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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write...
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"1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned detective father's influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering his wife, Daniel is dispatched by his superior to find the real killer before Graves faces the hangman's noose--in only twenty-one days. Could the violent death have...
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English
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When Nora Bridge left her husband and her two daughters 10 years ago, she took the only route she could see, and assumed she still had her daughters' love. Now, though she is distant from her own daughters, Nora is the hostess of a radio advice show, where she advises listeners that "family comes first." When a scandal breaks and Nora hits rock bottom, she finds she has to rely on the two people she has betrayed most deeply: her daughters, Ruby and...
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Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation), feels the “buts” are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married. Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine Morrissey, leads to a shot at literary success. The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtime—and nestled inside it is the sad story of her death. It captures the attention of her mother’s...
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Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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For more then a hundred years, creative souls have traveled to the Bosco estate to live and work under its captivating spell. Novelist Ellis Brooks is writing a book based on the dark events that took place during the summer of 1893. All she knows is that the wealthy Milo Latham brought in a psychic medium to help his wife contact their dead children- only to have the seance turn deadly, and his remaining child abducted. As Ellis uncovers the Latham...
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Pub. Date
1994
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English
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A writer discovers a secret that throws her family and their small southern town into turmoil Raised in the waning days of the Jim Crow South, Grace Truscott has a unique perspective on race. Her father was a senator from Georgia whose liberalism sparked controversy during the civil rights movement, and who after his death becomes a hero in their small hometown. When she begins writing his biography, no one in her family expects anything surprising...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
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580 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world's most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. The mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of the Internet by revolutionizing the search engine before venturing into smartphones, computers, and the surveillance of American citizens. Principal takes Josh on...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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325 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Our American Friend is a propulsive Cold War era spy thriller crossed with a fictional biography of a First Lady. Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, traveling from Moscow and Paris to Washington and New York, Anna Pitoniak's novel is a gripping page-turner about power and complicity and how sometimes, the fate of the world is in the hands of the people you'd never expect" --
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Pub. Date
2004
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1st ed.
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280 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason is the debut novel in a hip, sexy, smart and, yes, cozy mystery series with a great hook. Think Sex and the City collides with Murder, She Wrote. All that writer Cece Caruso really wants to do is complete her biography of mystery legend Erle Stanley Gardner, find a vintage 1970's Ossie Clark gown to add to her collection, and fix the doorknob on her picturesque West Hollywood bungalow. Then a chance visit with a prison...
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Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Pocket Books paperback ed.
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ix, 415 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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Critically acclaimed author Gwyn Cready leaves readers on the edge of their seats in a provocative time travel romance A door to the past Ambitious art historian Campbell Stratford is about to make a name for herself with her scandalously sexy biographies of famous seventeenth-century artists. Suddenly she is catapulted back in time and comes face-to-face with one of her subjects: bad-boy painter Peter Lely, portraitist to the king. Creates chaos...
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Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
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294 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Cece Caruso meets a fascinating collector of early Nancy Drew books who offers his vacation house when she attends a wacky Nancy Drew fan convention, but, amid the fun, Cece discovers her patron dead, and now she has to unmask a very sly killer.
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Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
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viii, 324 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Amateur sleuth Cece Caruso is back in another vintage mystery. Cece is thrilled that her biography of Dashiell Hammett is headed for the big screen, and she's getting paid to tutor the gorgeous actor cast as the lead. Too bad he might also be a killer.
14) The accidental
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Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
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305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A story of a family unraveled by a mysterious visitor.
16) Larger than life
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Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Mass market ed.
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271 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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"What make Saber Duncan sing with such passion? Her sensual voice moves women to tears and makes men want to go out and slay dragons to get close to her. Yet a few years ago this budding superstar was just another lightweight pop diva. So what changed? As her would-be biographer Travis Foxx embarks on a quest to uncover the painful secret in Saber's past, a mutual attraction intensifies. But he finds himself blocked at every turn by the walls she...
18) Necrópolis
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Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1a. ed.
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455 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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Un escritor es invitado a un congreso de biógrafos en la ciudad de Jerusalén, metáfora de una urbe sitiada por la guerra, a punto de sucumbir. La narración de las vidas de los participantes al congreso sorprende al protagonista. Tal es el caso del librero y biógrafo francés Edgar Miret Supervielle, de la actriz porno italiana Sabina Vedovelli, del empresario colombiano Moisés Kaplan y, sobre todo, de José Maturana, un ex pastor evangélico,...
19) Necr©đpolis
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Un escritor es invitado a un congreso de bi©đgrafos en la ciudad de Jerusal©♭n, met©Łfora de una urbe sitiada por la guerra, a punto de sucumbir. La narraci©đn de las vidas de los participantes al congreso sorprende al protagonista. Tal es el caso del librero y bi©đgrafo franc©♭s Edgar Miret Supervielle, de la actriz porno italiana Sabina Vedovelli, del empresario colombiano Mois©♭s Kaplan y, sobre todo, de Jos©♭ Maturana, un...