Salazar, Noelle
Summary: While preparing The Hollywood Glamour Exhibition at the Smithsonian, costume conservator Sylvia Early discovers another name beneath a label and unearths the story of Zora Hough, a talented young seamstress who left her poverty-stricken life in 1924 Jazz Age Seattle behind to realize her dreams of becoming a designer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SALSummary: The twelve chairs: The tale of a former aristocrat who is now a Russian clerk under the new Soviet regime. -- Blazing saddles: A railroad needs to be built, but the land necessary is already owned. Needing to drive out the town folk, you appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. -- Young Frankenstein: Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MELLief, Katia
Summary: "In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences. Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came at a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2024
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Summary: "From Rodeo Drive to the French Riviera, Karin Tanabe's The Sunset Crowd is a tale of survival and reinvention, of faking it until you make it, and the glittering appeal of success and stardom, as it seeks to answer that timeless question--who gets to have the American dream? Money and fame: in 1970's Los Angeles, everyone is fighting to reach the top, but very few have the talent, ambition,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANTarantino, Quentin
Summary: Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick Dalton's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? Cliff Booth is Rick's stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he's the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. Sharon Tate left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial Paperback 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TARWinfrey, Kerry
Summary: "Romantic-comedy-obsessed Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing internet content, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle, and waiting for her movie-perfect meet cute. If she could just find her own Tom Hanks--a man who's sweet, sensitive, and possibly owns a houseboat--her problems would disappear and her life would be perfect. But Tom Hanks is nowhere in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINDixon, Franklin W.
Summary: Mission: To stop movie actress Anya Archer's attackers before the blow up everyone at the Big Apple Awards at Radio City Music Hall, New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIXSpiner, Brent
Summary: "Brent Spiner's explosive and hilarious novel is a personal look at the slightly askew relationship between a celebrity and his fans. If the Coen Brothers were to make a Star Trek movie, involving the complexity of fan obsession and sci-fi, this noir comedy might just be the one. Set in 1991, just as Star Trek: The Next Generation has rocketed the cast to global fame, the young and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPIEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "Vamp is a hot new Valentino mystery by Loren D. Estleman, the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. Renowned film detective Valentino is on a quest to help restore The Comet, an extinct drive-in movie theater, and his trail leads him to Leo Kalishnikov, who requests a favor first - rid him of a blackmailer from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTMitchell, Saundra.
Summary: In 1917, Kate Witherspoon, who has lived a bohemian life with her artist parents, goes to Los Angeles where she meets crippled midwestern farm boy Julian Birch, another runaway, and together they realize they have the ability to triumph over death and time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MITCoover, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOElton, Charles.
Summary: When "The Hayseed Chronicles", an obscure series of children's books, become world famous, the author reaps no rewards. He was run down by a concrete truck in SoHo. So the unforeseen "benefits" fall to his widow and children. But others want their share... A riveting tale, spanning several decades, of the unexpected effects of sudden fame and fortune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ELTPhillips, Susan Elizabeth.
Summary: Georgie York has been dumped by her movie star husband, her own film career is tanking, and her public image as a spunky romantic heroine is taking a serious beating. When the down-on-her-luck actress runs into her detestable former co-star, dreamboat-from-hell Bramwell Shepard, in Las Vegas, a ridiculous incident leads to a calamitous elopement. Before she knows it, Georgie has a fake...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PHIPhillips, Susan Elizabeth.
Summary: A down-on-her-luck movie actress runs into her detestable former co-star--dreamboat-from-hell Bramwell Shepard--in Las Vegas and gets caught up in a ridiculous incident that leads to a calamitous elopement. Can two enemies find themselves working without a script in a town where the spotlight shines bright...and where the strongest emotions can wear startling disguises?
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC PhiSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: Greta finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of her grown daughter, Elizabeth, by the increasingly eccentric behavior of her widowed mother, and by unexpectedly falling in love with someone other than her devoted husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSteel, Danielle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEWest, Nathanael
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Laughlin 1962
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESBarnes, Linda.
Summary: Required to complete a celebrity biography on her own after the suspicious death of her charismatic partner, agoraphobic ghost writer Em Moore struggles through the job's required interviews with alluring film director Garrett Malcolm, who alludes to dark family secrets and trouble with a fellow star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCoelho, Paulo.
Summary: At the Cannes Film Festival, a successful, driven entrepreneur goes to the darkest lengths to reclaim a lost love. Captured in all their crassness are producers, actors, aspiring starlets, supermodels, and notorious fashionistas, whose lives and actions hold sway over millions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COEGaylin, Alison
Summary: "The USA Today bestselling author of the Brenna Spector series returns with her most ambitious book to date, a spellbinding novel of psychological suspense, set in the glamorous, wealthy world of Hollywood-a darkly imaginative and atmospheric tale of revenge and betrayal, presumed guilt and innocence lost, dirty secrets and family ties reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman, Gillian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gaylin 2016Kinsella, Sophie.
Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella returns to her beloved Shopaholic series with Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) newly arrived in Hollywood and starry-eyed. She and her two-year-old daughter, Minnie, have relocated to L.A. to join Becky's husband, Luke, who is there to handle PR for famous actress Sage Seymour. Becky can't wait to start living the A-list lifestyle, complete...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINLeonard, Elmore
Summary: Chili Palmer is a loan shark working out of Miami, but he really doesn't like it. He hates having to work with scum, especially Ray "Bones" Barboni, a local wise guy who has been feuding with Chili for 12 years over a leather coat. Truth be told, Chili would much rather be making movies. So when a dry-cleaner named Leo who owes Chili a few thousand dollars fakes his own death, rips-off his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AdlerBevacqua, Dan
Summary: "Molly Bit doesn't believe she's destined for success - she knows it. This certainly helps her get through the countless auditions featuring actors who look and dress just like she does; helps her swallow the indignity of less talented actors landing roles; even helps her endure the industry's aggressive over-sexualizing of young women. When Molly is offered a lead role in a major film, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020