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  The Accidental Bestseller

  by Wendy Wax

  Once upon a time four aspiring authors met at their very first writers’ conference. Ten years later they’re still friends, survivors of the ultra-competitive New York publishing world. Mallory St. James is a workaholic whose bestsellers support a lavish lifestyle. Tanya Mason is a single mother juggling two jobs, two kids, and too many deadlines. Faye Truett is the wife of a famous televangelist and the author of... (more)
• Twenty Novelists (Twenty Names)NIGEL HUNTER

  

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  Twenty Novelists (Twenty Names)

  by Nigel Hunter

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  A Prison Diary: Book 1

  Belmarsh: Hell

  by Jeffrey Archer

  DAY 5 MONDAY 23 JULY 2001 5.53AM 'The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting - his first offence, not even... (more)
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  Poems From The Heart Mind Body And Soul: poetry, non-fiction, spiritual, romance, love, poetic, life related, valentines day, christmas, self help, all ages, positive (Volume 3)

  by Aleja Bennett

  This book of beautiful poetic poems actually takes the reader on familiar avenues of life. Adventures to where only the heart and soul does eat, think, breath and live.
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  Thoughts Deeply Rooted Within Me

  by Aleja Bennett

  This poetic verse is just one of the six titles that the Author has written. Her words can take you on an all so familiar journey that you will embark upon.The creativity of the mind can be a waste if not used when the green light is on. This book of poems go into her struggles-our struggles and how she is still standing through it all. Love-romance-life-relationships-abuse-childhood to... (more)
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  Gangland Empire - Changing Times: Cracking 2nd book in the Gangland Empire series. Shocking scenes of violence as women take charge of London crime ... prepared to go to get to the top. (Volume 2)

  by Louise Maria

  Marie Barker was left to run a south east London gangland firm after her husband is murdered by the head of a rival firm. Shocking yet credible fiction about London crime bosses and their families.
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  Running With Scissors

  A Memoir

  by Augusten Burroughs

  Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. At the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor, living with the doctor's bizarre family and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood... (more)
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  Misery

  by Stephen King

  A writer is held hostage by his number-one fan in the novel that "demands that we take King seriously as a writer with a deeply felt understanding of human psychology" ( Publishers Weekly ). His deeply felt understanding of what terrifies us doesn't hurt either.Audio cassette edition - isbn 0453009271 - 8 cassettes appx 12 hours
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  Tick Tock

  by Dean Koontz

  Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist, living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside. That night, Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the... (more)
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  Hidden Places

  by Lynn N. Austin

  A deep yearning for home had led Eliza to Wyatt Orchards ten years ago. Now widowed with three young children, she faces mounting debts and the realization it is all up to her. But she has no idea how to run an orchard alone. When a stranger appears at her doorstep, Eliza guesses he is no different than the other out-of-luck characters searching for work during the Depression. But the familiarity with which Gabe... (more)
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  The Book of Joe

  by Jonathan Tropper

  Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke, so it's back to Bush Falls for the town's most famous pariah. His... (more)
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  The Wife

  by Meg Wolitzer

  The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband, Joseph, is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent forty years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, has finally decided to stop. From this gripping opening, Meg... (more)
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  The Novelist

  by Angela E. Hunt

  From the author who taught you to expect the unexpected...an intriguing tale about families, fiction, and what to do when life veers wildly off script. It begins...when a smug college student challenges a best-selling novelist to write something "more personal." It begins...when a mother finds her troubled son slumped unconscious outside her house. It begins...when fiction and reality blur, and the novelist... (more)
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  Little Stalker

  by Jennifer Belle

  An offbeat and hilarious story of voyeurism, obsession, and relationships-both real and imaginary-from the bestselling author of High Maintenance and Going Down . Since she was thirteen, one of the few things New York novelist Rebekah Kettle has been able to count on is the thrill of seeing a new movie by world-renowned filmmaker Arthur Weeman every fall. Now thirty-0three, the humor and poignancy of... (more)
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  A Wolf at the Table

  A Memoir of My Father

  by Augusten Burroughs

  “As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we’d ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes…I wasn’t altogether sure about one thing: was it just a dream?” When Augusten Burroughs was small,... (more)
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  Looking for Anne of Green Gables

  The Life and Times of L. M. Montgomery

  by Irene Gammel

  In June 1908, a red-haired orphan appeared on to the streets of Boston and a modern legend was born.  That little girl was Anne Shirley, better known as Anne of Green Gables , and her first appearance was in a book that has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than 35 languages (including Braille).  The author who created her was Lucy Maud Montgomery, a writer who revealed very... (more)
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  Relentless

  by Dean Koontz

  #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz delivers a mesmerizing new thriller that explores the razor-thin line between the best and worst of human nature—and the anarchy simmering just beneath society’s surface—as a likeable, successful family man is drawn into a confrontation with a foe of unimaginable malice…. Bestselling novelist Cullen “Cubby” Greenwich is a lucky man and he knows it.... (more)