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** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ** The Tonight Show Summer Reads Winner ** A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 **
"Insanely readable." —Stephen King
Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.
Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist
2) The plot
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"Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written - let alone published - anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast...
4) Yesterday
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2019]
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English
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Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter... but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie--the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack must decide if all he needs is love, after all.
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"What if you could write a new ending for yourself? England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the famous novelist William Aubrey, she was dazzled by his brilliance. But their newlywed bliss is brief when William is gripped by writer's block, and he becomes jealous of Evelyn's writing talent. When he commits the ultimate betrayal--stealing a draft of her novel and passing it off as his own--Evelyn decides to write her way out of their unhappy marriage....
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Robert B. Parker's PI Sunny Randall's newest case hits close to home in ways she never expected in her latest thrilling investigation. Melanie Joan Hall is back in Boston, riding high, refusing to have Sunny and Rosie move out. She has a Netflix series about to start shooting in Boston, based on her wildly popular new series of books for girls. Then it turns out that most of her fortune is gone. And her manager, who was in charge of the money, turns...
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"A serial killer is on the loose, and may have a hidden connection to young barrister Daniel Pitt's university days, in this intricately woven mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt's university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The murders are keeping his mind occupied, but when Ian learns that their old professor, Nicholas Wolford, has...
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Following a bitter separation from his wife, famed mystery writer Mort Rainey is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter. Claiming Mort has plagiarized his short story, the psychotic Shooter demands justice. When Shooter's demands turn to threats, and then to murder, Mort turns to a private detective he knows. But when nothing stops the horror from spiraling out of control, Mort soon discovers he...
9) The words
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.
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St. Martin's Press
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2001
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Gregory Keays is a writer whose brilliant future is behind him. Corroded with envy, Gregory watches as his contemporaries produce better work and live happier lives while he teaches community college composition classes and compiles books about other books. One day, Gregory is convinced, the world will recognize his talents. In the meantime, his marriage to a new-age feng shui artist has become cold and distant, and his relationship with his reclusive...
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Grove Press
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c2011
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English
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An academic finds himself contemplating the unthinkable in a "tour de force" psychological thriller.
Pascal Mercier's critically acclaimed debut novel, Night Train to Lisbon, became an international bestseller and the basis for a film starring Jeremy Irons. Now, in Perlmann's Silence, Mercier delivers a deft psychological portrait of a man striving to get his life back on track in the wake of his beloved wife's death.
Philipp Perlmann, prominent...
13) All my colors
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Titan Books
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2019.
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English
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A wanna-be writer with an eidetic memory decides to claim authorship of a book that only he remembers, but soon finds that there are consequences for his theft.
15) Iks: roman
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Russian
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"Glavnyĭ geroĭ romana "Iks" -- vydai︠u︡shchiĭsi︠a︡ pisatelʹ Shelestov, prototipom kotorogo stal Mikhail Sholokhov. Sam li on napisal svoi︠u︡ glavnui︠u︡ knigu? Ili ukral i pererabotal chuzhoĭ tekst, kak podozrevali zavistlivye sobratʹi︠a︡ po t︠s︡ekhu? Bykov vydvigaet sobstvennui︠u︡ gipotezu, ne podtverzhdai︠u︡shchui︠u︡ i ne oprovergai︠u︡shchui︠u︡ ni odnu iz sushchestvui︠u︡shchikh tochek zrenii︠a︡....
16) Going off script
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Swoon Reads
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2019.
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"Seventeen-year-old Bex is thrilled when she gets an internship on her favorite tv show, Silver Falls. Unfortunately, the internship isn't quite what she expected... instead of sitting in a crowded writer's room volleying ideas back and forth, Production Interns are stuck picking up the coffee. Determined to prove her worth as a writer, Bex drafts her own script and shares it with the head writer--who promptly reworks it and passes it off as his own!...
18) The words
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Columbia
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.
19) Morvern callar
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Fun City Editions
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Morvern Callar is greeted with a startling surprise, her boyfriend has committed suicide. He has left her a cryptic message on his computer and a manuscript for a novel. She changes the author's name to her own and begins a re-birth of self discovery.
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