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Actresses Fiction Audiobooks Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction Lombard, Carole 1908-1942 Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Motion picture actors and actresses Fiction Motion picture industry Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Private investigators FictionConnelly, Michael
Summary: Renée Ballard catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Against orders and her own partner's wishes, Ballard works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CONBaldacci, David
Summary: It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BALKinsella, Sophie.
Summary: "Becky Brandon (née 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 with celebrity sightings, yoga retreats, and shopping trips to Rodeo Drive. But she really hopes to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINConnelly, Michael
Summary: There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the bullet is linked to another unsolved murder--a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONConnelly, Michael
Summary: Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONWoods, Stuart.
Summary: Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington's much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD M WOOAlcott, Kate
Summary: "When Julie Crawford leaves Fort Wayne, Indiana for Hollywood, she never imagines she'll cross paths with Carole Lombard, the dazzling actress from Julie's provincial Midwestern hometown. The only job Julie's able to find is one in the studio publicity office of the notoriously demanding producer David O. Selznick, who is busy burning through directors, writers and money as he begins filming...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ALCMeissner, Susan
Summary: In this new novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life, two women working in Hollywood during its Golden Age discover the joy and heartbreak of true friendship. Los Angeles, Present Day. When an iconic hat worn by Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind ends up in Christine McAllister's vintage clothing boutique by mistake, her efforts to return it to its owner take her on a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2016
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Smiley, Jane.
Summary: Oscar-winning writer/director Max--whose star is clearly beginning to dim--wakes up the morning after the 2003 Academy Awrds with a houseful of guests to worry about; and they all need attention.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: A burned-out L.A. detective, a woman of mystery who is far more than she seems, a grotesque, ancient monster bent on a mission of retribution. When these three collide, a new standard of suspense is born. The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages, a creature fashioned by a sixteenth-century rabbi to protect his congregation, now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELWinslow, Don
Summary: Danny Ryan, a young widower and mob underboss, has left the East Coast and settled in California with his young son in tow. The move has been good for Danny; in his new base of operations, his power, influence, and wealth have grown. Now he's heading up to Hollywood to rein in two of his crew, who are shaking down a film being made about their involvement in the New England crime war. At the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINSteel, Danielle
Summary: Oscar-winning actress and Hollywood icon Ardith Law's world is turned upside down when an unexpected tragedy brings her closer to her personal assistant, stirring up conflicting feelings in her for this younger man.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Teaming up with Harry Bosch to reopen a cold case, LAPD detective Renée Ballard navigates interpersonal differences to pursue justice for a murdered runaway in Hollywood.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction ConBaldacci, David
Summary: It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BALPhillips, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PHIFord, Jamie.
Summary: Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother's listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his birthday, William and the other orphans are taken to the historical Moore Theatre, where William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost. Struck by her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape/Random House Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FORAlcott, Kate.
Summary: Taking a job at the studio where David O. Selznick is filming "Gone with the Wind," Julie Crawford becomes an assistant to Carole Lombard, a rising actress from Julie's hometown who embarks on a scandalous affair with Clark Gable.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALCSteadman, Catherine
Summary: "Once a year, actors from across the globe descend on the smog and sunshine of Los Angeles for the grueling gauntlet of pilot season. Every network and studio is looking to fill the rosters of their new shows, enticing a fresh batch of young hopefuls--anxious, desperate, and willing to do whatever it takes to make it. Careers will be made, dreams will be realized, stars will be born. And some...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STETrigiani, Adriana
Summary: Reimagines the career of actress Loretta Young, tracing the decades she shared with her assistant Alda, a former nun, as they face successes, scandals, and obstacles that threatened their bond.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Trigiani 2015Palahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: The protagonist is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton, a larger-than-life star who has survived multiple marriages, career comebacks, cosmetic surgeries, and emotional dramas. But danger lurks with the arrival of a gentleman caller named Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart and boudoir. Hazie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PALBrunkhorst, Alex.
Summary: Collecting quotes for the obituary of a legendary film producer, young journalist Thomas Cleary is invited by the man's eccentric daughter to tour the exclusive upper echelons of Hollywood society, where he pursues a romance with an enigmatic shut-in.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRUSteel, Danielle.
Summary: Coco Barrington was born into a legendary Hollywood family. When she house-sits for her sister, she discovers an unexpected, yet attractive houseguest with a psycho ex-girlfriend.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEWoods, Stuart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2004
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD M WOORedmond, Pamela
Summary: Liza Miller never dreamed that anyone would be interested in her life, so she's torn between two cities and two hearts when her bestselling novel is picked up by a major television network.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020