Micciche, 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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Summary: The once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is down on her luck. Her most recent novel, a retelling of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, was a flop, her boyfriend of nine years just dumped her and she's battling a bad case of writer's block. So when her agent calls her with a high-paying ghostwriting opportunity, Olivia is all too willing to sign the NDA. At first, the write-for-hire job seems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CANMoore, Meg Mitchell
Summary: The son of an über-famous thriller writer, Anthony Puckett's debut novel spent two years on the bestseller list and won the adoration of critics. His second work bombed. Now Anthony is borrowing an old college friend's crumbling beach house on Block Island in the hopes that solitude will help him get back to the person he used to be. Joy Sousa, divorced with a daughter, built a life for them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Luxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOOArmas, Elena
Summary: "Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn't told her family and now has terrible writer's block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina's spare key while she's out of town. But Rosie doesn't know that Lina has already lent her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria paperback 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARMBolling, Valerie
Summary: "This upbeat picture book--a companion to Ride, Roll, Run: Time for Fun!--follows the nine children from the first book as they help plan a big, musical block party. Author and educator Valerie Bolling's rhyming text makes for a rollicking read-aloud and features instruments from all around the world including the agogô, banjo, daegeum, djembe drums, double bass, erhu, maracas, piano, steel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOLSummary: Young architects learn about spatial reasoning and building in three dimensions as they construct one realistic house after another! Children just follow the prompts on our activity cards—slotting together plastic walls, floors and roofs to create 10 different houses even professionals would be proud of. With every house they complete, kids develop essential STEM skills and spatial awareness....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lakeshore
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Summary: In the block area at school children can be anything and build anything using their imaginations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Niki Alling 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E AllFisher, Edwin L. (Edwin Lewis)
Summary: William Fisher (ca. 1795-1823) arrived in America during the War of 1812 and did not return to England. He and Betsy Burnett were married in Salem, Massachusetts and their first son, John Edward Fisher was born in 1818. Their son, David, emigrated to Canada. Other descendants lived in Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and elsewhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [E.L. Fisher] 1980
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 FISHER FisherKafka, Francis J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761.3 KAFKate, Lauren
Summary: "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate comes an enemies-to-lovers romance about an editor, her bestselling author, and one life-changing secret. What she doesn't know about love could fill a book. With a successful career as a romance editor, and an engagement to a man who checks off all ninety-nine boxes on her carefully curated list, Lanie's more than good. She's killing it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KATSummary: Charlie and Lola see that playing together is more fun than getting their own way. In these six wonderful stories, Charlie and Lola use their creativity and imaginations to make sense of the world around them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. 2007
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CHACameron, Julia.
Summary: Outlines a twelve-week program for overcoming a creative block or otherwise working through dry periods in an artist's life, in a guide that covers such topics as staying focused, starting new projects, and finding inspiration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 CAMDay, Jamie
Summary: "This summer, meet your neighbors. The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of the annual Summer block party, there has been a murder. But, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier, as rivalries and betrayals unfold-discovering that the real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAYKing, Stephen
Summary: On falling in love with a woman half his age, novelist Michael Noonan of Maine is drawn into a custody battle for the woman's daughter. The father-in-law, a nasty millionaire, is trying to take the girl away and to complicate matters malevolent spirits are at work. Part love, part ghost story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KINBryant, Elise (Elise M.)
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady is in her own writing--in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRYHoward, Emily Louise
Summary: "How to techniques from intermediate to advanced for lino-block printers, with a gallery of work and profiles of many contemporary printers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: You will learn the art and techniques of creating and producing your very own block prints. This clear and informative program addresses the various aspects of block printing, including: materials, producing one-color prints, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: On Air Video Inc. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761 ARTAttenberg, Jami
Summary: "In 2018, novelist Jami Attenberg, faced with a looming deadline, needed motivation. Using a boot camp model, she and a friend set out to write one thousand words every day for two weeks. They opened this practice to Attenberg's online community, and soon hundreds--then thousands--of people started using #1000WordsofSummer to track their work and support one another. What began as a simple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 ATTBlake, Ashley Herring
Summary: "Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she's happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn't want any of that-dating, love, romance. She'll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. Everyone wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023
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Summary: "A linocut is a relief print created by carving a design into a printing block. It is the uncut surface, not the carved away areas, that gives you your image when you roll it with ink, lay paper on top then apply pressure to produce a print. With 18 easy-to-follow projects that can be adapted to suit your own ideas, experienced printmaker Sam Marshall guides you through the whole process - from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Herbert Press, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2023
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Summary: "Rosie is a good writer, so how come she can't come up with a single good story idea when her friend Wolfie has a million ideas? Rosie knows all the elements needed for a good story, but she wants her story for a class assignment to be GREAT--and that means giving it a surprise twist. Then Wolfie himself unwittingly inspires the perfect idea for the twist Rosie's been looking for. But will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MYERowan, Roy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1661 ROWCabot, Meg
Summary: Jo Wright always swore she'd never step foot on Little Bridge Island, not as long as her nemesis, bestselling author Will Price, is living there. Then Jo's given an offer she can't refuse: an all-expense paid trip to speak and sign at the island's first ever book festival. Even though arrogant Will is the last person Jo wants to see, she could really use the festival's more-than-generous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co 2021