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One spring night in 1998 the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain: Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a selfish streak and had earned as many enemies...
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Mystery author Charlemagne "Charlee" Russo thinks the twisty plots and peculiar murders in her books are only the product of her imagination-- until her agent is found dead exactly as described in Charlee's new, unpublished manuscript. Suspicion now swirls around her and her critique group, and the police care more about Charlee's feeble alibi and financial problems than they do her panicky claims of innocence. To clear her name and revive her career,...
67) Crudo: a novel
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A commitment-phobic writer spends the summer of 2017--the first summer of her forties--adjusting to the idea of getting married at a time when truth is dead, fascism is rising, and one rogue tweet from the president could launch a nuclear war.
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Hillary Greene writes her famous author and public figure father's memoirs for him. Hillary digs deep into her father's past and finds out some horrifying things about him. She has to make a hard choice: either show that her father is a monster or keep his reputation as a well-known literary figure.
72) The seekers
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Krewe of Hunters volume 28
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While on-site at an old inn that was the location of an axe murder rampage in the 1920's, a dead body is discovered during the production of a television progam.
73) Local customs
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Nineteenth century poet Letitia Landon mysteriously commits suicide just eight weeks after a quiet marriage to a governor and re-location from London to Cape Coast in West Africa. This story, spoken from Letitia's post-humous point of view, will reveal the world through her eyes as well as the mystery behind her death, which may not have been suicide after all.
74) The island villa
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"Celebrated romance author Catherine Swift has topped the bestseller lists for decades, though her personal story hasn't been quite so successful. Three failed marriages have left her relationship with her daughters strained, but that's about to be rectified. Engaged yet again, Catherine is counting on this wedding to be what finally brings them together as a family, and she'll do whatever it takes to make that happen"--
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"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."--...
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Broden legal volume 1
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By day, Ella works as a buttoned-up attorney on some of the city's most grueling cases. By night, she pursues her passion for singing in the darkest clubs of Manhattan.
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Lila, an Indian-born science journalist, and Lucia, an aspiring European-born writer, meet at a creative writing workshop in Calgary. They both hope to work through real-life trauma using fiction, and as their friendship develops, Lila begins to recall an incident from her time as a geology student.
80) Literally
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Annabelle's life has always been Perfect with a capital P. Then bestselling young adult author Lucy Keating announces that she's writing a new novel -- and Annabelle is the heroine. It turns out that Annabelle is a character that Lucy Keating created. And Lucy has a plan for her. But, Annabelle doesn't want to live a life where everything she does is already plotted out. Will she find a way to write her own story -- or will Lucy Keating have the last...
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