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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."
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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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"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Trist̀n, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Trist̀n discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if...
8) Laughing gas
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When a bratty Hollywood child star and an English aristocrat exchange souls at the dentist in Laughing Gas, the result is transatlantic mayhem at its funniest.
9) Maneater
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Here we find the story of an obscenely superficial yet beautiful Beverly Hills resident, Clarissa, who flits about town with a group of her equally obtuse girlfriends. Clarissa decides that it is time to get married, she set her sights on a man she hardly knows, mainly because of his supposed great wealth. After the briefest of courtships, she finds, upon marrying him, that he is destitute and her parents have cut her off as well.
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On June 28, 1980, the hottest night of the year, Kelly Michelle Lund shoots and kills Oscar-nominated director John McFadden at a party in his home, and instantly becomes a media sensation, her chilling smile fodder for national nightmares. For years, speculation swirls over the enigmatic seventeen-year-old's motives, information she's refused to share. Convicted of the murder, she loses her youth and her freedom-but keeps her secrets to herself....
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"In 1938, nineteen-year-old ranch hand Bud Frazer sets out for Hollywood. His little sister has been gone a couple of years now, his parents are finding ranch work and comfort for their loss where they can, but for Bud, Echol Creek--where he grew up and first learned to ride--is a place he can no longer call home. So he sets his sights on becoming a stunt rider in the movies and rubbing shoulders with the great screen cowboys of his youth"--Amazon.com....
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Sean Rosen books volume 1
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With the help of his "manager," a thirteen-year-old boy sells a movie idea to a major Hollywood studio.
14) Daniel Martin
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The eponymous hero of John Fowles's largest and richest novel is an English playwright turned Hollywood screenwriter who has begun to question his own values. Summoned home to England to visit an ailing friend, Daniel Martin finds himself back in the company of people who once knew him well, forced to confront his buried past, and propelled toward a journey of self-discovery through which he ultimately creates for himself a more satisfying existence....
15) Last scene alive
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Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 7
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Robin is back set to begin filming the movie version of the terrible events of so many years ago bringing with him a cast and crew which nearly overwhelms the tiny excitement-starved town. Everyone in Lawrenceton suddenly goes movie crazy. Roe's not so crazy about the whole thing...and neither is a secret, vicious murderer.
16) The big bamboo
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Serge Storms novels volume 8
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After failing at his pursuit of marriage in 'Torpedo Juice, 'Serge Storms attempts another noble mission: to bring Tinsel Town's attention back to Florida and revive the Sunshine State's presence in the movies. Along the way, he and his stoned-out sidekick Coleman run into Ford Oelman, a budding young screenwriter who's run afoul of Ian and Mel Glick, who run Vistamax Studios. When Serge blows into Hollywood, murder, mayhem and kidnapping break loose....
17) Medusa's web
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"In the wake of their Aunt Amity's suicide, Scott and Madeline Madden are summoned to Caveat, the eerie, decaying mansion in the Hollywood hills in which they were raised. But their decadent and reclusive cousins, the malicious wheelchair-bound Claimayne and his sister, Ariel, do not welcome Scott and Madeline's return to the childhood home they once shared. While Scott desperately wants to go back to their shabby South-of-Sunset lives, he cannot...
18) Fame
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After his shocking discovery in Kingsbury's Redemption series, Dayne Matthews returns to Hollywood. Meanwhile, young thespian Katy Hart receives the opportunity of a lifetime: a lead part opposite Dayne in a major motion picture.
19) Bollywood Dance
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"This . . . book explores the world of Bollywood dance, from the background to the moves to the outfits"--Provided by publisher.
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Lizzie Miller novels volume 2
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In The Second Assistant, readers across the country found a heroine they loved to love in Lizzie Miller, the smart and witty East Coast girl clinging for dear life to the bottom rung of the Hollywood ladder. But no more coffee runs and sorting thumbtacks by color for Lizzie; she's been promoted. As first assistant to Scott Wagner, now president of The Agency and one of Hollywood's premiere movers and shakers, she's making decisions and learning the...
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