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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The most ambitious, accomplished, and beguiling novel yet from the author of the National Book Award finalist Eat the Document and the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist Stone Arabia. Innocents and Others is a riveting story about three women looking for meaning in friendship, work, and love. They've always been friends, and they both become filmmakers: Meadow, who makes documentaries, and Carrie, who makes popular movies with a feminist...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When her mother, who is unexpectedly pregnant, receives a devastating diagnosis, Sonnet Romano must decide what really matters in life and, putting her career on hold, stays in Avalon and takes a job that forces her to work alongside her biggest mistake--award-winning filmmaker Zach Alger and Sonnet's former lover.
23) When we meet
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
The Law is a Lady: "Once Phillip Kincaid fixes his mind on something, he sets about getting it. When he's arrested for speeding in Friendly, New Mexico, he knows the town is the perfect location for his new film. The brusque sheriff, Tory Ashton, has no qualms about throwing the arrogant film director behind bars. Tory is giving Phillip a run for his money--making him all the more determined to show her that even a lady of the law can surrender willingly...to...
24) Murder most fowl
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Series
Language
English
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"Meg Langslow's in for a busy summer. Her husband is directing a production of Macbeth, and most of the cast and crew are occupying spare bedrooms in their house. She also has to keep an eye on Camp Birnam, where a group of medieval reenactors are commemorating the real-life Macbeth by setting up what they fondly believe is an authentic medieval Scottish military camp. And then there's Damien Goodwin, a filmmaker who has been hanging around, trying...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife--she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband Trevor is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they're living a picture-perfect celebrity life, complete with tennis tournaments and lavish parties. But the job description of a Hollywood wife doesn't cover divorce, which is the way Agnes' life is headed after she comes home one...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A romantic comedy set in Los Angeles where two people are brought together by a very decent proposal cooked up by a very secretive benefactor in which the strangers go on one year of dates, one date a week, for half a million dollars each if they can stand each other for the whole time"--
27) Road of bones
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route to supply the USSR with a readily available workforce, and over time hundreds of thousands of prisoners died in the midst of their labors. Their bodies were buried where they fell, plowed under the permafrost, underneath...
28) Quentins
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Ella Brady wants to tell the story of a generation and of a city, Dublin, through the history of a restaurant named Quentins. As she uncovers more of the story for her documentary, she begins to wonder if some stories are too sacred to tell.
29) Panic
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott...
What if everything about your life was a lie?
Evan Casher is a successful documentary filmmaker with a perfect life--until the day his mother is brutally murdered. Suddenly pursued by a ruthless circle of killers, Evan discovers his entire past has been a carefully constructed lie. With only one chance at survival and no one he can trust, Evan must discover the shocking truth about his family--and...
30) Do not watch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sam's father runs an antique store specializing in bizarre and unique collectibles, so buying the desk of a deceased horror movie director, and finding a old video-tape labeled "The Gaunt Man, only copy, do not watch" is not a surprise--but when Sam and his friends do watch the tape, they are horrified to realize they have released the gaunt man into the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
124 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
For thirty years, since the publication of his first novel Americana Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American. Now, to a new century, he has brought The Body Artist In this spare, seductive novel, he inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one succeeds more brilliantly at blending peril and passion than New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann, who knows exactly what makes hearts race and pulses pound.Like most men of action, Navy SEAL chief Cosmo Richter never learned how to take a vacation. So when he finds himself facing a month's leave, he offers his services to Troubleshooters Incorporated. Founded by a former SEAL, the private-sector security firm is a major player...
35) Married lovers
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
What happens when lust and desire collide with marriage and power--and the results lead to murder? Cameron Paradise, a stunningly beautiful twenty-four-year-old personal trainer, flees her abusive boyfriend in Australia and ends up in L.A. Cameron soon gets a job at a private fitness club where she encounters the city's most important players. She has plans to open her own studio, and while every man she meets comes on to her, she is focused on working...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1940. The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed by the German occupation of Paris, but Casson learns that with enough money, compromise, and connections, one need not deny oneself the pleasures of Parisian life. Somewhere inside Casson, though, is a stubborn romantic streak. When he's offered the chance to take part in an operation of the British secret service, this idealism gives him the courage to say yes....
37) One little lie
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Jane Hardy, interim sheriff in Pelican Harbor, Alabama, works to clear her father after he's arrested for theft and implicated in a recent murder. But she soon wonders if someone from his past life in a cult - that her mother refused to leave - has found them, as a documentary filmmaker witih secrets of his own covers her for his latest project."--Publisher.
"Jane Hardy is appointed interim sheriff in Pelican Harbor, Alabama, after her father retires,...
38) The husband hour
Author
Language
English
Description
Lauren Adelman and Rory Kincaid marry just out of college as Rory earns a spot in the NHL. Then he shocks everyone-- even Lauren-- by enlisting in the U.S. Army. When Rory dies in combat, Lauren is left devastated, alone, and under unbearable public scrutiny. She retreats to her family's old beach house on the Jersey Shore, sharing the house with her overbearing mother and competitive sister. Filmmaker Matt Brio, making a documentary about Rory tracks...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
©2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Theo Snyder is at the end of his rope. One minute he was on top of the world, his documentary film The Basement a massive critical and commercial hit, the next crestfallen when his latest film was canceled after an embarrassingly public misstep. As his desperation grows, he makes a bold decision: to pursue the story of the notorious 'Halo Killer,' Jasper Ross-Johnson. But delving into the life and mind of a serial killer could prove more deadly than...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 296 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be--if her husband would just come and claim her. Bollywood's favorite director, Samir Rathod, has...