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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Jessica's friend Eve Simpson is the town's premiere real estate agent and has recently taken on the task of selling one of Cabot Cove's oldest properties-- the Spencer Percy House, built in 1805 by a sea captain for his young wife. Its current occupant, Joe Cooper, a crusty former carpenter, is convinced he's about to die and wants the house sold so he can give the proceeds to his grandson, who spent much of his youth there. But the building is in...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling debut novelist Penelope Berkowitz is desperate for inspiration for a second book. With the help of her new boyfriend, she embarks on a research trip with a Clue-like team of professionals, ex-lovers, and estranged family members to investigate the myth of a witch on Stone Point, a remote coastal outcropping in the Pacific Northwest. For over a century, the cabin on the point stood vacant after the violent death of the original owner and...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jessica is delighted when her nephew Grady invites her to spend a few days with his family in an oceanside New York bungalow. She packs her bags and heads down to the city, ready to spend some quality time with Grady, his wife, Donna, and their young son, Frank. But the morning after Jessica's arrival, Donna finds her boss dead on a tennis court, and Jessica's dreams of a relaxing visit are quashed. Everyone in the small beachside community is a...
Author
Series
Colección Andanzas ; 568
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Español
Description
La historia de una amistad que empieza en 1987 cuando el narrador, un joven aspirante a novelista, viaja a una universidad del Medio Oeste estadounidense y conoce a Rodney Falk, su compañero de despacho, un ex combatiente de Vietnam huraño e inabordable, ferozmente lúcido y corroído en secreto por su pasado. Pero ésta es también la historia de una experiencia radical en el abismo indescifrable del mal y la culpa, que el propio narrador sólo...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives"--
"Alma...
526) Design for murder
Author
Series
Murder she wrote ; 45
Publisher
Obsidian, published by New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the newest in the USA Today bestselling mystery series, Jessica Fletcher visits New York City during fashion week, only to discover someone has rather fatal designs ... Jessica is in Manhattan to attend the debut of a new designer. Formerly Sandy Black of Cabot Cove, the young man has reinvented himself as Xandr Ebon, and is introducing his evening wear collection to the public and--more important--to the industry's powers-that-be: the stylists,...
527) Older
Author
Series
Younger novel ; 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Liza Miller never dreamed that anyone would be interested in her life, let alone buy a book about it. But everything changes when, on the eve of her fiftieth birthday, she publishes a thinly veiled novel about a woman posing as a millennial called Younger--which her old friend Kelsey wants to turn into a TV show. Liza is off to Los Angeles to help Kelsey write the pilot. But that means leaving behind her on-again off-again boyfriend Josh, her pregnant...
528) The fugitives
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The much anticipated new novel by Christopher Sorrentino, acclaimed author of National Book Award finalist Trance a bracing, kaleidoscopic look at truth and fiction, love and obsession, loyalty and betrayal, race and identity, chaos and free will. Sandy Mulligan, a successful writer in the midst of a personal and creative crisis, retreats from Brooklyn to the quiet Michigan town where he hopes to finish a novel and to escape his turbulent private...
Author
Series
Jane austen mystery ; 12
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Christmas Eve, 1814. Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at the Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood: Mansfield Park is selling nicely; Napoleon has been banished to Elba; British forces have seized Washington,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a local art shop owner is murdered, Jessica Fletcher is surprised to once again be working alongside her old friend MI-6 agent Michael Haggerty to solve the case in the newest mystery in this USA Today bestselling series. When Nelson Penzell, co-owner of a local art and treasure store in Cabot Cove, is murdered, the nail tech from Jessica Fletcher's favorite beauty parlor is the main suspect. After all, she's the one who ran out of the store...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Estaré muerto en tres meses. Vengo a contar mi historia. Esta es la escalofriante invitación de Sebastian Trapp, reconocido novelista de misterio, a Nicky Hunter, la profesora y crítica experta en su obra con la que mantiene una relación epistolar. Desde la mansión del autor en San Francisco, Nicky comienza a desentrañar la historia de la vida de Trapp bajo las atentas miradas de su enigmática esposa y de su hija mayor. Pero Sebastian Trapp...
532) The furies
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
In a novel of sweeping grandeur and lush, brilliant prose, Janet Hobhouse delves deep into the heart of a quarrelsome, self-dramatizing, and passionate family of women, three generations of mothers and daughters - daughters who leave mothers and mothers who leave daughters. It is a family of no fathers to speak of and no brothers, and for two generations there is born a pair of sisters who will define themselves to the outside world either as victims...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Hace años, un solitario y exitoso autor dejó de escribir bajo extrañas circunstancias. Pero, de repente, reaparece con un nuevo libro y un concurso único, cuyo premio cambiará la vida del ganador. PIDE UN DESEO. Lucy Hart sabe mejor que nadie lo que es crecer sin unos padres que la amen. Con una infancia marcada por el abandono y la soledad, encontró refugio en los libros, en concreto en la saga de La isla del reloj de Jack Masterson. Ahora,...
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