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Pocket Books

Index Pocket Books

Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books. [1]

65 relations: Agatha Christie, Albatross Books, Avon (publisher), Baen Books, Bambi, a Life in the Woods, Bantam Books, Benjamin Spock, CBS Television Studios, Chicago Sun-Times, Chick lit, Conservatism, Dorothea Brande, Dorothy Parker, Emily Brontë, Erle Stanley Gardner, Felix Salten, G-Unit, James Hilton (novelist), James O'Barr, Kangaroo, Kurt Enoch, Leon Shimkin, Leslie Charteris, List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels, List of Star Trek novels, Lost Horizon, M. Lincoln Schuster, Marshall Field III, MTV, New York (state), New York City, Novelization, Paperback, Paramount Pictures, Penguin Books, Permabooks, Phyllis E. Grann, Pocket Books, Richard E. Snyder, Richard L. Simon, Rockefeller Center, Samuel Butler (novelist), Simon & Schuster, Sixth Avenue, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, The Crow, The Hardy Boys, ..., The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The New York Times, The Saint (Simon Templar), The Way of All Flesh, Thorne Smith, Thornton Wilder, Threshold Editions, Timescape Books, VH1, Wake Up and Live, Wildside Press, William Shakespeare, World War II, Wuthering Heights, WWE. Expand index (15 more) »

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.

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Albatross Books

Albatross Books was a German publishing house based in Hamburg that produced the first modern mass-market paperback books.

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Avon (publisher)

Avon Publications was an American paperback book and comic book publisher.

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Baen Books

Baen Books is an American publishing house for science fiction and fantasy.

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Bambi, a Life in the Woods

Bambi, a Life in the Woods, originally published in Austria as Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde is a 1923 Austrian novel written by Felix Salten and published by Ullstein Verlag.

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Bantam Books

Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group.

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Benjamin Spock

Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-sellers of all time.

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CBS Television Studios

CBS Studios, Inc., doing business as CBS Television Studios (CTS) is an American television production company that was formed on January 17, 2006 by CBS Corporation as CBS Paramount Television, merging Paramount Television and CBS Productions.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chick lit

Chick lit or chick literature is genre fiction, which "consists of heroine-centered narratives that focus on the trials and tribulations of their individual protagonists".

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization.

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Dorothea Brande

Dorothea Brande (1893–1948) was a writer and editor in New York.

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Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

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Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

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Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author.

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Felix Salten

Felix Salten (6 September 1869 – 8 October 1945) was an Austrian author and critic in Vienna.

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G-Unit

G-Unit (short for Guerilla Unit) is an American hip hop group originating from South Jamaica, Queens, New York, formed by longtime friends and East Coast rappers 50 Cent, Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks.

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James Hilton (novelist)

James Hilton (9 September 190020 December 1954) was an English novelist best remembered for several best-sellers, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

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James O'Barr

James O'Barr is an American graphic artist, best known as the creator of the comic book series The Crow.

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Kangaroo

The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot").

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Kurt Enoch

Kurt Enoch (22 November 1895 – 15 February 1982) was a German-born publisher who co-founded Albatross Books in Germany and Penguin Books Inc. and New American Library in the United States, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market in those countries.

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Leon Shimkin

Leon Shimkin (1907 – 1988) was an American businessman who helped to build Simon & Schuster into a major publishing company.

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Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter.

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List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels

Buffy novels have been published since 1998.

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List of Star Trek novels

The science fiction franchise Star Trek has been adapted into published novels, novelizations, and short story collections since 1968.

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Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton.

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M. Lincoln Schuster

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Marshall Field III

Marshall Field III (September 28, 1893 – November 8, 1956) was an American investment banker, publisher, racehorse owner/breeder, philanthropist, grandson of businessman Marshall Field, heir to the Marshall Field department store fortune, and a leading financial supporter and founding board member of Saul Alinsky's community organizing network Industrial Areas Foundation.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Novelization

A novelization (or novelisation) is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, comic book or video game.

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Paperback

A paperback is a type of book characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Permabooks

Permabooks was a paperback division of Doubleday, established by Doubleday in 1948.

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Phyllis E. Grann

Phyllis E. Grann was the first woman CEO of a major publishing firm, Penguin Putnam and one of the most commercially successful publishers in recent history.

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Pocket Books

Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.

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Richard E. Snyder

Richard Elliot “Dick” Snyder (born 1933) in Brooklyn, New York is an American publishing executive best known for his tenures at Simon & SchusterYardley, Jonathan (June 20, 1994).

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Richard L. Simon

Richard Leo Simon (March 6, 1899 – July 29, 1960) was an American book publisher.

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Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Center is a large complex consisting of 19 commercial buildings covering between 48th and 51st Streets, facing Fifth Avenue, in New York City.

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Samuel Butler (novelist)

Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Sixth Avenue

Sixth Avenue – officially Avenue of the Americas, although this name is seldom used by New Yorkers, p.24 – is a major thoroughfare in New York City's borough of Manhattan, on which traffic runs northbound, or "uptown".

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Star Trek

Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film directed by Robert Wise and based on the television series of the same name created by Gene Roddenberry, who also served as its producer.

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim.

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The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

Benjamin Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care is one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946, and 50 million by the time of Spock’s death in 1998.

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The Crow

The Crow is a superhero comic book series created by James O'Barr revolving around the titular character of the same name.

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The Hardy Boys

The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in several mystery series for children and teens.

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company on 19 June 1926.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Saint (Simon Templar)

Simon Templar is a fictional character known as The Saint.

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The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy.

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Thorne Smith

James Thorne Smith, Jr. (March 27, 1892 – June 21, 1934) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith.

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.

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Threshold Editions

Threshold Editions is an imprint of Simon & Schuster — the publishing division of CBS Corporation — specializing in conservative non-fiction.

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Timescape Books

Timescape Books was a science fiction line from Pocket Books operating from 1981 to 1985.

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VH1

VH1 (originally an initialism of Video Hits One) is an American cable and satellite television network based in New York City operated by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks, a division of Viacom.

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Wake Up and Live

Wake Up and Live is a 1937 Fox musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.

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Wildside Press

Wildside Press is an independent publishing company in Cabin John, Maryland, United States.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell".

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WWE

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., d/b/a WWE, is an American integrated media and entertainment company that primarily is known for professional wrestling.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Books

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