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41) Open book
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as inspiring as it is entertaining. This was supposed to be a very different book. Five years ago, Jessica Simpson was approached to write a motivational guide to living your best life. She walked away from the offer, and nobody understood...
42) Brother & sister
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A memoir by the award-winning actress about her younger brother, Randy, and the ways in which siblings' lives can diverge and then come back together"--
43) The lioness
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1964, Hollywood royalty Katie Barstow and her new husband, along with her glittering entourage, arrive for their luxury African safari, but are instead taken hostage by Russian mercenaries, in this blistering story of fame, race, love, and death set in a world on the cusp of great change.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Beast relates the true story of how he was unintentionally rude to a fairy while preparing for an audition, then won the heart of a beautiful girl despite his appearance and odor.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sunday leads a solitary existence, spending most of his time reading and fishing on his boat, hidden among the Ten Thousand Islands off the Florida coast. It has been years since he has spoken with anyone outside of his priest and confidant, Steady. Because Steady once saved his life, Sunday can't refuse when he asks him to save another. Katie Quinn, a world-famous actress, has been driven by a secret and the pressures of her fame to end her life....
47) Wishful drinking
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir based on the author's one-woman show describes growing up with celebrity parents, her early success in "Star Wars," battle with addiction and mental illness, turbulent romances, role as a single mother, and struggle for recovery and healing.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feels for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they each try to navigate an unconventional romance.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feels for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they each try to navigate an unconventional romance.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A struggling actress in 1990s New York City searches for work and the perfect hair product while befriending a rival and resisting her father's pressure to get a "real" job.
52) Fade to black
Author
Series
Krewe of hunters volume 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
After witnessing the murder of a co-star at the hands of killer who seems to vanish into thin air, cult TV star Marnie Davante partners with private investigator Bryan McFadden to keep her safe.
54) Greenlights
Author
Publisher
Crown
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. This book is an album, a record, a story of his life and the graces, truths, and...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 234 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memoir, including an eye-opening insider account of her tumultuous and heart-wrenching thirty-year-plus association with the Church of Scientology.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before his name became synonymous with a new style of comedy; before he had written, directed, or produced his first movie or TV show; before he and his roommate Adam Sandler were performing stand up at dive bars in LA; before all that, Judd Apatow was a kid in Syosett, Long Island who was utterly obsessed with comedy. At 16, he started hosting a radio show for his local high school station, and he would call up the biggest comics of the day - comics...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Scrappy Little Nobody, Anna Kendrick invites readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candor and winningly wry observations about her life and career as an actress and singer.
59) High on arrival
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Gallery Books trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 306 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author, best known for her role on the sitcom "One Day at a Time," reveals her story of growing up in a legendary rock-and-roll family, the demons she has battled, and the redemption and peace she ultimately found.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First Vintage Books Edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 261 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the lesser-known technological talents of actress Hedy Lamarr and the collaborative work with avant-garde composer George Antheil that eventually led to the development of spread-spectrum radio, cell phones, and GPS systems.