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61) Design for dying
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Los Angeles, 1937. Lillian Frost has traded dreams of stardom for security as a department store salesgirl ... until she discovers she's a suspect in the murder of her former roommate, Ruby Carroll. Party girl Ruby died wearing a gown she stole from the wardrobe department at Paramount Pictures, domain of Edith Head. Edith has yet to win the first of her eight Academy Awards; right now she's barely hanging on to her job, and a scandal is the last...
62) He: a novel
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension among the commercial demands, artistic integrity, and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists"--
Awed like everyone else by Chaplin's genius (and ambition and cruelty), Stan Laurel despaired of ever finding his own path to success or happiness. When impresario Hal Roach to put him and Oliver Hardy together on screen, the partnership...
63) Do tell: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A glittering debut novel set in the golden age of Hollywood, following a former actress whose new career in gossip journalism grants her more power on the page than she ever commanded in front of the camera"--
As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final year of her contract with FWM Studios, the clock is ticking for her to find a new gig after an undistinguished stint in the pictures. She's long supplemented her income moonlighting for Hollywood's...
64) NSFW: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul. With electrifying prose and a darkly humorous voice, NSFW is an unflinching exploration of the grey area between empowerment and complicity, and an unforgettable portrait of what success costs in today's world"--
From the outside, the unnamed protagonist in NSFW appears the vision of success. She has landed an entry-level position at a leading TV network that thousands...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Narrated by a starry-eyed lesbian, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Red reenvisions the life of one of America's most enduring icons: Gilda herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red hair and hypnotic dancing helped make her the quintessential movie star of the 1940s. With narrator Rusty Redburn-a feisty second-string gossip columnist...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation's capital can operate. Attorney General Robert Kennedy needs them to look into a potential threat to the security of the United States. Charlie and Margaret quickly find themselves on a flight to sunny Los Angeles. At the center of their investigation is Frank Sinatra, a close friend of President John F. Kennedy and a...
67) Vamp
Author
Series
Publisher
A Forge Book, published by Tor Publishing Group/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Vamp is a hot new Valentino mystery by Loren D. Estleman, the master of the hard-boiled detective novel and recipient of the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. Renowned film detective Valentino is on a quest to help restore The Comet, an extinct drive-in movie theater, and his trail leads him to Leo Kalishnikov, who requests a favor first - rid him of a blackmailer from his shady past, and he'll gladly hand over the money...
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
ix, 204 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A successful writer and a B-movie director seem like the perfect match in the Hollywood hills, and with him working to produce her novel for an upcoming film, the pair's recent marriage isn't the only way that they're connected. But when the husband is found murdered on the wife's birthday, using a method of poisoning that was described in one of her books, Victoria suddenly becomes the main suspect as her new happy life comes crashing down around...
69) The body double
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A strange man discovers our nameless narrator selling popcorn at a decrepit small-town movie theater and offers her an odd and lucrative position: she will forget her job, her acquaintances, even her name, and move to Los Angeles, where she will become the body double of the famous and troubled celebrity Rosanna Feld. A nervous breakdown has forced Rosanna out of the public eye, and she needs a look-alike to take her place in the tabloid media circus...
70) Indigo
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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, presumably murdered by gangland rivals: another one of Hollywood's...
72) A fatal affair
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (9 1/2 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Actress Nora Kemp loves two men. One is Hugh Iverson, a philanthropic movie star who gives Nora security and respectability. The other is Hugh's twin brother, Trent, a Hollywood bad boy who brings out Nora's wild side. When Trent and an unidentified woman are found dead on the Iversons' Beverly Hills property, more than Nora's and Hugh's reputations are at stake. An investigation suggests murder-suicide. But there's more to the crime than first meets...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A British actress discovers the dark side of Hollywood when she is the only witness to the sudden disappearance of a woman she meets at an audition. Once a year, actors from across the globe descend on the smog and sunshine of Los Angeles for pilot season. Every cable network and studio looking to fill the rosters of their new shows enticing a fresh batch of young hopefuls, anxious, desperate and willing to do whatever it takes to make it. Careers...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rick Dalton - Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick'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 - 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 - She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon's salad days are now spent on Cielo...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A talented Hollywood starlet and a reclusive A-lister enter into a fake relationship . . . and discover that their feelings might be more than a PR stunt in this sexy debut for fans of Beach Read and The Unhoneymooners. Grey Brooks is on a mission to keep her career afloat now that the end of her long-running teen show has her (unsuccessfully) pounding the pavement again. With a life-changing role on the line, she's finally desperate enough to agree...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A hilarious new novel full of Hollywood glitz, glamour, and scandal. When he changes the locks, she changes the rules. Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife - she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they're living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties. But the job...
77) Blonde
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Segunda edición en México.
Physical Desc
933 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Marilyn Monroe era puro fuego, sexualidad a flor de piel, romances turbulentos, pero también era una mujer frágil, asustada y repleta de inseguridades que buscaba en otros --en el Ex Deportista, en el Dramaturgo o en el Presidente-- ese amor que ella misma se negaba. Una artista superdotada cargada de conflictos, temores y pasiones desatadas; una niña que no dejó de huir hacia delante y que llegó a burlar a la propia muerte para convertirse...
78) Love me do
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Greetings card copywriter Phoebe Chapman knows a good romantic line or two--and it makes her a fantastic Cupid. So when she lands in the Hollywood Hills--a place that proves film stars, golden beaches and secret waterfalls don't just exist in the movies--she can't resist playing matchmaker for her handsome neighbor, carpenter Ren. But you can't hide from love in La La Land. And isn't there something a little bit hot about Ren, her own leading...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank's passing, Maud is the only person who can...
Author
Language
English
Description
Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path than her sister. Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that...
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