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Ruth Saunders leaves her Massachusetts home and heads west with her seventy-year-old grandmother to pursue her dream of becoming a screenwriter, and when after six years she finally gets the call, for her sitcom, her dreams of Hollywood happiness are threatened by demanding actors, number-crunching executives, an unrequited crush on her boss, and her grandmother's impending nuptials.
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After his plastic surgery goes awry, actor Todd Pickett settles into a mansion in Coldheart Canyon to wait for the scars to heal, but when the president of his fan club arrives to try and uncover the truth behind his disappearance, she learns some unsettling secrets about the canyon.
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"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie 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 for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...
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Coco Barrington, the daughter of a best-selling author and sister of a top Hollywood producer, takes a job dog sitting for a friend, and when she arrives at the house meets Leslie Baxter, an actor who is staying at the home and with whom she feels an immediate attraction, but the pressures of celebrity and the changes going on with her family threaten to tear the two apart.
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Detective Renee Ballard is working the graveyard shift again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets.The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help and she relents. Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old...
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Hollywood series volume 3
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The story of four adult children of Hollywood celebrities who always get what they want--until a serial killer starts hunting them down.
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When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale, shes feeling like "something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting." Suzanne is in the harrowing and hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation, trying to understand what happened to her life and how she managed to land in a "drug hospital."
10) Lucky stars
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Stacey Reiser leaves Cleveland for Hollywood in the hopes of starting an acting career and escaping her lovable but meddlesome mother, but her plan backfires when her mother sells her house and follows her to California.
11) Remake
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Live-action films are a thing of the past in the Hollywood of the future, where moviemaking is entirely computerized. But Alis, who wants to dance in films herself, may succeed in subverting technology.
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Toby Peters mysteries volume 24
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Hollywood detective Toby Peters agrees to help world-famous magician Harry Blackstone find out who is trying to ruin the magician's career, but as the body count rises, Toby begins to wonder if he is in over his head.
13) Celebutantes
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Lola Santisi, the aimless twenty-six-year-old daughter of an Academy Award-winning Hollywood director, decides to put her fashion sense to work trying to persuade an A-list actress to wear a dress to the Oscars designed by her friend Julian, but she is hindered by competition from the representative from Prada, as well as her own inability to resist self-absorbed actors.
14) Beautiful people
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A witty, utterly addictive novel from bestselling author Wendy Holden, Beautiful People is a tale wicked in its observations yet buoyant at its heart: an irresistible confection you'll want to devour immediately. Darcy-a struggling English rose actress when The Call comes from L.A. An Oscar-tastic director. A movie to make her famous. The hunkiest costar in Hollywood. So why doesn't she want to go? Belle-a size-zero film star but she's in big, fat...
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Valentino mysteries volume 2
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Valentino is not sure if he should believe Rankin, a developer who claims he is being blackmailed over a letter proving his late wife was having an affair with actress Greta Garbo, but when Rankin kills a man, Valentino decides to take on the case and uncover the truth, no matter whose reputation it could ruin.
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Toby Peters mysteries volume 22
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Private eye Toby Peters agrees to deliver a package for Cary Grant, not realizing the danger the seemingly simple assignment will lead to.
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Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the best one hundred English-language novels by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song "Day of the Locusts" in homage, and Matt Groening's Homer Simpson is named after one of its characters. No novel more perfectly captures the nuttier side of Hollywood. Here the lens...
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Toby Peters mysteries volume 18
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A movie extra is found dead on the Gone With the Wind set and five years later, Clark Gable, a possible witness to the murder, begins receiving death threats and enlists the aid of an investigator.
19) The lawgiver
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Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director has rejected her rabbinical father's strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multi-billionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses if the script meets certain standards, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including a reunion with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business.
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Maybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth -- Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast and former Guiness Book record holder as the world's shortest woman. All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American...
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