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1) Harvest moon
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Virgin River volume 15
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"Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock's sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she's retreated to her sister Jillian's house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate. Puttering in Jill's garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly's starting to feel a little too unmotivated, until she meets Lief Holbrook. The handsome widower looks more like a lumberjack...
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"Rock Paper Scissors is the latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney. Think you know the person you married? Think again ... Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole...
5) Video kill
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"With painstaking care, he "casts" his victims, each woman resembling an Alfred Hitchcock star, each killing echoing one of his films, leaving behind a video of his gruesome handiwork . . . Former actress Allison Rocca knows her screenwriter husband, Tony, has been extra busy lately. News reporter Katy knows her ex, Chief Detective Sam Ladera, is desperately hunting the Video Killer. Yet each woman senses something unusual about the men's behavior....
6) Bungalow 2
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When Marin County mother and freelance writer Tanya Harris gets the chance to write a major Hollywood screenplay, she finds herself thrust into an unfamiliar world that forces her to reconcile her two lives as a suburban mom and award-winning screenwriter.
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Cowboys of California volume 2
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Determined to sell her screenplay and gain independence from her boss--one of Hollywood's cruelest divas, Amanda Queen decides to have a one-night stand with an Oscar-winning actor, which gives her an unexpected chance to turn that magical night into forever.
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"A whirlwind trip to Ireland is supposed to end with a suitcase full of wool sweaters and souvenir pint glasses, not a husband you only just met! But after one too many whiskeys, fledgling screenwriter Cara Kennedy takes a page out of someone else's script when she gets caught up in the Irish tradition of women proposing on Leap Day. Waking the next morning with a hot guy in her bed and a tin foil ring on her finger was definitely not what she expected...and...
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The widely acclaimed author of Code of the West and The Cowboy with the Tiffany Gun, Aaron Latham pens some of today's most entertaining fiction. This rollicking novel follows aspiring screen writer and Hollywood newcomer Chick Goodnight- descendant of the legendary cowboy Jimmy Goodnight-as he strives to make his mark in an industry that seems completely alien to his down-home sensibilities.
11) Falling for love
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"Ever since he won an Academy Award for best original screenplay, Grant McCarthy's personal and professional lives have fallen apart. Worst of all, Abby, the woman he was supposed to marry, is engaged to someone else. And with his father recovering from a serious injury, Grant is back at home on Gansett Island helping run the family marina. He should be focused on winning back the love of his life, but he's got a new distraction to deal with."--
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"As a romance channel screenwriter, Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. When her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage's collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life; it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds actor Leo Vance, who played her husband, on her porch...
13) The love letter
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1781: Hamilton Lightfoot witnessed the death of his family at the hands of redcoats, and fears he'll fight for revenge instead of honor. He pens a letter to Esther Longfellow; they're in love, but her father is a loyalist, living in upcountry South Carolina and working for a wealthy British lord. Present: Chloe Daschle is the queen of death scenes; trying to break out, she accepts a supporting role in a revolutionary war film. After a life-changing...
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Suddenly thrust into the public eye, aspiring actress Antonia Adams, who has been "invisible" all her life, must decide whether she will remain center stage or hide again when tragedy strikes, forcing her to decide how high a price she is willing to pay to pursue her passion.
Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is...
15) My soul to keep
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A Christian entrepreneur, an actor just out of prison, and a has-been scriptwriter team up to do something bigger than any of them could have imagined, but their efforts may be doomed by the machinations of a Hollywood starlet.
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During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He thinks he has Covid. His wife thinks he is...
17) The arrest
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The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what happens when much of what we take for granted - cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters - stops working...Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't hurt....
18) Amherst: a novel
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"From an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and the author of Motherland, a novel about two love affairs set in Amherst--one in the present, one in the past, and both presided over by Emily Dickinson. Alice Dickinson is a young advertising executive who works in London and dreams of becoming a screenwriter. She decides to take some time off work to research her idea for a screenplay: the true story of a scandalous adulterous love affair that took place...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners and the "delectable, moving" (Entertainment Weekly) My Favorite Half-Night Stand comes a modern love story about what happens when your first love reenters your life when you least expect it... Sam Brandis was Tate Jones's first: Her first love. Her first everything. Including her first heartbreak. During a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad, Sam and Tate fell for each other in only...
20) Dream town
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Aloysius Archer volume 3
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It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious entering the property, there's a dead body in the hallway...