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2023.
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English
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"From Rodeo Drive to the French Riviera, Karin Tanabe's The Sunset Crowd is a tale of survival and reinvention, of faking it until you make it, and the glittering appeal of success and stardom, as it seeks to answer that timeless question-who gets to havethe American dream? Money and fame: in 1970's Los Angeles, everyone is fighting to reach the top, but very few have the talent, ambition, and luck to get there. Meet LA darling Evra Scott. The daughter...
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"A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations. Penelope Schleeman, a consistently broke Connecticut high school teacher, is as surprised as anyone when her sensitive debut novel, "American Mermaid"-the story of a wheelchair-bound scientist named Sylvia who...
3) Bungalow 2
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English
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A Marin County mom and freelance writer is offered the chance to write a major Hollywood screenplay. She is torn between her new life in Hollywood and her family back home.
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A sci-fi film writer discovers a body frozen in time and poised to climb from the city of the dead to the city of light.
Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and...
5) Pictures
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BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1981
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English
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Series set during the silent film era in a British studio. The heroine wants to become a star and the hero is a writer whose script is inspired by her dreams. The writer doesn't realize that she is in love with him, or that he is falling in love with her. She wants to star in his film, but other more influential women also compete for the role.
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"An exposé of patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited. It is never just One Bad Man. Abuse and exploitation of workers is baked into the very foundations of the entertainment industry. To break the cycle and make change that sticks, it’s important to stop looking at headline-making stories as individual events. Instead, one must look...
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Rick Barron mysteries volume 1
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English
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Brash detective Rick Barron enters the infamous Hollywood fast lane in this thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series.
Los Angeles, 1939. It’s Hollywood’s Golden Age, and Rick Barron is a suave and sharp detective on the Beverly Hills force. After a run-in with his captain, he finds himself demoted, but soon lands a job on the security detail for Centurion...
Los Angeles, 1939. It’s Hollywood’s Golden Age, and Rick Barron is a suave and sharp detective on the Beverly Hills force. After a run-in with his captain, he finds himself demoted, but soon lands a job on the security detail for Centurion...
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Ria Parkar is Bollywood's favorite Ice Princess--beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof--until one impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive past. Traveling home to Chicago for her cousin's wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming media storm and find solace in family, food, and outsized celebrations that are like one of her vibrant movies come to life. But it also means confronting Vikram Jathar. Ria and Vikram spent childhood summers...
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Pebble, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Movies are fun to watch with your family and friends. Who are the people who create these entertaining escapes? From special effects artists to writers to animal trainers, many people work together to serve the needs of a movie set. Learn about their important work in this book from the Wonderful Workplaces series"--
"Movies are fun to watch with your family and friends. Who are the people who create these entertaining escapes? From special effects...
13) S.O.B
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Warner Brothers Entertainment Incorporated
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Felix Farmer's latest movie flops, and lots of Hollywood types spring into action. Agents are called. Lawyers are retained. Statements are issued.
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Firebird
Pub. Date
[2007]
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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When her annoying older sister gets a bit part in a movie, fourteen-year-old Jet and her family travel to Ollywood--the movie capital of their earth-like planet--where, on a trip through the city's subways, Jet and her robot dog Otis are transported to a world of rejected fantasy and science fiction movies and must try to find their way back to reality.
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Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"The story opens in the silent film era, when white actors in blackface often played black characters, but also saw the rise of independent African American filmmakers, including the remarkable Oscar Micheaux. It follows the changes in the film industry with the arrival of sound motion pictures and the Great Depression, when black performers such as Stepin Fetchit and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson began finding a place in Hollywood. More often than not,...
17) Fame
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Series
Baxter family series. Firstborn volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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As Dayne Matthews returns to Hollywood after his shocking discovery in Karen's best-selling novel Reunion, he faces the dangerous world of fame and paparazzi. Meanwhile, Katy Hart receives the offer of a lifetime--starring opposite Dayne in a Hollywood film. Dayne and Katy's choices will change their hearts and lives forever.
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A Valentino mystery volume 7
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Vamp is a hot new Valentino mystery by Loren D. Estleman, the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. Renowned film detective Valentino is on a quest to help restore The Comet, an extinct drive-in movie theater, and his trail leads him to Leo Kalishnikov, who requests a favor first--rid him of a blackmailer from his shady past, and he'll gladly hand over the money that...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Brent Spiner's explosive and hilarious novel is a personal look at the slightly askew relationship between a celebrity and his fans. If the Coen Brothers were to make a Star Trek movie, involving the complexity of fan obsession and sci-fi, this noir comedy might just be the one. Set in 1991, just as Star Trek: The Next Generation has rocketed the cast to global fame, the young and impressionable actor Brent Spiner receives a mysterious package and...
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