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1) Deadline
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Toots Loudenberry and her three best friends finds themselves navigating Hollywood's seedier side when a young starlet goes missing after last being seen with lawyer Chris Clay, the would-be beau of Toots' daughter, Abby.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reclusive Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant to write her story, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Determined to use this opportunity to jump-start her career, Monique listens in fascination. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to leaving show business in the '80s - and, of course, the seven husbands...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin travels from Hollywood to rural Montana as one man answers the question: How far would you go-really-to save someone you love?"-- Provided by publisher.
4) Tell-all
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
179 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After personal assistant Hazie Coogan discovers that a new suitor of her boss, movie star Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton, has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie's death, Hazie realizes she must hatch a plan to save Miss Kathie.
5) The wedding
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A twenty-nine-year-old high-powered entertainment attorney finds her life turned upside down when she meets a writer, is swept off her feet, and begins planning a wedding.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A hilarious new novel full of Hollywood glitz, glamour, and scandal. When he changes the locks, she changes the rules. Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife - she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they're living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties. But the job...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin travels from Hollywood to rural Montana as one man answers the question: How far would you go-really-to save someone you love?"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 7 hr., 45 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
They say a life well-lived is the best revenge...
Blanche Tucker longs to escape her drop-dead dull life in tiny Boynton, Oklahoma. Then dashing Graham Peyton roars into town. Posing as a film producer, Graham convinces the ambitious but naive teenager to run away with him to a glamorous new life. Instead, Graham uses her as cruelly as a silent picture villain. Yet by luck and by pluck, taking charge of her life, she makes it to Hollywood.
Six years...
Author
Language
English
Description
The first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, Hattie McDaniel, when the Oscar curse sets in, is thrust in the middle of two worlds--black and white--and is not welcomed in either but, through it all, continued her fight to pave a path for other Negro actors.
Author
Series
Ballard and Bosch volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Teaming up with Harry Bosch to reopen a cold case, LAPD detective Ren�ee Ballard navigates interpersonal differences to pursue justice for a murdered runaway in Hollywood.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.
Author
Publisher
[Blackstone Audio]
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (5 hours 30 minutes) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, its overarching themes deal with the alienation and desperation of a broad group of odd individuals who exist at the fringes of the Hollywood movie industry. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Day of the Locust #73 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included the...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.
Author
Publisher
Magic Attic Press
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
68 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Being asked to stand in for child star Rena Malone, Heather is thrilled with the chance of becoming famous, but when things in Hollywood begin to get a little suspicious, Heather wonders where the real Rena may be.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 344 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of reports about a young man who has been attacking women, LAPD cops Flotsam and Jetsam encounter a suspicious pair of individuals with ties to a deadly, high-tech organization that pits its own con artists against one another.
17) The late show
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Renee Ballard works the midnight shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing few, as each morning she turns everything over to the daytime units. It's a frustrating job for a once up-and-coming detective, but it's no accident. She's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.
But one night Ballard catches two assignments she doesn't want to part with. First, a prostitute...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A British actress discovers the dark side of Hollywood when she is the only witness to the sudden disappearance of a woman she meets at an audition in this psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water and Mr. Nobody. Once a year, actors from across the globe descend on the smog and sunshine of Los Angeles for pilot season. Every cable network and studio looking to fill the rosters of their new shows...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The movie business is booming in 1935 when twenty-one-year-old Loretta Young meets thirty-four-year-old Clark Gable on the set of The Call of the Wild. Though he's already married, Gable falls for the stunning and vivacious young actress instantly. Far from the glittering lights of Hollywood, Sister Alda Ducci has been forced to leave her convent and begin a new journey that leads her to Loretta. Becoming Miss Young's secretary, the innocent and...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Confined to Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage during the Great Depression, Chinese-American boy William Eng becomes convinced that a certain movie actress is actually the mother he has not seen since he was seven years old.