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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, she grew up listening to stories and loved reading. As a teenager she worked at the Lorain town library and later attended Howard University. As an editor at a New York publisher, she found time early in the morning and late at night after her children were asleep to write. When she looked about over her life and all what she had seen and learned, she knew she wanted to write about her people, Black people. Today and always...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: From award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford comes a captivating picture book biography about the incredible life of esteemed author, editor, and activist Toni Morrison, featuring gorgeous illustrations by debut artist Khalif Tahir Thompson.
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Language
English
Description
Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are going to be. Frances Welty, the formerly best-selling romantic novelist,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The ... author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the ... discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story of her own life"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to...
11) You let me in
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cassandra Tipp is dead...or is she? After all, the notorious recluse and eccentric bestselling novelist has always been prone to flights of fancy-everyone in town remembers the shocking events leading up to Cassie's infamous trial (she may have been acquitted, but the insanity defense only stretches so far). Cassandra Tipp has left behind no body-just her massive fortune, and one final manuscript. Then again, there are enough bodies in her past-her...
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer - themes and characters are repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling novelist Kate Drake is one of seven sisters gifted with amazing powers of witchcraft. Returning home for her northern California town's annual Christmas pageant, Kate decides to open a bookstore in a charming but run-down historic mill. Decorated former U.S. Army Ranger Matt Granite, now a local contractor, doesn't mind working in the undeniably eerie hose -- not if it means getting closer to Kate. But when an earthquake cracks the mill's...
Author
Series
From Manhattan with love volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hopeless romantic Eva Jordan loves everything about Christmas. She might be spending the holidays alone this year, but when she's given an opportunity to house-sit a spectacular penthouse on Fifth Avenue, she leaps at the chance. What better place to celebrate than in snow-kissed Manhattan? What she didn't expect was to find the penthouse still occupied by its gorgeous-and mysterious-owner. Bestselling crime writer Lucas Blade is having the nightmare...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of Crooked Tree. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book's release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cubby, an author, receives triumphant reviews across the board for his book, except from the much-feared, seldom-seen critic Shearman Waxx, who makes vicious, inaccurate remarks in the nation's premier newspaper. Cubby only wants to get a look at the mysterious recluse whose mere opinion can make or break a career or a life. Shearman Waxx isn't what Cubby expects and neither is the escalating terror that follows what seemed to be an innocent encounter....
19) The words
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An aspiring novelist publishes an unsigned manuscript he found in an old satchel he purchased while traveling, but his conscience starts to haunt him when he achieves success.
20) The trap
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this twisted debut thriller, a reclusive author sets the perfect trap for her sister's murderer--but is he really the killer? For 11 years, the bestselling author Linda Conrads has mystified fans by never setting foot outside her home. Haunted by the unsolved murder of her younger sister--who she discovered in a pool of blood--and the face of the man she saw fleeing the scene, Linda's hermit existence helps her cope with debilitating anxiety....
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