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2024
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English
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"It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka "that woman," is the most talked-about person in the country right now, though largely for the wrong reasons. As an independent candidate for President of the United States, Dorothy split the vote and is being blamed for the shocking result. After her very public defeat, she's retreated to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her. Her collaborator is impressed by Dorothy's...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A ghostwriter and a struggling actor help each other on the page and in the bedroom in this steamy romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk. Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in 'ghostwriter' until she attends a signing for a book she wrote--and the author doesn't even recognize her. The evening turns more promising when she meets a charming man at the bar and immediately connects with him. But when...
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Convinced there's more to Rowdy than a good fastball, a wicked smile, and a tight pair of pants, Breeanne can't help but be tempted. After all, it's boring always being the good girl, and Rowdy dares her to be just a little bad. The stakes are high, but win or lose, this time Breeanne's breaking all the rules playing the game of love.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"A "mind-blowing, page-turning, unputdownable" novel (Elif Batuman) about the fifteen-year fallout from a poisonous high school rumor, exploring how stories from the past can come to define who we are. A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she cannot tell: the story of, as she puts it, "the things that happened while I was asleep." Back in 1999,...
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Zondervan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--from the foothills of Appalachia all the way to the White House.New York Times bestselling ghostwriter Nancy French is coming out of the shadows to tell her own incredible story.Nancy's family hails from the foothills of the Appalachians, where life was dominated by coal mining, violence, abuse, and poverty. Longing for an adventure, she married a stranger,...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"In the next novel in David Handler's Edgar award-winning series, Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag and his beloved basset hound, Lulu, investigate a murder in a fabled Connecticut summer playhouse. Hollywood ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag has chronicled the rise, fall, and triumphant return of many a celebrity. At last he's enjoying his own, very welcome second act. After hitting a creative slump following the success of his debut novel, Hoagy has found inspiration...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Joely tells other people's secrets for a living. As a ghost writer, she's used to scandal - but this just might be her strangest assignment yet. Freda has never told her story to anyone before. But now she's ready to set the record straight and to right a wrong that's haunted her for forty years. Freda's memoir begins with a 15-year-old girl falling madly in love with her teacher. It ends in a way Joely could never possibly have imagined. As the...
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English
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"No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. But soccer mom Lara Love Hardin has been hiding a shady secret: she is funding her heroin addiction by stealing her neighbors credit cards. Lara is convicted of thirty-two felonies and becomes inmate S32179. She learns that jail is a class system with a power structure that is somewhere between an adolescent sleepover party and Lord of the...
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2015.
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English
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"When Tia Monroe moves to New York City, she plans to put herself on the culinary map in no time. But after a coveted internship goes up in smoke, Tia's suddenly just another young food lover in the big city. But when Michael Saltz, a legendary New York Times restaurant critic, lets Tia in on a career-ending secret--that he's lost his sense of taste--everything changes. Now he wants Tia to serve as his palate, ghostwriting his reviews. In return he...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding gets badgered into selling his memoirs, he knows he's never going to be able to write them. He hates revealing a single thing about himself, is allergic to most emotions, and can't imagine doing a good job of putting pen to paper. And so in walks curvy, cheery, cute as heck ghostwriter Mabel Willicker, who knows just how to sunshine and sass her way into getting every little detail out of Alfie. They banter...
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Series
Out in Hollywood volume 1
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English
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"When an aspiring L.A. scriptwriter falls head-over-heels for a bossy and beautiful movie star after a devastating break-up, the two take a risk on love and cast themselves as the leading ladies of their own star-struck romance in this sweet and spirited love story from critically-acclaimed writer Amy Spalding in her adult debut"--
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Series
Liz Danger volume 3
Publisher
Cool Gus Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Liz Danger is stuck in her hometown of Burney, Ohio for the summer. That means she has three more months of trying to get a copy edit done for her insane employer, babysitting a seven-year-old, and figuring out what to do with three hundred and ninety-two teddy bears. And then there's her mother. The good news: She's living with a hot cop in a diner by the river. Vince Cooper is stuck in a town that keeps asking him when he's going to make an honest...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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""A five course feast of longing, banter, gourmet cooking, heaps of spice, and a cherry on top happily ever after. I devoured this fake dating, celebrity chef romance." -Erin La Rosa, author of Plot Twist and For Butter or Worse Business or Pleasure meets Evvie Drake Starts Over in this delicious opposites-attract romance from debut author Sarah Chamberlain. Sometimes the perfect recipe just needs a little extra heat. Ellie Wasserman's life is neat...
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is making progress on what he hopes will be his long-awaited second novel. When his ex-wife Merilee offers her home for Hoagy's use while she's shooting on location, hope blossoms that he might finally get some real work done... and solidify their rekindling romance. His literary agent asks Hoagy to meet with reviled editor Sylvia James, for a drink at the Algonquin Hotel. She discloses that aging literary genius Addison James--...
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Richard Aintree's only novel was a modern classic on par with The Catcher in the Rye. But after his wife's death he went into mourning-- and no one has heard from him in twenty years. Now Aintree-- or someone pretending to be Aintree-- has reached out to his two estranged daughters, Monette and Reggie. Both sisters have received mysterious typewritten letters from their father. Hoagy had already been hired to ghostwrite a tell-all book about the troubled...
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