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Authors, American Authors, American 19th century Fiction Female friendship Fiction Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) History 20th century Fiction Large type books Marion, Frances 1888-1973 Fiction Motion picture actors and actresses United States Fiction Pickford, Mary 1892-1979 Fiction United States Women screenwriters United States FictionParmar, Priya
Summary: "For fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank comes a captivating novel that offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf, and the controversial and popular circle of intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group. London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian are leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARO'Shaughnessy, Kathy
Summary: "Who was the real George Eliot? Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society, and women rarely deign to visit her. In secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym George Eliot. As Adam Bede's fame grows, curiosity rises as to the identity of its mysterious writer. Gradually it becomes apparent that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OSHRowland, Laura Joh.
Summary: After the death of her siblings, Charlotte has few people she can trust, and feels more alone than ever. While visiting London, Charlotte goes on a tour of Bedlam, where she is sure she recognizes a struggling Mr. Slade, her long-missing ex-lover, strapped to one of the stretchers. Of course, she starts digging, and soon finds herself trying to reveal a secret that high-powered men would, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWO'Nan, Stewart
Summary: "A "rich, sometimes heartbreaking" (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December 1940, he would be dead of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONATruong, Monique T. D.
Summary: Three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRURobuck, Erika.
Summary: A non-traditional 19th century artist, Sophia, falls in love with a talented writer, Nathaniel, and the pair begin a life together that spans continents, child-rearing and competing creative impulses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: "A novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENKilpack, Josi S.
Summary: When Harriet Beecher marries Calvin Stowe on January 6, 1836, she is sure her future will be filled romance, eventually a family, and continued opportunities to develop as a writer. Her husband Calvin is completely supportive and said she must be a literary woman. Harriet's sister, Catharine, worries she will lose her identity in marriage, but she is determined to preserve her independent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KILBeauregard, Mark
Summary: "In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end. In despair, Melville takes his family for a vacation to his cousin's farm in the Berkshires, where he meets Nathaniel Hawthorne at a picnic--and his life turns upside down"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEAEllis, Bella
Summary: Before they became legendary writers, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë were "lady detectors" in this charming historical mystery. Not yet published novelists, they have well-honed imaginations and are expert readers. And, as Charlotte remarks, "detecting is reading between the lines--it's seeing what is not there."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLJones, John Isaac
Summary: "John Isaac Jones' new biographical novel of Edgar Allan Poe brings the turbulence of America's most famous poet to life in vivid, captivating detail."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends, screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BENBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife. It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENBaker, Jo
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a stunning new novel that follows an unnamed writer--Samuel Beckett--whose life and extraordinary literary gift are permanently shaped in the forge of war. When war breaks out in Europe in 1939, a young, unknown writer journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom. With him we experience the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Canada 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Baker 2016Wood, Naomi.
Summary: Based upon actual love letters and telegrams, describes fictionalized accounts of the lives and thoughts of each of Ernest Hemingway's four wives, describing what it was like to be loved by the adventurous novelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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Price, Steven
Summary: Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price’s Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, as he struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard. In 1955, Tomasi was diagnosed with advanced emphysema; shortly after, he began work on a novel that would fail to be published before his death four...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRIStridsberg, Sara
Summary: "In April 1988, Valerie Solanas--the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol--was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRCallahan, Patti
Summary: Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. the younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn't have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a brand-new book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find out where Narnia came from, there's no way she can refuse. Megs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALYi, Chi-min
Summary: American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job--what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YIKilpack, Josi S
Summary: When Harriet Beecher marries Calvin Stowe on January 6, 1836, she is sure her future will be filled romance, eventually a family, and continued opportunities to develop as a writer. Her husband Calvin is completely supportive and said she must be a literary woman. Harriet's sister, Catharine, worries she will lose her identity in marriage, but she is determined to preserve her independent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2017
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Summary: "London, 1814: Mary Godwin and her stepsister Jane Clairmont, both sixteen, possess quick minds bolstered by an unconventional upbringing, and have little regard for the rules that other young ladies follow. Mary, whose mother famously advocated for women's rights, rejects the two paths that seem open to her-that of an assistant in her father's bookshop, or an ordinary wife. Though quieter and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBeauregard, Mark.
Summary: "A rich and captivating novel set amid the witty, high-spirited literary society of 1850s New England, offering a new window on Herman Melville's emotionally charged relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne and how it transformed his masterpiece, Moby-Dick In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end--his last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAGroff, Lauren
Summary: Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021