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Summary: "Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigata in that time. Engineer Ernesto Sabatello, while rummaging in the attic of his house, finds some films shot by his father from 1958 to 1963, always on the same day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMLittle, Elizabeth
Summary: Marissa Dahl, a shy but successful film editor, travels to a small island off the coast of Delaware to work with the legendary--and legendarily demanding--director Tony Rees on a feature film with a familiar logline. Some girl dies. It's not much to go on, but the specifics don't concern Marissa. Whatever the script is, her job is the same. She'll spend her days in the editing room, doing what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LITCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M LITDixon, 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 DIXEvans, Harriet
Summary: "From international favorite and bestseller Harriet Evans, an absorbing and intriguing new novel about a famous modern-day actress whose fate becomes entwined with that of a glamourous movie star from the 1950s who vanished many years earlier"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVARabb, Jonathan.
Summary: When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts (the SA), and the even more astonishing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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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 BARLeonard, 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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Summary: "Southern gal Sarah Booth Delaney packs up her hound dog and her P.I. business and sets off for Hollywood to take a shot at stardom. No stranger to acting, she aces the screen test for a racy remake of the movie Body Heat alongside leading man Graf Miliau. The chemistry between them is undeniable, and why not? Graf has already starred in one of Sarah's previous affairs and is well on his way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university's movie library:Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years. Bleak Street was never released. Its star, Van Oliver, a gifted and charismatic actor with alleged ties to the mob, disappeared while the project was in post-production,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ESTEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university's movie library: Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years. Bleak Street was never released. Its star, Van Oliver, a gifted and charismatic actor with alleged ties to the mob, disappeared while the project was in post-production,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Estleman 2020Keene, Carolyn
Summary: Nancy, Bess, and George visit the Hollywood set of the movie "The Aliens Next Door", and try to solve the mystery of the missing leading cat star, Fluffington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KEEDixon, Franklin W.
Summary: "It's lights, camera, disaster for a film crew unless Frank and Joe can track down a saboteur in this cinematic Hardy Boys adventure--a fresh approach to a classic series. Joe and Frank Hardy are excited to be cast as extras in the zombie movie that's filming in their hometown. Not only is film production way more exciting than what usually goes on in Bayport, it also doesn't hurt that the lead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DIXCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J HBA 8Mullarkey, Lisa
Summary: Twelve-year-old CeCe Monroe is enrolled at Storm Cliff Stables as Cassidy because she does not want the other girls to know that she is an actress, so when Aunt Jane asks her to assist with the movie that is to be filmed at the stables she is mostly afraid of blowing her cover--but when she realizes that the movie man calling himself Paul Martino is not the man she knows, she finds herself cast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MULEason, Lynette.
Summary: Samantha Cash has a skill Connor Wolfe needs - catching killers through computers. When she poses as a target, her virtual world becomes real - and deadly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EASEstleman, Loren D
Summary: "Valentino, a mild-manner film archivist at UCLA and sometime film detective, is at the closing party for the Red Montana and Dixie Day museum when he is approached by no less than his hero and man-of-the-hour Red Montana, western film and television star. Red tells Valentino that he is being blackmailed over the existence of a blue film that his wife, now known throughout the world as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTPatterson, James
Summary: When a glitzy movie premier is the scene of a shocking murder and high-stakes robbery, NYPD Red gets the call. Traversing the city's highs and lows, from celebrity penthouses to the depths of Manhattan's criminal underworld, Zach and Kylie have to find a cold-blooded killer - before he strikes again. Print run 500,000.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATPryor, Mark
Summary: "Hugo Marston's friend Paul Rogers dies unexpectedly in a locked room at the American Library in Paris. The police conclude that Rogers died of natural causes, but Hugo is certain mischief is afoot. As he pokes around the library, Hugo discovers that rumors are swirling around some recently donated letters from American actress Isabelle Severin. The reason: they indicate that the actress had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYSharp, Deborah
Summary: My stars and garters--Hollywood has descended on little ol' Himmarshee, Florida. As animal wrangler for a cowboy film, Mace is on the set when she discovers the arrogant executive producer shot dead, his body on display in the horse ocrral. With everyone from spoiled starlets to conniving crew members cursing the man's name, who in the blue blazes didn't want to kill Norman Sydney? As mama's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2011
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Summary: "Hugo Marston has just joined the State Department as head of security at the US Embassy in London. His task is to protect a pair of spoiled movie stars, Dayton Harper and his wife Ginny Ferro, whose reckless driving killed a prominent landowner in rural England"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYNesbet, Anne
Summary: It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NES1 available in Battle of the Books Display, Call number: J FIC NES
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC NESBradley, C. Alan
Summary: When Colonel de Luce, needing funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company at Christmastime, the company begins its scenes with a famous and reclusive star who is widely despised; when the star turns up murdered, eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce must negotiate with the suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRAColley, Barbara.
Summary: The city of New Orleans has long been a favorite backdrop for movie producers, and now one of Charlotte's best clients, Bitsy Duhe, is getting in on the action. A big Hollywood studio wants to use Bitsy's gorgeous Victorian house for a movie shoot and they are willing to pay her handsomely for the honor. Bitsy consents, but only after Charlotte agrees to take care of her beloved home during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLPatterson, James
Summary: NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD MYS PATPatterson, James
Summary: "NYPD Red--the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city--hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission. A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price. NYPD Red Detective...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014