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1) Harvest Moon
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Return to Virgin River with the books that started it all ... The recipe for happiness: making it up as you go along Rising sous-chef Kelly Matlock's sudden collapse at work is a wake-up call. Disillusioned and burned out, she's retreated to her sister Jillian's house in Virgin River to rest and reevaluate. Puttering in Jill's garden and cooking with her heirloom vegetables is wonderful, but Virgin River is a far cry from San Francisco. Kelly's starting...
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Christmas has, indeed, arrived early with this romp."-Booklist
July is a great time to celebrate Christmas! In the wild world of making a TV Christmas movie, a hot and sunny upstate New York summer becomes a winter wonderland, overnight. But as cool as the fake snow is, when the real life hero gets tangled up with the movie star, the screenwriter grapples for control of the story, and the fans become a hazard to life and limb, it'll take a Christmas...
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The Permanent Press
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2015.
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English
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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.
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Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism and film.
“Nora Ephron: A Biography” is the first comprehensive portrait of the Manhattan-born girl who forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration from critics and fans alike. Author Kristin Marguerite Doidge explores the tremendous successes and disappointing failures Ephron sustained in her career as a popular essayist turned screenwriter...
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Chicago Review Press
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In 1933, Joan Harrison was a twenty-six-year-old former salesgirl with a dream of escaping both her stodgy London suburb and the dreadful prospect of settling down with one of the local boys. A few short years later, she was Alfred Hitchcock's confidante and one of the Oscar-nominated screenwriters of his first American film, Rebecca . Harrison had quickly grown from being the worst secretary Hitchcock ever had to one of his closest collaborators,...
7) Goodbye L.A
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A screenwriter stage dives into L.A.'s punk rock scene to find a missing reporter as Sinclair mixes "hard-edged realism ... [and] humor" in a "fine" novel (Gerald Petievich, author of To Live and Die in L.A. ). Four years ago, when Capt. George Steifer charged screenwriter Ben Crandel with murder, it didn't look like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But Hollywood makes strange bedfellows, and now the cop has come to his writer pal for help....
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The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"The life and career of the pioneering writer-director whose name is synonymous with sophisticated screwball comedies. Preston Sturges was known for bringing sophistication and wit to the genre of comedy, establishing himself as one of the most valuable writer-directors in 1940s Hollywood. Today, more than a half century after they were originally produced, his films have lost little of their edge and remain extremely popular. Intrepid Laughter is...
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The University Press of Kentucky
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[2012]
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English
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"A treasure trove of observations and anecdotes about Hollywood from the 1960s to the 1980s and the people who made the movies back then." -- Associated Press The son of famed director and screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz and the nephew of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz was genuine Hollywood royalty. He grew up in Beverly Hills and New York, spent summers on his dad's film sets, had his first drink with Humphrey Bogart,...
10) Lucky Leap Day
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Sourcebooks
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[2022]
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English
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Up-and-coming screenwriter Cara Kennedy has the biggest meeting of her career in two days-but for now, she's on vacation. Her short trip to Ireland is all planned out:
• See the sites around Dublin
• Don't think about her jerk of an ex she was supposed to spend this trip with
• Relax with some Irish whiskey
• Propose to a sexy Irish musician on Leap Day
• Wake up married
Wait, those last two things weren't on her list...
A whirlwind trip...
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Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Stone himself serves as guide to this no-holds-barred retrospective-an extremely candid and comprehensive monograph of the renowned and controversial writer, director, and cinematic historian in interview form.
Over the course of five years, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone (Midnight Express, Scarface, Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Snowden) and New York Times bestselling author Matt Zoller Seitz (The Wes Anderson Collection) discussed,...
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In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts -- Moby Dick -- in the form of a workable screenplay so the great director can begin filming. But from the moment he sets foot on Irish soil, the author embarks on an unexpected odyssey. Meet congenial IRA terrorists, tippling men of the cloth...
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