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In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
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2022.
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Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best...
8) Verity
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Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get started. Lowen uncovers an unfinished...
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Hamilton series (Catherine Cookson) volume 2
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
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383 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Olivia Donatelli's dream of a "normal" life shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. And just as she began to realize that happiness and autism could coexist, Anthony died. Now Olivia is alone in a cottage on Nantucket, desperate to understand the meaning of her son's short life, when a chance encounter with another woman facing her own loss brings Anthony alive again for Olivia in a most unexpected way.
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A desperate search for income leads writer Francesca to Chicky, a spunky, red-haired octogenarian who wants Francesca to write the memoirs of her parents, Joe and Ellie, who toured the vaudeville circuit in the early 1920s. Francesca is reluctant to take the job, but Chicky's tales soon lure her into a showbiz era as irresistible and unlikely as the love story that unfolds.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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213 pages ; 24 cm
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A struggling writer with terrible taste in men searches for acceptance, identity, and financial security in Trump-era Florida and New York while observing the dysfunctional romantic pursuits of other women in her life.
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Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
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367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Bainbridge Island is a mystical place where violets bloom out of season and the air is salt drenched. Heartbroken Emily, recovering from a broken marriage, stumbles upon a diary dated to 1943 and steps into the life of its anonymous author.
19) Crudo: a novel
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W.W. Norton & Company
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2018.
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141 pages ; 22 cm
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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.
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Ballantine Books
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c2011
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340 p. ; 25 cm.
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After a personal tragedy, writer Ava spends the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee at the invitation of an old friend and his aunts. But Woodburn Hall is anything but quiet: ancient feuds and modern-day rivalries emerge as Ava stumbles onto the darker side of the family's history, and becomes tangled in their secrets.
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