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Bar Harbor retirement home for famous writers (and their muses) [sound recording] a novel by DeFino, Terri-Lynne,author.(CARDINAL)355059; Dunne, Bernadette,narrator.(CARDINAL)530210;
Read by Bernadette Dunne.A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them. Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess -- lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries. But now he's come to the Bar Harbor Home for the Elderly to spend the remainder of his days among kindred spirits: the publishing industry's nearly gone but never forgotten greats. Only now, at the end of his life, does he comprehend the price of appeasing every desire, and the consequences of forsaking love to pursue greatness. For Alfonse has an unshakeable case of writer's block that distresses him much more than his precarious health. Set on the water in one of New England's most beautiful locales, the Bar Harbor Home was established specifically for elderly writers needing a place to live out their golden years -- or final days -- in understated luxury and surrounded by congenial literary company. A faithful staff of nurses and orderlies surround the writers, and are drawn into their orbit, as they are forced to reckon with their own life stories. Among them are Cecibel Bringer, a young woman who knows first-hand the cost of chasing excess. A terrible accident destroyed her face and her sister in a split-second decision that Cecibel can never forgive, though she has tried to forget. Living quietly as an orderly, refusing to risk again the cost of love, Cecibel never anticipated the impact of meeting her favorite writer, Alfonse Carducci -- or the effect he would have on her existence. In Cecibel, Alfonse finds a muse who returns him to the passion he thought he lost. As the words flow from him, weaving a tale taken up by the other residents of the Pen, Cecibel is reawakened to the idea of love and forgiveness. As the edges between story and reality blur, a world within a world is created. It's a place where the old are made young, the damaged are made whole, and anything is possible....
Subjects: Audiobooks; Writer's block; Writers' retreats;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Bar Harbor retirement home for famous writers (and their muses) [large print] : a novel / by DeFino, Terri-Lynne,author.(CARDINAL)355059;
"Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess, lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries. But now he's come to the Bar Harbor Home for the Elderly to spend the remainder of his days among kindred spirits: the publishing industry's nearly gone but never forgotten greats. Only now, at the end of his life, does he comprehend the price of appeasing every desire, and the consequences of forsaking love to pursue greatness. For Alfonse has an unshakeable case of writer's block that distresses him much more than his precarious health. Set on the water in one of New England's most beautiful locales, the Bar Harbor Home was established specifically for elderly writers needing a place to live out their golden years, or final days, in understated luxury and surrounded by congenial literary company. A faithful staff of nurses and orderlies surround the writers, and are drawn into their orbit, as they are forced to reckon with their own life stories. Among them are Cecibel Bringer, a young woman who knows first-hand the cost of chasing excess. A terrible accident destroyed her face and her sister in a split-second decision that Cecibel can never forgive, though she has tried to forget. Living quietly as an orderly, refusing to risk again the cost of love, Cecibel never anticipated the impact of meeting her favorite writer, Alfonse Carducci, or the effect he would have on her existence. In Cecibel, Alfonse finds a muse who returns him to the passion he thought he lost. As the words flow from him, weaving a tale taken up by the other residents of the Pen, Cecibel is reawakened to the idea of love and forgiveness. As the edges between story and reality blur, a world within a world is created. It's a place where the old are made young, the damaged are made whole, and anything is possible."--back cover.
Subjects: Large print books.; Novels.; Writers' retreats; Writer's block;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The Bar Harbor retirement home for famous writers (and their muses) / by DeFino, Terri-Lynne,author.(CARDINAL)355059;
A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them. Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess, lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries. But now he's come to the Bar Harbor Home for the Elderly to spend the remainder of his days among kindred spirits: the publishing industry's nearly gone but never forgotten greats. Only now, at the end of his life, does he comprehend the price of appeasing every desire, and the consequences of forsaking love to pursue greatness. For Alfonse has an unshakeable case of writer's block that distresses him much more than his precarious health. Set on the water in one of New England's most beautiful locales, the Bar Harbor Home was established specifically for elderly writers needing a place to live out their golden years, or final days, in understated luxury and surrounded by congenial literary company. A faithful staff of nurses and orderlies surround the writers, and are drawn into their orbit, as they are forced to reckon with their own life stories. Among them are Cecibel Bringer, a young woman who knows first-hand the cost of chasing excess. A terrible accident destroyed her face and her sister in a split-second decision that Cecibel can never forgive, though she has tried to forget. Living quietly as an orderly, refusing to risk again the cost of love, Cecibel never anticipated the impact of meeting her favorite writer, Alfonse Carducci, or the effect he would have on her existence. In Cecibel, Alfonse finds a muse who returns him to the passion he thought he lost. As the words flow from him, weaving a tale taken up by the other residents of the Pen, Cecibel is reawakened to the idea of love and forgiveness. As the edges between story and reality blur, a world within a world is created. It's a place where the old are made young, the damaged are made whole, and anything is possible.
Subjects: Fiction.; Writers' retreats; Writer's block;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Love literary style / by Gillespie, Karin,author.(CARDINAL)460919;
They say opposites attract, and what could be more opposite than a stuffy literary writer falling for a self-published romance writer? Novelist Aaron Mite meets Laurie Lee at a writers’ colony and mistakenly believes her to be a renowned writer of important fiction. When he discovers she’s a self-published romance author, he’s already fallen in love with her. Aaron thinks genre fiction is an affront to the fiction-writing craft. He often quotes the essayist, Arthur Krystal who says literary fiction “melts the frozen sea inside of us.” Ironically Aaron doesn’t seem to realize that he’s emotionally frozen. The vivacious Laurie, lover of flamingo-patterned attire and all things hot pink, is the one person who might be capable of melting him. In the tradition of The Rosie Project, Love Literary Style is a sparkling romantic comedy which pokes fun at the divide between low and high brow fiction.
