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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A semi-autobiographical novel follows the experiences of a successful but lonely, slightly overweight movie star who seeks to escape depression through a new romance and an Oscar-worthy role, only to discover the universe's alternative plans."--Provided by publisher.
Meet Jim Carrey. He's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege-- but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even getting fat? Nothing seems...
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After a mortifying rejection, Sahoko Wakaume has sworn off beautiful boys. But a chance meeting puts her in the sights of gorgeous J-pop star Kouta Kirigaya of the group Like Legend. Sahoko will need all her cynicism to defend herself against Kouta's tenderhearted and affectionate attacks to win her heart! Sahoko tells off the nation's top idol, Kouta, in her family's restaurant for assuming that she's his fan. Instead of being cowed by his mistake,...
245) Celebrity in death
Author
Language
English
Description
At the star-studded party celebrating the premiere of a movie based on one of her cases, Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers the actress who played Peabody drowned in the lap pool and investigates.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"An inspirational and heartrending memoir about Ben Breedlove, whose videos about his near-death experiences and visions of heaven went viral in 2012, written by his sister Ally Breedlove. On Christmas Day 2011, Ben Breedlove's soul went to heaven. But it wasn't his first time there. Ben suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a heart condition that posed a constant risk of sudden death. His condition, a thickening of the heart muscle, worsened...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold, illusion and reality, and what looks like happiness from the thing itself. Born into a world of make-believe as the daughter of a larger-than-life film producer,...
249) Hero-type
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Diana's Boys revealed the powerful bond between the teenaged princes, and how it strengthened even more in the wake of their mother's tragic death. Now, twenty years later, Queen Elizabeth II is in her mid-nineties, Prince Charles is in his seventies, and all eyes are turned increasingly toward William and Harry again. Christopher Andersen picks up where he left off, covering everything that has happened to the brothers as they have grown up, gotten...
251) Celebrity crimes
Author
Publisher
New Holland
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"All the people in this book are celebrities whose lives have somehow gone wrong. And as they traded their private lives for success, we watched them go down and, sometimes, resurface." -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As John Kennedy Jr.'s creative director for George magazine, Matt Berman had a wonderfully collaborative and fun-loving relationship with America's favorite son--his story is told here with unprecedented candor and wit. The Kennedys--their poise, the family secrets, and their grace in the face of unimaginable tragedies--have captured the imagination and interest of the public for more than fifty years. Now, colleague and friend of JFK Jr., Matt Berman,...
255) Insignificance
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for a compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's play. With a combination of whimsy and dread, director Nicolas Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror picture of cold war America that questions the nature of celebrity and plays on a society's simmering nuclear fears.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The forefront British dance critic and award-nominated author of Bloomsbury Ballerina presents a revisionist assessment of the movement that shattered the boundaries of conventional femininity through the lives of six figures that exemplified it, including Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka.
258) The forgotten road
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chicago celebrity and successful pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead. Everyone believes he was killed in a fiery plane crash. But thanks to a remarkable twist of fate, he's very much alive and ready for a second chance at life -- and love. Narrowly escaping death has brought Charles some clarity: the money, the fame, the fast cars -- none of it was making him happy. The last time he was happy -- truly happy -- was when he was married to...
259) River's end
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A romance between a woman employed as a rain forest guide on the Olympic Peninsula and a reporter investigating her mother's murder. The heroine is Olivia whose father is in jail for killing her mother and she wants no reminders of the horror she saw as a child. But reporter Noah Brady is persistent, having been asked by Olivia's father to clear his name, and his persistence leads to justice for one and love with the other. By the author of The Reef....
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Josh looks forward to facing a true rival in the Baseball Hall of Fame tournament, but first he and his friends Jaden and Benji put themselves at great risk trying to expose the truth about a conspiracy to bribe the head umpire.
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