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Danny Ryan trilogy volume 2
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English
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On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life. But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him. And when Hollywood starts shooting...
142) The comeback
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Language
English
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"A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a charming, manipulative film director and the moment when she decides his time for winning is over. At the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, teen star Grace Turner disappeared. Now, tentatively sober and surprisingly numb, Grace is back in Los Angeles after her year of self-imposed exile. She knows the new private...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
At the dawn of a new century, America is falling in love with silent movies. Wong Liu Tsong and her sister, daughters of Chinese immigrants who own a laundry, are taunted and bullied for their Chinese heritage. Determined to become an actress, Wong Liu has already chosen a stage name: Anna May Wong. Defying her disapproving father and her Chinese traditional upbringing will hold emotional and physical consequences. Her first taste of Hollywood fame...
144) Ha'penny
Author
Series
[Peter Carmichael series] volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Farthing, Inspector Carmichael has just come off the Farthing case and has been assigned to a bombing which killed leading actress Lauria Gilmore. Meanwhile Viola Lark has been chosen to act Hamlet in a gender-switching production of the play following Gilmore's untimely death and is drawn into a plot to kill Hitler at the opening night of the play, along with Prime Minister Mark Normanby, the lead figure in the increasingly fascistic...
Author
Publisher
Atria
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Leigh Kendall reveled in her stellar Broadway acting career and in her marriage to Logan Manning, scion of an old New York family. When her husband finds the perfect mountain property for their dream house, he decides to surprise Leigh with her first view of the site. Driving upstate on a winter's night, Leigh is run off the road in the midst of a blinding blizzard. When she awakes in the local hospital, seriously injured, the police inform her that...
146) Lucid
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
What if you could dream your way into a different life? What if you could choose to live that life forever? Sloane and Maggie have never met. Sloane is a straight-A student with a big and loving family. Maggie lives a glamorously independent life as an up-and-coming actress in New York. The two girls couldn't be more different--except for one thing. They share a secret that they can't tell a soul. At night, they dream that they're each other. The...
147) Actress: a novel
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English
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"From the Man Booker Prize-winner, a brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. Katherine O'Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother's celebrated career and bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother's and her own. Katherine began her career on Ireland's bus-and-truck circuit before making it to London's West End,...
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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. 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 enticing a fresh batch of young hopefuls, anxious, desperate and willing to do whatever it takes to make it. Careers...
Author
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
It has all the ingredients for a fun and relaxing winter vacation - a film festival, world-class winter games, a visit to an ancestral home, and the flattering attentions of a charming and handsome stranger. A time to unwind and reassess a tenuous career. How could actress Lesley Kern know that it could turn deadly? Now the seemingly simple and straightforward sale of her inherited home near Silver Forks Mountain has become an exercise in terror....
150) Masquerade
Author
Publisher
Bookcraft
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Meet Clarissa, a young, divorced LDS mother in desperate need of a job to support herself and her little girl. Bring in Slade, a handsome Hollywood star, also divorced and also LDS, in desperate need of a nanny for Bella, his four-year-old whirlwind of a daughter. Throw them together in Hawaii and the scene would be set for the perfect romance except that Clarissa had to pretend to be married to get the job in the first place, and now she...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. A recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children's game show villainess ushers in the New Year with her deadbeat half brother. A mother pining for her children, feasts on loaves of challah to fill the void. A new couple navigates a tightrope walk toward love. And on a trip to...
Author
Series
Spoiler alert volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Maria's one-night stand -- the thick-thighed, sexy Viking of a man she left without a word or a note -- just reappeared. Apparently, Peter's her surly Gods of the Gates costar, and they're about to spend the next six years filming on a desolate Irish island together. She still wants him...but he now wants nothing to do with her. Peter knows this role could finally transform him from a forgettable character actor into a leading man. He also knows...
153) Siren queen
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers." Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, she knows how dangerous the movie business is and how limited the roles are for a Chinese American girl from Hungarian Hill-but she doesn't care. She'd rather play a monster than a maid. But in Luli's world, the worst monsters in Hollywood are not...
154) A summer to remember
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For thirty-year-old Frankie Simon, selling movie memorabilia in the shop she opened with her late mother on Hollywood Boulevard is more than just her livelihood - it's an enduring connection to the only family she has ever known. But when a mysterious package arrives containing a photograph of her mother and famous movie stars Glory Cartwright and her husband at a coastal film festival the year before Frankie's birth, her life begins to unravel in...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A bridesmaid and groomsman put their differences aside to get their best friends down the aisle in this steamy opposites-attract romantic comedy. They say to never meet your heroes, but when Vivian Liao's roommate gets engaged to her favorite actor's costar, she has no choice but to come face-to-face with Melvin Lee again. He's just as funny and handsome as he is on-screen... but he thinks she's an ice queen and a corporate sellout. It's none of...
156) The perfect guests
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
1988. Beth Soames is fourteen years old when her aunt takes her to stay at Raven Hall. The Averells, the family who lives there, are warm and welcoming. Beth even feels like she's part of the family... until they ask her to help them with a harmless game--and nothing is ever the same. 2019. Sadie Langton is an actress who lands a well-paying gig to pretend to be guest at a weekend party. When she sees the stunning manor she'll be staying at, she figures...
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Series
Montana heat volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A Montana man always protects the woman he loves. He discovered her during a Montana blizzard, freezing cold, impossibly vulnerable, a little boy by her side. Undercover DEA Agent Beck "Trigger "Cooke is astonished to recognize Ashley Swan, award-winning actress, famous beauty--and missing for over a year. To keep her and the child hidden from a sadistic madman, he secrets the pair away to his isolated home. No longer a prisoner, and protected at...
158) The siren
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of a sizzling hot summer, some of Hollywood's most notorious faces are assembled on the idyllic Caribbean island of St. Genesius to film The Siren. Written and directed by Cole Power's son, the thriller promises to entice audiences with its sultry storyline and intimately connected cast. Three very different women arrive on set, each with her own motive. Stella, an infamously unstable actress, is struggling to reclaim the career she...
Author
Series
[Jennings family series] volume 2
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Renowned actress Ruby Chadwick, the Darling of Drury Lane, has long planned and prepared for her final performance. With exceptional beauty comes the unwanted attention of men, and after years of fending off odious suitors, Ruby is ready to leave it all behind in favor of a quiet life. The first step is to reclaim a piece of her past: her true identity as Lavinia Fernley. But leaving town unnoticed proves impossible, and in one desperate moment, Lavinia...
160) Doppelgangster
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Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
A struggling actress, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting New York City from Evil, a skeptical copand double the number of wiseguys that there should be. While working as a singing waitress in Little Italy, struggling actress Esther Diamond witnesses a mob hit. And right before getting whacked out, the victim tells her that he just saw his own doppio a perfect double and a notorious portent of death. Before long, more döppelgangers...
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