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1) Angel
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English
Description
Angel Deverell fantasizes about living in the town mansion, Paradise House. After a London publisher turns her novel into a best seller, she is able to buy Paradise House and pursue the man of her dreams, a painter struggling for his own big break.
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English
Appears on list
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Karen Eiffel is an author writing her latest novel. Her story revolves about an isolated man named Harold Crick. What she doesn't know is that her fictionalized character is real. Harold is an IRS agent who has lived a dull existence. One day he begins to hear Karen's voice as she narrates what she is putting down on paper. Harold enlists the help of a literary professor to find out what is happening and ends up changing things about his life. He...
Language
English
Description
Nick Curran is a tough but vulnerable detective. Catherine Tramell is a cold, calculating, and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered. Obsessed with cracking the case, Nick descends into San Francisco's forbidden underground.
Language
Español
Description
Leo writes romance novels, but with a loveless marriage, she finds herself fresh out of inspiration. Angel is a tough and gruff journalist with an iron will and a heart of gold. When their paths happen to cross, they discover something neither had expected -- a real-life love affair.
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English
Description
Takes novelist-turned-detective, Jessica Fletcher, from not-so-sleepy Cabot Cove to the dangerous bright lights of New York City, and beyond. From uncovering false fortune seekers to tracking down two-faced killers, Jessica is always there to catch the culprit and pen the final solution to the case.
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English
Description
Sets the standard with its fascinating characters, well-crafted plots, and beloved heroine, mystery writer Jessica Fletcher. From the shadowy nooks of hometown Cabot Cove to crime scenes as far as Ireland and Australia, Jessica's hot on the trail of some of the most deliberate criminals yet. With danger at every turn, Jessica will need all her wits and ingenuity to get safely to the final page. All 24 episodes of the final season.
Series
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English
Description
"A jockey heads for that great post position in the sky during a major race. Mystery writer Paula Bradford is sure it's murder. Her ex-husband Dr. Lawrence Bradford is sure she's nuts until a dead body at the doctor's doorstep makes him suspect #1. Then the exes are off to the races tracking clues and risking their lives discovering whodunit -- and rediscovering why they got hitched in the first place"--Container.
14) Princess Cyd
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English
Description
Eager to escape life with her depressive single father, 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin visits her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer. While there, she falls for Katie, a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.
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English
Description
Will Ferrell stars as Harold Crick, a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he suddenly hears a mysterious voice narrating his life. With the help of Professor Jules Hilbert, Harold discovers he's the main character in a novel-in-progress and that the voice belongs to Karen Eiffel, an eccentric author famous for disposing of her characters in unusual ways. Harold must quickly track down Eiffel and stop her before she conjures...
17) Young adult
Language
English
Description
Mavis Gary is a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart. When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate who hasn't quite gotten over high school, either. Special features: commentary, deleted scenes, featurettes, and Q & A featuring Janet Maslin and Jason Reitman.
Series
Language
English
Description
An author is looking for a man to play the leading role in the film version of her book when she meets a returning World War II Marine pilot on a train, and she is determined to turn him into the needed character. The stumbling block is that he thinks her books are ridiculous.
20) Basic instinct
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English
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Nick Curran is a boozy San Francisco police detective who finds himself drawn to the prime suspect in a murder case. She is manipulative, sexually uninhibited novelist Catherine Tramell. Catherine's latest book features a murder uncannily similar to the one Nick is investigating and as the pair engage in a mating dance of dangerous one-upmanship more murders occur, all are exactly as described in her current work about a boozy cop in love with a killer....
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