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Library mouse books volume 1
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Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
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How hard can it be to write a fantasy trilogy? When YA author Philip Murdstone's star starts to wane, his agent, the ruthless Minerva Cinch, convinces him that his only hope is to write a sword-and-sorcery blockbuster. Unfortunately, Philip is utterly unsuited to the task. In a dark hour, a dwarfish stranger comes to his rescue. But the deal he makes with Pocket Wellfair turns out to have Faustian consequences.
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a Showtime limited series
“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington...
“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington...
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 25 m.
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His gift is a rare talent; his art celebrates an important American legacy. But it's born from a torment that might make him as dangerous as he is irresistible. Wealthy, beautiful and sophisticated, Cassandra Westbrook collects exquisite art objects with a connoisseur's fine taste and a rich woman's whims. She always dominates an art auction – until a mysterious artist named Thomas Warrior bids against her for a set of Native American ledger drawings....
Author
Series
Chester books volume 3
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
[30] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Chester attempts to write the book after hiding Mélanie's supplies, but she keeps finding problems with his story.
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College Sunrise is a vaguely disreputable finishing school in Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he writes, somewhat falteringly, a novel. Enter seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose novel-in-progress already has publishers interested. The result is a mix of keen envy and a game of cat and mouse not free of sexual jealousy and attraction. Here Muriel Spark displays...
14) Blinding light
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
438 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.
Author
Series
Jane Jeffry mysteries volume 14
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 22 cm.
16) Inkheart
Author
Series
Inkheart trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
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Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Presents a not-quite-finished story featuring sketched characters who are surprised by the reader and who attempt to track down their author in the hope of finding a happy ending.
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After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
454 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Meg, the great-granddaughter of a southwestern frontierswoman, accompanies her grandmother to a family property that is being excavated and makes a discovery that challenges the authenticity of stories about her famous family's history.
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