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1) Nim's Island
Pub. Date
[2008]
Formats
Description
Nim Rusoe lives on a deserted island with her scientist father, Jack, and her best friends : Selkie, a sea lion ; Fred, a bearded dragon lizard ; and Galileo, a plucky pelican. When the island is 'invaded', Nim reaches out to the author of her favorite books.
2) 9 bullets
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A former burlesque dancer turned author discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after he witnesses his parents2 murder. Now on the run from the local crime boss, who happens to be her longtime ex, she makes a desperate attempt to get the boy to safety.
Description
Dorothy Gale is a simple girl in rural Kansas who writes children's books based on the land of Oz created by her grandfather. Her mundane life is turned upside down when she receives an offer from a big New York agency to represent her books. In New York, Dorothy soon realizes her books, and her grandfather's stories, are based in reality. The magical world of Oz and all of its inhabitants are very real and they are coming to New York City!
4) Emily
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Imagines Emily Bronte's own story that inspired 'Wuthering Heights.' As she struggles within the confines of her family life and yearns for freedom, and so begins a journey to channel her potential into the seminal novel.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte face a bleak future, with their father half-blind, and troubled brother Branwell in decline. As their situation worsens, Charlotte sees that writing could offer a way out. This is the story of the sisters' great novels and their extraordinary battle for recognition.
Description
Just My Type: Pop culture writer and aspiring novelist Vanessa Sills lands the interview of a lifetime with the illustrious, elusive and reclusive mystery author Martin Clayborne in his quaint rural town only to realize her own aspirations, dreams and romantic life have taken a back seat along the way. When Vanessa returns home to Portland and a mysterious gift arrives from Martin, she then makes a surprise decision, and finally takes her own advice.
Harvest...
7) Miss Potter
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
8) Half light
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Mystery writer Rachel Carson's life is shattered when her 5-year-old son accidentally drowns. Her best friend rents a secluded cottage so that Rachel and rest, but Rachel ends up being caught in a murder mystery that rocks the town and her nerves.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
After a series of flops, New York romance novelist Dru Cassadine gets an ultimatum from her publisher: deliver a bestseller or be dropped. So Dru heads home to a quaint southern town to see friends and family she would rather avoid at Christmas, a holiday she disdains, hoping for inspiration. She does not quite get what she came for, she gets much more.
11) You: Season 3
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Description
A 21st-century love story that asks, "What would you do for love?" When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring writer, he uses the internet and social media as tools to get close to her. His charming and awkward crush quickly becomes an obsession as he removes every obstacle, and person, in his way.
12) Basic instinct 2
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Now living in London, writer Catherine Tramell sets her lethal sights on Michael Glass, the control-freak psychiatrist assigned to evaluate her as a risk-addicted suspect in the "accidental" killing of a star soccer player. Turns out Catherine's just getting started (or is she?), and that's bad news for Glass's ex-wife, a tabloid journalist, and the Scotland Yard detective who's desperate to put Catherine in jail. Has Catherine finally met her match...
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Famed author Marianne Winckler goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles with her deception toward them and tries to rationalize that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A Very Merry Bridesmaid: "Leah's 30th birthday is on Christmas Eve, the same day as her brother's wedding. Her childhood crush is back in town for the wedding, and he is determined to make sure her birthday does not go by the wayside." --container
Tis The Season To Be Merry: "Looking for a fresh angle to her book on relationships, Merry heads to snow-covered Vermont. She finds a new perspective and Christmas cheer with charismatic aid worker Adam."...
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