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1) Star Island
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 6
Language
English
Description
Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherry's "undercover stunt double", portraying Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. But, one night, Ann-as-Cherry is mistakenly kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by an obsessed paparazzo named Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers (über-stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped-and-tucked...
Author
Series
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An entertaining, action-packed addition to the TCM program that celebrates an essential, but often overlooked or disregarded part of the film industry: stunts. Offering readers a unique perspective as well as history of the impact and evolution of stunt work, and behind-the-scenes stories from the stunt professionals who risked life and limb to make the magic happen"--
7) The boy toy
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A woman ready to give up on love discovers that age is truly just a number in this heartwarming and steamy new romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Nicola Marsh. For almost a decade, successful thirty-seven-year-old Samira Broderick has used her bustling Los Angeles practice as an excuse to avoid a trip home to Australia. She still resents her meddling Indian mother for arranging her marriage to a man who didn't stick around when the going...
Author
Language
English
Description
A memoir from one of the most successful stuntwomen in Hollywood chronicles her path to recovery from a childhood of sexual abuse and offers hope for others who have suffered through the same ordeal.
Foreword by Cameron Diaz A raw and heartening memoir of one woman’s journey from surviving childhood sexual abuse to becoming one of the most successful stuntwomen in Hollywood. “Reading Kimberly Shannon Murphy’s searing and vividly told memoir...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A feisty girl from a family of ranchers lands a job as a daredevil stunt girl in the early days of silent film in this adventurous and funny cross between Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken and Ramona. Pearl lives on a ranch where her chores include collecting eggs and feeding ornery ostriches. She has three older brothers, who don't coddle her at all. And she knows a thing or two about horses, too. One day, Pearl's brothers get cushy jobs doing stunts...
10) Stunt performers
Author
Publisher
Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Being a stunt performer is a fierce job filled with high speed chases and falls from high places! Only the best and bravest can do this job. This title is at a Level 2 and is written specifically for emerging readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards.
Author
Series
SpongeBob SquarePants chapter books volume 5
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
SpongeBob's ego--and head--swell when he is selected to star in a television special as the world's biggest daredevil, but hotshot producer Barry Cuda has another role in mind for him.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Kitty O'Neil was a force to be reckoned with. She became deaf as a child, but didn't let that stop her. And she grew up loving sports and action more than anything. After becoming a race car driver, Kitty sought to do what no woman had done before: she aimed to break the land-speed record! Kitty was a hero to fans everywhere, and proved that she was truly unstoppable. From Dean Robbins and Elizabeth Baddeley comes a high-octane biography that's equally...
15) Out of nowhere
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Zen student and stunt double Darcy Lott is thrilled to be reunited with her brother Mike, who disappeared twenty years earlier. But her joy at bringing him home to San Francisco turns to fear when she learns that he has become the victim of escalating attacks--and he has no idea who is targeting him. Darcy determines to find out who is after him and why--before the attacks turn deadly. However, when Darcy searches Mike's apartment, a disturbing discovery...
Author
Language
Español
Description
"Rick Dalton, un actor de television en decadencia, abocado al alcohol y en busca de un papel que lo redima, y Cliff Booth, su doble de escenas de accion y heroico veterano de guerra (con alguna que otra sombra), son los antiheroes de esta sorprendente novela, que va mucho mas alla del final que vimos en el cine. Los acompanan algunos secundarios de lujo, figuras historicas, como Sharon Tate o Charles Manson, pero tambien otras inventadas e indiscernibles...
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