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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"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 as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Nobel Peace Summit Award-winning actress, activist, and humanitarian chronicles her efforts to recover and rebuild after a massive stroke, discussing how her health challenges were also shaped by industry standards, childhood traumas, and family bonds.
3) The humbling
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
140 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Simon Axler--an actor in his sixties who has lost his wife, his audience, and confidence in his talent--whose risky and aberrant desire points toward a dark and shocking end.
Author
Series
A Dave Robicheaux novel volume 22
Language
English
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Robicheaux has discovered...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Emily Ammerman has always felt at home amid the ski runs and slopes of Snowdrift Summit, the Colorado resort her family has operated for decades. Snow is her element, and she doesn't hesitate when a new client asks her to train him to ski The Plunge, one of Colorado's most treacherous runs. But Zach Ryder is no regular client. On screen, he's famous for starring as a daring CIA officer who always saves the day. In real life, he's just as handsome...
Author
Series
Miramar Bay volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sometimes life flips the script... Billy Walker is a North Carolina boy whose Hollywood star is beginning to shine. His rough past is in the rearview. Now seeing the world from the back seat of a limousine, Billy has no regrets about what he had to do, and the choices he made, to get there. But all it takes is one death-defying moment for Billy's world to shift. When an on-set accident leaves him shaken, plagued by haunting dreams, he's in desperate...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Decades after the filming of a horror movie is halted in the wake of three actor deaths and rumors about a haunted set, Claire, the daughter of a failing studio head, helps with a production on the same site.
Publisher
UK Film Council
Pub. Date
�2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The King's Speech" presents a sideways glance at a crucial period in 20th-century history--as the monumentally awkward Prince Albert, or Bertie, becomes King George VI unexpectedly in 1936 when his older brother Edward VIII abdicates to marry American divorc�ee Wallis Simpson. In imperial Britain between the wars, that was problem enough, but Bertie suffered from a chronic stammer that made his public appearances painful for everyone. In an age...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following in the footsteps of her überfamous grandma, eighteen-year-old Evie Jones is poised to be Hollywood's next big star. That is until a close friend's betrayal leads to her being blacklisted. Fortunately, Evie knows just the thing to save her floundering career: a public appearance with America's most beloved actor, her grandma Gigi, aka the Evelyn Conaway. The only problem? Gigi is a recluse who's been out of the limelight for almost twenty...
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Rebecca Rubin is injured during a strike at the sweatshop where her uncle and cousin work when she tries to give a speech, while keeping a big secret from her family.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Amanda Quick, the bestselling author of 'Til Death Do Us Part , transports readers to 1930s California, where glamour and seduction spawn a multitude of sins... When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel caters to their every need. It's where reporter Irene Glasson finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool... The dead woman had...