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81) Potboiler
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Arthur Pfefferkorn, is a middle-aged college professor with long dead literary aspirations. When his oldest friend, successful thriller writer William de Vallee, is lost at sea, Pfefferkorn is torn between envy and grief, for de Vallee not only outshone Pfefferkorn professionally, but married the woman Pfefferkorn loved. He struggles with his failed ambitions while reflecting on his late friend's successes and marriage. He decides to take the best-selling...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Years after betraying her, he's back in Haven Point and ready to learn the truth. Megan Hamilton never really liked Elliot Bailey. He turned his back on her family when they needed him the most and it almost tore them all apart. So she's shocked when Elliot arrives at her family's inn, needing a place to stay and asking questions that dredge up the past. Megan will rent him a cottage, but that's where it ends--no matter how gorgeous Elliot has become....
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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"Dos escritores, unas vacaciones y una apuesta. Todo puede suceder durante un verano. January Andrews es escritora de novelas románticas y una soñadora empedernida. August Everett escribe novelas serias y cree que el amor verdadero es sólo un cuento chino. Pero January y Gus tienen mucho más en común de lo que creen: Los dos están arruinados. Los dos están bloqueados. Y los dos necesitan escribir un bestseller antes de que termine el verano."--...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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"Santa Rita, an old resort and new home to Sofía, a writer. Greta, Sofia's niece and translator, comes to stay awhile, and it is through her that we meet the other characters: Candy, Sofia's assistant; Robles, a retired police inspector; Nel and his party, college students; Miguel, a blind math teacher; Reme, mother to an abused woman. The arrival of Moncho Riquelme, an old friend of Sofa̕'s, with an agenda of his own for the future of the community,...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"How did sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne write literary landmarks Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey? What in their lives and circumstances, in the choices they made, and in their close but complex relationships with one another made such greatness possible? In her new novel, Rachel Cantor melds biographical fact with unruly invention to illuminate their genius, their bonds of love and duty, periods of furious creativity, and the ongoing...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Ellie Jenkins definitely didn't peak in high school. She was an outsider, an invisible girl with a desperate crush on Mark Wright, a guy who hardly knew her name. Ten years later, she's living in Los Angeles, trying to write a hit show about cool high school kids, when an invitation for her high school reunion arrives. She doesn't want to go, but her writing has been suffering and her boss makes her an ultimatum: go to this reunion or lose her big...
87) We wish you luck
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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It doesn't take long for the students on Fielding campus to become obsessed with Hannah, Leslie and Jimmy. The three graduate students are mysterious, inaccessible, and brilliant. Leslie, glamorous and brash, has declared that she wants to write erotica and make millions. Hannah is quietly confident, loyal, elegantly beautiful, and the person they all want to be; and Jimmy is a haunted genius with no past. After Simone--young, bestselling author and...
88) Fake truth
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Author Ian Ludlow writes great adventures, but after helping Chinese movie star Wang Mei defect to the United States, he becomes the accidental hero of a real-life espionage thriller. Now he's stuck with the actress--and suffering a nasty case of writer's block--when he stumbles into a secret Russian plot using 'fake news' to outrage Americans into believing a terrifying lie. The only weapon Ian has against the global conspiracy, and the assassins...
89) Rabbits for food
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"[A] story of a writer's slide into depression and institutionalization. It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist--an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer--fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment. Instead,...
90) Killing Monica
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"In KILLING MONICA Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame, and even the meaning of life itself, when a famous writer must resort to faking her own death in order to get her life back from her most infamous creation--Monica. With her trademark wit and style, KILLING MONICA is Bushnell's sharpest, funniest book to date"--
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Love on the Santa Fe volume 3
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English
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"When an accident leaves Cassandra Barton incapacitated, she spends her time compiling a book of stories about the men working on the Santa Fe Railroad. But worry grows as revolutionaries set out to destroy the railroad. As the danger intensifies, Cassie and her longtime friend Brandon must rely on their faith to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way"--
San Marcial, New Mexico. Cassandra Barton has found joy in her work as a seamstress, but...
92) McNally's chance
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 10
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English
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When best-selling romance author Sabrina Wright asks for Archy McNally's help in finding her missing husband, Archy is quick to write it off as a simple domestic case. But this one's a page-turner of the first order: Sabrina's daughter ran off, she sent her husband to find her, and now they're both missing in action. If only Sabrina hadn't told her adopted daughter that she really is her natural mother. That sent daughter looking for father, a Palm...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of her close friend, a complex woman who continues to cast a shadow on Kit's own life. Her work is waylaid by the arrival of three women-Julia, Camille, and Susan-all of whom have launched a recent and spontaneous friendship that will uproot them completely and redirect their lives. Susan, the most adventurous of the three, has enticed them to subvert expectations of staid...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
"Former TV celebrity host Kat Stanford is just days away from starting her dream antique business with her newly widowed mother Iris when she gets a huge shock. Iris has recklessly purchased a dilapidated carriage house, on an isolated country estate, Honeychurch Hall, several hundred miles from London. When Kat arrives at the house, she discovers that Iris has yet another surprise in store. Iris has been writing in secret for years and reluctantly...
95) Bag of bones
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English
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Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel, -- Bag of BonesBag of Bones -- described by Gloria Naylor as "a love story about the dark places within us all" -- he proves to be one of our most moving.
96) Sarah's key
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation,...
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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""A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Fumi may have already resolved to give up on Akatsuki, but her heart clearly hasn’t gotten the memo yet. And unfortunately, summer vacation has started. . .which means staying home all day. .. which means being around the novelist 24-7! To make matters worse, Gorou invites Fumi along on his and Akatsuki’s research trip--but promptly returns to Tokyo on urgent business, leaving the two housemates alone in Kyoto! As the unfamiliar city reveals...
99) Killer thriller
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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In #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg's action-packed sequel to the Washington Post bestseller True Fiction, a hapless writer is pitted against an enemy nation mounting a treacherous plot lifted from one of his thrillers. Everybody loves Ian Ludlow's action novels-especially the CIA-because the spies know something the public doesn't: his fictional plots have a frightening tendency to come true. Ian is in Hong Kong with his resourceful...
100) Death and deception
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Series
Victorian book club mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After almost a year of marriage, Lord William Wethington and Lady Amy Wethington have put aside their sleuthing skills to prepare for their first child. It would be an easy thing except to their dismay, dead bodies are once again popping up. A corpse discovered floating in the Roman Baths was startling enough, but the unfortunate victim turns out to be Amy's and her sister-in-law Eloise's midwife, Mrs. Jane Fleming. 'Do not get involved,' Lord William...
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