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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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"What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut...
47) Wit's end
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
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324 p. ; 22 cm.
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What happens when readers steal your characters? Rima Lanisell is about to find out when she visits her estranged godmother, Addison Early, the successful mystery writer of the Maxwell Lane mysteries, and discovers the truth behind Addison's novels.
48) Love is a canoe
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Famous for his fifty-year-old self-help book on love and relationships, Peter engages in a passionless relationship after the death of his wife and questions the validity of his advice when an ambitious young editor launches a contest for struggling couples based on his book.
49) Tumbledown Manor
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"The windows rattle. The roof leaks. Every surface cries out to be stripped, painted, or polished. But for writer Lisa Trumperton, the dilapidated manor house that once belonged to her great-grandfather is far more than the sum of its battered parts. It's the chance for a new start on her own terms. The fact that it's in the Melbourne countryside of her Australian homeland, far from the deceitful ex-husband she just left behind in New York...well,...
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Novel Idea mysteries volume 1
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
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350 p.
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Accepting an internship at A Novel Idea, a literary agency in Inspiration Valley, North Carolina, Lila, while dealing with her quirky new co-workers and a stack of query letters, stumbles upon a murder mystery involving a penniless aspiring author.
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W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2005
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252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
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Critically acclaimed and award-winning, but hardly bestselling-author Georgina Jackson can't get past the first chapter of her second book. When she receives an urgent email from her agent, Georgina is certain it's bad news. Shockingly, she's offered a commission to complete a newly discovered manuscript by a major nineteenth-century author. Skeptical at first about her ability to complete the manuscript, Georgina is horrified to know that the author...
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
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275 p. ; 23 cm.
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Struggling through his dyslexia to try to fulfill his girlfriend Fiorella's request for a letter revealing his secret self, eighteen-year-old Karl asks Fiorella's favorite author for help, and he agrees only if Karl will submit to a series of interviews,which prove helpful to both men.
56) Or what you will
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Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
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320 pages ; 22 cm
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A fictional hero who has assumed the roles of gods, warriors, scholars, and lovers in award-winning novels discovers that his author is dying and orchestrates a daring plan to catapult writer and character into immortality.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[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.
59) Mrs. God
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"Esswood House. Home and estate of the Seneschal family, aristocratic patrons of the literary arts for well over a hundred years...There was always talk of a hidden secret in Esswood's past-and the Seneschal children were often so pale and sickly-but don't all English manor houses have a few ghost stories to call their own?" -- from cover.
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