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"Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow took solace in the mystery stories she read with her devoted father--and soon she was writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, violent, complex crime stories that reflected skill and imagination far beyond her years. After her father's early death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost, and...
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English
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After the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work, but as emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers how far she'll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
416 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Remaining lonely in spite of her literary celebrity, Charlotte Bronte endures unfulfilling trips to London while spending time with her aging father and his brash curate, Arthur Bell Nichols, who reveals his long-time secret love for her.
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters—sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"—DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander
A hauntingly beautiful tale of love that transcends time: an American writer travels to Scotland to craft
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"When the critic who gave his new play scathing reviews is murdered, stabbed in the heart with his ornamental dagger, author Anthony Horowitz is arrested by an old enemy out for revenge and the only man who can help him is his estranged partner in solving crime, Daniel Hawthorne.
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English
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Kaylee Sloan's home in Southern California is full of wonderful memories of the woman who raised her. But the memories are prolonging her grief over her mother's recent death. A successful author, Kaylee hoped she could pour herself into her work. Instead she has terrible writer's block and a looming deadline. Determined to escape distractions and avoid the holiday season, Kaylee borrows a cabin in Virgin River. She knows the isolation will help her...
10) Less: a novel
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English
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Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town? ANSWER: You accept them...
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English
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Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding...
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Series
Hollows volume 2
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English
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A man searching for the mother who disappeared decades earlier, a high-strung teenager, a psychic who predicts a man's death, and a disgraced former chief of police find their lives converging in ways that invoke formidable personal costs.
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Series
Hawthorne volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
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"When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don't expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation--or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past. Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests--an...
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English
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Set against the backdrop of World War II, this novel, inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime, follows three women whose fates become intertwined by their belief in the power and goodness in the written word to triumph over the very darkest moments of war.
16) The last word
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Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
In 1861 London, eighteen-year-old Lucinda Leavitt evades plans to find her a suitable husband by enlisting the help of childhood friend David to seek the ending of her favorite author's last, unfinished book.
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English
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"In pursuit of an author who could help get her brother published, Rebecca Lane stays at Swanford Abbey, a grand hotel rumored to be haunted. It is there she encounters Sir Frederick-the man who broke her heart. When a mysterious death occurs, Rebecca is one of the suspects, and Fredrick is torn between his feelings for her and his search for the truth"--
18) Augusta Hawke
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Successful crime author Augusta Hawke lives a quiet existence in her village outside Washington DC, until the police appear next door. Where are her neighbors, the Normans? They've been missing over a week. Sensing a bestselling story is unfolding next door, Augusta puts the investigatory skills she's developed during her writing to the test"--
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Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
147 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
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Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When she discovers that her great-great-grandmother was the author Evelyn Aubrey, whose shocking disappearance in 1898 led London society to believe she was murdered, Abigail journeys to England in search of answers, suspecting Evelyn wrote a new chapter of her life to take charge of her future.