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2024.
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English
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"Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve--events known to the public as "Scarlet Christmas"--though Charlie knows she was much more than that. Now, Charlie has meticulously rebuilt her life: She's the editor-in-chief of a major magazine, engaged to the golden child of the publishing industry, and hell-bent...
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Wishin' and hopin' volume 2
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life--Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin' and Hopin'--and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women. I'll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting...
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Boxcar children volume 58
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English
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Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are given the opportunity to be extras in a movie about the Alamo, but they are called upon to use their sleuthing skills when Claire, the star of the film, is implicated in the theft of a valuable ring.
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Growing up poor and largely abandoned on the streets of 1920s Chicago, Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life. Until a talent manager discovers her and brings her into the world of theater. Now years later she's about to start shooting her first movie. Arriving on location in Redstone, Texas, in 1932, Anna steps off the train and collides into Dalton Barnes. He's lived in Redstone all his life and hates how the big city out-of-towners are gawking...
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"Two sisters and the cousin they grew up with after a tragedy are summoned home to their family matriarch's inn on the coast of Maine for a shocking announcement. Suddenly, Isabel, June, and Kat are sharing the attic bedroom-and barely speaking. But when innkeeper Lolly asks them to join her and the guests in the parlor for weekly movie night-it's Meryl Streep month-they find themselves sharing secrets, talking long into the night-and questioning...
7) The unholy
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Krewe of Hunters volume 6
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The 1940s: Hard-boiled detectives and femmes fatale are box-office gold. In one iconic scene, set in a deserted museum, the buxom beauty is throttled by an ominous Egyptian priest. NOW: The Black box Cinema immortalizes Hollywood's Golden Age in its gallery of film noir tributes. But the mannequin of that Egyptian priest is hardly lifeless. He walks and a young starlet dies a terrifying death. Movie mogul Eddie Archer's son is charged with the...
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Saddle Club volume 64
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
The Saddle Club members are suspicious when practical joker Stevie Lake asks them to star in a movie she is shooting for school entitled "Cinderella on Horseback," and their plans for retaliation have a ripple effect that touches everyone at Pine Hollow Stables.
9) King Kong
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
A young film actress on location on a remote jungle island is chosen by the natives to be the bride of their giant gorilla god Kong.
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Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
While searching for a special Christmas present, Anna and Henry are pulled into a magical movie world, meet famous film personalities, and have a chance to change movie history. Includes facts about the actors and films in the book.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011]
Language
English
Description
Shortly before her breakout role in Speed, future Oscar winner Sandra Bullock starred in this scorching adventure filmed on location in the deadly streets and jungles of the Bolivian Amazon. Bullock portrays Alyssa Rothman, an American activist battling a group of ruthless developers out to destroy the rainforest and its native population.
12) Meskada
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After a boy is killed during a burglary in the town of Hilliard, the detectives on the case find that the trail leads to the poorer nearby town of Caswell.
14) Infamous
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When history professor Alison Carter became a consultant to the film version of the Wild West legend she'd dedicated her career to researching, she couldn't possibly have known that she would not only get a front-row seat to a full-blown Hollywood circus but would innocently witness something that would put her life in peril. Nor did she expect that a tall stranger in a cowboy hat would turn the movie--and her world--completely upside down. A.J. Gallagher...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play, the only female-authored play on the London stage that season, has opened in the West End to rapturous applause from the audience. The reviewers, however, are not as impressed as the playgoers and their savage notices not only shut down the play but ruin Lowry's last chance for a dramatic career. With her future in London not looking bright, at the suggestion of...
16) Stone
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Days away from retirement, parole officer Jack Mabry is asked to review the case of arsonist Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, now eligible for early release; Stone needs to convince Jack he has reformed, but his attempts to influence the older man's decision with his wife Lucetta have profound and unexpected effects on them both.
17) The double
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a United States Senator is brutally murdered, the evidence points to a Soviet assassin code-named Cassius, who was long-thought to be dead. Two men who know Cassius best are thrown together to catch him. Paul Shepherdson is a retired CIA operative who spent his career tracking Cassius around the globe. Ben Geary is a hotshot young FBI Agent and family man who has studied the killer's every move. Ben thinks he knows Cassius, but Paul knows he...
18) Amish grace
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When a tragedy takes the lives of five Amish schoolgirls in Pennsylvania, Ida, the mother of one of the girls, faces a profound test of faith. As she begins to feel like an outsider within her own community, Ida must decide whether or not to stay with the Amish, and her beloved husband.
19) The expendables
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Expendables are a tight-knit team of skilled combat vets turned mercenaries. Hired by a powerful covert operator, the team jets off to a small South American country to overthrow a ruthless dictator. Once there, they find themselves caught in a deadly web of deceit and betrayal. Using every weapon at their disposal, they set out to save the innocent and punish the guilty in this blistering action-packed thriller.