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c1993., Adult, W. Morrow Call No: BIOG 387.7 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Biography of American writer Jonathan Bach telling of his search for his father, Richard Bach, who left his family when he was two years old.
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2021., Adults, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC BUR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Holland Novel Volume: #12Summary Note: "New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs. Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but their romance is complicated by Joanne's involvement with a shady professor who is mixed up with a drug-addled cult. When a sinister businessman and his son who wield their influence through vicious cruelty set their sights on Aaron, drawing him into an investigation of grotesque murders, it is clear that this idyllic landscape harbors tremendous power--and evil. Followed by a mysterious shrouded figure who might not be human, Aaron will have to face down all these foes to save the life of the woman he loves and his own. The latest installment in James Lee Burke's masterful Holland family saga, Another Kind of Eden is both riveting and one of Burke's most ambitious works to date. It dismantles the myths of both the twentieth-century American West and the peace-and-love decade, excavating the beauty and idealism of the era to show the menace and chaos that lay simmering just beneath the surface."--
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2015., Adults, Scribner Call No: FIC KIN Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it. There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. "Afterlife" is about a man who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Other stories address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powers--the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in "Obits;" the old judge in "The Dune" who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, the names of people who then died in freak accidents. In "Morality," King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devil's pact they can win. Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King's finest gifts to his constant reader--"I made them especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.""--
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2020., Adults, MacMillan Audio Call No: AUD LEV Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A hilarious new novel full of Hollywood glitz, glamour, and scandal. When he changes the locks, she changes the rules. Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife - she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they're living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties. But the job description of a Hollywood wife doesn't cover divorce, which is the way Agnes' life is headed after she comes home one day to find her credit cards cancelled and the security passwords to get into her enormous LA home changed. Oh, and there's a guy there whose job it is to tase her if she tries to enter...which she does. Needless to say, Agnes' husband is dead set on making sure she loses big time, but Agnes isn't the type to just lie down and take it. In a world of fremenies and hot nannies, personal psychics and "skinny" jello shots, Agnes may be losing her husband, but could that mean getting her own life back? Been There, Married That is a drop-dead hilarious battle of wills that will make you laugh out loud, cringe, and keep turning the pages to see what crazy disaster will happen to Agnes next...and how she'll rise from the ashes"--
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By Eble, Dianec2002., Adult, Bethany House Call No: LIT 808.3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Provides a behind-the-scenes look at the personal lives of dozens of Christian novelists, focusing on the events, people, and beliefs that most influence their writing.
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By Sala, Sharon2010., MIRA Call No: ROM SAL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Storm front novel Volume: no. 1
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-- How Ted Geisel grew up to become Dr. Seussc2004., 3.9; Ages 3-6, Random House Call No: PB KRU Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Introduces the life of renowned children's author and illustrator Ted Geisel, popularly known as Dr. Seuss, focusing on his childhood and youth in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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c2012., Adults, Bethany House Call No: FIC LEW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Home to Hickory Hollow Volume: #2Summary Note: Twenty-seven-year-old Joanna Kurtz has made several trips to the altar, but never as a bride. The single young Amish woman is a closet writer with a longing to be published something practically unheard of in her Lancaster County, Pennsylvania community. Yet Joanna's stories aren't her only secret. She also has a beau who is courting her from afar, unbeknownst even to her sister, Cora, who, though younger, seems to have suitors to spare. Eben Troyer is a responsible young Amish man who hopes to make Joanna Kurtz his bride, if he can ever leave his parents' farm in Shipshewana, Indiana. Yet with his only brother off in the English world, intent on a military career, Eben's hopes for building a life with his dear Joanna are dimming, and patience is wearing thin. Will Joanna ever be more than a bridesmaid?
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2018., Adults, Angel Wing Ministries Call No: FIC CON Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Jaden Daniels, energetic and pragmatic, has planned her life carefully. At the age of seven, after a tragic accident took the life of her parents, Jaden grew up quickly bouncing from one foster home to another until the age of 18. After college she married the only man who could have found a way into her heart. Kody and their two children have lived a very controlled and comfortable life; just the way Jaden like it. Until the day, the large manila envelope arrived in their mailbox. The contents would change their lives forever." --from back cover.
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c2001., Adult, Pocket Books Call No: FIC WIL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Cleo Grayson McCarthy retreats from the demands of her husband and children to a rustic cottage at Cameo Lake to finish her novel where she meets and becomes friends with Ben Turner, a composer struggling to come to terms with his wife's accidental death.
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[2017]., Adult, Doubleday Call No: FIC GRI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable's circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets. But eventually Mercer learns far too much, and there's trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it." --from front cover.
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2008., Adult, Atria Books Call No: FIC FIE Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Single mom Charley Webb, a controversial columnist for the "Palm Beach Post," jumps at the chance to write the memoirs of Jill Rohmer, a woman on death row for the murders of three children, but what she believed might be her ticket to fame turns deadly when Charley begins receiving threatening mail, and Jill reveals that she had an accomplice who has never been brought to justice.
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2021., Adults, Gallery Books Call No: FIC EVA Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On the night of her high school graduation, Richelle Bach's father gives her and her identical twin sister, Michelle, matching opal necklaces. "These opals look identical," he tells them, "but the fire inside each is completely unique--just like the two of you." Indeed, the two sisters couldn't be more different, and their paths diverge as they embark on adulthood. Years pass, until--at their father's behest--they both come home for Christmas. What happens then forever damages their relationship, and Richelle vows never to see or speak to her sister again. In their father's last days, he asks Richelle to forgive Michelle, a deathbed promise she never fulfills as her twin is killed in an accident. Now, painfully alone and broken, caring for the sickest of children in a hospital PICU, Richelle has one last dream: to be an author. The plot of her book, The Prodigal Daughter, is a story based on her sister's life. It's not until she meets Justin Ek, a man who harbors his own loss, that a secret promise is revealed, and Richelle learns that the story she's writing is not about her sister, but about herself.
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c2011., Adult, Crown Publishers Call No: FIC UNG Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: While James Cooper, who recently left his post at the Hollows Police Department, struggles to come to terms with an event from his past, Eloise Montgomery, a psychic, helps Michal Holt to find answers about his mother; meanwhile, fifteen-year-old Willow's poor choices after arriving in The Hollows from Manhattan with her newly divorced mother could lead her to further danger.
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1997., Ages 3-6, Tundra Books Call No: PB BED Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Unhappy when her family first moves out to the plains of Nebraska, the young Willa Cather comes to appreciate the beauty of her new home.
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2006., Adult, Viking Call No: TRAV 910.4 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Elizabeth Gilbert recounts the experiences she had on her year-long journey around the world, and shares how her trip helped her deal with her divorce and the depression that threatened to end her career and her happiness.
