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Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But, behind all that new-found glam, Irby is just trying to...
Author
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After five years working at Parson's Press, an old-school business book publisher, Nora is the last editorial assistant standing, desperate to get out. But she can't leave until she finds another job to cover rent, especially when Parsons cuts already unlivable salaries. That's when Nora is forced to lie her way into moonlighting for a rival publisher...and maybe poaching a few authors along the way. But when Nora accidentally falls for Andrew Santos,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The authors describe their introspective journeys to Greece and France, during which they reconnected while Sue grappled with midlife challenges and writer's block and Ann struggled with heartbreak and post-college career questions.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
383 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with her second book and abandoned by both her husband and her agent, novelist Francesca Sewell takes on the task of ghost writing the family history of Chicky, the ninety-year-old daughter of 1920s vaudeville stars, and gradually discovers how to move on with her life.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"America's pastor has gone home. But his lifelong message, his passion for the gospel, and his compassion for people still echo in Hear My Heart. This intimate work, a compilation of articles that spans Billy's ministry from 1955 to 2014, invites you to sit down with Billy and hear in his own unvarnished words the things that moved his heart regarding relevant issues of the day. The Biblical convictions he abided by. The reasons and regrets behind...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Irish village mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Between training the new town garda and trying to set a wedding date with her fianc�e, Macdara Flannery, Siobh�an O'Sullivan is feeling a bit overwhelmed. She's looking forward to visiting the new bookshop and curling up with an exciting novel - only to discover the shelves contain nothing but Literature with a capital L. The owner not only refuses to stock romances, mysteries, and science fiction, but won't even let customers enter his store...
50) Mark Twain
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life, works, and legacy of Mark Twain, the most successful author of his day.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--
54) El deafo
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author traces the story of his grandmother, an African-American attorney who, in spite of social and political barriers, devised the strategy that sent mafia chieftain Lucky Luciano to prison in the 1930s.
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents' homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales alongside apple pie at Christmas never seemed at odds with her American identity. Still, she yearned to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative. Now, ...America invites thirty-one of her...
Author
Series
Hawthorne volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After being injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows, utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions. But Gerry is also beginning to question his own competency. As he moves in and out of dreamlike memories and seemingly random appearances of a persistent...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called 'my whole world.' When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewisknown as Jackshe was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasnt holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet their...