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Now that it’s all over, everybody is saying it was the picture–that stupid picture was behind every disaster. . . .
They may be the granddaughters of a famous literary critic, but what really starts it all is Daria, Polly, and Amelia Heller’s stunning red hair. Out of the blue one day, The New Yorker calls and says that they want to feature the girls in a glamorous spread shot by a world-famous photographer, and before long these...
They may be the granddaughters of a famous literary critic, but what really starts it all is Daria, Polly, and Amelia Heller’s stunning red hair. Out of the blue one day, The New Yorker calls and says that they want to feature the girls in a glamorous spread shot by a world-famous photographer, and before long these...
2) Extras
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English
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After rebel Tally Youngblood brings down the uglies/pretties/specials regime, fame, instead of beauty, becomes the new world order, and fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse embarks on a dangerous plan to boost her popularity ranking.
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English
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After a song he writes catapults him to country stardom, former drifter Jimmy Sullivan finds his thirst for wealth and fame overshadowing his devotion to his brother and love for his girlfriend, and it will take a Christmas miracle to get him to save what really matters.
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"In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green--cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow--spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. 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...
7) Zeroboxer
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English
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"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"--
9) Starstruck
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Old Hollywood, follows the lives of three teen girls as they live, love, and claw their way to the top in a world where being a star is all that matters"--Provided by publisher.
10) Losers in space
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
433 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2029, hoping to bypass the exams and training that might lead to a comfortable life, Susan, her almost-boyfriend Derlock, and seven fellow students stow away on a ship to Mars, unaware that Derlock is a sociopath with bigger plans.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--
12) Influence
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her family moves to Los Angeles, Delilah Rollins, already a minor Internet celebrity, plunges into the competitive and glamorous world of social media influencers, but can cosmetics and good lighting conceal cheating, manipulation, blackmail, and murder?
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Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anna, the daughter of a telepath and a powerful businesswoman and granddaughter of two famous superheroes, has trouble hiding her own superpowers as she and her friends train to become the next great team of masked vigilantes.
14) Prairie fire
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Series
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Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
2015.
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297 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Every dragon slayer owes the Oil Watch a period of service, and young Owen was no exception. What made him different was that he did not enlist alone; his two closest friends stood with him shoulder to shoulder. Steeled by success and hope, the three were confident in their plan. But the arc of history is long and hardened by dragon fire... and try as they might, Owen and his friends could not twist it to their will. At least, not all the way...
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2022.
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English
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Instead of going to prom, seventeen-year-old Elena Soo wants to spend her time saving the local community center, and she is determined to keep her priorities straight even when her childhood best friend--who is now a K-pop superstar--returns to make good on their old pact to go to prom together.
16) Quint: a novel
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Publisher
7.13 Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Quint is a dazzling and inventive novel based on a true story of the Dionne quintuplets-the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. Born during the Great Depression, the quintuplets are taken from their homes and turned into a tourist attraction in Canada in the 1940s, leading to a lifelong struggle against the abuses of their profiteers.
In the vein of Zadie Smith's NW and Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archives, Quint takes the...
17) Famous in love
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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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.
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Fleeing her family home in Wisconsin in the wake of a tragedy that compels her to pursue her acting career in golden-age Hollywood, Elsa enjoys the heady extravagances of her fame while struggling to remain true to herself and balance the needs of her family.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.
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