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"Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it's her job. But when her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage's collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, is cast as her ne'er...
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Dresden files volume 6
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English
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While going undercover on the set of an adult film to investigate the mysterious deaths of several actresses, Chicago wizard Harry Dresden unexpectedly learns the shocking truth about his vampire friend Thomas.
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"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...
5) NYPD red
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NYPD red novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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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.
8) NYPD red 4
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NYPD red novels volume 4
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English
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An audacious jewel heist. A murdered actress. A killer case for NYPD Red. In a city where crime never sleeps, NYPD Red is the elite task force called in only when a case involves the rich, famous, and connected. Detective Zach Jordan and his partner, Kylie MacDonald--the woman who broke his heart at the police academy--are the best of the best, brilliant and tireless investigators who will stop at nothing to catch a criminal, even if it means antagonizing...
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Español
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Two egomaniacs commissioned by a millionaire to make a movie together in this sharp comedy skewering wealth, art, and pride.
A billionaire decides on a whim to create a movie, hiring a team he considers the best: a renowned filmmaker and two egotistical actors -- one from Hollywood and the other from experimental theatre -- who cannot get along. While the director creates bizarre rituals to test their abilities, the actors find themselves confronting...
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Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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With no memory of a long ago traumatic night, a seventeen-year-old aspiring documentary maker uses her camera to keep the world at a safe distance, but her latest subject, a forlorn and mysterious boy, sends her into a perilous, mind-bending journey.
11) Trio: a novel
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"From the award-winning, best-selling author comes a rollicking novel with a dark undertow, set around three unforgettable individuals and a doomed movie set. A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968--a time of war and assassinations, protests and riots. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a disaster-plagued, Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the movie shoot zigs and...
12) Boogie nights
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New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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A film that throws the covers back on California's adult entertainment industry in the swinging seventies through the story of rising porn star Dirk Diggler. It's a touching and often humorous portrait of a most unusual family of filmmakers, brought to dazzling life by an all-star cast and sizzling seventies soundtrack.
13) NYPD red 2
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NYPD red novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"NYPD Red--the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city--hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission. A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price. NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on...
14) Quentins
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Dutton
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Characters from previous Binchy novels make an appearance at Quentins, the restaurant in which Ella Brady wants to make a documentary.
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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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Kate Walden directs volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Budding film director Kate Walden navigates middle school girl politics and chores on her mother's chicken farm while trying to become the next Spielberg"--
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Series
Black stallion (Steven Farley) volume 4
Publisher
Random House Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While in Greece making a film about Alexander the Great, Alec Ramsay and the Black Stallion get lost and find an immortal city ruled by the tyrannical, ancient Thracian god-king Diomedes, whose flesh-eating mare, not yet tamed by Hercules, takes an dangerous interest in the Black Stallion.
18) The gray state
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Explores the circumstances surrounding the sudden and suspicious death of David Crowley, an aspiring independent filmmaker who was working on a dystopian movie about social breakdown and totalitarian government.
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The classroom volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As a documentary is filmed at their middle school, roles reverse for worrier Trevor and his lifelong best friend Libby, who has always rescued him from embarrassing situations but is now focused on being "cool" and no longer wants to be his "friend friend."
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Celebrating 30 years since the premiere of Martin Scorsese's signature film, this chronicle of the making and afterlife of the film that introduced America to the real modern gangster features interviews with the film's major players.
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