Qualey, Marsha
Summary: Gracie the pig has a part in a movie with with Tilda Swinetune, the champion swim racer and movie star, but she is upset when she realizes she is just a stunt double--however a small change in the script makes her able to do that and also fulfill her dream with a part of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE QUAJames, Miranda
Summary: The theater department at Athena is putting on a play by a fledgling playwright with local connections. Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial shots, and his daughter, Laura, will be taking on the lead female role. Luke Lombardi, the guest artist, is someone she knew in Hollywood. The older male actor - whose career in film has been on the wane - arrives with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Miranda
Summary: "Charlie Harris has sworn off investigating murder and mayhem after a recent close call. Instead, he's delighted to cheer on his daughter, Laura, who's starring in a production of Careless Whispers. The theater department at Athena College is debuting the play written by a fledgling playwright with local connections and Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMPatchett, Ann
Summary: In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC PATSaunders, Kate
Summary: "In the spring of 1853, private detective Laetitia Rodd receives a delicate request from a retired actor, whose days on the stage were ended by a theatre fire ten years before. His great friend, and the man he rescued from the fire, Thomas Transome, has decided to leave his wife, who now needs assistance in securing a worthy settlement. Though Mrs. Rodd is reluctant to get involved with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAULanger, Adam
Summary: Evanston, Illinois, 1982. A group of students at a magnet high school meet to audition for the spring play. Declan, an experienced senior, is confident he'll get his first-choice role, but when the capricious, charismatic drama director casts Franklin, an unknown underclassman-and the two are seen alone at the director's house-a series of events that will haunt the cast for years begins to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LANRoberts, Nora.
Summary: With the help of a writer, a young woman seeks to confront her childhood past and learn the truth about the infamous night when her mother was murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011
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Summary: In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebra storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests--including Katie's best friend, Carmen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BOHParks, Brad
Summary: Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers "a perfect piece of entertainment" (Steve Berry), a deliciously tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit that will keep readers riveted. Struggling stage actor Tommy Jump knows he has to stop chasing applause and start chasing greenbacks. But then he's offered the role of a lifetime: $150,000 for a six-month acting gig. With a newly pregnant fiancée...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARSteel, Danielle
Summary: Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father, and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Amy Trevino, a former aspiring playwright, has stayed close to her Rhode Island hometown while her famous brother, Timothy Fleming, pursued and achieved his Hollywood dreams. Now a high school English teacher and occasional drama director, Amy takes on the production manager role for her brother's play in an effort to mend rifting family relationships. Sam, Amy's daughter, was a Disney child...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MOOGerard, Anna
Summary: A sequel to Peach Clobbered finds stage-struck proprietor Nina Fleet hosting a community Shakespearean troupe before clashing with the company's director about his claim to her home, only to discover the murdered body of the production's leading man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERSteel, Danielle
Summary: Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her. Her love of the movies turns into a dream to become a screenwriter, and a summer job at a Hollywood studio. There, a famous British filmmaker notices her, and suddenly she can remain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEMandel, Emily St. John
Summary: "An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MANJackson, Aaron
Summary: "Abandoned as an infant by his actress mother in her theater dressing room, August March was raised by an ancient laundress. Highly intelligent, a tad feral, August is a true child of the theater. But like all productions, August's wondrous time inside the theater comes to a close, and he finds himself in the wilds of postwar New York City, where he quickly rises from pickpocket street urchin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACWeaver, Ashley
Summary: Walking through London's West End after a night at the theater, Amory Ames and her husband Milo run into wealthy investor and former actor Gerard Holloway. Holloway and his wife Georgina are old friends of theirs, and when Holloway invites them to the dress rehearsal of a new play he is directing. However, Amory is shocked to learn that Holloway has cast his mistress, actress Flora Bell, in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEABausch, Richard
Summary: "A novel about a close-knit theater community in Memphis and one turbulent, transformative production of King Lear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUSummary: 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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Summary: Out of work because of the plague, fledgling playwright Will Shakespeare and would-be thespian Symington Smythe become involved in the murder of a wealthy merchant trader by a young craftsman, a situation that inspires a new play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWMoschandreas, Kate
Summary: "We Could Fall begins on a September morning when 42-year old Emmy Halperin receives two unexpected pieces of news. Jack, her husband of 22 years, wants to call off their long-planned divorce. Duncan Grier, a famous actor, wants to be her therapy client. "I'm guessing it could be more complicated seeing me than with your other clients," is what Duncan says in his first voicemail to Emmy. It is,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSKaplow, Robert.
Summary: "This is the story of one week in my life. I was seventeen. It was the week I slept in Orson Welles's pajamas. It was the week I fell in love. and it was the week I changed my middle name twice"--Quotation from back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAPSaunders, Kate
Summary: "In the spring of 1853, private detective Laetitia Rodd receives a request from a retired actor. His friend, Thomas Transome, has decided to leave his wife, who now needs assistance in securing a worthy settlement. What starts out as a simple matter of negotiation becomes complicated when a body is discovered in the old theater. Soon Mrs. Rodd finds herself embroiled in family politics,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAUBunn, T. Davis
Summary: "With his wedding day approaching, actor Connor Larkin finds himself stepping off a bus into the sleepy seaside town of Miramar Bay where one remarkable woman inspires him to rethink all of his choices"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017