-21-09
By: Trisha R. Thomas
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Diamond Life
- By: Aliya King
- Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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A New York Times best-selling author and award-winning journalist with publishing credits in Essence and Vibe, Aliya S. King uses her experience covering celebrity culture to create juicy tales of sex, ambition, and betrayal. In Diamond Life, Alex Maxwell’s rapper husband, Birdie, sees his album go multiplatinum - but life in the spotlight might be too much for his marriage to withstand.
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Not impressed
- By Dream on 06-27-12
By: Aliya King
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-12-17
Fun read..enjoyed the parallels!
Easy read and fun. Nice first novel; I could see Amanda's character teaching additional higher moral compass lessons for more than the media.
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- Incognito
- 05-12-18
Great book
Loooooved it, funny and clever!! Alisyn Camerota is such a great role model! I highly recommend it 😊
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- irene
- 07-30-17
quite interesting was read with style. Would def
I would recommend the reading of this book, charming and funny at times well written.
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- Caitlin
- 09-03-17
Amazing parallels!
On its own the book was well written and helpful to understand the behind the scenes world and thought processes of journalists and the free press. I loved the comedic tones hit throughout as well as the realism of the love story that developed in the course of the book. That said, the book was infinitely more intriguing due to the amazing parallels to the 2016 election! Hoping Alisyn will consider a sequel so we can find out if Fluke ends up in the White House!
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- Michelle Broadrick
- 11-13-18
Amanda Wakes Up kept me glued to the speaker
Amanda Wakes Up keeps your attention. i listen in the car while driving and i found myself going on unnecessary drives just so i could hear more!!! #greatread #tagsgiving #sweepstakes
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- Anonymous
- 04-16-18
Entertaining
Narrator sounds like Camerota. Nice light hearted story of cable news. You can enjoy if you don’t take it as real life or biographical.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-06-18
A peek into tv news - well I sure hope NOT!
I got this book on recommendation of a good friend. I enjoyed it but only to a certain point. I found the main characters somewhat entertaining, yet extremely shallow and self-centered. I have worked in radio off and on for 30+ years - in music, not news - and I have run into people like these, but they do not comprise the majority. I shudder to think that, as the author says in the note at the end, these are composites of those she has worked with in her broadcast news career.
The main character, Amanda Gallo, seems to have almost no power of self-reflection, lives entirely in the moment, and is throughout the book devoid of a personal moral code - willing to do almost anything in service to her dream of being an anchor on a major tv network. She's momentarily troubled by doing things against what she was taught in journalism school or what ideals she was raised with, even political views she's held her whole life, but a makeover, more money, beautiful clothing, seeing herself in a tv monitor, hobnobbing with the famous, etc. are all far more important to her than any of sense of personal honor. And she's also very concerned about her love life in a way that I find completely unreal for a female journalist who has worked her way up through the ranks to the New York market (probably the most difficult market to break into in the USA); she would have to be far more intelligent ( or, quite frankly and unfortunately, she'd have to be amazingly and unbelievably good-looking) than she is written here. I found the ending drama very unsatisfying; her principled on-air speech would have never have been permitted, and I find it a bit beyond the bounds of credulity that her best friend would behave in the way she does.
One theme running through the book that I very much appreciate, and that Amanda voices several times, is how her ideas change as she is confronted with her own biases. She meets people in the course of her job with whom she thought she had little in common, in fact had in the past dismissed as idiots, crackers, rednecks, etc., and she finds that they are people too, with legitimate concerns, ideas, and so on; they are no longer dismissable once she knows them personally. I think that's the best part of the book, and maybe the the best takeaway.
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- Eve
- 09-03-17
Four stars
Very interesting topic. You have to get to the end to judge how all of the parts fit together. It's light, lightly written, but does become a good illustration of what is going on today. The characters are slightly drawn, but their purpose is to show them, not so much as individuals, but as representatives of forces that push real people, and newsrooms, into the position they find themselves in.
It was difficult at times to tolerate the debates on the shows, as one who is SO sick of this on TV all the time. But if you can push through that, you can see the big picture the author is drawing. The book does not have any answers. Just a little insight and humor.
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- Ikram
- 06-14-18
Amazing
This story is so close to being real that I was amazed! This is certainly a story I will listen to again and again through each election years.
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- Michael A. Duran
- 05-14-19
Current Events
Funny and fast paced. Truly timely given today's news and events. Recommended for all going into the media business.
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