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41) The comeback
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An expedition has arrived in the frigid wilderness to shoot North to Fortune-an epic motion picture featuring authentic footage of majestic peaks, vast glaciers, homesteaders, and Alaska Natives. But the film's fortunes begin to go south as a local Native group grows angry at how they're portrayed in the movie, fights break out, and cast and crew are beset by accidents and assaults. Finally, production is halted when the inebriated director falls...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When the aristocratic Golden family moves into a self contained pocket of New York City, a park in Greenwich Village called "The Gardens," their past is an absolute mystery. They seem to be hiding in plain sight: Nero Golden, the powerful but shady patriarch, and his sons Petya, a high functioning autistic and recluse; Apu, the successful artist who may or may not be profound; and D, the enchanting youngest son whose gender confusion mirrors the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as "a fierce new voice" and "queer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea." But at the height of all this attention, Cass finds herself at the center of a searing public shaming, and flees to Los Angeles to escape--and reinvent herself. There she meets her next-door neighbor Caroline, a magnetic filmmaker on the rise, as well as the pack of teenage girls who hang around her...
45) The law of love
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Lawless: "Half Apache and all man, Jake Redman was more than a match for the wild Arizona Territory. Sarah Conway, on the other hand, was an Eastern lady who belonged anywhere else but on the rugged land Jake loved. But beneath Sarah's ladylike demeanor beat the heart of a true pioneer, a woman he yearned to make his own."--p. [4] of cover.
The law is a lady: "Once Phillip Kincaid fixed his mind on something, he set about getting it. And as soon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In upstate New York, Virgil Cain is drawing hay behind his team of massive Percherons when two movie scouts show up and offer $500 a day to use the horses in a film to be shot in the area. Virgil, in need of cash, reluctantly pockets the money, but he soon finds the chaotic set of Frontier Woman to be more trouble than it's worth. Savvy producer Sam Sawchuk is in over her head, when she's not propping up her talent-challenged husband-cum-director,...
47) Radiance
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Business consultant Rose Josten might not have officially reached "pug lady" middle age, but she's already got the pugs-along with their little Gucci coats and trash-lovin' appetites. Still, life is good, with her work, her sisters, and a secret hobby creating incredibly tactile (if surprisingly sexy) mindfulness videos. So why does it feel like it's not quite enough? Which is exactly when Ash Stewart enters camera left, and Rose's world suddenly...
49) When we meet
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Opposites Attract: Tennis professionals Asher Wolfe and Ty Starbuck couldn't be more different. Ty is a man known for his devastating good looks and volatile passions. Asher is infamous for her beauty and icy control. Together they had set the tennis world ablaze. Now, meeting again after years apart, Asher realizes that she still loves Ty--deeply. But she knows if she reveals her secret, she could lose everything all over again..."-- Provided by...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mousy and shy to the point of agoraphobic, Em Moore is the writing half of a celebrity biography team. Her charismatic partner, Teddy, does the interviewing and the public schmoozing. But her dependence on Teddy runs deeper than just the job. Teddy is her bridge to the world and the main source of love in her life. So when Teddy dies in a car accident, Em is devastated, alone in a world she does not understand. The only way she can honor his memory...
51) El último sueño
Author
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Autobiographical short stories.
«Este libro es lo más parecido a una autobiografía fragmentada. [...] El lector acabará obteniendo la máxima información de mí como cineasta, como fabulador y el modo en que mi vida hace que una cosa y las otras se mezclen». Así define el autor este volumen, en una brillante introducción que sirve también de puesta en perspectiva: los doce relatos que lo componen abarcan varias épocas, desde finales de...
52) Midnight dunes
Author
Series
Texas murder files volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When the shocking discovery of a murdered woman's body disturbs the tranquility of tourist season, the police detective in charge of the puzzling case must work alongside the new filmmaker in town to pursue every lead in the new romantic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin. After a scandal derails her television reporting career, Macey Burns comes looking for a change of pace in Lost Beach, Texas. She's ready to focus on...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it's a ghost town - and the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot her new documentary. But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood Bay - or does it?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A hilarious new novel full of Hollywood glitz, glamour, and scandal. When he changes the locks, she changes the rules. Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife - she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they're living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties. But the job...
55) The shadow glass
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Corman is failing at life. Jobless, jaded and on the 'wrong' side of thirty, hess facing the threat of eviction from his London flat while reeling from the sudden death of his father, one-time film director Bob Corman. Back in the eighties, Bob poured his heart and soul into the creation of his 1986 puppet fantasy The Shadow Glass, a film Jack loved as a child, idolising its fox-like hero Dune. But The Shadow Glass flopped on release, deemed...
56) Neon empire
Author
Publisher
California Coldblood Books, an imprint of Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In a state-of-the-art city where social media drives every aspect of the economy, a has-been Hollywood director and an investigative journalist race to uncover the relationship between a rising tide of violence and corporate corruption. Bold, colorful, and dangerously seductive, Eutopia is a new breed of hi-tech city. Rising out of the American desert, it's a real-world manifestation of a social media network where fame-hungry desperados compete...
57) Love scenes
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Acting like she's in love with her handsome nightmare of a co-star--in a movie directed and produced by her complicated Hollywood royalty family--is Sloane's job. But what happens when the lines between script and reality get blurred? Out-of-work actress Sloane Ford is in desperate need of something to do after losing her steady TV gig. When her famous family ropes her into working as a producer on their World War II-era romance, they neglect to...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the strikingly original National Book Award nominee, a riveting novel set in Los Angeles and New York that focuses on three women--how they define themselves, how they create meaningful work, how they love"--
"The most ambitious, accomplished, and beguiling novel yet from the author of the National Book Award finalist Eat the Document and the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist Stone Arabia. Innocents and Others is a riveting story...
59) Close to you
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lawless: "When Sarah Conway moves to Lone Bluff, Arizona, she expects to reunite with her hardworking father, move in to a beautiful home and help continue to build the family business. Instead, she arrives to heartbreaking news: her father was killed in a mining accident. But even with no fortune and no family, Sarah is determined to make a home out of the frontier--no matter how many times rugged outlaw Jake Redman insists she go back to where she...
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"RETURN OF THE NYALLYWOOD KING. Legendary producer J.D. Petersen has come out of retirement, and he's chosen Gene to be his director! The new film is studded with the industry's biggest stars and its set is equally spectacular. Meanwhile, Pompo acts her age for once and goes to school! How will she handle life away from her beloved film industry?."--Back cover.
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