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3) Bungalow 2
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English
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Tanya Harris is torn between her new life as a screenplay writer in Hollywood and her family back home.
Author
Language
English
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"As a romance channel screenwriter, Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. When her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage's collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life; it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds actor Leo Vance, who played her husband, on her porch...
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Series
Out in Hollywood ; 1
Language
English
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"When an aspiring L.A. scriptwriter falls head-over-heels for a bossy and beautiful movie star after a devastating break-up, the two take a risk on love and cast themselves as the leading ladies of their own star-struck romance in this sweet and spirited love story from critically-acclaimed writer Amy Spalding in her adult debut"--
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English
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"A whirlwind trip to Ireland is supposed to end with a suitcase full of wool sweaters and souvenir pint glasses, not a husband you only just met! But after one too many whiskeys, fledgling screenwriter Cara Kennedy takes a page out of someone else's script when she gets caught up in the Irish tradition of women proposing on Leap Day. Waking the next morning with a hot guy in her bed and a tin foil ring on her finger was definitely not what she expected...and...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Girl's Trip meets Dial A for Aunties in this women's fiction novel following an aspiring screenwriter in a desperate chase for a celebrity to read her script while struggling to pursue her dreams over cultural expectations. Isha Patel is the black sheep of the family. She doesn't have a "prestigious" degree or a "real" career, and her parents never fail to remind her. But that's okay because she commiserates with her cousin, best friend, and fellow...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver--that is, until he meets Clarice. She's almost his exact opposite: exotic, spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind. An aspiring screenwriter, she's working on a screenplay called Perfect Days about three friends who go on a road trip...
9) Mood indigo
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Language
English
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In the winter of 1934, Honoria Barlow investigates the death of a young woman from one of New York's finest families.
10) Red letter days
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A striking novel from the acclaimed author of Radio Girls about two daring women who escape McCarthy-era Hollywood for London, where they find creative freedom and fight the injustices of the Red Scare. Nineteen-fifties America is bright and full of promise, and Phoebe Adler, a New Yorker brimming with talent and ambition, is forging her way as the rarest of things: a female television writer in Hollywood. But fears of a growing Red Menace cloud...
12) Glory Falls
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Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Screenwriter Cecilia "Blue" Walker lost her daughter to the Madison River and her husband to another woman, and she yearns for something to restore her faith and her once-vibrant career. Hope arrives in the form of childhood friend Thomas Beck, a modest firefighter with a legacy of rescues. Haunted by his past, Thomas agrees to a movie adaptation of his story only because Blue, his longtime crush, will be the screenwriter. As Blue and Thomas work...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A novel on the way the mating game is played in Hollywood. The heroine is scriptwriter Elizabeth West who at 28 has reached the age when thoughts turn to motherhood. The candidates range from architect to film director, to art gallery owner.
15) Cut to: murder
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Series
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
PI and writer Queenie Davilov flies to Spain to investigate the disappearance of a film writer and to finish his script. It's a tricky assignment, the film is on the Spanish Civil War and memories are still strong.
16) Murder most owl
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's been years since screenwriter Georgie Johansen last visited her aunt Olivia's farm in the coastal town of Twilight Cove and things have certainly changed. First of all it's now an animal sanctuary, and then there's the new farmhand who's as mysterious as he is handsome. Her first day on the farm, Georgie encounters the eccentric Dorothy Shale, an older woman who lives in a cabin in the woods. There are rumours that Dorothy's a witch, but Georgie...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A woman sets out on a cross-country road trip, unknowingly tracing in reverse the path her mother traveled thirty years before. 'Tender, touching, original, and rich with delicious period detail of Hollywood's heyday--buckle up, because you'll definitely want to go on a road trip after reading this delightful book!'--Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home. In the 1950s, movie star Louise Wilde is caught between...
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