When English Professor Marta Spëk is offered a film consultant’s contract, she’s fighting a bad case of year-end doldrums. She signs on, imagining that exotic hands-on work at the sandy location shoot for a made-in-Canada biopic will...
California--Los Angeles--Hollywood
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Author:Grubisic, Brett JosefSummary: -
Author:Tate, ReShondaSummary:As seen on The TODAY Show! Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood's most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars - and the first Black person ever to win...
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Author:Vanderhaeghe, GuySummary:The Englishman's Boy brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West - the Cypress Hills Massacre. Vanderhaeghe's rendering of the stark, dramatic...
- Author:Smiley, JaneSummary:
On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max--an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned--and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still groggy from last night's red-carpet festivities. They are talking about movies, talking...
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Author:Addams, BritaSummary:Sequel to Tarnished Gold Tarnished: Book Two Hollywood’s Golden Age is not all glitz and glamor. Mob boss Frankie Monetti controls the unions and the studios, which makes him and the syndicate very rich. But after five years, Frankie...
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Author:Addams, BritaSummary:In 1915, starstruck Jack Abadie strikes out for the gilded streets of the most sinful town in the country — Hollywood. With him, he takes a secret that his country hometown would never understand. After years of hard work and a chance...
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Author:Hawkins, Lori C.Summary:Screenwriter Nick Conte left sleepy Sweetwater Springs for the glitz and glamor of Hollywood only to be crushed by the reality of tourist traps, fast-food joints and disappointed dreamers. Serving coffee by day and toiling away on...
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Author:Tereba, TereSummary:Go deep into the L.A. underworld with the true story of one obsessive gangster’s unparalleled quest for privilege, power, and paydays
This biography of celebrity gangster Mickey Cohen digs past the sensational headlines...
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Author:Ifkovic, EdSummary:In June 1951, Edna Ferber heads to Hollywood to support an old friend who has found himself blacklisted, The McCarthy hearings in Washington have rattled Hollywood with allegations of Communist-leaning sympathies. She has no intention...
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Author:Ifkovic, EdSummary:It’s 1955, and Edna Ferber is basking in the success of her blockbuster novel Giant. Headed to Los Angeles, where director George Stevens and Warner Brothers Studio are in the final days of filming her Texas oil epic, she is looking...
- Author:Conrad, LaurenSummary:
À Hollywood, la célébrité peut se trouver à tous les coins de rue et derrière toutes les portes. Il suffit de savoir où regarder. Madison Parker, dix-neuf ans, s’est fait un nom en devenant la meilleure ennemie de la gentille Jane...
- Author:Pfeffer, AnneSummary:
When twenty-five-year-old Pru Anderson—braless, pajama-clad, and clutching her cat, Chuck—is rescued from her burning Los Angeles apartment, the thing that scares her most is meeting the neighbors. New people make her hide in the...
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Author:Locke, Hillary BellSummary:Jay Davidovich is a 6'4", 225-pound, blond-haired Jewish insurance apparatchik with Ukrainian parents and an American attitude. He is a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, not because of patriotic fervor but because he joined the National...
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He crossed an ocean, and it still wasn't enough to escape his lifelong nemesis. Now he has to work with her. Successful screenwriter Finn Masters just landed his dream job writing for Neighbors, one of Hollywood's highest-...
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Author:Garrett, KellyeSummary:Dayna Anderson doesn't set out to solve a murder. All the semi-famous, mega-broke actress wants is to help her parents keep their house. So after witnessing a deadly hit-and-run, she pursues the fifteen-grand reward. But Dayna soon...
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Author:Garrett, KellyeSummary:Tinseltown's awards season is in full swing, and everyone is obsessed with dressing up, scoring free swag, and getting invited to the biggest awards shows of the year. But when celebrity publicist Lyla Davis is killed, the festive mood...
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Author:Clark, TerriSummary:Aly King is about to fall for the fallen. My best friend Des and I totally freaked when we won the contest to meet the Dakota Danvers in Hollywood. But now we’re finding out he’s so not the angel everyone believes him to be. In fact,...
- Author:Conrad, LaurenSummary:
Madison Parker a découvert que toute publicité n’est pas de la bonne publicité. Après s’être dénoncée pour avoir volé des diamants, la vedette de télé-réalité se retrouve coincée à faire des travaux communautaires pendant que ses...
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Author:DeWitt, PatrickSummary:From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld. A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he...
