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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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After the whole village of Bishop's Lacey descends on Flavia de Luce's family's estate during a raging blizzard to watch the filming of a movie, a person ends up dead, strangled by a length of film, and the eleven-year-old budding chemist must find the killer.
"Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately...
2) Run time
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Lights. Feeling her stardom fading, struggling soap-actress Adele Rafferty is ready to give up on her dreams when she gets a last-minute offer to play the lead in upcoming horror film Final Draft. Could this be her big break? Will she have redemption for what happened the last time she was on a film set? Adele doesn't think twice before signing the dotted line. Camera. Adele quickly makes her way to set, deep into the isolated and wintry woods of...
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English
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"When we first meet Maria Lagana, she's rewriting scripts at Mercury Pictures, a failing Hollywood studio known for its schlock. Maria's job is to re-craft dialogue and action to circumvent the censors, a skill she's mysteriously adept at. Born in Italy, as a teenager Maria witnessed Mussolini's censors arrest her father, an event that will destroy her family and burden Maria with questions of guilt and responsibility she will carry with her throughout...
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Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A charming and rollicking holiday rom-com about a big-city film director who must convince the dreamy, yet grumpy, mayor of a small town to give her the permit to shoot her Christmas movie in his idyllic hometown. Will her Christmas wish come true? Zoey Andrews lives and breathes Christmas. She loves everything about the season, and after years of directing countless holiday movies, she certainly knows her way around a festive tale. So, when she...
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Recruited to finish a four-day action movie shoot, commercial director Lucy Armstrong finds the job challenged by egomaniacal actors, her stunt director ex-husband, and a would-be killer.
Lucy Armstrong runs into trouble when she steps in to finish a movie and finds a handsome military consultant who knows everything on the set.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In a tiny village in Italy, the self-appointed mayor (and vacuum cleaner repairman) Signor Speranza will do anything he can to save his beloved town. When he learns that the water is going to be cut off in sixty days unless he can come up with some quick cash, he tries to boost tourism by spreading a harmless rumor that major movie star Dante Rinaldi is planning to film a movie in the village. The plan works a little too well, and soon everyone wants...
9) NYPD red
Author
Series
NYPD red novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called.
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Series
Claude books (Alex T. Smith) volume 7
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Claude discovers a film set on the other side of the fence! When the two lead actors are injured, Claude and Sir Bobblysock are asked to take their places. Can they become movie stars with just the simple addition of a wig? Of course they can!"--
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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When Kate Morgan's grandfather pleads crypitcally that she "find the beautiful stranger," Kate jumps at the chance to get away from the family's failing business. Her search leads her to the Hotel del Coronado, where filming is underway for the movie Some Like It Hot. But even though Kate is sure the Coronado is her future, she discovers that it's also where the ghosts of the past have come to stay. As Kate's life intertwines with the of the guests...
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way and everyone must do their bit. Copywriter Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help write women into propaganda films--something that the men aren't very good at"--Page [4] of cover.
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Katya Hijazi novels volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Women in Saudi Arabia are expected to lead quiet lives circumscribed by Islamic law and tradition. But Katya, one of the few women in the Jeddah medical examiner's office, is determined to make her work mean something. When the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on the beach, the city's detectives are ready to dismiss the case as another unsolvable murder. Only Katya is convinced that the victim can be identified and her killer found. She calls...
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Series
Mainely needlepoint mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Needlepointers Angie and Sarah are helping with set design for the movie being shot in their little New England hometown, but as the lighthouse and the wharves bustle with activity, a real-life drama is about to unfold. The director, Marv Mason, has been harassing the pretty young female lead, and the two exchanged heated words at a lobster bake. Now someone's lowered the boom on him. After a wayward piece of sound equipment sends him to his death,...
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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Amateur sleuth and Native American tracker Gabriel Du Pre stumbles into trouble when he agrees to serve as an advisor on a documentary film project that has pitted the film crew against the entire town of Toussaint, Montana.
Montana native Gabriel Du Pré has been hired as a consultant by a group of filmmakers shooting a documentary on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Du Pré is a descendent of a Métis fiddler and voyageur named Cruzatte who accompanied...
16) Infamous
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English
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When history professor Alison Carter became a consultant to the film version of the Wild West legend she'd dedicated her career to researching, she couldn't possibly have known that she would not only get a front-row seat to a full-blown Hollywood circus but would innocently witness something that would put her life in peril. Nor did she expect that a tall stranger in a cowboy hat would turn the movie--and her world--completely upside down. A. J....
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"From the author of Remainder and Satin Island (which was short-listed for the Booker Prize), a high-tech odyssey through CGI studios, wind tunnels, and drone research centers, where the limits of healing, entertaining, revelation, and destruction are continually being transformed. A kaleidoscopic exploration of motion and how the forces that compel and impel us continues to defy capture and understanding. The historical starting point: Lillian Gilbreth,...
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Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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"Tras Sucedió un verano, Tessa Bailey nos regala otra deliciosa y divertida comedia romántica sobre un mujeriego que se enamora sin pretenderlo de su mejor amiga mientras la ayuda a conquistar a otro hombre. El rey de los pescadores de cangrejos Fox Thornton?goza de una reputación de ligón sexy y despreocupado. Todo el mundo sabe que estar con él es garantía de pasar un buen rato ?en la cama y fuera de ella? y así es como lo prefiere. Hasta...
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Series
Amish Inn novels volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From beloved bestselling author Beth Wiseman comes the second novel in the Amish Inn series-charming, sweet stories about two widowed innkeeping sisters who are determined to help their guests find love"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"An expedition has arrived in the frigid wilderness to shoot North to Fortune-an epic motion picture featuring authentic footage of majestic peaks, vast glaciers, homesteaders, and Alaska Natives. But the film's fortunes begin to go south as a local Native group grows angry at how they're portrayed in the movie, fights break out, and cast and crew are beset by accidents and assaults. Finally, production is halted when the inebriated director falls...
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