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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A tragicomic novel of a fame-obsessed American society yet again on the brink. Evoking such classics as Elmer Gantry and The Day of the Locust, William Giraldi's About Face boldly transfers the perennial literary themes of celebrity, ambition, and obsession to twenty-first-century Boston. There we meet Val Face, a charismatic self-help guru who captivates multitudes with his uncanny ability to heal adherents using only the power of his words, the...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows Lily Atwood-and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all-fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: PerfectLily. To keep it all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret. Her own. Lily has an anonymous source who feeds her story tips-but suddenly, the source begins telling Lily inside information about her own life. How does he-or she-know...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship -- like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor -- April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around...
Author
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Kyoko Mogami followed her true love Sho to Tokyo to supprt him while he made it big as an idol. But he's casting her out now that he's famous! Kyoko won't suffer in silence--she's going to get her sweet revenge by beantin Sho in show biz!
Author
Language
English
Description
Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter move from one dusty town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the mike in another roadhouse. But it is not an easy life for...
7) Zeroboxer
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As seventeen-year-old Carr 'the Raptor' Luka rises to fame in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, he learns a devastating secret that jeopardizes not only his future in the sport, but interplanetary relations. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
At fifteen, Joshua Blackbird becomes an international singing star but, as his hometown girlfriend relates, after more than a year, the pressures and dangers of fame take a toll and "Shu" disappears.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Paige is discovered in Portland, Oregon, and brought to Hollywood to star in a major motion picture, she finds all of the fame and adulation she had dreamed of but also gets caught in a romantic whirlwind, both on and off screen.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jojo Milford suddenly discovers that her birth parents are Hollywood stars who are also famous for adopting children from other countries, and when she leaves Sacramento to meet them, she is thrown into a world she has previously only read about in gossip magazines.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Parade Malibu: August 1983. It s the day of Nina Riva s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over especially as the offspring of the legendary...
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