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Scott, Caroline

Summary: "With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search of great food, Good Taste is the perfect historical novel for fans of Dear Mrs. Bird and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. You can tell a lot about a person from what they like to eat... England in 1932 is in the grip of the Great Depression. Stella Douglas,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCO

McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg Novels, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious lothario--a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may, much to his chagrin, be all bark and no bite. The Department of Sensitive Crimes, renowned for taking on the most obscure and irrelevant cases, led by Ulf Varg, their best detective, is always prepared to take on an investigation, no...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCC

Roberts, Nora.

Summary: For a change of pace, renowned anthropologist Kasey Wyatt takes a job working for bestselling author Jordan Taylor, who needs helps researching his latest novel about the Plains Indians. Upon arriving at Jordan's impressive Palm Springs estate, Kasey finds all the trappings of a family, but none of the warmth. Jordan's forbidding mother is immediately suspicious of her, while Jordan's shy and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2014

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Lorac, E. C. R.

Summary: "Vivian Lestrange--celebrated author of the popular mystery novel The Charterhouse Case and total recluse--has apparently dropped off the face of the Earth. After he was reported missing by his secretary Eleanor, whom Inspector Bond suspects to be the author herself, crime and murder are afoot when Lestrange's housekeeper is also found to have disappeared. Bond and Warner of Scotland Yard set...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOR

Mack, Catherine

Summary: The first in a witty series following the bestselling author Eleanor Dash on her Italian book tour that turns into a real-life murder mystery, as her life starts to imitate her fictional world. Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies, one bestseller. All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is to get through her book tour in Italy and kill off her main character,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MAC

Crouch, Sarah

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "One peaceful morning, in the small, Puget Sound town of Point Orchards, the lifeless body of Dr. Erin Landry is found hanging from a tree on the property of prodigal son and failed writer, Elijah Leith. Sheriff Jim Godbout's initial investigation points to an obvious suicide, but upon closer inspection, there seem to be clues of foul play when he discovers that the circumstances of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Crouch

Blake, Ashley Herring

Summary: "Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she's happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn't want any of that-dating, love, romance. She'll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. Everyone wants...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLA

Lau, Jackie

Summary: "Mark Chan this. Mark Chan that. Writer and barista Emily Hung is tired of hearing about the great Mark Chan, the son of her parents' friends. You'd think he single-handedly stopped climate change and ended child poverty from the way her mother raves about him. But he's just a boring, sweater-vest-wearing engineer, and when they're forced together at a wedding, it's obvious he thinks he's too...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schsuter, LLC 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAU

Lehane, Cornelius

Summary: An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection comes as a welcome surprise for Raymond Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library. But his pleasure quickly turns sour when the collection's curator - Ambler's friend Sam Abernathy - tells him he plans to fight the acquisition tooth and nail. Why would Abernathy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEH

Matar, Hisham

Summary: "One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words - and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa - Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Bivald, Katarina

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The best stories are the ones we didn't know needed to be told The small, rundown village of Great Diddling is full of stories--author Berit Gardner can feel it. The way the villagers avoid outsiders, the furtive stares and whispers in the presence of newcomers... Berit can sense the edge of a story waiting to be unraveled, and she's just the person to do it. In fact, with a book deadline...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BIV

Korelitz, Jean Hanff

1 hold on 10 copies

Summary: "Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she's taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and solved the mystery of the anonymous plagiarism accusations that tormented him. Now she is living her life, content to enjoy her husband's royalty checks in perpetuity, but literary celebrity continues to beckon, and this time the book in question is her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KOR

Stevenson, Benjamin

Summary: "On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

Han, Kang

Summary: A lyrical exploration of personal grief, conveyed through the prism of the color white, finds a nameless writer grappling with a haunting family tragedy involving the infancy death of her older sister.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2019

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Prose, Nita

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, Molly Gray has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. Her world is turned upside down when J.D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead on the hotel's tea room floor. It becomes clear that this death was murder most foul, and suspects abound. As the case threatens...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PRO

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PRO

Kuang, Yulin

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Helen Zhang hasn't seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career. She's even scored a coveted spot in the writers' room of the TV adaptation of her popular young adult novels, and if she can hide her imposter syndrome and overcome her writer's block, surely the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Capote, Truman

Summary: "Catapulted from a childhood spent in a Missouri orphanage to the dizzying peaks of New York high society, the destitute and debauched writer P. B. Jones spends his days moving between the paltry cell of a Manhattan Y.M.C.A. and the opulent playgrounds of the metropolitan elite. Though Jones struggles to make ends meet, his effortless associations with the moneyed and powerful thrust him into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAP

Griffiths, Andy

Summary: "It's the night before Christmas but Andy and Terry aren't ready yet! They haven't written their letters to Santa, they haven't sung any carols or hung their stockings, and now Mr. Big Nose wants their next book done by tomorrow. When Santa Claus's sleigh crash-lands in the treehouse, the reindeer become tangled in the branches and Santa falls into the cloning machine. With dozens of Santas...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Christmas, Call number: J FIC GRI

Griffiths, Andy

Summary: When Santa Claus's sleigh crashes in the treehouse, Santa falls into the cloning machine. With no way to tell which is the real Santa, who will deliver all the presents? Andy, Terry, and Jill must save Christmas.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC GRI

Kuipers, Alice

Summary: Polly and her magic book, Spell, have all kinds of adventures together because whatever Polly writes in Spell comes true. But when they join forces to help get the best class pet ever, they get more than they bargained for. Can Polly come up with the right words to save the day?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: CD FIC KUI

Hechtman, Betty

Summary: As a writer for hire, Veronica Blackstone puts her keyboard to use to help others. That includes writing advertising copy for local businesses, and love letters for those needing romantic help. Tony Richards needs the latter. Debonair, charismatic, handsome, Tony seems like the last person who'd need help with love letters, but help him Veronica does... only, Tony owes her money and won't tell...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEC

Van den Berg, Laura

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul-crushing heat, torrential downpours, sinkholes swallowing the earth, ominous cats, a world-bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called ELECTRA, and an increasing number of posters dotting the streets with the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC VAN

Harrison, Jim

Summary: New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. In The Ancient Minstrel, Harrison delivers three novellas that highlight his phenomenal range as a writer, shot through with his trademark wit and keen insight into the human condition. Harrison has tremendous fun with his own reputation in the title novella,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Winkler, Henry

Summary: A famous author is coming to speak at Hank's school, and he may even get the special honor of introducing her at the assembly. The only problem? Hank has never actually read one of her books. In fact, he's never finished reading any book.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WIN

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