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1) End of story
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Ivy Seidel's dream of becoming a great American novelist seem to be fading as she runs low on money and takes a job teaching creative writing to prisoners, but she soon finds herself falling for one of the inmates and regaining her creative passion.
4) Yo!
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Yolanda Garcia finds success with her first novel in which she made characters out of her family members and friends, but her "fictionally victimized" relatives exact revenge by telling all they know about the author, Yo.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Toliver returns to her hometown nearly thirty years after she beat herself into a coma trying to escape from the outhouse she was trapped in, along with more than twenty snakes, by a cruel group of classmates, and her return triggers a chain of deadly events related to that terrifying night years earlier.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of an aging Australian novelist best known for one of her works from the 1960s as she attends and presents lectures and poetry readings, each of which reveals something about her passions, obsessions, and conflicted personality.
8) Unless
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reta's happy life is torn apart when her eldest daughter drops out of school to sit on a street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads "goodness" and as Reta searches to find what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement, she learns important lessons about love and hope.
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.
11) Sarah's key
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
American journalist Julia Jarmond researches the brutal 1942 Nazi roundup in Paris and stumbles upon a connection between her family and one of the victims, which compels Julia to learn more about the girl's life.
15) The book of salt
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A Vietnamese man working as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas's cook in 1934 Paris looks back on his early life in his native country while deciding whether or not to accompany the couple to America.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Alba, having spent time in and out of the Abenaki Mental Hospital for ten years trying to control her manic depression, becomes romantically involved with Oscar, a drug addict in denial, and together they try to right the wrong done to Mary, a woman committed by her husband seventy years earlier and who left letters to her children in the pages of the hospital's library books.
18) Remembrance
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The story of a romance writer who, through hypnosis, is taken back to Edwardian England, where she meets the man who was her destiny.
19) Hotel du Lac
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
Edith Hope, a successful mature novelist, has made a fool of herself over love and is sent by her friends to a Swiss hotel to come to her senses. Instead of writing a new romance novel, she finds herself preoccupied with her fellow guests.
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