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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Remaining lonely in spite of her literary celebrity, Charlotte Brontë endures unfulfilling trips to London while spending time with her aging father and his brash curate, Arthur Bell Nichols, who reveals his long-time secret love for her.
63) Goodbye Hamilton
Author
Publisher
Thorndike
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
After escaping from a disastrous marriage and becoming a best-selling author, Maisie gets married for the second time to a man who truly loves her, but the next few years see their own share of sorrows.
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Smarmy personals ads. Daring declarations of love. Writer-for-hire Jaine Austen has penned them all. But when one of the love connections she made is broken up by murder, Jaine finds herself freelancing free-of-charge--and uncovering more than she bargained for. . . No one seems to need her help more than geeky, gawky Howard Murdoch. His request is simple enough: a letter proclaiming his undying love for Stacy Lawrence, a gorgeous aerobics instructor....
Author
Series
Medlar mystery volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling novelist Sara Medlar is skilled at sharing stories about other people, but she hoped the truth about her own family would never surface. Her home in Lachlan, Florida, is her refuge and she loves having her niece Kate and dear friend Jack Wyatt together under her roof. The Medlar Three, as they are known around town, have sworn off getting involved in any more murder investigations. When the sheriff unexpectedly leaves on vacation, Jack...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs was published in 1896, and it quickly garnered a reputation for its truthfulness and the quality of its writing. Rudyard Kipling described it as 'immense--it is the very life, ' and Henry James praised it for being 'absolutely true--not a word overdone--such elegance and exactness.' The Country of the Pointed Firs, is a concisely written and beautifully wrought episodic novel of a young woman writer's...
67) A willing murder
Author
Series
Medlar mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She...
68) Remembrance
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
A woman novelist, obsessed by her book's hero to the point of being ill, is diagnosed with problems from a past life. She is hypnotized back to the 16th Century as Lady de Grey, whose husband, a man just like her hero, is divorcing her for adultery which she did not commit. By the author of Sweet Liar.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Years after poor health forces her to return to her family home, author Flannery O'Connor reluctantly attends the wedding of her cousin and inadvertently draws the attention of the groom, a wealthy Manhattan resident who fears life is passing him by.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a book called The Science of Living Forever lands on Meg Carpenter's desk, she jumps at the chance to review it, starting on a labyrinthine journey that takes her from mysterious beasts of the moor to forest fairies to ships in bottles.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
London, 1676: Spy-turned-playwright Aphra Behn is having more than her share of troubles. Her last play was a flop, her financial situation is getting desperate, and she's stuck with the worst actress in the world as the lead in her new comedy. But when she offers to organize the funeral of a murdered man it seems her troubles are only just beginning...
Author
Series
Kings Meadow romance volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bestselling author Charity Anderson returns to her hometown of Kings Meadow to defeat a bad case of writer's block. She imagines she'll spend a lonely summer writing and then return to her home in Boise. She soon finds herself caring for Buck Malone, a wilderness guide --and the object of her unrequited teenage crush. But what else can she do? Her dog Cocoa caused the accident that left Buck with a broken ankle and wrist, taking him off the trail...
73) If you were here
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Amish-zombie-teen- romance author Mia and her husband Mac (and their pets) go through the alternately frustrating, exciting, terrifying-but always funny-process of buying and renovating their first home in the Chicago suburbs that John Hughes's movies made famous.
Author
Publisher
Regal House Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in Gilded Age Boston, The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann tells the story of a successful woman author of romance and adventure novels who becomes a champion of women's rights as she takes on the literary establishment and finds her true voice, both on and off the page. Everything changes for Victoria Swann when she goes against her publisher's expectations and abandons her frivolous writing style in favor of telling her own story. This seemingly...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Includes discussion questions (pages [275]-276).
"Six months ago, writer and bookstore owner Maddie Hanson was left at the altar. Since then, she's had zero interest in romance--despite the fact that she runs a book club full of sexy eligible bachelors. But when her latest novel is panned by an anonymous blogger who goes by the name Silver Fox--and who accuses her of knowing nothing about passion--she decides to prove her nemesis wrong by seeking...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Sam joins Nana Jo and her Shady Acres Retirement Village friends Irma, Dorothy, and Ruby Mae on a weeklong trip to London, England, to experience the Peabody Mystery Lovers Tour. The chance to see the sights and walk the streets that inspired Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle is a dream come true for Sam--and a perfect way to celebrate her new publishing contract as a mystery author. But between visits to Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel district...
77) Plot twist
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Romance author Sophie Lyon needs to overcome her writer's block. Her plan: reunite with her exes (including her last girlfriend. Carla) to learn why she has never fallen in love, and document it all for her online followers. Sophie's landlord, Dash Montrose-- a former teen heartthrob-- is an anonymous online crafter with a complicated relationship with alcohol, and needs to steer clear of scandal. When he offers to help with her social media, they...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Melissa Henderson is leading a quiet life. Once a bestselling author, she now pours all her energy into renovating a Victorian house nestled in the foothills of rural New England. Six years ago, she lost her young son to cancer, and her marriage dissolved. She stopped writing. It was only when she bought the old house that Melissa found a purpose, and came alive as she made it beautiful again. After a wildfire that threatens her home appears on the...
79) What if you & me
Author
Series
Say everything volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Horror author and true-crime podcaster Andi Lockley has spent so long researching real-life horror stories, she's practically forgotten what dating is. But when a detective moves next door and provides new fodder for her podcast--and a sense of safety she hasn't felt in a long time--she starts to wonder if it's time to retire her trust-no-man mentality"--
Andi Lockley narrowly escaped a dangerous man years ago, and every relationship since has been...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Set against the backdrop of World War II, this unforgettable novel, inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime, follows three women whose fates become intertwined by their belief in the power and goodness in the written word to triumph over the very darkest moments of war.
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