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In his world, everyone wears a mask.
When the actors who play iconic superheroes in big screen blockbusters start dying on set, Ken Allen, failed actor and neophyte detective, answers the call after the blame falls on effects expert Ray Ford, Ken's oldest friend.
But the deaths are not accidental. Someone is killing heroes. Maybe for love, maybe for money. Maybe for both. Ken Allen finds himself outmatched and outgunned when
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Crumley volume 03
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A terrified, aging actress draws a California writer into a search for the killer of several stars from Hollywood's heyday.
4) Lucky stars
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Stacey's acting career is on the rise, she can feel it. After leaving Cleveland for the glamour of Hollywood, she knows she's on the path to becoming a star. The big screen is calling her.
Well, it could be. With her mother buzzing her cellphone every twenty minutes, it's really easy to lose a casting callback among all the smothering. Helen is a good mother, but she just can't resist checking up on her baby at all hours. After all, Hollywood is...
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Toby Peters mysteries volume 18
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It is 1943 and PI Toby Peters is hired by Clark Gable, the movie star, to catch a killer. The man is bumping off actors who were in the film, Gone with the Wind. He has sent a note saying Gable's turn will come. Peters suspects the killer is eliminating people who may have witnessed a murder disguised as an accident during the burning of Atlanta, a scene in the film.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 4
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"While older sister Alex is trying to orchestrate a perfect first kiss with her heartthrob and younger sister Joey prefers frogs to boys, Stevie Reel wonders if she is ready for a boyfriend while being pursued by a new boy in her class"--WorldCat.
8) Forever Jack
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**A small-town girl and the Hollywood star who broke her heart
An all-consuming love threatened by fame
One last chance at FOREVER**
Keri Ann Butler's life changed on the night she met movie star, Jack Eversea. She thought she knew a Jack that was very different to the man adored by fans the world over. In the wake of his betrayal and abandonment, Keri Ann has had to pick up and move forward with the life she was supposed to live and has put off...
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"With the rich intrigue of Kate Atkinson's literary mysteries and the heart of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Miranda Emmerson's darkly beguiling novel (the first in a potential series) unfolds in atmospheric 1960s London as a disparate group of people search for a missing American actress."-- Provided by publisher.
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2024.
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"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to TV star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and...
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"Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite at the theater, away from the ton's judgmental stares and the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of abolition--and her fears that someone from her past...
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Nerd series volume 4
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Playing a brainy scientist requires a lot of chemistry…
Hollywood actress Zoe Tarleton is stuck in a typecast rut. Audiences adore her pretty face and knockout physique, but she's sick of being labeled sexy rather than smart. She's determined to land a highly coveted role, playing a world-famous chemist. To nab the gig, however, she needs to brush up on her nerd nuances. And she knows just the man to teach her.
L.A. entertainment lawyer Flynn Granger...
14) Looker: a novel
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In this taut and thrilling debut, an unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor--the beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can't help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what...
16) Jewel hunt
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"Ewe is the star of the show, but her jewel is missing. Dog detectives Lew and Drew are on the case!"--
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2023.
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Swearing off New York, theater, actors-all of it-49-year-old Margot Hughes is thrown back into the theater world when she is tapped to take over a troubled summer production and finds unexpected love with her lead actor even though he represents everything she left behind.
19) Tango midnight
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It's 2005, and the world has changed. International terrorists have released a genetically modified disease, called X-Pox, on the world. There is no greater challenge to medicine than finding a cure. Biochem billionaire Tad Mikleszewski (called TM by nearly everyone) is a "space junkie" who has been the primary investor backing the Spacelifter project, a private attempt to build a single-stage to orbit vehicle. But, Spacelifter's crucial test firing...
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