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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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Michelle thought she lost everything at seventeen. Her father, a Hollywood legend, had finally summoned her to his Montana ranch. But when he learned of her affair with Sam, a hired hand, he had Sam fired and destroyed his family. Michelle, pregnant, fled to Seattle. There, she is successful and safe--safe from love, safe from hurt. But her son is lost to her, a troubled teen on the verge of self-destruction, a boy who blames her for the absence...
4) Genuine lies
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Accepting a potentially lucrative ghostwriting assignment in spite of her abhorrence of the spotlight, biographer Julia Summers pens the racy memoirs of an Oscar-winning actress only to encounter challenges from a stepson who would bar their release, a situation that is further complicated by an unexpected attraction.
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"Sophie Dempsey is content living a quiet life filming wedding videos until an assignment brings her to Temptation, Ohio. From the moment she drive into town, she gets a bad feeling; Sophie is from the wrong side of the tracks and everything in Temptation is a little too right. And when she has a run-in with the town's unnervingly sexy mayor, Phineas Tucker, making a little movie turns out to be more than a little dangerous. Yield to oncoming desire......
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Reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker--the child, the woman, the fated celebrity, and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startlingly intimate and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story of an emblematic American artist-intensely conflicted and driven-who had lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood's myth and an extraordinary woman's heartbreaking reality, Blonde is a sweeping epic...
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Dr. Isabel Favor is at her lowest. Her fiance has found someone else, her accountant has run off with her money, and her self-help empire is in shambles. She flees to Italy but disaster lies ahead in the form of actor Lorenzo Gage, Hollywood's favorite villain.
8) The face
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Ten-year-old Aelfric Manheim is home alone when he receives a call from a stranger with a simple and terrifying message, "There is trouble coming, young Fric ... You're going to need a place to hide." Meanwhile, security chief for the Manheim estate, former detective Ethan Truman, is tailing a "deader than dead" body that got up and left the morgue when he vividly experiences his own death--twice. In The Face, Dean Koontz delivers yet another spellbinding...
10) The cottage
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When Coop, an aging, broke actor rents out his beloved home, known as The Cottage, something unexpected happens. Three men who would never have met become friends...and each man finds himself changing in surprising ways, Coop most of all. Amidst chaos and near tragedy, The Cottage welcomes a new houseguest--with a secret of her own.
12) Tribute
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Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother's Shenandoah Valley farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. In the attic, she finds a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that her grandmother was pregnant when she died and that the father was a local married man. When Cilla becomes the target of a series of intimidating acts and a frightening, violent assault, her...
13) Honor thyself
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In the days that follow a tragic accident, a woman who the whole world knows slowly awakens with no memory of who she is. Every detail must be pieced back together--from a childhood in rural Mississippi to the early days of her career, from the unintentional hurt inflicted on her daughter to a fifteen year-old secret love affair that went tragically wrong. But for this woman an extraordinary opportunity has arisen in a life-threatening crisis: a second...
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Enemies come lovers when rivals find themselves facing the Alaskan wilderness together in this romantic comedy from a New York Times bestselling author.
There are a few places screenwriter Lou Calabrese would rather be than crammed into a helicopter with Jack Townsend, star of her claim to fame, Copkiller, and whose ex just ran off with Lou's ex. Talk about uncomfortable. But when, halfway out to the isolated arctic location where Copkiller...
There are a few places screenwriter Lou Calabrese would rather be than crammed into a helicopter with Jack Townsend, star of her claim to fame, Copkiller, and whose ex just ran off with Lou's ex. Talk about uncomfortable. But when, halfway out to the isolated arctic location where Copkiller...
16) River's end
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Olivia's parents were among Hollywood's golden couples--until the night a monster came and took her mother away forever. A monster with the face of her father ... Sheltered from the truth, an older Olivia only dimly recalls her night of terror--but her recurring nightmares make her realize she must piece together the real story. Now, assisted by Noah Brady, the son of the police detective who found her cowering in her closet so many years before,...
17) Demon Rumm
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It was the publicity stunt from hell as far as Kirsten Rumm was concerned. She may have been writing the book about her late husband, aeronautical daredevil Demon Rumm, but she didn't see the need to play host to the arrogant bad-boy actor starring in the film version's title role. Still, for the good of the project, Kirsten agreed to share her beachfront home with the impossibly sexy screen idol. Any other woman would do anything to be in her sandals,...
18) Beautiful ruins
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The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies a tall, thin woman approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, an American starlet, and is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot-searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades...
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The New York Times bestselling of Eternity brings her signature "enchanting and exquisite" (BookPage) prose to the second in the Forever Trilogy following Darci Monroe as she must solve a devastating mystery that hits close to home.
When her beloved husband vanishes after a strange accident, grief-stricken Darci Monroe is left to raise their young daughter alone. But she can't help but suspect that the reports of his...
When her beloved husband vanishes after a strange accident, grief-stricken Darci Monroe is left to raise their young daughter alone. But she can't help but suspect that the reports of his...
20) Marlene
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A lush, biographical novel of one of the most glamorous legends of Hollywood's golden age, Marlene Dietrich. From the gender-bending cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the film studios of Hollywood to the devastation of post-war Germany, Marlene reveals the inner life of a woman of grit, Glamour, and ambition who defied convention, seduced the world, and forged her own path.
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