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Female friendship Fiction Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) History 20th century Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Marion, Frances 1888-1973 Fiction Motion picture actors and actresses United States Fiction Pickford, Mary 1892-1979 Fiction United States Women screenwriters Women screenwriters Fiction Women screenwriters United States FictionSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: Greta finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of her grown daughter, Elizabeth, by the increasingly eccentric behavior of her widowed mother, and by unexpectedly falling in love with someone other than her devoted husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHMontes, Raphael
Summary: "A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writers. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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Summary: A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writer. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Cabot, Meggin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CABCabot, Meggin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CabotWeiner, Jennifer.
Summary: At twenty-three, Ruth Saunders left her childhood home in Massachusetts and headed west with her seventy-year-old grandma in tow, hoping to make it as a screenwriter. Six years later, she has hit the jackpot when she gets The Call : the sitcom she wrote, The Next Best Thing, has gotten the green light, and Ruthie's going to be the showrunner. But her dreams of Hollywood happiness are threatened...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIMonaghan, Annabel
Summary: "Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it's her job. But when her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage's collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONAllen, Charlotte Vale
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALLLangbein, Julia
Summary: "A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations. Penelope Schleeman, a consistently broke Connecticut high school teacher, is as surprised as anyone when her sensitive debut novel, "American Mermaid"-the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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Summary: "Emma is a rising star at the marketing firm she works at as a "creative," but would have trouble describing what exactly it is she does all day. She pours most of her actual creative energy into a popular blog that all of her friends agree is brilliant, but she has yet to make a cent on it. Clem is a massively talented screenwriter just back from New York, where she picked up a fancy graduate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt Paperbacks 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: "A novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends, screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BENBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife. It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENLee, Katie
Summary: Eat, surf, love. When Emma walks into movie star Garrett Walker's trailer, she's a novice PA. When she walks out, she's on her way to becoming the wife of an A-list actor. She makes the transition from nobody to red-carpet royalty, until their relationship is thrown into question by an incriminating text message. Emma flees to a sleepy coastal town in Mexico and meets a surf instructor who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEESteel, Danielle.
Summary: Tanya Harris is torn between her new life as a screenplay writer in Hollywood and her family back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SteelCarr, Robyn.
Summary: After collapsing at work, sous-chef Kelly Matlock retreats to her sister's home in Virgin River where she meets Lief Holbrook, a widower, and as romance blossoms between them, Lief's stepdaughters antics threaten to tear them apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARMorris, Heather
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Heather Morris comes the memoir of a life of listening to others. In Listening Well, Heather will explore her extraordinary talents as a listener-a skill she employed when she first met Lale Sokolov, the tattooist at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the inspiration for her bestselling novel. It was this ability that led Lale to entrust Heather with his story, which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022