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 QUAHamilton, Sable
Summary: Kellie, one of the girls at the Stardust stunt-riding stables, is working as a stunt double on a movie--but when the actress comes down with food poisoning she is called upon to step into the leading role.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAMHamilton, Sable
Summary: Kami Cooper is already an accomplished rider, but when she joins the Stardust stunt-riding stables in Colorado, she discovers she still has a lot to learn--and being a stunt double is not all glamour.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAMLobdell, Scott.
Summary: Frank and Joe are assigned to back up Miss Teen Stunt America contestant Lindsay Rider, who is also an A.T.A.C. agent, as they attempt to discover which of the other three contestants is fencing stolen diamonds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LOBMarsh, Nicola
Summary: "A woman ready to give up on love discovers that age is truly just a number in this heartwarming and steamy new romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Nicola Marsh. For almost a decade, successful thirty-seven-year-old Samira Broderick has used her bustling Los Angeles practice as an excuse to avoid a trip home to Australia. She still resents her meddling Indian mother for arranging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBrockway, Robert
Summary: "There are angels, and they are not beneficent or loving. But they do watch over us: they watch our lives unfold, analyzing us for repeating patterns and redundancies. When they find them, the angels simplify those patterns and remove the redundancies, and the problem that is 'you' gets solved. Carey doesn't much like that idea. As a punk living in New York City, 1977, Carey is sick and tired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherry's "undercover stunt double", portraying Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. But, one night, Ann-as-Cherry is mistakenly kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by an obsessed paparazzo named Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIAHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pie (nee Cheryl Bunterman): a pop star since she was fourteen--and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her "undercover stunt double," Ann Delusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too "indisposed"--meaning wasted--to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HIACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hiaasen 2010Wiley, Melissa
Summary: "Pearl lives on a ranch where her chores include collecting eggs and feeding ornery ostriches. She has three older brothers, who don't coddle her at all. And she knows a thing or two about horses, too. One day, Pearl's brothers get cushy jobs doing stunts for this new form of entertainment called "moving pictures." They're the Daredevil Donnelly Brothers, a Death-Defying Cowboy Trio. Before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILSallis, James
Summary: Driver thinks he has settled into a normal life, but after his fiancée is killed he must confront his criminal past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALTarantino, 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 TARGloss, Molly.
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: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GLOGloss, Molly
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 GLOAuerbach, Annie.
Summary: SpongeBob's ego--and head--swell when he is selected to star in a television special as the world's biggest daredevil, but hotshot producer Barry Cuda has another role in mind for him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AUETashjian, Janet.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Derek Fallon has the opportunity of a lifetime--to perform stunts in a movie featuring a popular twelve-year-old star--but complications arise involving his best friend, a capuchin monkey, and Derek's chronic inability to concentrate on schoolwork.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011