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201) What I did for love
Author
Language
English
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Description
A down-on-her-luck movie actress runs into her detestable former co-star--dreamboat-from-hell Bramwell Shepard--in Las Vegas and gets caught up in a ridiculous incident that leads to a calamitous elopement. Can two enemies find themselves working without a script in a town where the spotlight shines bright...and where the strongest emotions can wear startling disguises?
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Tori Spelling plays a fictional version of herself who deals with her post-90210 life. Tori has a close-knit group of non-showbiz friends who both encourage and distract her as she moves through forgettable parts on TV movies, tries to meet a normal guy and struggles to escape her sometimes-burdensom family legacy.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
A memoir by the bodybuilder, actor, and former governor of California traces his journey to the United States and rise from Mr. Universe champion to millionaire businessman, and discusses his political achievements and the choices he regrets.
Author
Language
English
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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 rumored...
207) Starstruck
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Small-town girl Jessica Olsen goes to Los Angeles to visit her grandparents. Little does she know that a chance meeting with hunky young pop star Christopher Wilde will set into motion an unplanned hilarious adventure, and maybe a little romance. Includes extended scene and song, rock-along tracks from the movie, plus three music videos.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the hit PBS documentary series. As Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows us, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research now allow us to learn more about our roots, looking further back in time than ever before. Gates' investigations take on the personal and genealogical histories...
209) Pánico
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Freddy Otash es el hombre informado y el hombre a conocer en Tinseltown. Opera con dos reglas simples: hará cualquier cosa menos asesinar, y nunca trabajará con comunistas. Freddy es un policía corrupto de Los Ángeles en los patines. Ejecutó a un asesino de policías llamado Horvath y lo cornea. Así que el Capitán 'Whiskey' Bill Parker lo enlata. Ahora, Freddy se pone una variedad de nuevos sombreros: detective privado sórdido, artista de...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From Mary Wollstonecraft--who, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman--to Charlotte Brontë, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Plath, and even Hillary Clinton, [this book] dissects a centuries-old phenomenon and asks what it means now, in a time when we have unprecedented access to celebrities and civilians alike, and when women are pushing harder than ever against...
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"When a shiny idol is a sad mess in real life, can his number one fan help him stay upbeat? High schooler Utage Kinoshita works part-time as a housekeeper so she can afford her fangirl obsession with Tamon Fukuhara, her favorite member of boy band F/ACE. When work serendipitously sends her to the home of her idol, she discovers that the real Tamon couldn't be more different from his wild and sexy onstage persona! Tamon is an insecure mess in real...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A revealing and explosive portrayal of Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's fifteen-year friendship with Melania Trump and observations of the most chaotic White House in history."--
Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had a front row seat to the transformation of Donald Trump's then girlfriend. As their friendship deepened over lunches, black-tie parties, and giggle sessions in the penthouse at Trump Tower, Wolkoff watched the newest Mrs. Trump manage...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Superpowered humans known as NEXT appeared in the world 45 years ago. Some of them fight crime in the city of Stern Bild while promoting their corporate sponsors on the hit show Hero TV. The people love their superheroes, even if they don't completely understand them, and not all of the NEXT use their powers for good. Veteran hero Wild Tiger has years of experience fighting crime, but his ratings have been slipping. Under orders from his new employer,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis; her mother, Janet Lee Auchincloss; and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill, discusses their ambitions, status-seeking marriages, illicit liaisons, and psychological profiles.
"Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?" Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters Jackie and Lee during their tea time. "Money and power," she would say. It was a lesson neither would ever forget. They...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anderson Cooper's intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS' 60 Minutes affords him little time to spend with his ninety-one year old mother. After she briefly fell ill, he and Gloria began a conversation through e-mail unlike any they had ever had before, a correspondence of surprising honesty and depth in which they discussed their lives, the things that matter to them, and what they still want to learn about each other.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The heroes face down the deranged NEXT killer Lunatic. Lunatic's vigilantism has the city on edge, and the heroes find themselves having to convince everyone that NEXT are working for the good of Stern Bild City. Lunatic is in the wrong, but there is much more to the madman than anyone knows" --
219) Blink of an eye
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life. Then she gained her sight through a revolutionary surgical procedure. Her former disability has left her incredibly observant and insightful -- able to detect what other investigators may not. So when a world-famous pop star is kidnapped mid-show, investigator Kendra leads a pulse-pounding race to rescue the young woman from a deadly foe. This time Kendra gets assistance from recurring...
220) Royce rolls
Author
Publisher
Freeform
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A famous-for-being-famous LA family stars on their own reality show, but the sixteen-year-old daughter wants out"--
After five seasons on her family's reality show, Rolling with the Royces, and a lifetime of dealing with her narcissistic sister, Porsche, media-obsessed mother, Mercedes, and somewhat clueless brother, Maybach, Bentley wants out. Luckily for her cancellation is looming and freedom is nigh. With their lifestyle on the brink, however,...
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