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Filled with the bestselling, award-winning author's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people.
Each of the Smarts—parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid—encounter Amber in his or her own
2) Jigsaw
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The return of Rona Parish - Rona Parish is ready to embark on a new assignment. She is to write a series of articles for the 600th anniversary of the local market town of Buckford, looking at its churches, schools and celebrated inhabitants. But her first encounter with the elderly Edna Rosebury raises unresolved questions about a recent tragic murder and Rona's investigative antennae are instantly on the alert . . .
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When successful biographer Rona Parish is asked to write the life-story of a bestselling author, recently deceased, she is intrigued, to say the least. After all, Theo Harvey led a very colourful life, and died in mysterious circumstances. But Rona's husband Max is wary and, it soon becomes apparent, with good reason...As Rona begins to delve into Theo Harvey's life and death, and to interview his friends and family - some more willing than others...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
THE PRINCE'S SECRET LOVE CHILD!
Shocking news has rocked the Mediterranean Principality of Agon. Prince Theseus-;second in line to the throne-;is rumored to have fathered a secret love child.
Reports surfaced the moment stunning royal biographer Joanne Brooks was hired to memorialize King Astraeus's reign. It seems she's brought more than pens and paper!
Witnesses suggest that five years ago, our onetime bad boy prince traveled the world...
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Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman, Lily, arrives to research his life and work. Pouring over Klaus's letters to Elsa, Lily pieces together the story of their lives together and apart. And alone in her rented cottage by the sea, she begins to sense an...
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English
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Having idolized Nancy Drew throughout her childhood, mystery writer biographer Cece Caruso meets a collector of early edition Nancy Drew mysteries and attends a fan convention, but when a patron is discovered dead, she must identify the killer to keep from becoming the next victim.
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English
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On the surface Judith Gill, the protagonist, is a nobody, a middle-class housewife with two children living in a small town. But her job as a biographer has taught her it is the little things in life that count, and from that point of view her story is alive with action. By the author of The Stone Diaries, for which she won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Former beauty queen Cece Caruso, trying to kick the writer's block that is keeping her from finishing her biography of Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner, contacts a prison inmate who once corresponded with Gardner, and soon finds herself in the middle of a real-life murder mystery.
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Publisher
Hallmark Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Kate's agent gets her the job of writing Trent's autobiography, she almost balks. The charismatic founder of his own outdoor clothing company dumped her when they were in college. But she needs the money. Trent's been so busy lately, he completely forgot he was supposed to be writing a book, and the draft is due soon He wants Kate as the ghostwriter: she's experienced, and she was always smart and hard-working. They can keep things professional,...
11) La última página
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"Tras una vida de desengaños, Soledad es contratada para preservar en un Banco de Recuerdos la memoria de un paciente con alzheimer. La paga es buena y el trabajo se vincula con su vocación literaria, incluso el hombre tiene un extraño atractivo; sin embargo, esta actividad aparentemente fácil se va llenando de sorpresas: él tuvo una profesión cuya trayectoria ha sido velada por motivos secretos. La protagonista irá descifrando las claves de...
12) Hame
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
'Hame, n. Scottish form of 'home': a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.' In the wake of the breakdown of her relationship, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with her 9-year-old daughter, Agnes, to the remote Scottish island of Fascaray. Mhairi has been commissioned to write a biography of the late Bard of Fascaray, Grigor McWatt, a cantankerous poet with an international reputation. But who was Grigor McWatt?...
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Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando a Sandra Valdés, joven historiadora en paro, le encargan que escriba la biografía de Ofelia Arráez -la gran empresaria y constructora, referente obligado en el mundo de la moda del calzado femenino-, ella acepta el reto sin imaginar los secretos que se ocultan en los noventa años de esa mujer contradictoria y poderosa, sin saber que lo que va a descubrir cambiará también su vida."--Page [4] of cover.
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