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On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge -- and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with...
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In this darkly comic thriller set in modern-day Hollywood, an aging private eye is hired by a rising young actor at the center of a scheme gone wrong. David Spandau is a P.I. and sometime rodeo cowboy. At the tail end of some much-needed vacation time, he takes a meeting with a talent agent whose client, Bobby Dye, is being blackmailed and threatened. Dye is young, brash, and on the verge of becoming a major starif he lasts that long. It turns out...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Falling victim to an explosion in the heart of Paris, legendary film and stage actress Carole Barber awakens, only to have lost her memories of herself, her career, and her family, and must struggle to put the pieces of her life back together.
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English
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Steve C. McQueen's only screen credits are playing dead bodies on cop and doctor shows, and now he's paying the rent by understudying movie sex symbol Josh Harper, who's trying to gain dramatic credibility in a West End play. If only Josh would miss a performance, Stephen could get his big break, prove his talent, and redeem himself in the eyes of his disapproving ex-wife and their precocious seven-year-old daughter. Stephen gets his chance when he...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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When four fans jokingly invite world-famous kid actor Cash Carter on a cross-country trip, his unexpected acceptance leads to a paparazzi-filled adventure of friendship, loss, and revelations.
13) The chaperone
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English
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This is a novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the thirty-six-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When Lacey lands a starring role in a movie opposite one of Hollywood's hottest actors, she struggles with the realities of life in the spotlight before a malicious saboteur changes her perspective about her ambitions.
15) The Blackwoods
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Caitlin Singleberry is a proper Christian teenager and member of a family singing group, but today she has been given a truly impossible assignment--keep her cousin Heller Harrigan, Hollywood wild child, out of trouble for the last weekend before her first big movie debuts.
17) Evie & Margie
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Best friends hippopotamuses, Evie and Marjie, are surprised to experience jealousy when they try out for the same part in the school play.
18) Tribute
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Former child star Cilla McGowan returns to the Blue Ridge Mountain area to restore her grandmother's farmhouse, which began to fall into ruin after the woman's death; but after Cilla discovers a secret pile of unsigned letters in the attic leads, she encounters a series of personal attacks.
20) Demon Rumm
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Author Kirsten Rumm reluctantly allows an arrogant actor to stay at her beachfront home while the filming of the movie about her husband is going on; but when the handsome Rylan North shows an interest in her, she does her best to put him off.
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