Subjects: Fiction.; Authors; Writers' retreats; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Caught dead to write / by Cahoon, Lynn,author.(CARDINAL)611378;
Cat Latimer found her author career and her love of writing in a paranormal academy series so when the writers retreat gets a group of all paranormal authors, she's over the moon. However, a local professor is causing waves since she doesn't think the retreat or the authors it hosts is literary enough to be sponsored by Covington College anymore. And she'd taken her complaints to the Dean of the English department. Cat knows she'll have to fight for Covington's sponsorship, but this week, she's going to enjoy her retreat and the quirky guests. Shauna's put together a coz-play part for the guests in conjuntion with a local writers group that meets at the local bookstore. However, the night is cut short when they find the literary professor dressed up as a zombie in the barn. But the professor isn't just playing dead. Can Cat solve the mystery before she's framed in the investigation and Uncle Pete has to arrest her for the murder?
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Authors; Writers' retreats; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Off season [sound recording] / by Weiner, Jenniferauthor(CARDINAL)350798; Dratch, Rachelnarrator(CARDINAL)563500;
Read by Rachel Dratch.Sarah Vernon has spent twenty years trying to make it as a novelist, and she's never even come close. None of her novels has sold more than five thousand copies, and she's never earned enough money to make fiction her full-time job. After her last disappointing publication, Sarah's agent dumped her, and it seems like her dream is dead. Sarah vows that she'll do anything for one last shot at the bestseller list. Enter Will Presser. Nicknamed The Viper, Will is a literary agent whose career-making reputation precedes him. A business dinner ends with a nightcap at Will's apartment, and a night Sarah can't remember. When she wakes up the next morning, Will says he's got a plan to make her new book a hit. He sends Sarah off to Elder Island, a summer playground for the rich and famous that empties out between September and May, for her own personal writer's retreat. He's left word that Sarah needs complete privacy in order to write, and Sarah's too bewildered and flattered by Will's attention to do anything but pack her bags and board the ferry. Alone in an isolated mansion, Sarah's writing has never come more easily. She spends hours each day lost in a trance, falling into the world of her story. She tries not to worry about the nightmares that plague her, or the mornings she wakes up with dirt on her feet and blood under her fingernails.Compact discs.
Subjects: Short stories.; Thrillers (Fiction); Suspense fiction.; Audiobooks.; Novelists; Writers' retreats; Nightmares;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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The dark game / by Janz, Jonathan,author.(CARDINAL)605640;
"Ten writers are selected for a summer-long writing retreat with the most celebrated and reclusive author in the world. Their host is the legendary Roderick Wells. Handsome, enigmatic, and fiendishly talented, Wells promises to teach his pupils about writing, about magic, about the untapped potential that each of them possesses. Most of all, he plans to teach them about the darkness in their hearts. The writers think they are signing up for a chance at riches and literary prestige. But they are really entering the twisted imagination of a deranged genius, a lethal contest pitting them against one another in a struggle for their sanity and their lives. They have entered into Roderick Wells's most brilliant and horrible creation. The Dark Game" -- ǂc Amazon.com
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Writers' retreats; Secrecy; Secrecy.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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Murder on a snowy evening / by Cahoon, Lynn,author.(CARDINAL)611378;
"Cat Latimer and her friends have made some changes at the Warm Springs Writers' Retreat. The new retreat will be a joint session with new attendees and return visitors. The theme? Goal setting for the next year as well as finding the word count magic. First up on the schedule is a joint snowshoeing session. They'll come back to the warm Victorian for a soup and fresh bread dinner before starting on the more cerebral activities of a January writing retreat. Included in the alumnus is the widow of a famous local author and past. Confronted with not one but two biographers who are planning very different books about her famous husband, she's not enthused about going on the snowy bonding adventure. When the self-proclaimed secret mistress and writer of a sensational tell-all book goes missing, Cat thinks she's decided to leave the retreat. Then her body is found in a summer cabin owned by the grieving widow. Can Cat dig out the clues to find who killed the brash young thing or will Cat's grieving friend lose one more thing to her husband's death? Her freedom."--Amazon website.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Authors; Writers' retreats; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Invitation to a killer / by Malliet, G. M.,1951-author.(CARDINAL)347062;
Callie Moore is an aspiring writer-- and the notorious wife of a Washington lobbyist. She plans for her scandalous memoir to help her achieve a diplomatic posting-- if she can convince Augusta Hawke to be her ghostwriter. Agreeing to attend Callie's dinner party, Augusta chiefly wants a chance to meet celebrity doctor/humanitarian Doc Burke. When Burke dies that evening, signs point to a heart attack but Augusta isn't convinced. She hosts a writers' retreat and invites all the suspects, but when the remote lodge becomes snowed in it becomes clear the killer may not be finished killing. --
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Women authors; Writers' retreats; Murder;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Love on paper / by Parker, Danielle,author.(CARDINAL)869298;
Seventeen-year-old Macy, daughter of renowned authors, seeks to establish her own voice at a prestigious writing retreat, only to be paired with Caleb Bernard, the son of her family's longtime rival, and the two navigate a blossoming romance and untangle their complicated family legacies.Grades 10-12.Ages 12 and up.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Romance fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Writers' retreats; Children of authors; Authors; Youths' writings; Teenagers;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 21
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