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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agns̈, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agns̈ escape ten years ago. Now, Agns̈ is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agns̈ on an epic...
63) Killing Monica
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In KILLING MONICA Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame, and even the meaning of life itself, when a famous writer must resort to faking her own death in order to get her life back from her most infamous creation--Monica. With her trademark wit and style, KILLING MONICA is Bushnell's sharpest, funniest book to date"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
To make a name for herself in the literary world, Alley Russo takes a job as assistant to the infamous Walker Reade and must battle against his endless procrastination, vampiric schedule, addiction, and casual gun play to coax a novel out of him.
65) The faces
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Aspiring to be a writer like her best-selling author father, Isabelle Manning faces her upcoming thirty-fifth birthday on the verge of a breakdown when she uncovers shocking truths about her parents and her family.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Madeleine d'Leon doesn't know where Edward, her novel's main character, came from. But as she writes, he becomes all she can think about. Edward McGinnity can't get Madeleine out of his mind. She will be the perfect heroine for his next book. But who isthe author and who is the creation? And as the lines start to blur, who is affected when a killer finally takes flesh? CROSSING THE LINES is a wildly inventive twist on the murder mystery filled with...
68) Talent: a novel
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
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. A first novel.
69) Wondrous Rex
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newbery Medal-winning author Patricia MacLachlan has written a magical and funny tale about the joy found in using words, sharing stories, and loving a wondrous dog named Rex.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Filmmaker June Masterson has high hopes for her first documentary, the true story of the disappearance of famed mystery author Greer Larkin... Everyone has a theory. Greer's mother, Blanche, and her best friend, Rachel, believe that Greer's fiancae, Jonathan, is the culprit...Jonathan claims it was either Greer's controlling mother or Rachel...In desperation, Rachel gives June a suitcase full of Greer's most personal writings...Then Rachel turns...
71) Killer thriller
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Hong Kong to research his latest action thriller, Ian Ludlow stumbles on a deadly Chinese intelligence conspiracy to topple the United States, a scenario taken directly from one of his novels.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
1st Scribner trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, one of the most widely revered novels of the years, The Master was a bestseller in San Francisco and Boston, on the New York Times extended list, and exuberantly celebrated by reviewers, writer and readers.
74) Time is the fire
Author
Publisher
Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Time Is The Fire recounts a day in the existence of Leopold Bloom O'Boyle, chronophobe, travel writer, would-be novelist, and husband of the Reverend Annabel Chance. The day is September 8, 1992, and the place is Harvard Square and environs. Like his namesake, Leo dips into and out of a stream of consciousness as he considers and reconsiders the most important decision of his life."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He's a clear-eyed romantic, an aesthete but not a snob, self-indulgent yet wildly generous. As the son of one of the country's most powerful and deeply conservative families, the world could be his. But when he falls for Nate Reminger, an aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family in Piscataway, New Jersey, the results are passionate and catastrophic....
Author
Language
English
Description
After five years working at Parson's Press, an old-school business book publisher, Nora is the last editorial assistant standing, desperate to get out. But she can't leave until she finds another job to cover rent, especially when Parsons cuts already unlivable salaries. That's when Nora is forced to lie her way into moonlighting for a rival publisher...and maybe poaching a few authors along the way. But when Nora accidentally falls for Andrew Santos,...
78) Crudo: a novel
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 2017 and Kathy is getting married. Meanwhile, fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever closer to nuclear war.
79) Summertime
Author
Series
Memoir trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Language
English
Description
In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father--a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer.
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