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"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sancctuary for their true narratives."--...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in life's little limbos, those in-between spaces where you're no longer who you were and not yet the person you will be. About her debut, Out of Love, Hazel Hayes said, "The journey from writing horror to writing love stories was a short one. There is nothing more horrific than love." In her new novel, she sets out to prove it. This genre-defying, meta-modern...
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English
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"Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her "honorary grandson" Jack. It's a convenient arrangement given the Medlar Three, as they've become known, are often working closely together to solve mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. But when real estate agent Kate announces she's been given the listing for the town's storied Lachlan House, it sets off alarm bells for Sara...
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Pimpernel Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"This new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill’s classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world’s bestselling author. Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant most to Agatha Christie, including her childhood home, Ashfield, in Torquay; Winterbrook in Oxfordshire, and, above all, Greenway, soaring above the River Dart and Agatha’s favorite home from 1938 to the end of her life in 1976...
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Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Escaping her producer husband after he succumbs to increasing pressure from the Nazis to make propaganda movies, novelist Niki Rittenhaus, when her husband directs Hitler's Brownshirts to kidnap their daughter, returns to war-torn Berlin determined to claim freedom for herself and her child-and write her own story at last."--
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Signet
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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Jessica Fletcher accepts an invitation from her friend Inspector George Sutherland to visit his reportedly haunted family castle in Scotland where she encounters a murderous mystery she believes is firmly grounded in the real world.
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HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives"--
"Alma...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
20240521
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English
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When reclusive, mysterious author Ginerva Ex takes her on a lavish trip on the newly renovated Orient Express, for helping craft her latest thriller, Rory discovers Ginerva has masterminded the ultimate real-life twisty plot with Rory as her main character, and as lies, deceptions and betrayals pile up, so do the bodies.
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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This inspiring true story of the Pulitzer Prize- and Nobel Prize-winning author shows how she went from being the only Black child in her first-grade classroom — and the only student who could read — to becoming one of the greatest writers in modern history.
