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Language
English
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Brought together by a mass shooting at a Texas county fair, children's book author and single mother Elle Portman and high-rolling corporate consultant Calder Hudson, both fueled by revenge, search for a killer while wondering if the attraction growing between them is too painful and complicated to sustain.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work, but as emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers how far she'll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Brought together by a mass shooting at a Texas county fair, children's book author and single mother Elle Portman and high-rolling corporate consultant Calder Hudson, both fueled by revenge, search for a killer while wondering if the attraction growing between them is too painful and complicated to sustain.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For all the books they have written, Andy is the narrator and Terry is the illustrator, but when Terry tries to narrate too, the story goes out of control and they must evade the Story Police, who want to arrest them for crimes against storytelling.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A popular author in 1932 is commissioned to write a history of food in England to lift the spirits of the country during the Great Depression and finds herself interviewing housewives for hidden culinary gems.
Author
Series
Treehouse volume 5
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
1 volume.
Language
English
Description
Andy and Terry travel through time trying to save their treehouse from highly talented, angry ants and Inspector Bubblewrap the building inspector while rushing to meet their publisher's deadline.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
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 is the 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...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ascendant novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Patrick is older than J.B., formerly her professor, now a film director and cult figure. But now his success is starting to wane and J.B. is on the cusp of winning a major literary prize. Her art has been forever overseen by him; now it may overshadow his. For days they sail in the sun, nothing but dark water all around them. Then a...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him--to save him....
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bernie is a talented young photographer who has quit taking photographs in favor of drinking and drifting around Philadelphia. Leah is ambitious yet flailing grad student and journalist who must know the answer to every question. When Bernie replies to Leah's ad for a new housemate, they tentatively begin the kind of uncategorizable, queer relationship that can only flourish between two people who deeply understand each others' dreams and dissatisfactions....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace.
The translators, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble With You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Sister Seven Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her cousin Mimi who is determined to keep her a "nice girl" -...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First mass market edition.
Physical Desc
412 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shy and sensible romance writer Jane Harding's carefully ordered life is crumbling around her. With her latest novel due and her teaching contract at an end, returning home to help plan her best friend's wedding is a welcome distraction. Yet when Jane discovers that the too-hot-to-handle boy who once tempted her is now the best man -- and the rodeo circuit's sexiest bull rider -- her distraction is in danger of becoming a disaster . . .Toby Garrett...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A ghostwriter and a struggling actor help each other on the page and in the bedroom in this steamy romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk. Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in "ghostwriter" until she attends a signing for a book she wrote-and the author doesn't even recognize her. The evening turns more promising when she meets a charming man at the bar and immediately connects with him. But when...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six and Almost Famous, a gripping debut about the complicated legacy of a legendary rock band and the ghostwriter telling their story Three Rock & Roll icons. Two explosive tell-all memoirs. One ghostwriter caught in the middle. Mari Hawthorn has just landed the biggest job of her ghostwriting career. Anke Berben, the legendary model and style icon, needs someone for her hotly anticipated memoir. In the 1960s,...
Author
Series
The vacation mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. "Quick, captivating, and oh-so-much-fun! This delicious mystery is as spellbinding as Knives Out."--Elle Cosimano, New York Times bestselling author of the Finlay Donovan series. All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is to get through her book tour in Italy and kill off her main character, Connor Smith, in the next in her Vacation Mysteries series--is...
19) Blank: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious debut novel, a frustrated writer faces a five-day deadline to finish the book she had to scrap after realizing it shared the same plot as a summer blockbuster from a superstar author.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him--to save him....