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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns iut into a place to bury her untold stories -- literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried but failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a nysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--Provided...
2) Heartless
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this prequel to Alice in Wonderland, Cath would rather open a bakery and marry for love than accept a proposal from the King of Hearts, especially after meeting the handsome and mysterious court jester.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Alma Cruz ha decidido ponerle punto final a su carrera de escritora, pero teme acabar como su amiga, una exitosa novelista arrastrada a la locura por un libro que jamás terminó de escribir. Por eso, cuando hereda un modesto terreno en República Dominicana, se le ocurre sepultar allí sus decenas de manuscritos inconclusos. Quiere que descansen en paz en la misma tierra donde yacen sus raíces. Pero a diferencia de Alma, los protagonistas de sus...
8) Broken
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Awakened in the middle of the night by one of her own desperate characters, a shocked writer is compelled to envision a background and publish his story, which unfolds through the appearance of an obsessive young drug addict.
Author
Publisher
Grove
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about: he has a top agent and publisher in New York, and his twenty-eight mystery novels have sold millions of copies around the world. He also has a loving wife and three grown children and is a well-known philanthropist in his small New Jersey town. But Rush is hiding a dark secret. Under the pseudonym "Jack of Spades," he pens another string of novels--...
11) Far from shore
Author
Series
Never girls volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Never Girls have heard about a boy who lives in Never Land--a legendary boy who brings adventure wherever he goes. A boy named Peter Pan. Kate can't wait to meet him. But Tinker Bell knows that Peter is also good at causing trouble. Will this be an adventure, or a disaster?"--
12) Or what you will
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god. But "he" is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison, 73, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels, and in the recesses of her mind, Sylvia has conversed with...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Alyssa Gardner went down the rabbit hole and took control of her destiny. She survived the battle for Wonderland and the battle for her heart. In this collection of three novellas, join Alyssa and her family as they look back at their memories of Wonderland"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Life gets complicated once again for teenaged Alyssa when her mother returns home from an asylum and the mysterious Morpheus tempts Alyssa with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland.
Author
Publisher
Credo House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is far deadlier than fiction . . . especially on Addington Isle." -- Back cover.
Author
Series
Grimm series (Adam Gidwitz) volume 2
Publisher
Dutton Juvenile
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Companion to: A tale dark & Grimm.
Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.
Author
Series
Enola Holmes mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Enola Holmes, now independent and pursuing her profession as a scientific perditorian, joins forces with her brother Sherlock to solve the mysterious disappearance of Wolcott Balestier, a friend of Rudyard Kipling, as they uncover the ruthless world of book publishing and seek to bring him back safely.
Author
Publisher
Redhook, an imprint of Orbit, a division of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob - a young lawyer with a normal house, a normal fiancee, and an utterly normal life - hopes that this strange family secret will disappear with disuse, and he will be discharged from his life's duty of protecting Charley and the real world from each other. But then, literary...
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
20) Wit's end
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
What happens when readers steal your characters? Rima Lanisell is about to find out when she visits her estranged godmother, Addison Early, the successful mystery writer of the Maxwell Lane mysteries, and discovers the truth behind Addison's novels.
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