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The gilded life of Matilda Duplaine

2015
"Collecting quotes for the obituary of a legendary film producer, young journalist Thomas Cleary is invited by the man's eccentric daughter to tour the exclusive upper echelons of Hollywood society, where he pursues a romance with an enigmatic shut-in"--OCLC.

Becoming Maria

love and chaos in the South Bronx
2015
"Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled"--Jacket flap.

Ariana Grande

2015
Introduces the life and accomplishments of Ariana Grande, actress and singer.

Savage garden

a novel
2005
Reporter Eve Diamond's romantic date with her new love, Silvio Aguilar, is ruined when she learns that Silvio and a missing actress share a complicated past, leading Eve on a search for the actress and answers to the past.

Adored

2005
Siena McMahon, daughter of billionaire producer Pete McMahon, seems to live the ideal life, blessed with beauty, brains, and wealth, but her perfect exterior hides a depressing home life that she dreams of escaping.

Someday, someday, maybe

a novel
2014
The story of a struggling young actress trying to get ahead--and keep it together--in New York City.

Silvie

2000
Former actress Silvia Grohs-Martin chronicles the experiences she had living in Holland during World War II.

Jennifer Lawrence

burning bright
2013
Briefly profiles the life and career of Jennifer Lawrence, discussing her career as an actress.

Bridge to Haven

Having been abandoned as a newborn and found and raised by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman in the small California town of Haven, Abra Matthews feels like she doesn't belong and at the age of seventeen runs off to Hollywood, becoming starlet Lena Scott.

Ha'penny

2007
In this sequel to Farthing, Inspector Carmichael has just come off the Farthing case and has been assigned to a bombing which killed leading actress Lauria Gilmore. Meanwhile Viola Lark has been chosen to act Hamlet in a gender-switching production of the play following Gilmore's untimely death and is drawn into a plot to kill Hitler at the opening night of the play, along with Prime Minister Mark Normanby, the lead figure in the increasingly fascistic government.

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