Donovan, Kemper

Summary: "It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka that woman, is the most talked-about person in the country right now, though largely for the wrong reasons. As an independent candidate for President of the United States, Dorothy split the vote and is being blamed for the shocking result. After her very public defeat, she's retreated to her home in rural Maine, inviting her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: John Scognamiglio Books 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DON

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

Stein, Charlotte

Summary: "When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding gets badgered into selling his memoirs, he knows he's never going to be able to write them. He hates revealing a single thing about himself, is allergic to most emotions, and can't imagine doing a good job of putting pen to paper. And so in walks curvy, cheery, cute as heck ghostwriter Mabel Willicker, who knows just how to sunshine and sass her way into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STE

Petty, Kate Reed

Summary: "A "mind-blowing, page-turning, unputdownable" novel (Elif Batuman) about the fifteen-year fallout from a poisonous high school rumor, exploring how stories from the past can come to define who we are. A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she cannot tell: the story of, as she puts it, "the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PET

Torre, Alessandra

Summary: Four years ago, I lied. I stood in front of the police, my friends and family, and made up a story, my best one yet. And all of them believed me. I wasn't surprised. Telling stories is what made me famous. Fifteen bestsellers. Millions of fans. Fame and fortune. Now, I have one last story to write. It'll be my best one yet, with a jaw-dropping twist that will leave them stunned and gasping for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alessandra Torre 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: P TOR

Buarque, Chico

Summary: Ao concluir a autobiografia romanceada O ginógrafo , a pedido de um bizarro executivo alemão que fez carreira no Rio de Janeiro, José Costa, um ghost-writer de talento fora do comum, se vê diante de um impasse criativo e existencial. Escriba exímio, "gênio", nas palavras do sócio, que o explora na "agência cultural" que dividem em Copacabana, Costa, meio sem querer, de mera escrita sob...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Companhia das Letras 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 469.3 FIC BUA

Handler, David

Summary: "In the next novel in David Handler's Edgar award-winning series, Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag and his beloved basset hound, Lulu, investigate a murder in a fabled Connecticut summer playhouse. Hollywood ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag has chronicled the rise, fall, and triumphant return of many a celebrity. At last he's enjoying his own, very welcome second act. After hitting a creative slump...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

Davis, Krista

Summary: Sophie Winston takes on ghostwriting a cookbook for Tilly Stratford, an interesting diversion until it leads Sophie into investigating a murder.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Rigetti, Susan

Summary: After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing. As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her desperate...

Format: text

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIG
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RIG

Barnes, Linda.

Summary: Required to complete a celebrity biography on her own after the suspicious death of her charismatic partner, agoraphobic ghost writer Em Moore struggles through the job's required interviews with alluring film director Garrett Malcolm, who alludes to dark family secrets and trouble with a fellow star.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Solomon, Rachel Lynn

Summary: "A ghostwriter and a struggling actor help each other on the page and in the bedroom in this steamy romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk. Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in 'ghostwriter' until she attends a signing for a book she wrote--and the author doesn't even recognize her. The evening turns more promising when she meets a charming man...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOL

Harris, Robert

Summary: Dashing, captivating Adam Lang was Britain's longest-serving--and most controversial--prime minister of the last half-century, whose career ended in tatters after he sided with America in an unpopular war on terror. Now, after stepping down in disgrace, Lang is hiding out in Martha's Vineyard to finish his much sought-after, potentially explosive memoir, for which he accepted one of history's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Millington, Mil.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIL

Bamford, Emma.

Summary: "When Maddy Wight is hired to ghostwrite the memoir of world-renowned cosmetic surgeon Dr. Angela Reynolds, she thinks it might just be her chance to get her career back on track. She travels to Angela's remote estate in the Scottish Highlands to hunker down and learn everything she can. But the deeper she digs, the more elusive the doctor becomes. Is there more hidden beneath the surface of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAM
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BAM

Huntley, Swan.

Summary: Reeling from her father’s death, Zara Pines accepts a ghostwriting gig for celebrity chef Jane Bailey. Jane, star of the wildly popular cooking show 30 Bucks Tops, invites Zara to live in her East Hampton home for the summer. Zara doesn’t want to go, but Jane insists. As the two women create Jane’s book, their attachment grows stronger. Zara, who’s lost and in search of an identity, finds one...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zibby Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN

Levine, Laura

Summary: Agreeing to write jokes for Dorcas, a struggling stand-up comic, Jaine Austen discovers that murder is the punchline when Dorcas's rival, a heckler named Vic, is strangled with one of her props--a pair of pantyhose.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEV

Levine, Laura

Summary: While writing for the sitcom "Muffy 'n Me," occasional sleuth Jaine Austen is immersed in a mystery when the show's leading man, womanizer Quinn Kirkland, is murdered and she is faced with a wealth of suspects.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEV

Osburn, Terri

Summary: Author Liza Teller's new book is something of a mystery. She's been hired to ghostwrite the memoir of Ray Wallis, an elderly stranger eager to share a very personal and surprising life story. The moment Liza arrives on beautiful Haven Island off the South Carolina coast, she has to ask: Out of all the semi-successful writers with stalled careers in the world, why her? Kendall James, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC OSB

Hamilton-Paterson, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM

Hamilton-Paterson, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM