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2023.
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English
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A candid memoir filled with anecdotes: growing up in the South, navigating stand-up comedy's challenging early days, brushes with celebrities like Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, and insights on Ghostbusters, Supermarket Sweep, The Daily Show. Jones also discusses the challenges of being a tall Black woman in comedy.
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Daughters of the dynasty volume 1
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English
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When budding actress Gemma Huang flies to Beijing to star in a film of M. Butterfly, she is mistaken for a notorious socialite, kicking off a series of revelations her parents had carefully concealed from her.
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English
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"Even as Demi was becoming the highest paid actress in Hollywood, ... she was always outrunning her past, just one step ahead of the doubts and insecurities that defined her childhood. Throughout her rise to fame and during some of the most pivotal moments of her life, [she] battled addiction, body image issues, and childhood trauma that would follow her for years all while juggling a skyrocketing career and at times negative public perception. As...
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"As an avid watcher of K-dramas, Hana knows all the tropes to avoid when she finally lands a starring role in a buzzy new drama. And she can totally handle her fake co-star boyfriend, heartthrob Bryan Yoon, who might be falling in love with her. After all, she promised the TV producers a contract romance, and that's all they're going to get from her. But when showrunners bring on a new lead actress to challenge Hana's role as main love interest--and...
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2018.
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English
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Suspecting the true nature of a theater actress' invitation to a viewing party at a school chapel during an eclipse in 1927 Yorkshire, Kate Shackleton investigates the suspicious death of one of the actress' co-stars, the third to have died recently under mysterious circumstances. --Publisher
7) Yearbook
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English
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"A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys"--
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In this "debut essay collection, featuring never-before-seen photos, actress Lily Collins ... is opening a ... conversation about the things young women struggle with: body image, self-confidence, relationships, family, dating, and so much more. For the first time ever, Lily shares her life and her own deepest secrets, underlining that every single one of us experiences pain and heartbreak"--Amazon.com.
13) Looker: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
An unraveling woman, unhappily childless and recently separated, becomes fixated on her neighbor--the beautiful, famous actress. The unnamed narrator can't help noticing with wry irony that, though she and the actress live just a few doors apart, they are separated by a chasm of professional success and personal fulfillment. When an interaction with the actress at the annual block party takes a disastrous turn, what began as an innocent preoccupation...
14) The actress
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Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
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Sarah is an attractive and talented career-driven woman seeking some kind of reality as an actress, wife, and mother. She struggles with her own inner sense of life continuity while contending with her unfaithful husband and the problems of her four sons. She becomes enmeshed in the struggle for her own sanity after being tantalized by career success and a new found world. The story moves from the Midwest to Denver to Los Angeles as she tries to outrun...
15) Then again
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning actress documents her rise from an everyday girl to an acclaimed performer while exploring her defining relationship with her mother and how their shared and separate dreams influenced their experiences.
18) Famous
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Jamie Gordon had a taste of praise and recognition at age fourteen when her unflattering photograph of an actress was published, but as she pursues her dream of being a celebrity photographer, she becomes immersed in the dark side of fame.
19) Jewel hunt
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English
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"Ewe is the star of the show, but her jewel is missing. Dog detectives Lew and Drew are on the case!"--
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Mac Reilly novels volume 1
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English
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One night in Malibu, P.I. MacReilly sees a distraught woman holding a gun in the doorway of a beach house; Mac barely escapes her bullet but is pulled into a web of deception and lies.
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