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novels in the form of diary entries, journals, screenplays, marginalia, and more |
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by Ros Anderson
Sylv.ie is a fully sentient robot. She lives alone on the top floor of a luxurious home, her existence barely tolerated by the human wife. Sylv.ie is deeply curious about the world beyond her room. She watches the family in the garden -- hears them laugh, cry, and argue. Longing to experience more of life, she confides her hopes and fears only to her diary. But are such thoughts allowed? And if not, what might the punishment be?
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by Elizabeth Brooks
When a World War II widow inherits a dilapidated English estate, she uncovers a diary written by an adolescent girl named Maude Gower. Looking for answers, she begins reading, only to unravel more questions about the mysterious past and many secrets hidden deep within the walls of Orchard House.
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by Max Brooks
Kate Holland's diary is the only "eyewitness" to the Greenloop Massacre -- a tragedy that was literally covered up by the eruption of Mt. Rainier.
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by W. Bruce Cameron
You've probably never met someone like Clancy. He's keeping a diary, he's falling in love, there are rivals for his affections, he lives with his best friend and his worst enemy - even taken together, these factors are maybe not that unusual, except that Clancy is a dog
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by Kate Clayborn
Georgie comes across a forgotten artifact--a "friendfic" diary she wrote as a teenager, filled with possibilities she once imagined. To an overwhelmed Georgie, the diary's simple, small-scale ideas are a lifeline--a guidebook for getting started on a new path. Georgie's plans hit a snag when she comes face to face with an unexpected roommate--Levi Fanning, onetime town troublemaker and current town hermit. |
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by Kathleen Collins
A stunning collection of fiction, diary entries, screenplays and scripts by a brilliant African-American artist and filmmaker.
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by David Downing
Stumbling across the hidden diary of a boarder who had been a father figure to him half a century earlier, Walter discovers the man's life-risking undercover work as an anti-Nazi Moscow spy.
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by Jim Fergus
Peace within a generation is the promise. The the Cherokee want are white brides for their warriors. An alternate history look at might have happened if the controversial "Brides for Indians" program had been implemented.
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by Elena Gorokhova
In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. Before she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin's brutality.
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by Melanie Hudson
This is a note to yourself, Juliet. You must keep the memories alive, because once upon a time you told a man called Edward Nancarrow that you would, and it's important to keep that promise.
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by Gaèelle Josse
The sad and somber diary of John Mitchell, and "immigration inspector", and later commissioner, for the Federal Immigration Service at Ellis island for 45 years.
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by Jo Kaplan In a future ravaged by fire and drought, two climate refugees descend into an old silver mine in desperate search of water. They find the diary of Lavinia, who brought her family to Nevada in the late 1860s. But Lavinia and the settlers of the Western town discovered something monstrous that dwells in the depths of the mine, something that does not want greedy prospectors disturbing the earth. Now, 150 years later, trapped and injured in the abandoned mine, the women discover they're not alone . . . with no easy way out. The monsters are still here -- and they're thirsty. |
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by Yiyun Li
Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had an affair--the man who was the father of her daughter Lucy.
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by Sigrâun Pâalsdâottir
While studying a seventeenth-century diary, our protagonist uncovers information about the first documented professional female artist. This discovery promises to change her academic career, and life in general . . . until she realizes that her "discovery" was nothing more than two pages stuck together.
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by Katherine Reay
An uncovered family secret sets one woman on the journey of a lifetime through the history of Britain's WWII spy network and glamorous 1930s Paris in an effort to understand her past, save her family, and claim her future.
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by Susan Rigetti
A whip-smart and delightfully inventive book -- a perceptive, humorous caper full of sharp observations about scam culture. Composed of diary entries, emails, FBI correspondence, and more, Cover Story is a fresh, fun, and wholly original novel that takes readers deep into the codependency and deceit found in a relationship built on power imbalance and lies.
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by R. A. Salvatore
These journal entries show the struggle between tradition and truth, where the courage to choose right over wrong climbs the many obstacles of societal expectations and entrenched power, if nowhere else, then in the heart of an idealist. They were written to help Drizzt understand himself. But the universal truths will resonate with listeners throughout the Realms.
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by Maria Semple
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is her best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette vanishes. |
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by Paul Wolfe
Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer lived by her own rules. Her murder a year after JFK's assassination was never solved. Her diary was never found -- until now. Secret lover of JFK; ex-wife of a CIA chief; sexual adventurer; LSD explorer and early feminist -- it's all in her diary.
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