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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny. All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of...
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Miss Mariah Aubrey, banished after a scandal, hides herself away in a long-abandoned gatehouse on the far edge of a distant relative's estate. There, she supports herself and her loyal servant the only way she knows how--by writing novels in secret. Captain Matthew Bryant, returning to England successful and wealthy after the Napoleonic wars, leases an impressive estate from a cash-poor nobleman, determined to show the society beauty who once rejected...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
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English
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Tells the story of Ruth Cole, looking in on three stages of her life, the first in the summer of 1958 when she is four and her parents are estranged; next in the fall of 1990 when Ruth, unmarried, has a thriving literary career but no personal success; and finally in the autumn of 1995 when she falls in love for the first time.
5) 1Q84
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.
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English
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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...
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English
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Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one woman's unbreakable spirit.
From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison watches the guests arrive at her parents' lavish Manhattan townhouse. At seven, she knows she is an intruder in her parents' party, in her parents'...
From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison watches the guests arrive at her parents' lavish Manhattan townhouse. At seven, she knows she is an intruder in her parents' party, in her parents'...
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English
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Freelance writer Jaine Austen's life is suddenly full of romance. For one thing, she's reconnected with her ex—though her cat, Prozac, isn't happy about it. And Jaine's also got a new ghostwriting gig, working on a steamy novel called Fifty Shades of Turquoise . . .
Daisy Kincaid is in her sixties and heiress to a fortune. Now she wants to make a name for herself as a romance author . ....
Daisy Kincaid is in her sixties and heiress to a fortune. Now she wants to make a name for herself as a romance author . ....
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Home to Hickory Hollow volume 2
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Twenty-four-year-old Amish woman Joanna Kurtz holds two secrets--she wants to be a published writer, and she longs to be married to an Amish man who lives two states away.
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English
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"Authors Elizabeth Black and Fletcher Walker go head-to-head as rival writers of Victorian Penny Dreadfuls. As an upper class schoolteacher, Elizabeth must write under the pseudonym "Mr. King" in order to keep her identity a secret, while former street urchin Fletcher is determined to uncover the truth behind this up-and-coming new talent. But the more time they spend together, the more she loses her heart to him. It's author against author where...
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English
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Hoping to further her dream of becoming a serious journalist by tracking down a reclusive best-selling writer in the Alaskan wilds, gossip columnist Carrie Slayton discovers that her subject, Finn, is as mysterious as his reputation suggests before facing a difficult choice between her career and her heart.
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Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Political campaign expert Kristen Shepherd excels at staying cool under pressure, but this time she's in over her head. After leaving her high-profile fiancé at the altar, she uncovers the shocking truth about the man she nearly married--truth that could ruin her life. With the press on her tail, the only person she can trust is Ryan Jameson, her political opponent and former boyfriend. Army doctor and LDS convert Brandon Shepherd shares his sister...
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Heartbreaker Bay novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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(A standalone Heartbreaker Bay novel)
Meet cute...
Run for the hills—temporarily. That's Colbie Albright's plan when she flees New York for San Francisco. Wrangling her crazy family by day and writing a bestselling YA fantasy series by night has taken its toll. In short, Colbie's so over it that she's under it. She's also under the waters of a historic San Francisco fountain within an hour of arrival. Fortunately,
...15) Lost
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Publisher
HarperAudio
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Unabridged
Language
English
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Winifred Rudge travels to London to jump-start her new novel, but instead she finds herself investigating the disappearance of her stepcousin, whose apartment seems to have been taken over by a hostile spirit.
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Series
Janie Johnson volume 5
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnapper's tale.
17) Death by tiara
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English
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The author of Killing Cupid "again provides fans of this splendidly witty mystery series another comical romp" (Fresh Fiction).
For freelance writer Jaine Austen, working behind the scenes at a teen beauty pageant has shown her that sometimes beauty is in the eye of the murderer . . .
Teen contestant Taylor Van Sant has a talent for singing, but she can't write a song. So her über-pushy stage...
For freelance writer Jaine Austen, working behind the scenes at a teen beauty pageant has shown her that sometimes beauty is in the eye of the murderer . . .
Teen contestant Taylor Van Sant has a talent for singing, but she can't write a song. So her über-pushy stage...
18) Beach read
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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While attending a month-long writing retreat at the estate of a feminist horror writer who issues a life-changing challenge, Alex, determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, ignores the strange happenings around her until the disappearance of afellow writer leads her on a desperate search for the truth.
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Hollows novels (Lisa Unger) volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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A man searching for the mother who disappeared decades earlier, a high-strung teenager, a psychic who predicts a man's death, and a disgraced former chief of police find their lives converging in ways that invoke formidable personal costs.
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