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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Genuine Lies	Nora Roberts	IN HOLLYWOOD, A LADY LEARNS FAST: THE BAD CAN BE BEAUTIFUL, AND THE TRUTH CAN KILL... EVE BENEDICT. The last of the movie goddesses, a smoky-voiced sex symbol with two Oscars, four ex-husbands, a…	OL111598W
What a carve up!	Jonathan Coe	A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision of Britain, a family history and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a…	OL11346168W
Possession	A. S. Byatt	Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the…	OL115647W
Heart of Dixie	Tami Hoag	An All-American Smile, and Blue Eyes a Girl Could Drown In... Writer Jake Gannon couldn't believe it - his brand-new Porsche had overheated in the middle of nowhere, and now he was being towed by …	OL134429W
Carl Sandburg	Milton Meltzer	A biography of the poet who became known for his ability to speak to the common people, by shaping out of the plain English of ordinary Americans the voice of their vast experience.	OL14941635W
The seduction of water	Carol Goodman	Iris Greenfeder is a 36-year-old barely published New York writer and teacher whose long-term boyfriend, an artist, sees her schedule as strict and therefore will not spend the night, because he like…	OL15513267W
Absolution	Patrick Flanery	In modern-day South Africa, Clare Walde tells the story of her sister's death and the disappearance of her daughter during apartheid twenty years earlier.	OL16415810W
Necropolis	Santiago Gamboa	An author attends a conference featuring a series of extraordinary life stories, where the story of formerly troubled evangelical pastor José Maturana captures his imagination and causes him to seek …	OL17271952W
The truth	Michael Palin	Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to write the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a highly influential activist and humanitarian -…	OL18181215W
Shoot the widow	Meryle Secrest	The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: “Shoot the widow.” In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer (“Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll”—The New York Times), wri…	OL1858539W
The shadow in the garden	James Atlas	"The biographer's autobiography: a funny, endearing tale of how writers' lives get documented, by the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz. The biographer--so often in the shadow…	OL19715311W
The life-writer	David Constantine	After the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, copes with the loss by writing his personal history. While researching the letters and journals he left behind, however, she com…	OL20036951W
The Paper Man	William Golding,Andrew Martin,Fernando Santos Fontenla	A novel about the conflict between a curmudgeonly writer with many secrets and the professor who wants to gain access to his personal papers and become his official biographer.	OL2430170W
"Good morning, Mr. President"	Mitchell, Barbara	Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian whose lifelong interest in Abraham Lincoln led to the publishing of a multi-volume biography which won the Pulitzer Prize.	OL3516400W
Ghōṣayātr̲a	T. J. S. George	Memoirs of T.J.S. George, journalist and biographer.	OL351854W
An Evening of Long Goodbyes	Paul Murray	Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of recent years: An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inherit…	OL3619972W
Southern comforts	JoAnn Ross	In Raintree, Georgia, Roxanne Scarbrough is the "Genteel Southern Queen" of good taste to her fans, but she also has her critics, and one of them wants her dead.	OL505529W
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy	Ruth Rendell	When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared …	OL57523W
Spiral	Joseph Geary	Nicholas Greer is broke and on the verge of divorce. The life of Frank Spira, the controversial British painter he’s been researching for six years, has become more real to him than his own. But the …	OL5959679W
Morning	W. D. Wetherell	"In this saga about the brave early years of television, "morning" means several things. It is the name of the first-ever morning show, pioneered by a visionary who believed television could reflect…	OL869523W