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1) Tribute
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
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.
2) The humbling
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Language
English
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Description
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth’s startling book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, “are melted into air, into thin air.” When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines
...4) Genuine lies
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Connecticut writer Julia Summers is in for some shocking revelations about her own life and the lives of others when she accepts a job as biographer for Eve Benedict, a movie goddess who has decided to write her memoirs.
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Series
Language
English
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Charles Paris's acting career plumbs new depths when he takes on the part of a possible murder victim in Public Enemies, a true-crime TV series. Finding himself in a bizarre world somewhere between police procedure and showbiz, Charles can't help getting involved in the investigation - especially when dismembered limbs start turning up.
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Series
Language
English
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Things are going suspiciously well for Charles Paris. He has moved back in with his ex-wife and landed a proper part in a proper production: Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night. But when two members of the theatre company suddenly fall ill, Charles finds himself in trouble again - both on and off stage.
Author
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Harper, a thirty-year-old struggling actress, believes her life has finally turned around when she lands a role in a Broadway play as understudy to a New York diva, but she begins to wonder what God has in store for her when she signs up for an online dating site hoping to meet someone in the city, and the only man who interests her is on the West Coast.
Author
Language
English
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Description
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...
13) Demon Rumm
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Language
English
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Description
After a long period of 'resting', life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast as the Ghost of Hamlet's Father and First Gravedigger in a new production of Hamlet. But rehearsals are fraught. Ophelia is played by Katrina Selsey, who won the role through a television talent show. Hamlet himself is also played by a reality TV contestant, Jared Root – and the two young stars have rather different views of celebrity and the theatre than the...
15) The lioness
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
17) Ancient light
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An actor in the twilight of his career reflects on a poignant first love affair at the age of fifteen with his best friend's mother and inexplicably lands a role opposite a famous but fragile actress who helps him come to an astonishing realization.
18) Franny and Zooey
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1961
Language
English
Description
After suffering a fainting spell while visiting her boyfriend at college, twenty-year-old Franny Glass comes home to recover and sort out a number of personal conflicts.
19) The breaker
Author
Language
English
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Description
Police Constable Nick Ingram is called to investigate when a woman's body is found washed up on a deserted shore on the south coast of England, but his instinctive dislike of the handsome young actor who reported the gruesome discovery gives way to suspicion of the woman's husband.
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