Catalog Search Results
1) Body copy
Author
Series
Donald Tremaine mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introducing Donald Tremaine, P.I.
Once the world's number one surfer, Donald Tremaine quit at the top of his game, moved into a trailer in Malibu, and became a detective. Beautiful women don't ask for his autograph anymore. Now they ask for his help-like the stunning Nina Aldeen, who wants Tremaine to solve the murder of her uncle, advertising mogul Roger Gale, brutally slayed in his L.A. office a year earlier. The police investigation went nowhere....
2) They thirst
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prince Vulcan and an army of vampires invade the city of Los Angeles, the first step in a plan to conquer the world.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This follow-up to the classic black comedy about the film industry.
In The Player, the Hollywood novel that was adapted into the celebrated movie by Robert Altman, film executive Griffin Mill got away with murder. Now Mill is back, down to his last six million dollars, i.e., broke. His second wife wants to leave him. His first wife still loves him. His children hate him. And, believing that the end of the world is happening, he wants to save them...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
I have been used, abused, lied to, and cheated on, blamed, shamed, screamed at, and ridiculed. I've been scammed and damned, had my ass kissed, my reputation dissed, and my face spat on. All in the name of working as a celebrity personal assistant . . . a CHORE WHORE!
After twenty years of working thanklessly for a dozen high-powered Hollywood hotshots, Corki Brown has had enough. She's sick to death of handling elaborate extortion deals, washing...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The youngest of three brothers, K just wants to be an all-American boy-shooting hoops with his buddies and riding his Huffy around the San Fernando Valley. But K understands there's something different about himself, a longing that draws him closer to his friends while making him feel more and more alienated. At home, K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the faithful son of Iranian immigrants struggling to survive in the United States....
Author
Series
Out in Hollywood volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
An assistant to a Hollywood talent agent, Max Van Doren, lets her roommate sponsor her for a new self-actualization app that brings her dreams close to coming true, in the second novel of the series following For Her Consideration.
Author
Series
Hollywood series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"They lunch at LA's hottest restaurants and feast on hotter gossip. They cruise Rodeo Drive in their Mercedes and Rolls, turning shopping at Giorgio and Gucci into an art form. They pursue the body beautiful at the Workout and Body Asylum. Dressed by St. Laurent and Galanos, they dine at the latest restaurants on the rise and fall of one another's fortunes. They're sensuous and jaded, corrupt and beautiful. They're Hollywood wives, and they hold the...
11) Never say sty
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Already an L.A. attorney and pet-sitter, Kendra's taken on a third job, masterminding a new reality show called “Animal Auditions.” But things get messier than the show's pot-bellied pigs when her hot new producer is suspected of murder." -- product description.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It’s 1942, and as far as her father knows, Evelyn Bishop, heiress to an aeronautics fortune, is working as a translator in London. In truth, Evelyn—daring, beautiful, and as adept with a rifle as she is in five languages—has joined the Office of Strategic Services as a spy. Her goal is personal: to find her brother, who is being held as a POW in a Nazi labor camp. Through one high-risk mission after another she is paired with the reckless and...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Riley Jo is a teenager who knows what she wants. Born and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas, this Korean American girl has her sights set on being a musician. So when her parents are surprisingly cool about her attending the prestigious Los Angeles-based arts-focused boarding school her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance. This is her moment to make her indie rock dreams a reality! Things at Carlmont Academy start out strong: She joins...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this sweeping second chance romance from debut author Myah Ariel, the unexpected spark of two former flames may force them to choose between their dreams and each other. Kaliya Wilson has paid her dues. But all the years behind the reception desk at aflashy film studio have only pushed her movie-making dreams further out of reach. That is, until a surprise reunion presents an opportunity that could make her career, or break her heart...a second...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, Hattie McDaniel, when the Oscar curse sets in, is thrust in the middle of two worlds--black and white--and is not welcomed in either but, through it all, continued her fight to pave a path for other Negro actors.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[Date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah is having a ball at her new winery. But a devastating incident mars her happiness - her stepdaughter Julia's aunt wants custody. Will Sarah lose her one chance at motherhood?Quinn runs into an old friend, Mia. But Quinn finds herself attracted to the high-spirited Mia, who is helping Quinn's daughter, Emerson and Julia craft some songs as the two young girls have become a powerhouse song-writing team. Will Quinn admit to Mia how she feels?...
19) The Malibu girls
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[Date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
"Join the gang as they start a new life in Los Angeles!Willow is working on the screenplay for Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of famed writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. While she's working on it, she finds herself getting closer and closer to Jackson Flynn, Ava's son. Then fate steps in and bonds the two in a way that Willow never imagined or wanted.Ava has finally met her stepbrother, Elijah, who she finds uncomfortably attractive. She also finds a new opening...
20) Thorn tree
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Now in his late-sixties, Daniel lives in quiet anonymity in a converted guest cottage in the Hollywood Hills. A legendary artist, he's known for one seminal work-Thorn Tree-a hulking, welded, scrap metal sculpture that he built in the Mojave desert in the 1970s. The work emerged from tragedy, but building it kept Daniel alive and catapulted him to brief, reluctant fame in the art world. Daniel is neighbors with Celia, a charismatic but fragile actress....
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request