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1) Less
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle...
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington Post
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World...
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World...
5) The shining
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A child with a precognitive gift sees visions of an evil awaiting his family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carrie settles into the shadow of Slains Castle in Scotland, creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors, and starts to write about the Jacobite invasion of 1708. When she can no longer tell the difference between today and centuries ago, is she dealing with an ancestral memory-- a memory that might destroy her?
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the surface, Henry Hayden seems like someone you could like, or even admire. A famous bestselling author who appears a modest everyman. A loving, devoted husband even though he could have any woman he desires ... But Henry Hayden is a construction, a mask. His past is a secret, his methods more so. No one besides him and his wife know that she is the actual writer of the novels that made him famous. For most of Henry's life, it hasn't been a problem....
10) The bridesmaid
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joanna Kurtz, an Amish woman, longs to be more than a bridesmaid and being a closet writer isn't her only secret when she meets Eben Troyer who hopes to make Joanna his bride, but must wait for his brother to return from the English world in order to leave his families farm in Indiana.
11) Wild orchids
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Devastated by the loss of his wife, author Ford Newcombe is barely able to function until he meets university researcher Jackie Maxwell, a woman who offers both literary inspiration and a chance for new love.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Carrie Slayton is a successful gossip columnist, but her dream is to become a serious journalist. Finnegan Dalton is a notorious recluse whose book about living in the Alaskan wilds skyrocketed to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Recognizing a golden opportunity, Carrie uses a little guile in tracking down Finn's whereabouts in the snowy Alaskan wilderness outside of Fairbanks, only to discover that he truly is as mysterious and withdrawn...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.
Author
Series
Treehouse volume 8
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Andy develops a severe toothache that prevents him from writing new jokes for their book, Terry uses their fantastical treehouse's money-making machine funds to purchase a Joke Writer 2000, with unexpected results.
Author
Series
Treehouse volume 9
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For all the books they have written, Andy is the narrator and Terry is the illustrator, but when Terry tries to narrate too, the story goes out of control and they must evade the Story Police, who want to arrest them for crimes against storytelling.
16) Killing Monica
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In KILLING MONICA Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame, and even the meaning of life itself, when a famous writer must resort to faking her own death in order to get her life back from her most infamous creation--Monica. With her trademark wit and style, KILLING MONICA is Bushnell's sharpest, funniest book to date"--
Author
Series
Bunnicula volume 7
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An overly alarmed Chester the cat predicts a gruesome fate for the pets in the Monroe household when a writer of juvenile horror fiction and his bird companion stay overnight.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera.
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