McDermid, Val
Summary: "It's April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot-the streets all but empty, an hour's outdoor exercise the maximum allowed-but a mere pandemic doesn't mean crime takes a holiday. When a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie's team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it's game...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDOgawa, 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 OGAFletcher, Jessica
Summary: Sleuth Jessica Fletcher investigates a series of "accidents" that befall figure skating hopeful Christine Allen and her pairs partner and coach, after one of the trio is found dead at the arena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLEHoover, Colleen.
Summary: "Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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4 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOFletcher, Jessica
Summary: "Jessica Fletcher's favorite gin rummy partner, Mimi Van Dorn, checks into the brand-new Clifton Care Partners, a private hospital that's just opened up shop in town, for a simple procedure--one that leads tragically, and inexplicably, to her death. Seeking justice in her inimitable fashion, Jessica decides to pursue her own investigation on the hospital and its shadowy business dealings. On...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLEGrisham, 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 GRIFletcher, Jessica
Summary: "Jessica Fletcher investigates a mysterious manuscript with deadly consequences in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series Jessica Fletcher has had plenty to worry about over her storied career, both as a bestselling novelist and amateur sleuth. But she never had any reason to worry about her longtime publisher, Lane Barfield, who also happens to be a trusted friend. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLEKleeman, 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 KLELupica, Mike
Summary: Melanie Joan Hall is back in Boston, riding high, refusing to have Sunny and Rosie move out. She has a Netflix series about to start shooting in Boston, based on her wildly popular new series of books for girls. Then it turns out that most of her fortune is gone. And her manager, who was in charge of the money, turns up dead. He's been with her a long time. When Sunny begins to investigate, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LUPBarron, Stephanie.
Summary: "The twelfth installment in Stephanie Barron's fan-favorite Being a Jane Austen Mystery series. Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBarron, Stephanie
Summary: "May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript-about a baronet's daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain-cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of the curative waters at Cheltenham Spa,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARDickens, Charles
Summary: Charles Dickens' 1850 classic epic, David Copperfield, unfolds the story of David, an optimistic and hard-working lad who's orphaned in his youth. Raised initially by his brutal stepfather, who halts David's schooling and sends him to work in a factory, David eventually finds a home with his eccentric, but kind aunt, Betsey. Later in life, David trains for a career in law, but eventually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DICBlackstock, Terri
Summary: A famous mystery writer has just moved to Cape Refuge when a teenage girl is found murdered. Sheila Caruso–ex-con, mother to Sadie and Caleb, and resident of Hanover House–is working for the writer when she discovers that a scene in one of his novels matches the crime scene. When Police Chief Cade and Blair Owens discover a second dead teenager–mirroring a murder in another of the eccentric...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACzuchlewski, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CZULipstein, Andrew
Summary: "Caleb Horowitz is twenty-seven, and his wildest dreams are about to come true. His manuscript has caught the attention of the literary agent, who offers him fame, fortune, and a taste of the literary life. He can't wait for his book to be shopped around to every editor in New York, except one: Avi Dietsch, a college rival and the novel's "inspiration." When Avi gets his hands on it, he sees...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIPBarron, Stephanie.
Summary: On the heels of completing "Sense and Sensibility," Jane Austen heads to Sloane Street for a monthlong visit with her brother Henry and his wife, Eliza. Hobnobbing with the fashionable at the height of the Season, Jane is well aware of their secrets and peccadilloes. But even she is surprised when the intimate correspondence between a Russian princess and a prominent Tory ex-minister is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBoyne, John
Summary: Aspiring writer Maurice Swift, whose desire for fame exceeds his talent, uses a chance meeting with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann in a West Berlin hotel in 1988 to obtain secrets about Ackermann's wartime activities, which becomes material for his first novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYPatrick, Phaedra
Summary: Landing her personal hero and mega-best-selling author Essie Starling as a client, housecleaner Liv Green forms an unlikely friendship with this infamous recluse, but when Essie suddenly dies, leaving her an astonishing last wish, Liv discovers a connection between them that changes Liv's own life story forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction PhaedraMallery, Susan
Summary: "Wedding coordinator Renee Grothen isn't meant for marriage. Those who can, do. Those who can't, plan. But she never could have planned on gorgeous, talented thriller writer Jasper Dembenski proposing - a fling, that is. Fun without a future. And the attraction between them is too strong for Renee to resist. Now she can have her no-wedding cake ... and eat it, too. After years in the military,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALSimmons, Dan
Summary: After sabotaging his own career and marriage with an obsessive love affair Dale Stewart returns to his boyhood home to work on a novel, but soon after he moves into an abandoned farmhouse where his childhood friend died, he begins to feel he is not alone in the house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMYttrup, Ginny L.
Summary: With a looming deadline, novelist Melanie Vander escapes to an inspiring locale. She's not running away. Really. Melanie's husband, Craig, is facing a recession that's threatening his home and business. As Melanie escapes into her fictional world, Craig dives into his struggles, seeking God for strength and healing for his marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC YTTLiasson, 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 LIASantos 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 DONPatrick, Phaedra
Summary: "Liv Green barely scrapes by to make ends meet, often finding escape in a good book. She can't believe her luck when she lands a job housekeeping for her hero, bestselling author Essie Starling. The last thing Liv expected was to be the only person Essie talks to, which leads to a tenuous friendship. When Essie passes away suddenly, Liv is astonished to learn that her dying wish was for Liv to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022