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Boxcar children volume 116
Language
English
Description
At the drive-in theater, the Alden children see a ghost walking around and decide to investigate.
Author
Series
Wilma Tenderfoot volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
As apprentice detective to Theodore Goodman, Wilma, a ten-year-old orphan of Cooper Island's Lowside Institute for Woeful Children, helps investigate who is poisoning actors at the Valiant Vaudeville Theater but when Theodore disappears, she must take action on her own.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 112
Language
English
Description
The Boxcar Children are happy to help get an old theater ready for its new mystery play and its own rumors of ghosts.
Author
Series
Double feature mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike/Chivers
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Elliot Freed, recovering writer, puts all his savings into the Comedy Tonight movie theater, never suspecting it would become a crime scene; Elliot begins his own investigation when there is a dead guy in row S, seat 18.
8) The Marvels
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English
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In 1766, a boy, Billy Marvel, is shipwrecked, rescued, and goes on to found a brilliant family of actors that flourishes in London until 1900--and nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis, runs away from home, seeking refuge with his uncle in London, and is captivated by the Marvel house, with its portraits and ghostly presences.
9) Sing
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Series
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Illumination's hit movie Sing--now retold in the iconic Little Golden Book format! To save his struggling theater, Buster Moon hosts a singing competition with a prize that attracts animals from all over the city. Rosita, Johnny, Meena, and more talented acts try to find their voices in this Little Golden Book based on Illumination's hit movie, Sing. The beautifully-illustrated storybook retelling is perfect for boys and girls ages 2 to 5 and Little...
10) City of girls
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English
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Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College,...
11) Boo crew
Author
Series
Nancy Drew clue books volume 10
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew and her friends investigate when strange things start happening at a local theater, rumored to be haunted, during auditions for a televised talent show.
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"In 1985, Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator, and political exile Heda Margolius Kovaly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by the stories of Raymond Chandler, Kovaly knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague--her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution, her own persecution at his disgrace--into a gorgeous psychological thriller-cum-detective novel. Set in and around a cinema where a murder was recently...
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Series
Last picture show volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Last Picture Show is both a rambunctious coming-of-age story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one movie house alive. Adapted into the Oscar-winning film, this masterpiece immortalizes the lives of the hardscrabble residents who are threatened by the inexorable forces of the modern world. "McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold."—New York Times Book Review
14) Vamp
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Series
Publisher
Forge/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Vamp is a hot new Valentino mystery by Loren D. Estleman, the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. Renowned film detective Valentino is on a quest to help restore The Comet, an extinct drive-in movie theater, and his trail leads him to Leo Kalishnikov, who requests a favor first - rid him of a blackmailer from his shady past, and he'll gladly hand over the money...
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English
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All's fair in love and prank wars.
Bree Leake doesn't want to be tied down. She's had more jobs than she can count, and she plans to move as soon as the curtains fall on her less-than-minor stage role at The Barter-the oldest live performance theater in the US. But just when it's time to move on again, Bree's parents make her an offer: hold steady for a full year, and they will give her the one thing she's always wanted-her grandmother's house. Her...
16) Here we are
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Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1959, and something magical can be witnessed at the end of the pier in beach town Brighton, England. Jack Robbins, Ronnie Deane, and Evie White are performing in a seaside variety show, starring as Jack Robinson the compere comedian, and The Great Pablo and Eve: a magic act. By the end of the summer, Evie's glinting engagement ring will be flung to the bottom of the ocean and one of the trifecta will vanish forever. All three friends...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse-and the mysterious figure who threatens the theater's very survival. The year is 1901. England's beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and inquisitive young Edith Holler spends her days among the boisterous denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse...
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