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6) The truth
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hrs, 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ordinary man at a crossroads in life accepts an offer to travel to India as part of an effort to pen the biography of an elusive but highly influential activist and humanitarian.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
[580] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Hired by a dying tech company tycoon to ghostwrite his memoirs, failed novelist Josh Cohen learns the history of the man's profoundly influential company before being initiated into the high-stakes truth behind the autobiography project.
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
July, 1955. Fellow writer Alastair Endicott has requested Donald Langham's help in discovering what happened to his father Edward, who has disappeared without a trace from inside his locked study. The elder Endicott had been researching a biography of the notorious Satanist Vivien Stafford. Could there be a connection to his disappearance?
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details about Geoffrey...
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jump start her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Tired of covering the grating dysfunction of Washington and the increasingly outrageous antics of President Henry Caine, White House correspondent Sofie Morse quits her job and plans to leave politics behind. But when she gets a call from the office of First Lady Lara Caine, asking Sofie to come in for a private meeting with Lara, her curiosity is piqued. Sofie, like the rest of the world, knows little about Lara?only that Lara was born in Soviet...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"(S0(BTodo el mundo tiene una herida por la que supura un "lo que no", que ningún "lo que sí", por extraordinario que sea, logra suturar(S1(B Luz Acaso quiere que alguien escriba su biografía. Tiene cuarenta años y sufre una depresión que vive en la soledad de su casa. Recurre para ello a Álvaro Abril, un escritor obsesionado con la idea de haber sido adoptado en su infancia que lucha contra el fracaso de sentir que tal vez nunca volverá a...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Struggling comedienne Ruby Bridge confronts the legacy of her mother's abandonment as a secret from the past of Nora Bridge, now a syndicated columnist known for her moral advice, draws the two women together in a reunion that transforms both their lives.
14) Any human heart
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011], ℗2011
Physical Desc
13 audio discs (approximately 16 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The journals of Logan Mountstuart chronicles his eighty-five years of life, from his boyhood in Uruguay to his education at Oxford, his wartime exploits, his career as an art dealer, and his retirement in France.
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 1
Description
"As a new series debuts, a young lawyer races to save his client from execution, putting him at odds with his own father: Thomas Pitt, head of London's Special Police Branch. 1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned parents' influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering...
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