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1) Finding hope
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To escape her small town, her parents crumbling marriage, and her drug-addicted brother, Hope jumps at the chance to attend the exclusive Ravenhurst Academy. But her problems follow her to school, her online boyfriend asks her to pose for some photos that go viral, and Hope falls into a dark place she is not sure she can find her way out of."
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
vii, 243 p. ; 22 cm.
5) Losing it
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Sometimes those who have the most seem bent on throwing it away. Meet Bob Sterling, a comfortable middle-aged professor, a specialist in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, married to a former student with whom he has a young son. In the space of a week his family, marriage, home, career, sanity, and life are brought to the brink of ruin in the aftermath of a trip he makes with a student, the intense young poet Sienna Chu, who brings to life Bob's long-harbored...
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
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vii, 211 p. ; 22 cm.
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
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"When struggling novelist James Hernandez meets poet Louisa “Lou” Bell, hes sure hes just found the love of his life. Theres just one problem: shes engaged to his oldest friend, Rob. So James toasts their union and swallows his desire..."--Amazon.com.
11) The grammarians
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2019.
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"The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret "twin" tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist, devotes herself to preserving the dignity and elegance of...
12) Mrs. Poe
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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318 pages ; 24 cm
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Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 7
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2007
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viii, 258 p. ; 22 cm.
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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After Chirpie the bird escapes from her cage and flies into a tree, a group of poets decides that the best way to entice her down is to create a garden full of seeds, water, hiding places, and materials for building a nest.
16) Invisible
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
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308 p. ; 22 cm.
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Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life.
19) Season of storms
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"In 1921 an infamous Italian poet wrote his last and greatest play, inspired by his muse and mistress. On the eve of opening night she vanished and the play was never performed. Two generations later Alessandro D'Ascanio plans to stage his grandfather's masterpiece and offers the lead to a promising English actress with the same name as the muse. The woman is drawn to the mystery of her namesake's disappearance and to the compelling Alessandro"--Back...
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Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
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555 pages ; 23 cm
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"Cadenza is the City of Words, a city run by poets, its skyline dominated by the steepled towers of its libraries...Carlo Mazzoni, a young wordsmith, arrives at the city gates intent on making his name as the bells ring out with the news of the death of the city's poet-leader. Instead, he finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of a city in turmoil...A war that threatens not only to destroy Cadenza but remove it from history altogether"--
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