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Becoming a mystery writer in the style of the stories she grew up reading after her mother's abandonment, Alex comes of age in a convent orphanage before finding publishing success under a male pseudonym and becoming subject to the consequences of fame and her double life.
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A tale spanning the end of the Victorian era through World War I finds a famous children's book author taking in a runaway and exposing the boy to dark truths about her family's summer bacchanals at their rambling country house.
When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum--a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales--she...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic...
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English
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"Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"A coming-of-age campus novel about a group of students who take revenge on a professor after she destroys one of their own" --
"Hannah, Leslie and Jimmy, graduate students at Fielding campus, are mysterious, inaccessible, and brilliant. The threesome came to study writing, to be writers, and this is the story they've woven together: of friendship and passion, of competition and envy, of creativity as life and death. Simone, a young, bestselling...
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"One of today's most provocative literary writers--the author of the critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star--captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump. Nina is a struggling writer, a college drop-out, a liar, and a cheater. More than anything she...
8) Hamilton
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Series
Hamilton trilogy volume 01
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English
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Maisie couldn't talk to anyone about her secret companion, Hamilton the horse, but she could write about him. And write she did, with results that would eventually broaden her horizons far beyod the confines of the town where she spent her girlhood.
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