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81) The paper men
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1985, c1984
Language
English
Description
English novelist Wilifred Barclay finds his life crumbling around him while being pursued by an American professor who wants to write his biography. He finally seeks revenge.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Narrates the tale of twelve-year-old Charles Dickens who, despite poverty and long hours of factory work, still has time to discover and share the stories of other residents of 1824 London. Includes author's note about Dickens' life and some of the books he wrote.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
To make a name for herself in the literary world, recent college grad Alley Russo takes a job as assistant to the infamous Walker Reade (a Hunter S. Thompson-like character), and must battle against his endless procrastination, vampiric schedule, addiction, and casual gun play to coax a novel out of him.
85) Hotel du Lac
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
Edith Hope, a successful mature novelist, has made a fool of herself over love and is sent by her friends to a Swiss hotel to come to her senses. Instead of writing a new romance novel, she finds herself preoccupied with her fellow guests.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women--a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother's best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children--collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020. A young woman's life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Lady Athelinda Playford announces her decision to cut her children out of her will and leave her fortune to an invalid with just weeks to live, a declaration Hercule Poirot senses was made to provoke a murder."--
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
English
Description
Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge: She can cover any topic she wants, but only if she first scores the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author. Living in the remote Alaskan wilderness, Finn has written a megabestselling memoir about surviving in the wild. But he stubbornly declines to speak to anyone in the press, and no one...
89) Cold Feet
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Just when you think you know someone…
The Seattle police suspect Madison Lieberman's father was the serial killer they call the "Sandpoint Strangler." Madison refuses to believe it. Her father is now dead, and all she wants is the chance to create a new life for herself and her six-year-old child.
Then she discovers something in the crawl space beneath her parents' house. Something that makes her question her father's innocence. Or the innocence...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jascha and Lilka escape separately from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. Reunited years later, they live in London where Jascha has become a celebrated writer, feted for his dark tales about his war adventures. One day, forty years after the war, Jascha receives a letter inviting him to give a reading in Warsaw. He tells Lilka that nothing remains of the city they knew; she is nostalgic for the city of her childhood. Traveling by train through a frozen...
91) Red rain
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a hurricane from which she barely escapes while on a small island off the coast of South Carolina, travel writer Lea Sutter impulsively adopts a pair of orphaned twin boys against the wishes of her family before encountering the twins' sinister natures.
92) Meshugah
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Story of writer Aaron Geidinger and his involvement with Holocaust survivors in New York in the early 1950s.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Jo Anne McDuffy, a college student and gifted painter. Their connection is immediate, but their romance is complicated by Joanne's involvement with a professor who is mixed up with...
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Andy and Terry recount the story of how they first met and decided to build a twenty-six story treehouse, which includes an ice cream parlor, a rink for bumper cars, and the Maze of Doom.
Author
Publisher
Scarlet
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Murderpalooza, the premier thriller writers conference, is meant to be an exciting celebration of the genre and its preeminent writers. But when bestselling author and industry favorite Kristin Bailey is found dead in her hotel room, four rival authors--a midlister, an egomaniac, a has-been, and a newbie--also get targeted by an anonymous social media account and wonder if they're next"--
97) Her
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A withdrawn writer, Theodore Twombly, falls in love with his computer's highly advanced operating system named Samantha.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of Franny Mason her father, Sam, brings the family back to a familiar vacation destination, Lake Gormlaith, in an attempt reconnect with his wife and rescue his son--Franny's twin brother--from a destructive path, but unexpected events bring about surprising changes.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From a New York Times bestselling author, an astounding work of fiction, both incredibly funny and heartfelt, asking readers to embrace the fantastical in order to get to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon not only Black Americans, but America as a whole"--
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