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22) Oprah Winfrey
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a brief introduction to the life and career of television star and business woman Oprah Winfrey.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
20230425
Language
English
Description
In this New York Times bestseller, comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson explores the problem-solving benefits that spirituality gives us to create solutions for an increasingly challenging world.
The trauma that our struggling species has experienced in recent years—because of both the pandemic and societal tensions that threaten to overwhelm us—is not going away anytime soon. Existing political
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The movie business is booming in 1935 when twenty-one-year-old Loretta Young meets thirty-four-year-old Clark Gable on the set of The Call of the Wild. Though he's already married, Gable falls for the stunning and vivacious young actress instantly. Far from the glittering lights of Hollywood, Sister Alda Ducci has been forced to leave her convent and begin a new journey that leads her to Loretta. Becoming Miss Young's secretary, the innocent and...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again.
With a new bonus chapter
In Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren...
With a new bonus chapter
In Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Suddenly thrust into the public eye, aspiring actress Antonia Adams, who has been "invisible" all her life, must decide whether she will remain center stage or hide again when tragedy strikes, forcing her to decide how high a price she is willing to pay to pursue her passion.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman commissioned his best friend to interview actors and directors he worked with, his friends, his children, his first wife, his psychiatrist, and Joanne Woodward, to create an oral history of his life. After hearing and reading what others said about him, Newman then dictated his own version of his life. Now, this long-lost memoir-90% Newman's own narrative, interspersed with wonderful stories and recollections...
29) Teen idol
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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.
30) Loving
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In the fourth and final chapter in the Bailey Flanigan Series, Bailey is planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles. But doubts are wracking Bailey's mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon? Or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana and be with Cody Coleman, her first love?
Author
Publisher
American Icon Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Join Greg Laurie as he takes a cross-country drive in his 1968 Highland Green Ford Mustang 390 GT through the canyons of Malibu, the alleys of Hollywood, the wide and open roads of the Midwest, the streets of New York, as he traces the wooly geography of actor Steve McQueen's life, relationships, career and spiritual journey. This iconic muscle car was the vehicle McQueen drove in his most raucous and enduring film, Bullitt. In the 1960s, McQueen...
33) Close up
Author
Series
Burning Cove volume 4
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Burning Cove, California, where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer.... Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include shooting headshots for aspiring male actors or nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes. Although she is set on making a career of transforming her photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what's paying the bills. After shooting crime scene...
35) Shopkins wild
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Find your Wild Style and come on a totally Pawesome adventure to Pawville to meet the Shoppets. When famous movie stars Scarletta Gateau and Rubie Blaze recruit the Shopville gang to save the Shoppets, they journey through the jungle and find the amazing world of Pawville. But Pawville and the Shoppets definitely don't need saving and suddenly nothing Scarletta says is as it seems. What's going on? Can the Shopkins, Shoppies and Shoppets rally together...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In this beautiful and poignant tribute to her late daughter, award-winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Carol Burnett presents a funny and moving memoir about mothering an extraordinary young woman through the struggles and triumphs of her life.Despite her busy schedule, Carol Burnett always made time for her three young children. But her oldest daughter, Carrie, faltered in adolescence, losing the self-esteem that had fueled her...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After escaping an abusive relationship, Chelsea Spencer flees to Chickadee Creek--the town where her great aunt Rosemary owns a quaint little antique shop. There, Chelsea plans to help with the shop as her aunt heals from an accident--and perhaps find some healing of her own. Liam Chandler was one film away from a leading role when his brother Jacob was stricken with cancer. After spending the last months of Jacob's life with him in Boise, Liam heads...
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Beaver, a character actor, and his wife Cecily not only learned that their daughter was autistic but also that Cecily suffered from lung cancer. Beaver began sending e-mails to family and friends regarding Cecily's condition; this work is a compilation of those nightly e-mails.
39) Miramar Bay
Author
Series
Miramar Bay volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Connor Larkin boards a late night bus in downtown LA, he's not sure where he's going or what he's looking for. Putting his acting career - and his fiancée - on hold, he's searching for something he can't define, a part of himself he lost on the road to success. Once he dreamed of being a singer in the classic style of Sinatra and Bennett. But his lean good looks soon landed him in movies as the sexy "bad guy" - and in the arms of a famous young...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently...
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