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"The members of the Rejected Writers' Book Club decide to produce a musical to raise money for Janet's friend Annie, who needs $20,000 to keep the bank from foreclosing on her family farm where she houses fifty rescue dogs."--
After months of playing the lottery and hoping for an uptick in her dog-boarding business, Annie must face the inevitable: the bank is foreclosing on her family farm. But thanks to the Rejected Writers' Book Club, she doesn't...
82) Written out
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Roger Olivetti has it made: a comfortable and rewarding career as an editor, a brownstone in downtown Manhattan, and a lovely, bestselling novelist wife. Then the bottom falls out of the publishing industry and his marriage simultaneously, and Roger ends up living in the basement of his mother's house in the Long Island town where he grew up. While planning his comeback, he falls in with people he once knew, or thought he did, and soon finds himself...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Paul Dry Books edition.
Language
English
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Listening to the ticking of her biological clock, and wondering where life is taking her, Suzanne Davis embarks on a wrong-headed, but very funny, quest to find Mr. Right and start the family she hopes will give meaning to her life, as her 35th birthday looms closer.
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Book club mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Emulating one of her favorite literary sleuths, event planner Amy-Faye Johnson sets out to find the truth surrounding the death of Ivy, one of her fellow book-obsessed Readaholics, who supposedly committed suicide by poisoning.
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2014.
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English
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To keep her new business in the black, Dev opens up her shop to local clubs. But in the first meeting of the Stepping Out Book Club, the speaker storms out after members attack his poetry's sexism and scorn for small towns. Later that night, the poet's body is found outside Dev's store. Dev can't afford for the murder to close her down, so she does a little stepping out of her own to investigate, with help from her two sexy suitors, Dr. Noah Underwood...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"The story of a book club of broken hearts, where four women come together and discover the power of female friendship and find the courage to pursue their dreams, from the USA Today bestselling author of My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding. Jazmine was supposedto be a professional tennis player, but her plans to go pro were quashed in a car crash. Now she's a top sports agent balancing a demanding career and single motherhood. Judith is an empty nester stuck...
87) Novel women 2
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Energized by changes in careers and romances, the ladies of Novel Women book club transition from a tumultuous summer into autumn. But they soon discover that this new stage of life doesn’t come with instructions. Sandwiched between their parents and children, they rely on each other to navigate this confusing period. As they face these new challenges, the six women buoy one another up with an abundance of wisdom, resilience, strength, and ---yes,...
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League of Literary Ladies volume 5
Pub. Date
©2017.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Kidnapped at age nineteen, the children of a famous movie star are now media darlings after a miraculous escape. What's next for the celebrity twins? They're opening an over-the-top B and B called Tara on South Bass Island, and frankly, they don't give a damn about the competition, including Bea Cartwright's own beloved inn. But when local realtor Vivian Frisk is found murdered, and the suspects include Chandra, who lost her beau to the frisky Vivian,...
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2016.
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English
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When gigantic egos, old resentments, uninvited guests and murder ruin the Celebration of Gothic Novels festivities, Amy-Faye Johnson and the Readaholics must tap into their knowledge of the classics and read between the lines to lure a killer out of the shadows.--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First US edition.
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English
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"Jersey, 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community, now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule on the people of the island. Grace La Motťe, the island's only librarian, is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret. Along with her headstrong best friend, postwoman Bea Rose, she wants to fight back. So she forms the wartime book club: a lifeline, offering fearful...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
1a edición.
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Español
Description
La escritora Juliet encuentra el argumento para su próximo libro en un grupo literario que sobrellevó la ocupación nazi organizando reuniones de lectura sobre novelas clásicas, siempre alrededor de un pastel de cáscara de papa.
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking...
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Southlea Bay novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Librarian Janet Johnson is puzzled when she is invited--and practically dragged--to her first meeting of the Rejected Writers' Book Club. This quirky group of women would much rather celebrate one another's rejected manuscripts over cups of tea and slices of lemon cake than actually publish a book. But they receive bad news that could destroy one member's reputation--and disband the group forever. To save the club, Janet joins her fellow writers...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Summer can be the best of times or the worst of times for the resort town of Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie. For Bea Cartwright, business is booming as guests storm her B and B for the Bastille Day celebration. In honor of the holiday, the League of Literary Ladies is reading the Charles Dickens' classic, A Tale of Two Cities. It would be hard to make a more apropos selection, especially when they have their very own Defarge sisters, elderly twins Margaret...
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Series
League of Literary Ladies volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
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English
Description
B and B owner Bea Cartwright has taken on the responsibility of taking meals to ten visiting nuns, who are on retreat at the Water's Edge Center for Spirit and Renewal on picturesque South Bass Island on Lake Erie. But the peace of the retreat is shattered when one of the nuns is found at the water's edge, murdered. And when a second nun is killed, Bea and the other members of the League of Literary Ladies--Chandra, Kate, and Luella--start to wonder...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Jean Vison never expected to run a book club, but then her life took an unexpected turn. Now, with Jean's husband gone, what began as an off-the-cuff idea has grown into a group of six women who meet the second Tuesday of every month for a potluck supper, for wine and laughter--and for books. There's Loretta, who deals with the lack of intimacy in her marriage by diving into erotic novels. Dorothy, whose ruffian sons are a never-ending source of...
Author
Series
League of Literary Ladies volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass market edition.
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English
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"Most folks aren't forced by court order to attend a library-book discussion group, but that's just what happens to B and B proprietor and ex-Manhattanite Bea Cartwright, hippy cat lover Chandra Morrisey, and winery owner Kate Wilder after a small-town magistrate has had enough of their squabbling. South Bass, an island on Lake Erie, is home to an idyllic summer resort, but these three ladies keep disturbing the peace. The initial book choice is Agatha...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
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English
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When book club member Lizzie Turner is accused of murdering Ashley Dixon, a book publicist she hates, her fellow members, including bookstore owner Molly Mathews, must rewrite Lizzie's fate by finding the real killer
The members of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society are all chipping in as Molly Mathews, now owner of the bookstore the Book Nook, prepares the first annual Mystery Book Fair. While gossip circulates about the...
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Pub. Date
2018, 2015.
Edition
Revised.
Language
English
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"Bored with her stodgy old book club, Alicia Finlay decides to start a new one--dedicated to her favourite crime writer Agatha Christie. And so she gathers seven quirky members together, including dashing Dr Anders, a poisons expert, socialite Barbara Parlour, librarian Missy (as ditzy as Miss Marple and just as sharp) and fashionistas Claire and Perry who both bear an eerie resemblance to Hercule Poirot. As the new club sip cups of Darjeeling and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
1a edición.
Language
Español
Description
En un Londres devastado por las bombas y que empieza a recuperarse de las terribles heridas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Juliet Ashton, una joven escritora en busca de inspiración novelsca, recibe la carta de un desconocido llamado Dawsey Adams. El hombre, que vive en la isla de Guernsey, un pequeño enclave en el canal de la Mancha, está leyendo un libro de Charles Lamb que había pertenecido con anterioridad a Juliet. ¿Cómo ha llegado...
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