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Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad's fast-food joint that one day he'd be a household name and that, at the height of his success, he'd be living alone, divorced, with no kids, high on a cocktail of forgetting, he might've asked, "You want fries with that?" John burst onto the scene in General Hospital, propelling him into the teen idol stratosphere, a place that's often a point of no return. But Stamos beat the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Physical Desc
970 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 226 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan Thompson"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades-a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up...
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Series
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A washed-up former member of a boy band agrees to star in a sexy Santa biopic that also stars his ex, in the second novel of the series following A Merry Little Meet Cute.
6) The fury
Author
Language
English
Description
Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
311 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever awakened from a dream and though, What was THAT?! A platypus waddling through my school while singing the word "farfanoogle"? Well, that dream was performed by a dream theatre, and this is the story of one such place: The Lunarian Grand.
The Lunarian is a fantastical theatre with a mind of its own, often redecorating on a whim or making it snow from the rafters. The theatre's troupe call themselves the Dreamatics. and together they...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garca Mrquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generation in the making.In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He's good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he's also out of money and out of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josephine and Archie gather with friends to celebrate the holidays on 1938 Cornwall’s stormy coast before the festivities are interrupted by two brutal deaths on St. Michael’s Mount and the arrival of a world-famous film star.
10) Asteroid City
Language
English
Description
The production of a play is frought with drama and romance in and of itself, from its writing and casting to rehearsals and staging. Onstage, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events while each attendee and their family members deal with their own interpersonal issues.
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Language
English
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Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband’s venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
April Eden is about to have the night of her life. After years struggling uphill as a female director, her debut movie The Vanished Woman is up for a major British film award, placing her firmly on Hollywood’s radar. Her leading lady, Essie Lay—a fragile but magnetic former TV host—is on the cusp of a stunning comeback after being canceled for a disturbing scandal.
When Essie messages April saying she can’t face the ceremony, April heads...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before by pre-ordering internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent - a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved Shakespeare. Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green... Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin...