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1) The wife
Author
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her husband's receipt of a prestigious literary award, Joan Castleman, who has put her own writing ambitions on hold to support her husband, evaluates her choices and decides to end the marriage.
Author
Publisher
Broadman & Holman Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Paul James Watson is the writer of mid-list paperback novels. He escapes from his humdrum life by being absorbed in his novels and his character, Toby McKenna, a highly successful detective. It is not long before the lines of reality, fiction and imagination become so entwined that the real Watson threatens to become lost.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Through interviews with world-renowned UCLA screenwriting professor Lew Hunter, Oscar-winning screenwriters and multiple award-winners reveal their Hollywood secrets in crafting brilliant stories and methodology. Interviewees include Francis Ford Coppola, William Golden, Alexander Payne, Ernest Lehman, Horton Foote and Billy Wilde"--
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sierra discovers her young ancestor's handcrafted quilt and reads her journal, she finds their lives are very similar. By following her ancestor's example, she learns to surrender to God's sovereignty and unconditional love.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
It's the greatest literary mystery of all time: Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare? Although the official story of a Stratford merchant writing for the London box office has held sway for centuries, questions over the authorship of the plays and poems persists. Derek Jacobi leads an impressive cast featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Mark Rylance on a quest to uncover the truth behind the world's most elusive author, and discovers a forgotten nobleman...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of essays from today's most acclaimed authors--from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen--on the realities of making a living in the writing world. In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate comes an enemies-to-lovers romance about an editor, her bestselling author, and one life-changing secret. What she doesn't know about love could fill a book. With a successful career as a romance editor, and an engagement to a man who checks off all ninety-nine boxes on her carefully curated list, Lanie's more than good. She's killing it. Then she's given the opportunity of a lifetime: to work...
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The first book to give us the life and times of Raymond Chandler through his own writing-from the acclaimed editor of The Letters of Noel Coward. Chandler never wrote an autobiography or a memoir. Now Barry Day, making use of Chandler's novels, short stories, and letters as well as Day's always illuminating commentary, gives us the life of "the man with no home," a man precariously balanced between his classical English education with its immutable...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"There has never been a full-length biography of Mickey Spillane, the most popular and influential mystery writer of his era--until now. Beginning in 1947 with I, the Jury, and continuing with his next six novels, Spillane quickly amassed a readership in the tens of millions, becoming the bestselling novelist in the history of American publishing. Surrounded by controversy for the overt violence and suggestive sexual content of his iconic Mike Hammer...
15) A deadly cliché
Author
Series
Books by the bay mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
While walking her poodle, Olivia Limoges discovers a dead body buried in the sand. Could the body be connected to the bizarre burglaries plaguing Oyster Bay, North Carolina? Can the Bayside Books Writers group decode the cliché clues left by the thieves?
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Follows Mike Rubbo as he tracks down the clues as to the identity of the author of Shakespeare's plays. He focuses on the sect that believes in Christopher Marlowe as the best candidate. The chief proponent of the Marlowe theory was Calvin Hoffman.
18) Who the hell is Pansy O'Hara?: the fascinating stories behind 50 of the world's best-loved books
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
19) The offer
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This epic ten-episode limited event series tells the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of Oscar®-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy's journey of bringing Francis Ford Coppola's cinematic masterpiece The Godfather to the big screen. This critically acclaimed series contains over 2.5 hours of special features, including featurettes, deleted scenes, and more!
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A profile of the life of the influential science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick presented through interviews with contemporaries and excerpts from his writings. Dick's writing and ideas on reality, humanity and technology which blend West Coast utopianism, counterculture paranoia and mystical experience have been adapted into films, including Blade Runner and Total Recall. Since very little interview footage exists of Philip K. Dick, this documentary...