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Renée Rosen

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Renée Rosen

Renée Rosen is the USA Today bestselling author of FIFTH AVENUE GLAMOUR GIRL, THE SOCIAL GRACES, PARK AVENUE SUMMER, WINDY CITY BLUES, WHITE COLLAR GIRL, WHAT THE LADY WANTS and DOLLFACE. She is also the author of EVERY CROOKED POT, a YA novel published in 2007. Renée lives in Chicago.

Renée Rosen

Books by Renée Rosen

by Renée Rosen - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

In New York City, you can disappear into the crowd. At least that’s what Gloria Downing desperately hopes as she tries to reinvent herself after a devastating family scandal. She’s ready for a total life makeover and a friend she can lean on --- and into her path walks a young, idealistic woman named Estée. Before she knows it, Gloria is swept up in her new friend’s mission. While Estée rolls up her sleeves, Gloria begins to discover her own talents. After landing a job at Saks Fifth Avenue, Gloria finds her voice, which proves instrumental in opening doors for Estée’s insatiable ambitions. But in a world unaccustomed to women with power, they’ll each have to pay the price that comes with daring to live life on their own terms and refusing to back down.

by Renée Rosen - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, women are valued by their pedigree, dowry and, most importantly, connections. They have few rights and even less independence --- what they do have is society. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor --- the Mrs. Astor. But times are changing. Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America's richest families. But what good is dizzying wealth when society refuses to acknowledge you? Alva, who knows what it is to have nothing, will do whatever it takes to have everything.

by Renée Rosen - Fiction, Historical Fiction

New York City is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss, who leaves her small midwestern town to chase her big-city dreams and unexpectedly lands the job of a lifetime working for the first female editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown. Nothing could have prepared Alice for the world she enters as editors and writers resign on the spot, refusing to work for the woman who wrote the scandalous bestseller SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL, and confidential memos, article ideas and cover designs keep finding their way into the wrong hands. When someone tries to pull Alice into a scheme to sabotage her boss, she is more determined than ever to help Helen succeed.

by Renée Rosen - Historical Fiction

A debut novel set in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties about an innocent but ambitious girl who becomes the ultimate flapper in a whole world filled with speakeasies, wailing jazz, and vicious mobsters.