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1) Thrill!
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A tale of love and intrigue in Hollywood, featuring movie star Lara Ivory who is without a man because her ex-husband, a director, fends off suitors. Eventually, Lara does fall in love with Joey Lorenzo, an aspiring actor, but the romance is threatened by a woman stalker.
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Demoted after a run-in with a superior, Rick Barron, a talented detective with the Beverly Hills police force, lands a terrific job with the security detail at Centurion Pictures, assigned to protect some of filmdom's leading stars, until he uncovers a murder cover-up and a blackmail scheme that threatens the studio's business and could be tied to powerful West Coast crime lords
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On June 28, 1980-the hottest night of the year-Kelly Michelle Lund shoots and kills Oscar-nominated director John McFadden at a party in his home ... and instantly becomes a media sensation, her chilling smile fodder for national nightmares. For years, speculation swirls over the enigmatic seventeen-year-old's motives, information she's refused to share. Convicted of the murder, she loses her youth and her freedom-but keeps her secrets to herself....
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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?
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After losing his prestigious job as head of a film studio, Hollywood executive Andy Westfield retreats to a tiny coastal village in England to figure out his next move. There he hires a local woman, an unemployed former journalist and aspiring novelist named Violet, to help him get his affairs in order. When Violet leaves her unfinished manuscript at Andy's house, Andy reads it and realizes it could be adapted into a great film. Could this be the...
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Teddy Fay novels volume 2
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Disguising himself as a stuntman to investigate blackmail threats against an actress starring in a new production, Teddy Fay discovers that the perpetrators are looking for something other than money.
10) The cottage
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The need to rent out his enormous Bel Air estate leads Cooper Winslow to some tenants who will change his life in unexpected ways. --
11) Oil!: a novel
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After writing The Jungle, his scathing indictment of the meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his sights on the early days of the California oil industry in a highly entertaining story featuring a cavalcade of characters including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist. This lively and panoramic book, which was recently cited by David Denby in the New Yorker as being Sinclair's "most readable" novel, is now the...
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The great Hollywood novel is now available as a stand-alone New Directions edition
Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the "Best 100 English-language novels" by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song "Day of the Locusts" in homage and Matt Groening's Homer Simpson is named after...13) Silver nitrate
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"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Trist̀an, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Trist̀an discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if...
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It is the 1940s. Rick Barron, a former Beverly Hills cop, has risen to head of production of Centurion Pictures, and he's at the top of his game. But tensions are high in Hollywood, and when Rick's friend Sidney Brooks, a successful screenwriter, receives a subpoena from the House on Un-American Activities Committee, Rick isn't surprised. The witch hunt is spreading, and those under investigation are Rick's closest friends-even his wife, the glamorous...
15) Angel
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Moving from the streets of New York and the studios of Hollywood to the boulevards of Paris and a chateau in the Loire Valley, Angel takes us on an unforgettable journey of lost innocence.
16) Take one
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Filmmakers Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison left the mission field of Indonesia for the mission field of Hollywood with a dream bigger than both of them. Now they have done the impossible: raised enough money to produce a feature film with a message that could change the world. But as Chase and Keith begin shooting, their well-laid plans begin to unravel. With millions of dollars on the line, they make a desperate attempt to keep the film from falling...
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Lucky Santangelo is back with a vengeance--still every bit as strong, sexy, and seductive as ever! But Lucky is older and wiser, and hot to reclaim her power position in Las Vegas. However, a deadly enemy from her past has resurfaced--a person determined to take everything from her, including the family she holds so dear: two sons and an out-of-control teenage daughter who is just as outrageous as Lucky herself. Like mother, like daughter. And if...
18) Wishbones
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Southern gal Sarah Booth Delaney packs up her hound dog and her P.I. business and sets off for Hollywood to take a shot at stardom. No stranger to acting, she aces the screen test for a racy remake of the movie Body Heat alongside leading man Graf Miliau. The chemistry between them is undeniable, and why not? Graf has already starred in one of Sarah's previous affairs and is well on his way to landing a big part in the sequel. Thrilled as Sarah is,...
19) Get shorty
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Chronicles the over-the-top, sometimes violent Hollywood misadventures of a Florida mob loan shark who chases a deadbeat client all the way to Tinseltown and decides to stick around and make movies.
20) Bungalow 2
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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.