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Hoping to further her dream of becoming a serious journalist by tracking down a reclusive best-selling writer in the Alaskan wilds, gossip columnist Carrie Slayton discovers that her subject, Finn, is as mysterious as his reputation suggests before facing a difficult choice between her career and her heart.
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Pub. Date
2006
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
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Instant #1 New York Times bestseller
"Readers will feel the magnetic pull of this paean to words, books and the magical power of story."—People
"Eerie and fascinating."—USA TODAY
Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past...
"Readers will feel the magnetic pull of this paean to words, books and the magical power of story."—People
"Eerie and fascinating."—USA TODAY
Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past...
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Lucy Hart has come a long way since feeling the cold neglect of her parents, whose attention always centered around her chronically ill sister's needs. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide, Lucy is able to share her love of books with bright, young students, and one in particular, a seven-year-old orphan named Christopher, has her yearning for a family of her own. The Clock Island books were Lucy's passion and refuge as a child, and now she shares...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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After winding up working at the local farmer's market due to a speed bump in her career, food writer Sidney Strauss gets an opportunity to write a column for the market's newsletter, which opens up even more possibilities, and challenges.
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After the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work, but as emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers how far she'll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
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Hiring a housekeeper named Elyse to help care for her father and his wife Audrey, who has Parkinson’s, successful real estate agent Jodi Bishop soon discovers that the attractive 60-something widow is attempting to take over their lives when Audrey’s condition rapidly worsens.
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Arthur Less novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
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Becoming a mystery writer in the style of the stories she grew up reading after her mother's abandonment, Alex comes of age in a convent orphanage before finding publishing success under a male pseudonym and becoming subject to the consequences of fame and her double life.
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2024.
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English
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Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, author Libby Weeks, known as F.T. Goldhero to the fans of her fantasy series, realizes she needs help finishing her long anticipated final book, and turns to an unlikely source for support. Eleven-year-old superfan Peanut Bixton knows the books even better than Libby does but harbors her own dark secrets. Tensions mount as Libby's dementia deepens—until both Peanut and Libby swirl into an inevitable but...
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When his successful world is threatened by poor reviews about his latest book, writer Charles Dickens is given a one-month ultimatum by his publisher to write a successful, nostalgic Christmas book, a challenge that is complicated by worldly associates, self-doubt and the hardships of an impoverished young woman and her son.
12) Wicked
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Kensington Books
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2016.
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English
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In a remote country house, a writers' group turns into a workshop for a killer, from the New York Times–bestselling author.
When Eve Carrington is chosen to participate in an exclusive writers' workshop, she knows it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For one month, she will live, write, and share her work with nine other aspiring authors. The top three will get a chance to be published. But when the building they're...
When Eve Carrington is chosen to participate in an exclusive writers' workshop, she knows it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For one month, she will live, write, and share her work with nine other aspiring authors. The top three will get a chance to be published. But when the building they're...
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Visiting the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his overdue cookbook, writer Paul Stewart endures setbacks that leave him stranded at the airport until a stranger offers him transportation on a bulldozer, triggering a madcap series of adventures on the Tuscan countryside.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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The "haunting...tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey" (The New York Times), Lisey's Story is a literary masterpiece—an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath.
*Also an Apple TV+ limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen*
Lisey lost her husband Scott, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott...
*Also an Apple TV+ limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen*
Lisey lost her husband Scott, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott...
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2022.
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English
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Forced to reunite as they face crossroads in their personal and professional lives, authors Katrina and Nathan must work through the reasons they’ve hated each other for the past three years while writing a romantic novel that pushes them closer together in the Florida heat.
17) One day
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English
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Over twenty years, snapshots of an unlikely relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of each year. Dex Mayhew and Em Morley face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. Soon to be a major motion picture from Focus Features/ Random House Films.
19) Love on a dime
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Ladies of Summerhill volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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In age of elegance and excess, Lilly Westbrook longs for a love both true and eternal.
Newport, Rhode Island, 1899, is a place of shimmering waves, sleek yachts, and ladies of leisure. Of opulent mansions that serve as summer cottages for the rich and famous. Home of railroad magnates and banking tycoons—dashing young men and the women who aspire to marry them.
But it's not the place for lady novelists. Especially not those
...20) Beach read
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2020.
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English
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An acclaimed but blocked literary master, and a best-selling novelist who has stopped believing in true love, agree to a summer-long writing project that challenges them write well in each other's styles.
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