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Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An intensely personal investigation of loss told with intelligence and restraint, Victoria Jenkins' second novel, Cruise Control, is an exploration of space and self, real and unreal, and a noir celebration of language and observation.
3) Lucky stars
Author
Language
English
Description
"Wildly inventive ... Heller's prose is quite funny and always engaging." -- PEOPLE "Fresh language, with singular energy ... spirited, effortless entertainment." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Stacey's acting career is on the rise, she can feel it. After leaving Cleveland for the glamour of Hollywood, she knows she's on the path to becoming a star. The big screen is calling her. Well, it could be. With her mother buzzing her cellphone every twenty minutes,...
Author
Series
Harlequin desire volume 2148
Publisher
Harlequin Desire
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A True Hollywood Love Story?
Who's the exotic beauty on the arm of mega-hot ladies' man Bronson Dane? Word is she's Mia Spinelli, recently rumored to be the mistress of her former boss-;and Bronson's longtime industry rival. Now she's the personal assistant to Bronson's mother. Is Mia getting "personal" with Bronson, too? He's been spotted escorting her into a Hollywood doctor's office, and Mia has a noticeable baby bump. Has the sultry assistant...
Author
Series
Harlequin desire volume 2237
Publisher
Harlequin Desire
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Calling L.A.'s most eligible M.D.!
Brilliant Hollywood cosmetic surgeon Noah Foster has perfection at his fingertips. Even so, he knows better than any man that losing someone you love comes at a cost. Which is why he can't walk away from Callie Matthews. When an accident shatters her dreams of stardom, he vows to heal her, inside and out.
Yet living in close quarters makes their red-hot attraction impossible to ignore. Being at Callie's bedside...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Gives readers more of what they've come to expect from Penny Vincenzi: a thoroughly enjoyable family saga with glamour, romance and drama to spare." -Bookreporter
A mysterious, tragic accident in the 1950s. An inexplicable suicide twenty years later. What was the strange link between the two-and Caroline Hunterton's long-buried past? A secret which could not be kept forever, especially from her two daughters, Chloe and Fleur. Fate had separated...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Anna David turns her reporter's eye for detail toward Tinseltown's seedy underbelly yet again and "eloquently and humorously unveil[s] what could be a new subgenre: Chick Lit with a Message" (New York Post). Tired of gathering banal quotes from the B-list on the sidelines of the red carpet, Emma Swanson publicly yearns for a more substantial career but privately dreams of a hotshot boyfriend to transport her into the beating heart of the Hollywood...
Author
Series
Alien superstar volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The out-of-this-world second book in superstar authors Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver's newest New York Times -bestselling middle-grade series 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...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hollywood detective Toby Peters does a job for one of Tinseltown's finest It's been four years since security guard Toby Peters got fired from the Warner Brothers lot for breaking a screen cowboy's arm. Since then he's scratched out a living as a private detective -- missing persons and bodyguard work, mostly -- but now his old friends, the Warners, have a job for him. Someone has mailed the studio a picture of Errol Flynn caught in a compromising...
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...
11) Cold Poison
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Retired in Los Angeles, Miss Withers investigates a Tinseltown poisoning At Hollywood's most renowned cartoon studio, there are a few things you simply do not draw: snakes, cows with udders, violence, and death. So when Janet Poole finds a doodle of the studio's famous cartoon penguin with a noose around its neck, she takes the drawing as a threat. Someone at the studio has murder on the mind. The top brass reach out to Hildegarde Withers, a retired...
12) The Wrong Girl
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Next title in the Faye Longchamp Archaeological Mysteries. When tragedy strikes and everything she loves is threatened, Faye Longchamp, an expert in American archaeology, will resort to desperate measures. Because some losses cut to the bone…
A murder mystery with an archaeological twist, Wrecked is:
• Florida-based mystery
• Perfect for fans of James Lee Burke and Nevada Barr
• For readers of archaeological mysteries
The suspicious drowning...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Urn Burial, the next historical mystery featuring the sultry, sharp-as-a-whip Miss Fisher. Can she find a way to clear up a muddied murder?
"Another Down Under adventure that's definitely a cut above."-Booklist
Looking for a murder mystery with a touch of romance? This book is for you:
• Perfect for Fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear
• Inspired the Netflix show Miss Fisher's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When tragedy strikes the set of America's most popular soap opera, the show's starlet begins to fear for her life Jane Dunne has a future in Hollywood. After years of striving, she's finally landed a juicy part on Valentine Valley, the highest-rated soap on daytime TV. Fame will be hers, no matter whom she has to hurt to get it. But fate, it seems, has other plans. As Jane readies for her first close-up, a stage light falls from above, breaking...
Author
Series
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Lexi Carmichael: helping geeks everywhere get some. Okay, so it's not exactly as it seems, but that's what's happening on the dating reality show called Geeks Get Some that I, geek extraordinaire Lexi Carmichael, have been called to work on. Not that I'm a fan of reality shows (I can barely deal with my own reality). Still, I've been sent to Hollywood to find a hacker who's screwing with the results of the show's online voting system. So what happens...
16) Get Shorty
Author
Language
English
Description
Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, pursues a mark, who's behind in payments, to Las Vegas and then to Hollywood where Harry Zimm has gambled away the $200,000 earmarked for his next production.
17) Pomegranate Seed
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Sydney, Oscar-winning grande dame of Hollywood, known to friends as Liza Jane, is 80. She "isn't ready to go. She doubts she ever will be, but she feels the tug as if someone is trying to hand her a rail ticket and the crowd is pushing her down the platform. So she's making her will again, because this time she knows what she wants to say." An assortment of family and friends assemble for the funeral, leading to the spontaneous combustion...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A serial killer lurks in people's homes for hours or days before he strikes... The nightmare descends on a Tuesday. An elderly couple's home is transformed into a scene straight out of a horror film, their mutilated bodies the only clue left behind by the killer--and they are only the unlucky first in a series of impossible crimes. Soon dubbed the Eastside Creeper, the murderer stalks Hollywood, camping out undetected in his victims' homes until...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Language
English
Description
A “scathing novel” of one woman’s path of self-destruction in 1960s Hollywood—by the New York Times–bestselling author of The White Album (The Washington Post Book World).
Spare, elegant, and terrifying, Play It as It Lays is the unforgettable story of a woman and a society come undone.
Raised in the ghost town of Silver Wells, Nevada, Maria Wyeth is an
...Spare, elegant, and terrifying, Play It as It Lays is the unforgettable story of a woman and a society come undone.
Raised in the ghost town of Silver Wells, Nevada, Maria Wyeth is an
20) Youngblood Hawke
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A writer finds wealth, fame, and sorrow in midcentury Manhattan in "a tremendous novel ... full of wisdom and pain" by a #1 New York Times -bestselling author ( Los Angeles Times ). Arthur Youngblood Hawke, an ex-Navy man, moves from hardscrabble rural Kentucky to New York, hoping to make his mark on the literary world. His first novel becomes an instant hit, and he is toasted by critics and swept along on a tide of celebrity. But as he gives himself...
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