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Author
Series
Argeneau series volume 3
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Kate Leever, newest editor of Roundhouse Publishing, convinces reclusive writer Lucern Argeneau to make a public appearance and is surprised to discover that he is a vampire and even more surprised when she finds love.
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cassie Klein has always used stories to help her fly, but now her plot points aren't lining up. By her 50s Cassie has already weathered more than most. She was orphaned at the age of two and has never understood why her parents were on a bridge in West Virginia that happened to collapse as they drove across. Her search for answers prompted a failed career in journalism, and now she's an aspiring novelist waiting for her literary dreams to come true...
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's 2017 and the crisis of forced disappearances has reached a tipping point after 43 docent students disappeared and are feared dead. Aureliano Más the Second is a fledgling writer at a lucrative fellowship in Mexico City chaired by his aunt, Rose. When Aureliano was very young, his mother left without reason or trace. Aureliano is attempting to write a novel that mirrors his mother's unexplained disappearance while shattering Magical Realism...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
During one unforgettable year in their twenties, best friends Emma, Fern, Carolina, and Andi make a pact to embrace whatever life throws at them, inspiring Fern to write a memoir detailing their escapades and the magical power of saying Yes. But fast forward twenty years and they have reached their bandwidth of responsibilities. Fern is a full-time writer struggling to pay the bills. Carolina is a fitness-obsessed workaholic. Andi is a disillusioned...
Author
Series
Victorian book club mystery volume 4
Publisher
[Callie Hutton]
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...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schsuter, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Mark Chan this. Mark Chan that. Writer and barista Emily Hung is tired of hearing about the great Mark Chan, the son of her parents' friends. You'd think he single-handedly stopped climate change and ended child poverty from the way her mother raves about him. But he's just a boring, sweater-vest-wearing engineer, and when they're forced together at a wedding, it's obvious he thinks he's too good for her. But Emily's mother is fixated on getting...
Author
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning writer Drew Hayden Taylor that blends thriller, murder mystery, and horror with humour and spectacle. Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself entangled in an affair that's ruining his marriage; Paul North plays in the IHL (Indigenous Hockey League), struggling to keep up with the...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The world's most famous author has vanished. A thrilling hunt of mind games and twisting suspense begins when a detective sees evidence written into her novel. Detective Nina Travers is so good at her job that she blends in like a benevolent Tom Ripley. She can be anyone. She can be no one. Nina wants to be someone. Her new case will finally get her noticed. Bestselling author Claire Ross has disappeared from the Hamptons on her wedding day. How tragic...
10) The deepest lake
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this atmospheric thriller set at a luxury memoir-writing workshop on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, a grieving mother goes undercover to investigate her daughter's mysterious death. Rose, the mother of 20-something aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughter's death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen? When the official investigation...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Vivian Lestrange -- celebrated author of the popular mystery novel The Charterhouse Case and total recluse -- has apparently dropped off the face of the Earth. After he was reported missing by his secretary Eleanor, whom Inspector Bond suspects to be the author herself, crime and murder are afoot when Lestrange's housekeeper is also found to have disappeared. Bond and Warner of Scotland Yard set to work to investigate a murder with no body and a...
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