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Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When 18-year-old Klaus gets himself kicked out of the Umbrella Academy and his allowance discontinued, he heads to a place where his ghoulish talents will be appreciated -- Hollywood. But after a magical high on a stash stolen from a vampire drug lord, Klaus needs help, and doesn't have his siblings there to save him." --
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"The latest novel in the acclaimed Shortcut Man series is a rousing tale of sex, sleaze, and salvation in the City of Angels that's "filled with enough dark humor and shady characters to satisfy the most rabid noir fan" (Associated Press). Our hero Dick Henry--aka the Shortcut Man- -becomes involved in a case featuring an aging but still amorous Los Angeles movie mogul named Howard Hogue who keeps a stable of young starlets available for his highly...
983) The third hell
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With a bullet lodged too close to his heart, LAPD Detective Nino Angelo is no longer able to do the job he loves. He believes being forced to retire after a twenty-five-year career might be the worst thing that could happen, until his twelve-year-old son goes missing. Matthew vanishes in the middle of the night from the Hollywood Hills condo of Nino's ex-wife, but Nino blames himself for the boy's disappearance, knowing his addiction to police work...
984) Grant of immunity
Author
Publisher
Createspace
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When evil hides behind a badge, no one is safe ... It's 1976, Los Angeles. Sarah Collins, a young mother of two, is brutally raped and murdered at the Hollywood Reservoir. For nineteen years, the murder remains unsolved and the case goes cold. In 1995, the streets of Los Angeles are being terrorized by Jake Babbage, a traffic cop who uses his position of power to rape and murder innocent women. On his way to court one day, Babbage sees Judge Daniel...
986) Blonde
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Marilyn Monroe era puro fuego, sexualidad a flor de piel, romances turbulentos, pero también era una mujer frágil, asustada y repleta de inseguridades que buscaba en otros --en el Ex Deportista, en el Dramaturgo o en el Presidente-- ese amor que ella misma se negaba. Una artista superdotada cargada de conflictos, temores y pasiones desatadas; una niña que no dejó de huir hacia delante y que llegó a burlar a la propia muerte para convertirse...
Author
Publisher
We Heard You Like Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"While working at a dead-end job in Los Angeles during the mid-1990s, [the narrator] reconnects with his best friend Moira, recently returned from Central America, and makes a new friend, Bernie, who teaches the history of photography. The two of them convince him to pursue a master's degree as a way of escaping the unrewarding life of a video store clerk. Once the narrator is exposed to an academic environment, he takes a dim view of the education...
988) Sunset express
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy entrepreneur is accused of murdering his girlfriend in Los Angeles, wisecracking private eye Elvis Cole is hired to prove that the evidence was corrupted and becomes suspicious about the defense attorney's motivations.
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As an incubator of the future, Los Angeles has long mesmerized writers from Philip K. Dick to Aldous Huxley. With its natural disasters, Hollywood artifice, staggering wealth and poverty, urban sprawl, and diversity, Los Angeles is already so weird, surreal, irrational, and mythic that any fiction emerging from this place should be considered speculative. This debut title of a new city-based anthology series features brand-new tales from 14 of the...
992) My sexy rival
Author
Series
Stars in their eyes duet volume 2
Publisher
Lauren Blakely Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Celebrity photographer and college senior Jess Leighton desperately needs to crash the wedding of the year. Snapping just one pic of the A-list Hollywood couple tying the knot will pay her way through grad school. But with security tighter than the bride-to-be's corset, she'll need more than her camera and smarts, she'll need help from her biggest rival--hot, British, motorcycle-riding William Harrigan, whose sexy accent can melt the panties off any...
993) My charming rival
Author
Series
Stars in their eyes duet volume 1
Publisher
Lauren Blakely Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Celebrity photographer and college senior Jess Leighton desperately needs to crash the wedding of the year. Snapping just one pic of the A-list Hollywood couple tying the knot will pay her way through grad school. But with security tighter than the bride-to-be's corset, she'll need more than her camera and smarts, she'll need help from her biggest rival--hot, British, motorcycle-riding William Harrigan, whose sexy accent can melt the panties off any...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
"Betita, de nueve años, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le contó la historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los Ángeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en México. Los aztecas procedían de un lugar llamado Aztlán, en lo que es hoy el sureste de Estados Unidos, cuyo nombre significa 'tierra de las grullas', y establecieron su gran ciudad en el centro del universo: Tenochtitlán, la actual Ciudad de México. Cuenta una profesía que...
995) The great pretenders
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An unforgettable novel from an award-winning author about an ambitious young agent's daring fight to protect blacklisted writers in McCarthy-era Hollywood and her passionate relationship with an African American journalist. Outraged by her grandfather's illicit affair with Empire Pictures' latest femme fatale, Roxanne Granville forsakes her position as Hollywood royalty and rejects the man who raised her, determined to strike out on her own. Backed...
Author
Series
Renee Ballard novels volume 1
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Assigned to the night shift after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor, detective Ren©♭e Ballard disobeys orders by continuing to investigate an assault on a prostitute and the death of a woman in a nightclub shooting.
997) The shadow hunter
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
Abby Sinclair deals in risk assessment, but it's lives, not fortunes, that are at stake. The Los Angeles investigator goes undercover to figure out whether a client's stalker is simply an overzealous fan or a dangerous psychopath.
Author
Series
Wollie Shelley mysteries volume 4
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Serial dater and greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley goes undercover in a media-training company suspected of video piracy, but when a dead body appears on the company's property, she's caught up in a conspiracy that goes way beyond some stolen DVDs.
999) Errors and omissions
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
Meet Michael Seeley, defender of artists' rights, take-no-prisoners intellectual property litigator--and a man on the brink of personal and career collapse. So when United Pictures virtually demands that he fly out to Hollywood to confirm legally that they own the rights to their corporate cash-cow franchise of Spykiller films, he has little choice but to comply.
1000) Stories
Author
Series
Library of America volume 282
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, 'to record the way people talked and thought and felt... with complete honesty.' Praised by his contemporaries including Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wrote about sex, drinking, and social class with a frankness ahead of its time. The fiction...