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2) The big exit
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Completing a prison term and supporting himself by doing impersonations of Frank Sinatra, San Francisco lounge performer Richie Forman is wrongfully implicated in the murder of an ex-best friend who stole his fiance while Forman was in prison.
4) Show Boat
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Magnolia Ravenal and of her marriage to the river gambler, Gaylord Ravenal, black sheep son of an aristocratic family. It is also the story of their daughter Kim, who became a famous Broadway actress.
5) Beaches
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The incredibly popular New York Times bestseller-a compelling story of the friendship of two unique women-is back!
The story opens in 1951 as two young girls meet on the beach of Atlantic City. Cee Cee Bloom is performing in a kiddie show and Bertie White who has grown up in a conservative family is drawn to the glitter of Cee Cee's world. They become pen pals and keep in touch as they grow ito adulthood. Cee Cee soars to stardom in Hollywood and...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Carmen takes on a summer internship that has her reuniting with estranged family for an over-the-top quinceañera, reluctantly reconnecting to a long-lost ex-boyfriend, and finding happiness in the chaos"--
Author
Series
A Whiskey Creek novel volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Desperate to save her PR firm, which has accumulated a roster of A-list clients, Gail DeMarco agrees to pose as high-profile actor Simon O'Neal's wife so that he can get custody of his son.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In the 1870s, the frontier was a battleground, where the U.S. Army fought Plains warriors, outlaws terrorized the land, and lawmen took no prisoners. Into the West came a family of New York City stage performers: a widowed father, his son, and a daughter whose beauty and singing voice could make the most hardened frontiersmen weep.
The Fontaine family was not prepared for the life they found across the Mississippi. From Abilene to Dodge City, they...
Author
Series
Nancy Clancy volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It's Nancy Clancy's time to shine as she takes center stage in the school play! There's no way Nancy will get stuck in the chorus again this year--she's been practicing guitar for months and her audition was superb. So when Nancy gets a callback, she's overwhelmed with joy! But after Nancy's performance during the play is captured on a video that gets posted on YouTube, it seems her stardom has gone viral. Will Nancy's humiliation get the best of...
12) Goblin secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Hoping to find his lost brother, Rownie escapes the home of the witch Graba and joins a troupe of goblins who perform in Zombay, a city where humans are forbidden to wear masks and act in plays.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the dramatic redbrick facade to the sweeping staircase dripping with art, the Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City's creative oasis for the many artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and poets who have called it home—a scene playwright Hazel Ripley and actress Maxine Mead are determined to use to their advantage. Yet they soon discover that the greatest obstacle to putting up a show on Broadway has nothing to do with their art...
18) Farty Marty
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although Mary Jane Lemon loves her cat Marty, others are offended by the sounds and smells that come from his rear until Ms. Chen, a voice tutor, discovers that Marty's "audio output" is quite remarkable.
19) City of girls
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1881, Jacci Reed is only five years old when a man attempts to kidnap her from the steamboat her mother, Irena, works on. Badly wounded during the confrontation, Irena takes Jacci aboard the Kingston Floating Palace, a showboat tied up beside them. There, Jacci's actor grandfather tends to her mother and Jacci gets a first taste of the life she will come to lead. Fifteen years later, Jacci is an actress aboard the Kingston Floating Palace, and...