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81) The Elizas
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Unable to convince anyone that she was pushed before she was rescued from the bottom of a hotel pool, a rising author struggling with depression and memory loss begins to question her sanity as elements from her debut novel mix up with events in her real life.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting in a tale about how relationships are created and destroyed, how futures and histories can be rewritten, and the life-saving power of stories.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy Garrett survived a brutal childhood attack in which the assailant was never found. Now she wants her story written in a novel. Kariss interviews Amy and conducts her own research, stepping unaware into a viper's pit of danger. Tigo is working on solving a car bombing and bringing the killer to justice. As Kariss's new story attracts an onslaught of danger that she never expected, can Tigo save the woman he loves and find who wants her dead for...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A scandalous book by an anonymous author takes London by storm, and everyone is convinced its villainous "Lord K" is the greatly admired Earl of Knightly. Heartbroken that he left her at the altar, Miss Regina Leyland impulsively sought revenge by revealing the true Knightly to the world but never expected the uproar to bring enemies to her door. To keep her identity hidden, she must trust the one man with the power to destroy her. Furious to be the...
Author
Series
Wednesday novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
Hope Tantry and her friends, Anna Page and Julie, discover astonishing secrets about Hope's identity while perusing coded journals, puzzle boxes, and other artifacts in a Lake District cabin Hope's mother used as a literary retreat.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life. Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity.
Author
Series
Mystery bookshop volume 8
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After the local library floods, Michigan bookstore owner Sam Washington agrees to host a local book club, whose unpleasant leader turns up bludgeoned to death with an Agatha Christie collection.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Esmé, the woman she betrayed twenty years ago, arrives on her doorstep, bringing with her a past she thought was buried forever, Charlotte is faced with a choice of redeeming the old friendship or give in to the fears of the past.
Author
Series
Bard's rest romance volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To go for it or not to go for it? That is the question when two former high school flames return to their Shakespeare-obsessed hometown for a summer of theater and unexpected romance in this laugh-out-loud rom-com. Literary agent and writer Miranda Barnes rolls into her hometown of Bard's Rest with one goal in mind: to spend the summer finally finishing her YA novel, the next installment in her bestselling fantasy series. Yet Miranda's mother, deep...
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When mystery author Charlee Russo arrives at a Portland writers' conference and learns that the adult daughter of the organizer has been kidnapped, she takes over the conference planning while trying to untangle the problematic web of the kidnapping.
96) Sinfully yours
Author
Series
Hellions of High Street volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the Marquess of Davenport, a fellow guest at the same remote Scottish castle, asks for her help in stopping a dangerous conspiracy, aspiring writer Anna Sloane gets to experience the exploits she writes on the page in real life--and in the arms of a notorious rake.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian science fiction at a time when 'being a writer' was not an option open to women."--Publisher website.
99) Death by tiara
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When she is hired to write lyrics for a contestant in the talent competition for the Miss Teen Queen America pageant, freelance writer Jaine Austen is plunged into a glittering nightmare of vicious stage moms, exacting judges and trash-talking teens after a catfight turns deadly.
100) This heart of mine
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2002, ©2001
Language
English
Description
Molly Somerville is a successful children's book author who has a crush on pro football star Kevin Tucker--a man who can't even remember her name. Molly's life turns when she and Kevin are stranded in a paradise called Wind Lake. There, Molly and Kevin battle their attraction and each other as they face one of life's most important lessons.
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