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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Chasing America is a roller-coaster ride through promise and poverty, affirmative action and addiction, and a story that captures a life and an era that is seminally American." "Born in Harlem in 1952, Dennis Watlington developed a heroin habit at the age of thirteen, kicked it, and received a scholarship to the Hotchkiss School, where he was elected president of his class. He went on to NYU, became involved in film and theater (he had a small role...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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 story of a wheelchair-bound scientist named Sylvia who...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Evvie Drake Starts Over meets Beach Read in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about a divorced romance channel screenwriter whose script about her marriage's collapse just might help her reclaim her life and find love." --
As a romance channel screenwriter, Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. 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...
4) Black dance
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Screenwriter Milo Noirlac is dying. As he lies in the dark of his hospital bed, voices from Milo's past and present--real and imagined--swirl about his head, each taking on the rhythm of his favorite Brazilian fight-dance, the capoiera. Seated next to him, Milo's partner, bumptious director Paul Schwartz, coaxes Milo through his life story, from the abuse he suffered as a foster child to his lost heritage--his beloved grandfather's priceless library....
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners and the "delectable, moving" (Entertainment Weekly) My Favorite Half-Night Stand comes a modern love story about what happens when your first love reenters your life when you least expect it... Sam Brandis was Tate Jones's first: Her first love. Her first everything. Including her first heartbreak. During a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad, Sam and Tate fell for each other in only...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be a great, world-changing screenplay. Every night, after finishing work on the script, Pablo writes in his notebook and every morning he crosses out what he wrote the night before.
8) Bungalow 2
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Marin County mother and freelance writer Tanya Harris gets the chance to write a major Hollywood screenplay, she finds herself thrust into an unfamiliar world that forces her to reconcile her two lives as a suburban mom and award-winning screenwriter.
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Single mother Hester Wallace reluctantly begins to care about comic book creator Mitch Dempsey; and cynical Booth DeWitt becomes unwillingly fascinated with actress Ariel Kirkwood, who is playing the role of his cruel ex-wife.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The long-awaited, enormously entertaining memoir by one of the great artists of our time. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The daughter of the actress best known for "King Kong" and the screenwriter for "It Happened One Night" presents a dual memoir that describes her parents' lives and work, her father's collaborations with Frank Capra, and his early death.
"A Hollywood love story, a Hollywood memoir, a dual biography of two of Hollywood's most famous figures, whose golden lives were lived at the center of Hollywood's golden age, written by their daughter, an acclaimed...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
marzo de 2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Desde muy niño, Boris sabe que es diferente. Muy temprano se detectan problemas de motricidad y dislexia, y el pequeño actúa con unos gestos y una forma de hablar amaneradas. Los adultos dicen que su madre, Belén, una bailarina de renombre, y su padre, crítico de cine, rodean al niño de malas compañías. En Caracas se habla de sus amigos intelectuales y de toda esa gente homosexual con la que ella trabaja. También que Boris está enamorado...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.
17) Yearbook
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people's searches using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks for bearing with us!) Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites and...
19) Slipstream
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A screenwriter, revising the movie he is working on, finds that reality and fiction are blurring together when some of the characters in his film are showing up in real life.
20) Harvest moon
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
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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