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Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A romantic suspense writer finds herself trapped in the plots of her own books in this sexy thriller from the New York Times -bestselling author. A failed marriage has shown Sasha Blake exactly what she doesn’t want in life: a man; and what she does want: a fulfilling career, good friends, and independence. The introverted author has found a sanctuary on Martha’s Vineyard, where she can pen her bestselling romance thrillers in peace and quiet....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Reexamines the life of late eighteenth-century author Jane Austen, discussing her relationship with her sister Cassandra, and her reputed love affair in the summer of 1801, and revealing some of the secrets the Austen family struggled for so long to conceal.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, an artist and a mother whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an old friend who mysteriously reappears in her life. In telling a story that ranges...
5) Deadline
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Already coping with battle fatigue following his return from Afghanistan, journalist Dawson Scott receives a tip he cannot ignore about a potentially huge story involving the son of terrorists at-large for forty years.
Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The disappearance of her fawningly dependent husband catapults best-selling mystery writer Lucy Harper into dark memories about her brother who went missing under suspicious circumstances thirty years earlier.
Bestselling mystery writer Lucy Harper has fame, fortune, an army of adoring readers-- and her fawning husband Dan. When Dan goes missing, it evokes dark memories that take Lucy back thirty years to the day her brother vanished without a trace....
8) Wit's end
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Rima Lanisell meets her godmother, Addison Early, a best selling mystery writer, and seeks to discover what her godmother's relationship with her father was.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"A new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends"--
"Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young--but life is catching up with them. They desire...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nantucket writer Madeline King couldn't have picked a worse time to have writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration is in short supply. Madeline's best friend Grace, is hard at work transforming her garden into the envy of the island with the help of a ruggedly handsome landscape architect. Before she realizes it, Grace is on the verge of a decision that will irrevocably change her life. Could Grace's crisis...
12) Iris
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of the author of Wide Sargasso Sea examines her early years in the Caribbean as well as how her experiences with extreme poverty, alcohol, and drug dependency informed her writing.
Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England,...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A USA Today Best Book of 2021! "Bromley does a deft job at keeping the twists and turns of this reunion realistic and utterly romantic." -- USA Today Inspiration can come from the most unlikely--and inconvenient--sources. Kara Sullivan's life is full of love--albeit fictional. As a bestselling romance novelist and influential bookstagrammer, she's fine with getting her happily-ever-after fix between the covers of a book. But right now? Not only is...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Many rumors abound about a mysterious gentleman said to be the love of Jane's life-finally, the truth may have been found ... What if, hidden in an old attic chest, Jane Austen's memoirs were discovered after hundreds of years? What if those pages revealed the untold story of a life-changing love affair? That's the premise behind this spellbinding novel, which delves into the secrets of Jane Austen's life, giving us untold insights into her mind and...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A mystery novel that casts Jane Austen as a sleuth who is called upon to investigate the suspicious death of the Earl of Scargrave, but the matter becomes urgent when the widow is accused of orchestrating her husband's death because of her love for his nephew.
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