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Publication Date
2025
Language
English
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"Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen...
2) Yellowface
Author
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Description
What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year...
Author
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Allende can spin a yarn with the grace of a poet."—Entertainment Weekly
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH A NEW DEAR READER LETTER
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and The House of the Spirits, an enthralling and suspenseful coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who must unravel the mysteries of her past in order to save herself.
Nineteen-year-old
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; cm
Language
English
Description
Trisha wants to write something that will please her demanding writing teacher, who is rumored to have never given a student an A.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2015
Physical Desc
xiii, 300 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"The second holiday love story in...Richard Paul Evans' Mistletoe Collection."-- Provided by publisher.
Kimberly Rossetti has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. With two failed engagements, a divorce and again alone with no prospects, she hardly seems the type to dream of being a published romance author. She signs up for The Mistletoe Retreat, a nine-day writing retreat in Savannah, Georgia. Famed romance writer, H.T. Cowell,...
Author
Publication Date
2026
Language
English
Description
"Ciara Sheridan's father has left her with three things: a sprawling and distinctly ramshackle estate on the Irish coast, the outline for the finale to his bestselling epic fantasy series that he wanted her to finish -- and writer's block. Enter Sam Avery: Frank Sheridan fanboy and hotshot editor, sent from the New York publishing house direct to Ciara's doorstep -- red pen ready. At first, Ciara and Sam butt heads with crackling energy. But with...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
c2001
Physical Desc
196 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor.
10) Outline: #1
Author
Publisher
Picador Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And...
11) Fangirl
Author
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Feeling cast off when her best friend outgrows their shared love for a favorite celebrity, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words and worrying about her fragile father.
Author
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"With Old Town's DIY Home Decorating Festival in full swing, Sophie's swamped, juggling a bumper crop of artisans, antique dealers, and decorators for the busy street fair. Still, when her best friend Nina suddenly needs a ride from the airport, Sophie is happy to help ... until she sees Nina disembarking in a state of disarray. It's obvious the trip to Portugal soured somewhere along the way. But after one of Nina's traveling companions turns up...
Author
Publication Date
2026.
Language
English
Description
"Desperate to save the children's programs at her library, Martha Aldridge strikes a deal with her now wealthy childhood crush, Julien King, who needs her expertise to resurrect his family's children's imprint to prove himself to his father. As they're forced to work together, attraction ignites, and they realize their jobs are not the only thing on the line"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this mystery story that features interactive puzzles, activities, games, and choose-your-own-adventure scenarios, the reader is led through the steps of writing a book.
17) Broken
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
18) Mr. Fox
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Publication Date
2011
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-four-year-old bookseller and Manhattanite Naomi Ackerman is determined to write a novel-to prove the believers right and the disbelievers wrong (though she finds herself falling into both camps, depending on the day). When, after years of disastrous Tinder dates, she meets Caleb-a perfectly nice guy with a Welsh accent, a non-pretentious job, and a unique patience for all of her quirks-she feels she's finally found something to write about:...