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Lisa Barr, who in the 1990s edited In Jerusalem, the local supplement of The Jerusalem Post, has written two previous novels, The Unbreakables and Fugitive

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Sharon Stone (The Flight Attendant, Ratched) has optioned the rights to Lisa Barr’s upcoming novel Woman on Fire, inking a deal to produce and star in a film adaptation.

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It was June 1991; back then I was a young jour­nal­ist just out of grad­u­ate school. I was assigned by my edi­tor at a women’s mag­a­zine to cov­er an exhib­it

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Book of the Month March 2022 Predictions

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A tantalizing and thrilling novel about a painting stolen 75 years ago and the two women determined to get it back. Journalist Jules Roth has

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Ambitious fledgling reporter Jules Roth, the heroine of this masterly, multifaceted thriller from Barr (The Unbreakables), lands a job working for her personal hero, investigative

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This win­ter, we’re excit­ed to cozy up with these ten ter­rif­ic books. From stun­ning rev­e­la­tions about stolen art to the dark, orig­i­nal Bam­bi sto­ry, we

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For Variety‘s Writers on Writers, Lisa Barr pens a tribute to “Cyrano” (screenplay by Erica Schmidt; based on the play by Edmond Rostand).

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There are so many exciting books coming out in 2022 that I don’t know how I’ll find time to read them all. I should really

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2022 is an exciting year for novels, especially historical novels. So as soon as 2021 ended, I put my old planner in the drawer and

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