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Author
Series
Stars and smoke (Lu) volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year old Winter Young, the world's hottest superstar, is recruited by a covert organization to take down a criminal tycoon and finds himself paired with Sydney Cossette, a fierce and unpredictable secret agent, but suspicions soon turn to sparks as the two are drawn into a tangled web of secrets and deception.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rescued by her father from a life of violence and poverty, Emma grows up surrounded by love, security, wealth, and privilege. The murder of her baby brother haunts her during her growing up years, and as the memories of the event come back to her, she finds she is in danger.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast...
Author
Publisher
Chartwell Books
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
192 pages : ill. (mostly colored), map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lost Bodies explores the stories of thirty great figures of history, some of whose mortal remains have never been found. It includes an overview of each person's life, character, notable achievements, death, and burial (if known), and features fascinating controversies and anecdotes, along with theories about what may have happened and the many attempts to locate him or her. The book is divided into three chapters: Well and Truly Lost, for the remains...
5) The fury
Author
Language
English
Description
"Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time--it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved — plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar, Harrison...
7) Somewhere
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When actor Johnny Marco's daughter is left with him he is forced to accept responsibility for her and reevaluate his life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this deeply personal memoir, the ultimate It Girl shares, for the first time, the hidden history that traumatized and defined her and how she rose above a series of heart-wrenching challenges to find healing, lasting love, and a life of meaning and purpose.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Reference
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
106 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles influential men and women, including Rosa Parks, Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Jane Goodall, Neil Armstrong, and others.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir about coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in the face of absolute chaos, one that is both a moving portrait of a complicated family and an exploration of the cost of fame." -- From publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
xv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"There is a lot of pressure in today's society for kids to succeed, but failing is a part of learning how to be a successful person. In his teaching career, Luke Reynolds saw the stress and anxiety his students suffered over grades, fitting in, and getting things right the first time. [This book] was created for these students to learn that their mistakes and failures do not define their whole lives, but help them grow into their potential. Kids will...
14) Chronic city
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
467 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star. Capitalizing on the rapturous and heartbreaking love letters he receives from his teenage sweetheart and fiancee, he lives a life of cloistered ease--that is until a pop critic with a conspiratorial countercultural savvy and a voracious paranoia force him to confront the answers to several mysteries tightly intertwined within...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life-until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted. In Killing the Legends, Bill O'Reilly and Martin...
17) Reader's digest
Publisher
Readers Digest Association, Inc
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
v.
Language
English
Author
Series
Walsh family volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Helen Walsh doesn't believe in fear - it's just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs -- and yet she's sinking. Her work as a Private Investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and now some old demons have resurfaced. Not least in the form of her charming but dodgy ex-boyfriend Jay Parker, who shows up with a missing persons case. Money is tight and Jay is awash with cash, so Helen is forced to take on the task of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely...
20) Private L.A
Author
Series
Private Detective Agency novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Private Jack Morgan investigates the disappearance of the biggest superstar couple in Hollywood. Thom and Jennifer Harlow are the perfect couple, with three perfect children. They maybe two of the biggest mega movie stars in the world, but they're also great parents, philanthropists and just all-around good people. When they disappear without a word from their ranch, facts are hard to find. They live behind such a high wall of security and image control...
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