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Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department...
23) Terror in tights
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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When Los Angeles superhero Melvin Beederman starts receiving mysterious, threatening emails, he and Candace, his partner in uncrime, must figure out who is out to get him and then do something about it.
24) They thirst
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A pall of terror blankets Los Angeles. Mutilated and marked by an insectoid calling card, the number of young women in the morgue is growing. It all seems to be the work of one man. They call him, the Roach. Pressed on all sides to end the killings, it's no wonder that Police Captain Andy Palatzin is seeing things h is mother's ghost primarily, but also vague reminders of his father's supernatural death. As the body count rises, Andy begins to realize...
25) The Black Marble
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Russian-American detective A. A. Valnikov is a burned-out homicide detective who gets teamed with Natalie Zimmerman, twice-divorced with a grudge against men. These unlikely partners are assigned the strange case of a stolen show dog being held for ransom. In this bittersweet tale that the Los Angeles Times called "terrifying and romantic," the partners will find much more than they ever could have imagined. Cosmopolitan called it "fast, colorful...
26) Lullaby Town
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Bantam Books
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[1992]
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Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelsen, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelsen wants is for PI Elvis Cole to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third biggest filmmaker in America. It's the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep--...
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"Juggling the pressures of college applications and friendships, neurotic overachiever Jules's plans for her senior year are thrown off track when she starts dating the new guy at school and finds herself at the center of a rivalry between her high school's newspaper and its just-launched TV news show"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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When the star of The Grateful Fred receives threatening letters, he calls on Melvin, the superhero in charge of Los Angeles, and his assistant, Candace, to stop the criminal and his henchmen before they destroy Fred's reputation.
29) Sharp teeth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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"An ancient race of lycanthropes has survived to the present day, and its numbers are growing as the initiated convince L.A.'s down and out to join their pack. Paying no heed to moons, full or otherwise, they change from human to canine at will--and they're bent on domination at any cost. Caught in the middle are Anthony, a kind-hearted, besotted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack. Anthony has no idea that...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2023]
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"A former child starlet is plunged back into the dangerous glitter of Hollywood after discovering the body of a young actress"--
Hollywood is a sickness. Few people understand this better than Salma Lowe, progeny of Hollywood royalty and a former child-star turned guide of the Stars Six Feet Under tour bus. Salma spends her days leading tourists around the star-studded avenues of Hollywood, pointing out where actresses have met spectacular or untimely...
31) The love script
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Love in the spotlight volume 1
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"A Hollywood hair stylist: Nevaeh Richards loves making those in the spotlight shine but prefers the anonymity of staying behind her stylist chair, where no one notices her. But when a photo of Nevaeh and Hollywood A-lister Lamont Booker goes viral for all the wrong reasons, her quiet life becomes the number-one trending topic. The silver screen's latest heartthrob: Lamont Booker's bold faith has gained him a platform, and the authenticity of his...
32) Everybody knows
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
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2023.
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After her boss is gunned down in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel, Mae Pruett, a "black-bag" publicist working at LA's most powerful crisis PR firm protecting the rich and depraved, decides to investigate, running afoul of the whole system.
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"A few years after they broke up professionally and personally, the ex-screenwriting team of Kerri Williams and Jon Romano find their lives turned upside down when an old script is green-lit and they have to write together again. Now, for the month of December, Kerri must leave behind her life as a teacher in Brooklyn to return to sunny Hollywood and work with the man she used to love. Jon and Kerri just want to finish the film and get this awkward...
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A-list volume 10
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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With college just a week away, the private jets are booked, the vintage Gucci steamer trunks packed, and it is time for the A-list crew to say goodbye. Or is it? Sam is head to USC film school, but when Eduardo offers her a different ending, like moving to Paris as newlyweds, will she go? There are only a few precious days left in LA, and then it is time for everyone to choose what their futures will hold. Only one thing is certain: wherever they...
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"Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing...
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Will the ties that bound these three families for generations finally tear them apart? New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky's classic novel Twilight Whispers now available as an e-book for the first time.
Linked for years through friendship and intermarriage, the Warren and Whyte families find their charmed world is marred when Mark Whyte and his wife Deborah Warren are found murdered. Police detective Robert Cavanaugh, working on a...
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"From Entertainment Weekly writer Maureen Lee Lenker comes a swoony romantic comedy set in the world of 1930s film. Joan Davis is a movie star, and a damned good actor, too. Unfortunately, Hollywood only seems to care when she stars alongside Dash Howard, Tinseltown's favorite leading man and a perpetual thorn in Joan's side. She's sick of his hotshot attitude, his never-ending attempts to get a rise out of her-especially after the night he sold her...
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A Wing and a Prayer
When irrepressible angels Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy set out for the City of Angels to grant three rush Christmas prayer requests, they are sure they can help without resorting to, er, divine intervention. But they soon find it will take more than one miracle to teach their precious lessons of love-as well as make three special holiday dreams come true!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Twelve-year-old Jess O'Fines is resentful that she is expected to watch her baby niece in a Los Angeles hotel room while the rest of her dysfunctional family go off to a wedding rehearsal party -- but when Baby Ruby disappears, Jess is convinced she knows who kidnapped her and determined to get her back on her own, whatever the danger.
40) A fatal affair
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[2023]
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After her boyfriend's twin brother and an unidentified woman are found dead in Hollywood, Nora Kemp and Hugh Iverson fight for their reputations and to uncover the real killer, not satisfied with the initial findings of a murder-suicide.
Actress Nora Kemp loves two men. One is Hugh Iverson, a philanthropic movie star who gives Nora security and respectability. The other is Hugh's twin brother, Trent, a Hollywood bad boy who brings out Nora's wild...
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