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141) Without reservations
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An author is looking for a man to play the leading role in the film version of her book when she meets returning World War II soldiers on a train, and she is determined to turn one of them into the needed actor.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amazing grace: In the aftermath of a San Francisco earthquake, the lives of four strangers will converge...Sarah Sloane, the beautiful wife of a financial whiz, watches her perfect world fall to pieces...Grammy-winning singer Melanie Free comes to a turning point in her life and career...Former war correspondent and photographer Everett Carson finds new purpose amid the carnage...and Sister Maggie Kent searches through the rubble---and knows instantly...
Series
Publisher
Obsidian, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Jessica is on the Hawaiian island of Maui, giving a lecture at Maui College on community involvement in police investigations--a subject she knows well. Her co-lecturer is legendary retired detective Mike Kane, a behemoth of a man who shares his love of Hawaiian lore, legends and culture with Jessica. Sadly, all the talking stops when the body of a colleague is found at the rocky foot of a cliff. Mala Kapule was a botanist and popular professor at...
144) Iris
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, "I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them." Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of Anne of Green Gables. For many years, not a great deal was known about Maud's personal life. Her childhood was spent with...
148) Older
Author
Series
Younger volume Book 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Liza Miller never dreamed that anyone would be interested in her life, so she's torn between two cities and two hearts when her bestselling novel is picked up by a major television network.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2011
Language
English
Description
Becoming Jane: When the dashing Tom Lefroy enters Jane Austen's life, he offends the emerging writer's sense and sensibility. Soon their clashing egos set off sparks that ignite a passionate romance.
Jane Eyre: Jane Eyre's will to overcome a life of hardship leads her into a passionate romance with a handsome, yet mysterious, gentleman. Swept up in the possibility of a happy new life, Jane is shattered when terrible secrets from his past are revealed,...
152) The fiction writer
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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 too good to be true. All she has to do is interview Henry...