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Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 5
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When film producer Moe Block Busters offers to make their book into a movie, Iggy, Olive, and Seymour head to Hollywood where Olive, furious at being written out of the script, enlists the help of a famed femme fatale to scare the despicable director half to death.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 65
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Asked by a Bollywood star for help protecting a valuable ruby, Geronimo Stilton and Hercule Poirat are inadvertently cast in the actress's film in spite of limited acting skills and are horrified when an anonymous thief makes off with the ruby.
23) A-list
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
PI Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison head to New Orleans at the behest of Nicole's uncle, movie producer Charles Balfour, when his megastar, A-list actor Kirk Ford, awakens in his hotel bed with the body of Kristi Guidry, a local college coed. Ford, in the Big Easy for a location shoot, remembers little of the evening and nothing of the murder. And, to make matters worse, Kristi is the niece of a local mafioso-type who will do whatever is necessary to...
Author
Series
In Death series volume 34
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating the debut of The Icove Agenda. This time, it's Eve, not Roarke, who's a guest of honor, since the film is based on one of her famous cases. Her partner, Peabody, is practically giddy over rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty. Eve, on the other hand, is more likely to roll her eyes than have stars in them. But she has...
25) Sailor song
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
"This epic tale of the north is a vibrant moral fable for our time. Set in the near future in the fishing village of Kuinak, Alaska, a remnant outpost of the American frontier not yet completely overcome by environmental havoc and mad-dog development, Sailor Song is a wild, rollicking novel, a dark and cosmic romp. The town and its denizens--colorful refugees from the Lower Forty-Eight and DEAPs (Descendants of Early Aboriginal Peoples)--are seduced...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca is thrilled to spend the day at a real movie studio, and when a super, spectacular opportunity presents itself, she is quick to volunteer. But how will this scene play out? Then, on a visit to Coney Island, Rebecca gets the chance to use her acting skills to lighten the mood in an embarrassing situation--and her climbing skills to rescue someone in a dangerous spot. But a factory tour makes Rebecca believe her skills are needed there, too....
27) Trio: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, best-selling author comes a rollicking novel with a dark undertow, set around three unforgettable individuals and a doomed movie set. A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968--a time of war and assassinations, protests and riots. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a disaster-plagued, Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the movie shoot zigs and...
28) Night and Dana
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When special-effects obsessives Dana and Lily begin work on an eco-horror movie, they realize they've been growing apart. But as everything starts going up in flames, Dana begins to forge her voice as a climate activist"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Needlepointers Angie and Sarah are helping with set design for the movie being shot in their little New England hometown--but as the lighthouse and the wharves bustle with activity, a real-life drama is about to unfold. The director, Marv Mason, has been harassing the pretty young female lead, and the two exchanged heated words at a lobster bake. Now someone's lowered the boom on him . . . After a wayward piece of sound equipment sends him to his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Cora Felton's ex-husband's sensational tell-all memoir, Confessions of a Trophy Husband: My Life with the Puzzle Lady, has been optioned for the movies-- and the Puzzle Lady herself is signed on as an associate producer. Cora hopes to have some control over the project, but the truth is that she needs the money. Filming in New York City, Cora finds she doesn't like the script, she doesn't like the director, and she absolutely hates the actress who...
31) In the spotlight
Author
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Landing the lead role in a movie is exactly the break TV actress Cole Calder needs. Her rise to fame has made her the target of an obsessive group of fans who ship Cole with her straight, married costar, turning what used to be her dream job into a nightmare. Thankful for the opportunity to start something new, Cole is more than ready to leave the show, and its troublesome fans, behind. Eris Whyte has her career path all planned out, and accepting...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 11
Publisher
Molino [imprint of RBA Libros]
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
Greg Heffley está bajo presión. Su madre cree que los videojuegos disminuten su capacidad intelectual y quiere que se olvide de la consola para explorar su "lado creativo". Y entonces descubre la vieja cámara de video de sus padres. Gracias a ella, Greg le demostrará al mundo todo su talento tramando un plan para filmar una peli de terror. . . y, de paso, hacerse rico y famoso. Pero ¿ir A TODA MARCHA con una peli es un buen plan? ¿O es la receta...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212), Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with 70,000 euros to fix the town's pipes, the water commission will shut off the water to the village and all its residents will be forced to disperse. So in a bid to boost tourism--and revenue--he spreads a harmless rumor that movie star Dante Rinaldi will be filming his next project nearby. Unfortunately, the plan...
34) A show for two
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Mina Rahman has a plan for her future: Finally win the Golden Ivy student film competition Get into her dream school across the country Leave New York City behind once and for all Mina's ticket to winning the competition falls into her lap when indie film star--and known heartbreaker--Emmitt Ramos enrolls in her high school under a secret identity to research his next role. When Mina sets out to persuade Emmitt to join her cause, he offers her a deal...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret. Famous for producing solid light-tracks that captured the path of workers' movements, Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data. But did she also, as her broken correspondence with a young Soviet physicist suggests, discover in her final days a "perfect" movement, one that would "change everything"? An international hunt begins for the one box...
Author
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Lost novel of Bell Epoque Paris, The Throne, comes to the silver screen with an A-list cast. But will on-set drama doom the filming of this gay love story before it starts?
The novel The Throne, a lost gay love story of Bell Epoque Paris, will be coming to the silver screen. Actor Nicholas Madden's personal life is consistently a shambles, but he knows The Throne is going to be his legacy. Then his costar walks off the runway and into rehearsal:...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by a true story, this supernatural thriller for fans of horror and true crime follows a tale as it evolves every twenty years--with terrifying results. Ella Louise has lived in the woods surrounding Pilot's Creek, Virginia, for nearly a decade. Publicly, she and her daughter, Jessica, are shunned by her upper-crust family and the local residents. Privately, desperate characters visit her apothecary for a cure to what ails them--until Ella...
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.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Aminah Mae Safi's Tell Me How You Really Feel is an ode to romantic comedies, following two girls on opposite sides of the social scale as they work together to make a movie and try very hard not to fall in love. The first time Sana Khan asked out a girl -- Rachel Recht -- it went so badly that she never did it again. Rachel is a film buff and aspiring director, and she's seen Carrie enough times to learn you can never trust cheerleaders (and beautiful...
40) The lawgiver
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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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