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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Maisy and her friends are so excited! They're going to see a fun adventure film. With tickets and snacks at the ready, they scramble for seats and settle in for the movie to begin. Cyril's a little afraid of the dark, but Maisy is happy to hold his hand. When Eddie enthusiastically shouts at the screen, he quickly learns a lesson in movie etiquette! After little ones share this outing with Maisy, they'll be raring to go on their own movie-theater...
Author
Series
Welcome to Wonderland volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"P.T. and Gloria try to save the Wonderland again by getting a teen singing sensation to shoot a movie at the motel"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad...
5) NYPD red 2
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Series
NYPD Red volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
NYPD Red's finest detectives are about to investigate a brutal crime scene in Central Park . . . but even their training can't prepare them for the biggest case of their careers.
When NYPD Red arrives at a crime scene, everyone takes notice. Known as the protectors of the rich, famous, and connected, NYPD Red is the elite task force called in only for New York City's most high-profile crimes. And Detective Zach Jordan is the best of the...
When NYPD Red arrives at a crime scene, everyone takes notice. Known as the protectors of the rich, famous, and connected, NYPD Red is the elite task force called in only for New York City's most high-profile crimes. And Detective Zach Jordan is the best of the...
6) NYPD Red 4
Author
Series
NYPD Red volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An audacious jewel heist. A murdered actress. A killer case for NYPD Red. In a city where crime never sleeps, NYPD Red is the elite task force called in only when a case involves the rich, famous, and connected. Detective Zach Jordan and his partner, Kylie MacDonald--the woman who broke his heart at the police academy--are the best of the best, brilliant and tireless investigators who will stop at nothing to catch a criminal, even if it means antagonizing...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes have chased the elusive Oscar. What began as an industry banquet in 1929 has now exploded into a hallowed ceremony, complete with red carpets, envelopes, and little gold men. But don't be fooled by the pomp: the Oscars, more than anything, are a battlefield, where the history of Hollywood--and...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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It won six Oscars, but it is a miracle Mad Max: Fury Road ever made it to the screen... or that anybody survived the production. Production stalled several times; the stars clashed repeatedly in the brutal Namib Desert, and director George Miller's crew engineered death-defying action scenes that were among the most dangerous ever committed to film. Buchanan takes readers through every step of nearly two decades of obstacles, from Fury Road's unexpected...
10) The Unholy
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Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When the body of a murdered starlet is found in a Hollywood shrine, Sean Cameron and his FBI paranormal forensics team, including special-effects artist Madison Darvil, investigate a malevolent force terrorizing the Black Box Cinema.
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Christmas comes early to McCredie's little Old Town bookshop in Edinburgh. It's summer, but an American production company has decided that McCredie's is the perfect location to film a Christmas movie. Carmen Hogan, the bookshop's manager, is a bit horrified by the goings-on, but the money the studio is paying is too good to pass up. She uses the windfall from filming to create new displays and fend off a buyout offer from a millionaire who wants...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue." In these funny and...
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English
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"When Theodosia Browning reads the tea leaves on the set of the movie Dark Fortunes, things go from spooky to worse. Lights are dimmed, the camera rolls, and sparks fly as the film's director is murdered in an electrical accident. When Theodosia's friend Delaine become the prime suspect, Theodosia begins her own shadow investigation. She doggedly hunts down clues and explores the seemingly haunted Brittleback Manor where the murder took place. But...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
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In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches, raised by the tribe, and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and...
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Series
Publisher
Stripes Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Eric and his Mini-Dragon, Pan, decide to enter a competition for young filmmakers. If only they had something better to film on than Mom's old cell phone. Then Toby steps in, offering to lend Eric some equipment, and before long he has taken over the project completely. Can Pan work behind the scenes to bring Eric's original vision to life? Eric and Pan the Mini-Dragon love going to the movies. So when they hear about a short film competition, they...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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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.
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