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After a long period of 'resting', life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast as the Ghost of Hamlet's Father and First Gravedigger in a new production of Hamlet. But rehearsals are fraught. Ophelia is played by Katrina Selsey, who won the role through a television talent show. Hamlet himself is also played by a reality TV contestant, Jared Root – and the two young stars have rather different views of celebrity and the theatre than the...
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Alexander Cleave trilogy volume 3
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
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287 p. ; 23 cm.
4) Teen idol
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
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291 p. ; 22 cm.
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When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker shows up at a small-town Indiana high school to do research for a movie role, he persuades junior Jenny Greenley to use her considerable talents to try to change things at school for the better.
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"A young man is in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of a brilliant director,...
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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 6
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A Hollywood actress, who had been competing with Sammy's mother for an important role, is murdered, but thirteen-year-old Sammy and her friend Marissa are on the case.
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Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
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293 pages ; 25 cm
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Reuniting 30 years after a tragic accident ended their show Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members, who hold the secret of their close circle, the mystery of the beloved magical host and what really happened on that deadly last day, soon wonder ifthey've been lured into a trap.
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Retiree-turned-PI Poppy Harmon likes the anonymity of working behind the scenes for the hottest names in Palm Springs, but when solving a case demands dragging her old acting career out of retirement, she finds herself investigating the death of her co-star, a rising starlet with a persistent stalker.
10) The humbling
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
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140 p. ; 20 cm.
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What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances--talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation--are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Consumed by an erotic...
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Fairy tale fatal volume 1
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
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328 pages ; 18 cm.
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After fast-talking her way into the role of lady's maid to a New York millionaire's bride, gutsy America actress Ophelia Flax finds herself in the heart of Grimm territory where she is faced with murder and mayhem after the ruins of Snow White's cottage are discovered nearb
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William Morrow
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2011
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307 p. ; 22 cm.
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Frustrated actress Piper Donovan returns to her New Jersey hometown to work with her mother at the family bakery, where her first job preparing a wedding cake for a soap star is shattered by a murder that is investigated by a handsome FBI agent.
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In the heart of Elizabethan England, Richard Shakespeare dreams of a glittering career in one of the London playhouses, a world dominated by his older brother, William. But he is a penniless actor, making ends meet through a combination of a beautiful face, petty theft and a silver tongue. As William's star rises, Richard's onetime gratitude is souring and he is sorely tempted to abandon family loyalty. So when a priceless manuscript goes missing,...
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Crème de la Crime
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2014.
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186 pages ; 23 cm
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Landing a minor role in a theater production, Charles Paris is assigned to help the show's famous American star navigate cultural differences in England, an effort that tangles him up in the actor's complicated relationships and a wrongful murder charge.
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Willis Wu doesn?t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he?s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He?s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being...
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Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. As a child, she is abandoned in the abyss that yawns between them, blamed by her mother, ignored by her father, and neglected by both. Unprotected and unloved, she learns that the only way to feel safe is to hide from the dangers around her, drawing as little attention as possible to herself, to be "invisible." In her isolation, books are her refuge...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012
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349 p. ; 24 cm.
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"In the late spring of 1865, as Washington mourns the death of Lincoln, Detective Temple McFadden witnesses a murder at the B&O Railroad Station--and then makes an even more staggering discovery. On his slain friend's body he finds two diaries, one that clearly belongs to Mary Todd Lincoln and one that he learns was penned by John Wilkes Booth. Together, these documents reveal the true depth and reach of the conspiracy behind the assassination"--
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
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226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Each of the six stories in Your Duck is My Duck, Eisenberg's first collection since 2006, has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable but utterly unpredictable logic and her almost uncanny ability to conjure the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through her characters--a tormented woman whose face determines her destiny; a group of film actors...
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Hogarth
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[2016]
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310 pages ; 25 cm
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A young Irish drama student in 1990s London makes new friends, establishes a place for herself, and seeks to shed her plain-girl identity before entering a whirlwind affair with an older man who changes her in unexpected ways.
In this stream-of-consciousness novel, an eighteen-year-old Irish girl, recently arrived in London to attend drama school, meets an older, well-regarded actor. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is...
20) The lioness
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Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebras storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests—including Katie’s best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black...
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