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1) Insatiable
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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When you’re starting a relationship, blood drinking is a big red flag . . . A delicious tale by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Enchanted to Meet You!
Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper. The soap opera writer is not happy when her show jumps onto the bloodsucker bandwagon and adds a vampire character. It’s not that she’s unfamiliar
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English
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"When Georgia Pritchett found herself lost for words -- a bit of a predicament for a comedy writer -- she booked an appointment with a therapist, who suggested that she try writing down some of the things that worried her. The therapist probably meant a light, mid-week grocery-list's worth of worries. Instead, Georgia wrote this book. From fretting about the monsters under her bed as a child (Were they comfy enough?) to agonizing about making too...
3) Year of yes
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English
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The creator of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal" details the one-year experiment with saying "yes" that transformed her life, revealing how accepting unexpected invitations she would have otherwise declined enabled powerful benefits.
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Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Pratfall-prone Rob and his wife Laura, along with wisecracking co-workers Sally and Buddy, continue to combined wit and slapstick. Opening with "That's My Boy?" and is about Rob's fear that he's brought the wrong baby home from hospital. "October Eve" is where Laura is mortified when a nude portrait of her surfaces in a New York gallery and "Big Max Calvada", a gangster muscles Rob, Buddy and Sally into writing a comedy routine for his nephew. Contain...
7) Overbite
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Now working for the Palatine Guard--a secret demon-hunting unit of the Vatican--Meena Harper tries to win over her co-workers as well as her new partner Alaric Wolf while investigating a young priest recently assigned to the case.
8) Springfield confidential: jokes, secrets, and outright lies from a lifetime writing for The Simpsons
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The longest-serving writer and producer for "The Simpsons" offers a humorous look at the writing and making of the legendary Fox series that has become one of the most revered artistic achievements in television history.
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Series
Backstage pass (Janice Thompson) volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Athena Pappas is the head writer on one of the most popular sitcoms in television history. But when Vegas comedian Stephen Cosse is brought in to beef up the show's suddenly sagging ratings, she starts to worry about her job. Sparks fly as the competition--and attraction--between the two writers heats up. Athena has never had a problem scripting the romances of her characters. So why is her own love life so hard to script?
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the first line of Just by Looking at Him, you'll know this story is so much more than boy meets boy. First, there's the humor. Elliot is a writer who spends his days navigating the back stabbing, the pressure, and the day to day snark of writing aggressively average television. In laugh out loud detail, we're immediately with him on his journey to try to get his lines onto the screen. But there's a deeper, and more poignant, story beating at...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The veteran television writer, producer, and director shares insights into Hollywood's sexual politics throughout the past thirty years through anecdotes involving some of the industry's biggest names.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive memoir of the celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and former Saturday Night Live writer, tracing his journey from rural Ontario to New York City success. From snowbound, post-World War II Ontario winters to Mad Men-era New York City to the hallowed halls of Saturday Night Live and The New Yorker, Bruce McCall has seen it all. With wit, candor, and cover illustrations showcasing Bruce's storied career, this lifetime and career memoir will...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Language
English
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As the mega-talented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder, and the single mom of three children, Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say NO when an unexpected invitation arrived. Hollywood party? No. Speaking engagement? No. Media appearances? No. The side benefit of saying No for an introvert like her: nothing new to fear. Then Shonda's sister laid down a challenge: just for one year, try...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""I feel like I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. I'm on a boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch." So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every achievement is accompanied by an act of self-immolation, but the deepest sadnesses also...
18) Acne: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Despite having dirty-blonde hair and fair skin, Laura Chinn is mixed-race: the daughter of a Black father and a white mother, which on its own makes for some funny and insightful looks at identity. Laura’s parents — both Scientologists and nonconformists in myriad ways — divorced early in Laura’s childhood, and she spent her teen years ping-ponging back and forth between Clearwater, Florida, and Los Angeles (with an extended stint in Tijuana...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so heavily that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads. The sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she's...
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