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61) Heads you lose
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
300 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Pot-growing siblings Paul and Lacey Hansen must investigate why the headless corpse of Lacey's ex-fiancé turned up on their property, in a metafictional mystery where the authors disagree as to how the story should progress.
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (430 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A famous crime and horror novelist, Rick Castle, helps Kate Beckette of the NYPD homicide department solve crimes. Castle's non-traditional approach to solving the crimes conflicts with Beckett's conservative approach, leading to much tension and a hint of romance.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter of her own life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax's life. In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam, about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions, struggle to balance their changing roles with the demands of college and work, as they both forge...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
A revealing collection of personal letters written by the iconic author to his mother details his early childhood milestones, travels to Africa, Royal Air Force service, work in Washington D.C., literary achievements, and rise in Hollywood.
Roald Dahl penned his first letter to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, when he was just nine years old. The origins of a brilliantly funny, subversive, creative mind were evident in boarding school, and as he entered...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
351 pages : 22 cm.
Description
"East-coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not as he imagined: drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption...
67) Pulp
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A seedy pulp novelist is recruited to ghost write the autobiography of an ex-Hollywood star who is living in exile on Malta to avoid a hitman the mob has sent after him.
68) L. M. Montgomery
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Formats
Description
"Lucy Maud Montgomery lost her mother when she was very young. Left in the care of less-than-encouraging grandparents, she found comfort in reading, writing, and her imagination. When Maud grew up, she wrote about the childhood she wished she had, creating one of the best-loved characters of all time: Anne of Green Gables."--Back cover.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kay Effiel is an author writing her latest novel. Her story revolves about an isolated man named Harold Crick. What she doesn't know is that her fictionalized character is real. Harold is an IRS agent who has lived a dull existence. One day he begins to hear Karen's voice as she narrates what she is putting down on paper. Harold enlists the help of a literary professor to find out what is happening and ends up changing things about his life. He begins...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
viii, 295 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Stunned when her eccentric old friend Tillie Mortelaine dies, leaving her a million dollars in her will, Jessica Fletcher discovers that to get her inheritance she must solve the murder of Tillie's fiancé, Wanamaker Jones.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 282 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
When Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ducked into his classroom at the Iowa Writer's Workshop in September 1965, his jokes drew only weak laughter and a few rolled eyes. But workshop student Loree Rackstraw was quietly impressed by this "great bear of a man" and his down-to-earth sensibilities about writing. That fall, an impossible romance began between the then-unknown author and his student--a brief affair that matured into a joyful, lifelong friendship. Rackstraw...
Author
Series
Murder, She Wrote mysteries volume 34
Murder she wrote mystery volume 34
Murder She Wrote mysteries volume 34
Murder she wrote mystery volume 34
Murder She Wrote mysteries volume 34
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
While trying to enjoy an ocean journey on the Queen Mary II, Jessica Fletcher gets caught up looking for a priceless diamond--and the killer desperate enough to take a life for it.
Author
Appears on list
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Description
Make a wish. . . . Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy found her solace in books, namely the Clock Island series by Jack Masterson. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher’s aide, she is able to share her love of reading with bright, young students, especially seven-year-old Christopher Lamb, who was left orphaned after the tragic death of his...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvi, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Description
"Penelope Fitzgerald was a great English writer-many say the greatest in recent years-whose career didn't begin until she was nearly sixty. Her life moved from a Bishop's Palace to a sinking barge, from a life of teaching and obscurity to a blaze of renown. Her novels are short, spare masterpieces: subtle and intensely evocative. The early works draw on Fitzgerald's own experiences-working at the BBC in wartime; at a failing bookshop in Suffolk; at...
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As bestselling novelist Amelie Ferrar knows, an affair with a married person is like a work of fiction: a kind of spy story with its rules and customs, negotiations and compromises, and many private rituals. But like any spy story, there will inevitably be a betrayal: something will slip, someone else will find out, someone may even die. As Amelie falls deeper into her obsession with the man she loves-and his wife-the line between the fiction she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Jessica Fletcher investigates a friend's murder and a dangerous dating service in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series... Jessica Fletcher takes up the cause of her good friend Barbara "Babs" Wirth after Babs' husband Hal suffers a fatal heart attack that Jessica has reason to believe was actually murder. At the heart of her suspicions lies a sinister dating site Hal had used while he and Babs were having marital issues, a site...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
361 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Description
"After winning her local tennis club tournament, Scarlett Thomas, 41-year-old novelist, decided to dedicate a year of her life to tennis. At 12, Scarlett discovered her father was not the punk photographer who'd brought her up, but was in fact the man she previously knew as her godfather. At 14, she was sent to Mexico to connect with her terrifying grandmother. She was sent to a conservative boarding school in the middle of nowhere, her only link...
80) The plot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written - let alone published - anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast...
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