Ogawa, Yōko
Summary: "On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses--until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OGAGrisham, John
Summary: "Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRIKleeman, Alexandra
Summary: "East-coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLESantos Donaldson, David
Summary: "A dazzling literary debut novel-within-a-novel, in the vein of The Prophets, about a young author writing about the forbidden love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl--in which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONLiasson, Miranda
Summary: "Gabby Langdon has always tried to make people happy. She even went to law school to please her father, and now she's a highly successful-albeit bored-attorney. But Gabby secretly dreams of being a writer, so for once she does something for herself--she signs up for a writing class taught by best-selling novelist Caden Marshall. There's only one problem: her brooding, sexy professor is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIAEverett, Percival
Summary: Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2001
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Summary: "A retired bestselling author hosts a one-of-a-kind competition, with high risks and high rewards-giving the winner a chance to change lives. Lucy Hart has come a long way since feeling the cold neglect of her parents, whose attention always centered around her chronically ill sister's needs. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide, Lucy is able to share her love of books with bright, young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Group 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAKing, Stephen
Summary: Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He's a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he'll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC KINLippman, Laura
Summary: Injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows. He is utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions. As he moves in and out of dreamlike memories and seemingly random appearances of a persistent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LIPMicciche, K. J.
Summary: Broke up with, broke, and with a vicious case of writer's block, romance writer Gracie Landing is a hot mess. She can hardly be blamed for drinking one (or a few) too many cocktails when out with her besties in an attempt to cheer herself up. Sometime in the foggy wee hours, she recklessly emails her unrequited high-school crush, Colin Yarmouth, who is now a successful attorney harboring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MICBoyne, John
Summary: What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYRidley, Elizabeth
Summary: Dayle Salvesen, a bestselling spy novelist from Wisconsin, arrives in London for a writers' conference only to be told that her best friend and former lover, Celia Frost, has died under mysterious circumstances. Or has she? There's no sign of Celia's body, and Celia's flat contains items suggesting she planned to travel. Dayle joins forces with Celia's ex-girlfriend, Nigerian-British university...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Strokes Books 2015