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1) The cottage
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English
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His new tenants, Mark Friedman and Jimmy OConnor, are busy coping with problems of their own. Marks wife of sixteen years just walked out, and Jimmy recently lost his own wife to a devastating illness. But everything changes when Marks teenage son and daughter move in. Suddenly, The Cottage is transformed, with music blasting from every corner, teenagers on skateboards crashing into vintage cars, and a never-ending parade of young starlets streaming...
2) Greenlights
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English
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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--
"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...
3) Angel Falls
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English
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Nestled into the hills of the Northern Cascade Mountains in Washington state, Liam and Mike (Michaela) Campbell have a picture-perfect marriage and family. While Liam enjoys the comforts of being a small-town doctor with an old family name, Mike cares for their two children and her beloved horses. But when a horrible accident leaves Mike in a coma, Liam frantically searches for a way to ignite her memories and awaken her. What he discovers makes him...
4) Home Again
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English
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A movie star named Angelo DeMarco finds himself in the care of the girlfriend he left seventeen years ago, who is now a cardiologist, after he suffers a heart attack on a movie set, and their unexpected reunion brings others as well--with his brother, a troubled priest, and the daughter he left behind before she was born, now an angry teenager.
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English
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A personal account of the iconic actress's pre-fame life traces the time between her birth in 1935 and her discovery by Walt Disney during her 1962 Broadway performance in Camelot, a period marked by her relationships with a vaudevillian mother and teacher father, the World War II London Blitz, and her work as a Royal Command Performance child soloist.
7) Elizabeth
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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A portrait of Oscar award-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor examines her struggles with drugs and alcohol in the 1960s and 1970s, her philanthropic work as an AIDS activist, and her successes as a businesswoman.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
�2006
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English
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Jack Lemmon was arguably one of the most famous film stars of the second half of the twentieth century. He created characters that millions of moviegoers cheered for and related to, becoming a kind of American "everyman." The human qualities he demonstrated on-screen--with all their complexity and conflict--were part of his real life as well. The Lemmons divorced when Chris was very young. Growing up, he knew his father primarily as someone who would...
