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Summary: "In 1938, nineteen-year-old ranch hand Bud Frazer sets out for Hollywood. His little sister has been gone a couple of years now, his parents are finding ranch work and comfort for their loss where they can, but for Bud, Echol Creek--where he grew up and first learned to ride--is a place he can no longer call home. So he sets his sights on becoming a stunt rider in the movies and rubbing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLOCollins, Jackie.
Summary: The gun-totting Hollywood film director, Lucky Santangelo, daughter of a Mafia gangster, shoots a psychopath threatening her third husband, Lennie. At the same time she agrees to raise Lennie's illegitimate son, the fruit of a one-night stand in Sicily. By the author of Vendetta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLBunn, T. Davis
Summary: Young line producer Danny Byrd is well-known in Hollywood for being someone who gets things done on time and under budget. But when his reputation takes a beating after his partner-- and former best friend-- makes off with their investors' money, Danny has but one chance to redeem himself and restore his ruined career. LA lawyer Megan Pierce sacrificed years proving herself to bosses only to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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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...
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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 KINLethem, Jonathan
Summary: Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't hurt. Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was. Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LETBunn, T. Davis
Summary: Line producer Danny Byrd is well-known in Hollywood for being someone who gets things done on time and under budget. But when his reputation takes a beating after his partner-- and former best friend-- makes off with their investors' money, Danny has but one chance to redeem himself and restore his ruined career. LA lawyer Megan Pierce sacrificed years proving herself to bosses only to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUNLethem, Jonathan
Summary: Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't hurt. Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was. Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LethemSteel, Danielle
Summary: After losing his job heading a movie studio, Andy Westfield rents a cottage on the English coast and hires a local woman as an assistant. When she accidently leaves the manuscript of her unfinished novel behind after work one day, Andy lets his curiosity get the best of him and is captivated by a story that begs to be adapted for the big screen. Could this be the miracle they've both been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC STEEstleman, 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 2020Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: Novel centers on the life of fictional film executive Monroe Stahr, circa Hollywood in the 1930s. Stahr is modeled loosely on the life of film executive Irving Thalberg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's 1941
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITSteel, Danielle
Summary: "As the head of a prestigious movie studio for nearly two decades, Andy Westfield has had every conceivable professional luxury: a stunning office on the forty-fourth floor, a loyal assistant who can all but read his mind, access to a private jet and company cars. The son of Hollywood royalty, Andy always put his career before his marriage, and now, besides his daughter and young grandchildren,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC STEEstleman, 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 ESTKinsella, 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 KINSummary: His picture is on magazine covers, his name in lights. Ex-con artist and gangster Dan Quigley is "doing all right in this movie racket," a big man in Hollywood. But if his criminal past resurfaces, he could end up in the big house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LADBasinger, Jeanine
Summary: "The real story of Hollywood--as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Harold Lloyd, Jordan Peele, and nearly four hundred others--reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4309 BASSalazar, 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