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What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year...
2) Yo!
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Yolanda Garcia finds success with her first novel in which she made characters out of her family members and friends, but her "fictionally victimized" relatives exact revenge by telling all they know about the author, Yo.
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Ernest Cunningham volume 2
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"On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real in the new mystery from the author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone"--
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"Delightful … a rich cast of characters … Parini does a superb job." - San Francisco Chronicle
"[Parini] expertly navigates this multilayered narrative." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Pleasure-filled … Parini writes lovingly and evocatively." - Los Angeles Times
"Richly compelling … Parini renders the mentor-apprentice dynamic with great sensitivity." - Bookreporter.com
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -Leo Tolstoy
As a writer, Celia Bayley's insights into the ways of the human heart made her famous. And why not? She had married a handsome war hero and produced three successful children. Yet, as her family gathers for her funeral, the diaries and notebooks and letters she left behind paint a very different picture, one that shocks those who loved her and will...
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 55
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410L
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Zackie Beauchamp wants to be a famous horror author, but even he is frightened when everything he writes on the old typewriter he found in a burned-out antique store starts to come true.
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Pam Leighton is a smart, ambitious, and sexy aide to a handsome Washington lobbyist named John Duke. For the last two years, she's also been his lover. It's an open secret that his glamorous and social-climbing wife, Catherine, tolerates-to a point.
After the President nominates Duke for a cabinet post, Catherine sees her opportunity and delivers an ultimatum: either fire Pam or get ready for a very public, very ugly divorce. Duke's sharply honed...
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For fans of Debbie Macomber and Elin Hilderbrand, Jean Stone's "lovingly rendered" (Booklist) Vineyard novels are heartwarming beach reads set on beautiful Martha's Vineyard, featuring bestselling mystery author and Vineyard Inn proprietor Annie Sutton as she makes a fresh start on the island she's come to call home.
There's no place like home. Especially when home is an island paradise in full bloom . . .
With her wedding only weeks away,...
11) For Rouenna
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After the death of Rouenna, a childhood friend, a novelist writes a book about Rouenna's experiences as a combat nurse in Vietnam
12) The lying tongue
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Fresh from finishing university in England, Adam Woods arrives in Venice to begin a new chapter in his life. He soon secures employment as the personal assistant of Gordon Crace -- a famous expatriate novelist who makes his home in a dank and crumbling palazzo, surrounded by fabulous works of art, piles of unanswered correspondence and the memories of his former literary glory.
Before long Adam becomes indispensable to the feeble Crace, and he finds...
13) Dangerous waters
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Leah Nash mysteries volume 8
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True-crime writer Leah Nash is reluctantly drawn into a modern family drama with a very old story to tell.
14) The reading race
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When Freddy's class holds a reading competition--with an author visit as the first prize--Freddy is determined to win, even if it means staying up all night.
15) Talent: a novel
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An English grad student struggling with her dissertation about the intellectual history of inspiration desperately searches for a perfect case study to anchor her thesis, only to find it in the unlikeliest of places.
16) Facets
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New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky shares a cautionary tale of romance, revenge, family relationships and power in this powerful novel.
Nothing can prepare writer Hillary Cox for seeing her lover of 27 years, mining magnate John St. George, announce on television that he's marrying another woman. Seeking revenge, Hillary begins a tell-all book exposing John and his shady past, but John's sister, Pamela St. George, also wants revenge...
17) The list of 7
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Arthur Conan Doyle and special agent to Queen Victoria Jack Sparks attempt to unmask a conspiracy that threatens the Crown and civilization itself.
18) Any questions?
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A fictional encounter between the author and some very curious children on how a book is made and where the stories come from.
19) Killing Monica
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Pandy "J" Wallis is a renowned writer whose novels about a young woman making her way in Manhattan have spawned a series of blockbuster films. After the success of the Monica books and movies, Pandy wants to attempt something different: a historical novel based on her ancestor Lady Wallis. But Pandy's publishers and audience only want her to keep cranking out more Monica--as does her greedy husband, Jonny, who's gone deeply in debt to finance his...
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In one horrible moment, Jon Stuart became a widower and a social outcast. Although cleared of any involvement, his friends, colleagues and even old lovers pronounced him guilty. Four years later, his only hope is that the prime suspects' memories are as long as those of his accusers, and that by bringing them together again at the scene of the crime, history will repeat itself--this time in front of witnesses.
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