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Author
Series
Once upon a con volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Prince and the Pauper gets a modern makeover in this adorable, witty, and heartwarming young adult novel set in the Geekerella universe by national bestselling author Ashley Poston.
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood, but by 1964, he is living in complete obscurity-until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind. Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies, but he begins to worry that someone might delve too deeply into the past and uncover the events that led to the abrupt end of his career in 1922. These events include the changing...
84) Honor thyself
Author
Language
English
Description
In the days that follow a tragic accident, a woman who the whole world knows slowly awakens with no memory of who she is. Every detail must be pieced back together--from a childhood in rural Mississippi to the early days of her career, from the unintentional hurt inflicted on her daughter to a fifteen year-old secret love affair that went tragically wrong. But for this woman an extraordinary opportunity has arisen in a life-threatening crisis: a second...
85) Crown jewel
Author
Language
English
Description
Ricky Lam had it all -- a thriving film career, the adoration of countless fans, incredible wealth, and a cocaine and alcohol problem that almost destroyed him. Luckily, he also had his older brother Philip -- who strong-armed him into an addiction clinic. After 15 years, Ricky wants to mend the rift that erupted between the brothers during those dark days. But when tragedy strikes, erasing Ricky's dreams of winning Philip's forgiveness, he resets...
86) He: a novel
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension among the commercial demands, artistic integrity, and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists"--
87) 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
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two star-crossed assassins in Elizabethan England must go undercover as actors in one of William Shakespeare's plays in a plot to kill the queen"--
In the early sixteen-hundreds, two star-crossed assassins, nineteen-year-old Toby and seventeen-year-old Kit, go undercover as actors in a Shakespeare play in a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth.
Author
Series
Katie Kazoo switcheroo volume s. 9-10
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Anyway you slice it: Katie turns into Louie the chef after offering to help run a pizza eating contest.
Quiet on the set!: While a movie is being filmed in Cherrydale, Katie switches into Rosie Moran, a world renowned child actress.
90) Acting the part
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Queer actor Lily Ashton has found fame playing lesbian warrior Morgantha on the hit TV show Galaxy Spark. Lily knows how little representation queer girls have, so when the showrunners reveal that Morgantha’s on-screen love interest, Alietta, is going to be killed off, Lily orchestrates an elaborate fake-dating scheme with the standoffish actress who plays her, to generate press and ensure a happy ending for the #Morganetta...
Author
Series
Alien superstar volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: After escaping his oppressive red dwarf planet and landing a role on a popular Hollywood sitcom, Buddy Burger seems destined for high-flying success. His legions of fans love his six eyes, his suction cup feet, and even his excessive need for avocados. It seems nothing can stop his rise to super-stardom?until the arrival of Citizen Cruel, a shape-shifting Squadron member sent from Buddy?s home planet to bring him back by any...
92) Dead by Midnight
Author
Series
Dead by trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Murder...
The last sounds Dean Wilson hears are a clock striking twelve and a killer's taunting words. And his death is just the first. One by one, victims are stalked and shot at close range. Only the killer knows their sins, and who will be the next to die at midnight...
And In Life...
In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death
...Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Eighteen-year-old Evie Jones's entire career?or at least what's left of it?is at the mercy of her reclusive grandma, Gigi. Blacklisted from Hollywood for badmouthing a famous director, only a public appearance with America?s most beloved actress (one who?s been out of the limelight for nearly thirty years) can save Evie?s career. So, of course, the week Evie is meant to present her grandma with a Lifetime Achievement award, Gigi...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Julie Crawford leaves Fort Wayne, Indiana, for Hollywood, she never imagines she'll cross paths with Carole Lombard, the actress from Julie's hometown. Julie wants to be a screenwriter, but the only job she can find is in the publicity office of the demanding producer David O. Selznick, who is burning through directors, writers, and money as he films Gone with the Wind. Carole hires Julie as an assistant and invites her into the glamorous...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Birdie Robinson thought she'd gotten everything she wanted out of life: fame, adoration and an A-list career as Hollywood's most beloved ingenue. But after an on-set feud goes viral, she's forced to go into hiding in the one place where no one would think to find her: her childhood home. Wallowing in her bedroom, she stumbles upon an anonymous love letter from a former boyfriend and decides that a very public reunion with her nameless suitor could...
96) The body double
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A dark, glittering debut novel, The Body Double is the suspenseful story of a young woman who is recruited by a stranger to give up her old life and identity to impersonate a reclusive Hollywood star. A strange man discovers our nameless narrator selling popcorn at a decrepit small-town movie theater and offers her an odd and lucrative position: she will forget her job, her acquaintances, even her name, and move to Los Angeles, where she will become...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From Entertainment Weekly writer Maureen Lee Lenker comes a swoony romantic comedy set in the world of 1930s film. Joan Davis is a movie star, and a damned good actor, too. Unfortunately, Hollywood only seems to care when she stars alongside Dash Howard, Tinseltown's favorite leading man and a perpetual thorn in Joan's side. She's sick of his hotshot attitude, his never-ending attempts to get a rise out of her-especially after the night he sold her...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It was supposed to be the highlight of her career, the pinnacle for which she'd worked all her life. And as Hattie McDaniel took the stage in 1940 to claim an honor that would make her the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, she tearfully took her place in history. Between personal triumphs and tragedies, heartbreaking losses, and severe setbacks, this historic night of winning best supporting actress for her role as the sassy Mammy...
99) Brazen
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A killer is reenacting the deaths of Hollywood's blond bombshells, and Valentino must stop him before it's too late in Loren D. Estleman's Brazen. UCLA film archivist and sometime film detective Valentino doesn't take friend and former actress Beata Limerick very seriously when she tells him that she quit acting because of the curse on blond actresses. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Thelma Todd, Sharon Tate... they all had more fun, but none of...
100) Big sky wedding
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Wedding bells are rining in Parable, Montana, but Brylee Parris hasn't enjoyed the sound since being jilted at the altar by Hutch Carmody. She's over Hutch now, and running a multimillion-dollar business is challenging enough for this country gal. So she should avoid falling head-over-boot-heels for A-list actor Zane Sutton. He's come home to his rodeo roots, but Hollywood lured him away once and just might again. Yet everything about him, from his...
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