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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
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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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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...
12) The chaperone
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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.
13) Tribute
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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.
14) Demon Rumm
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Bantam Books
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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.
15) Beautiful Ruins
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“Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.” — Richard Russo
The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood
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Harlequin
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[2019]
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English
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A NEW IDENTITY, A NEW LOVE
Ever since Madison Delaney learned she was switched at birth, her life has been in a tailspin. The Hollywood actress arrives in Valentine Bay hesitant to reveal herself to her new family, but she quickly encounters Sten Larson living next door. The down-to-earth shipbuilder makes Madison question everything she thought she wanted. Can a movie star find happiness in small-town Oregon?
17) Breathing room
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William Morrow
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Join the New York Times bestselling author on a journey to the sun-washed hills of Tuscany. Another sexy, wonderful, contemporary love story with all the heart, wisdom, and wit that have made Susan Elizabeth Phillips the gold standard for women's fiction.
She's Dr. Isabel Favor, America's diva of self-help.
He's Ren Gage, Hollywood's favorite villain.
Sometimes you just know that God has a sense of humor.
Dr. Isabel Favor, author of Four Cornerstones...
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One sinful night. Dante D'Arezzo is the last person famous songwriter Justina Perry wants to see at her best friend's wedding. The wickedly sexy Italian is ruthless to the core. He broke her heart once; she won't surrender to his insatiable desire again. But what Dante wants, One very big scandal! Justina's pregnancy hits the front page and Dante knows he's the father. He'll make her pay for trying to keep his child from him. His Miss Independent...
19) Close up
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Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include shooting headshots for aspiring male actors or nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes. After shooting crime scene photos of a famous actress, the latest victim of the "Dagger Killer," Vivian notices eerie similarities to the crime scenes of previous Dagger Killer victims -- details that lead Vivian to become a target herself. Nick Sundridge has always been...
20) Southland tales
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
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English
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Director Richard Kelly's follow-up to 2001's surprisingly popular DONNIE DARKO is a sprawling dystopian satire featuring an all-star cast and a storyline that splinters off into strange and unexpected places.
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