Taylor Jenkins Reid
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"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...
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"Hannah Martin's life isn't shaping up into much of anything. Since graduating college eight years ago, she has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs ... She takes up residence in her best friend Gabby's guest room. Along with Gabby and Gabby's husband Mark, [she goes] out to a bar where they meet up with some of [their] old friends, including Hannah's high school boyfriend, Ethan. Shortly after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah...
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Emma and Jesse, high school sweethearts, marry and build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents in Massachusetts. They travel the world, live life to the fullest, and seize every opportunity for adventure. On their first anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter when it goes missing over the Pacific ocean. Just like that, he is gone forever. Emma quits her job and moves back to Massachusetts in an effort to put her life...
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Ediciones Urano/Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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Cuando Carrie se retira del tenis, es la mejor jugadora que el mundo ha visto jàms. Ha batido todos los řcords y ha conseguido veinte ̕ttulos de Grand Slam. Y si le preguntas, se merece cada uno de ellos. Lo ha sacrificado casi todo para convertirse en la mejor, con su padre como entrenador. Pero seis ąos despǔs de retirarse, Carrie se encuentra en las gradas del US Open de 1994, viendo ̤cmo una tenista brìtnica brutal e impresionante llamada...
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Umbriel
Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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Mali{250}b: agosto de 1983 Como cada ąo, ha llegado el ̕da de la fiesta de final de verano organizada por Nina Riva, y la expectac̤in es ̀mxima. Todo el mundo quiere estar cerca de los famosos hermanos Riva: Nina, la talentosa surfista y supermodelo; Jay y Hud, un camp̤en del surf y un conocido fo̤tgrafo respectivamente; y la adorada Kit, la ̀ms joven de la familia. Los cuatro hermanos despiertan auťntica fascinac̤in tanto en Mali{250}b como...
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Umbriel/Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2020
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Español
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"Evelyn Hugo, el̕ cono de Hollywood que se ha recluido en su edad madura, decide al fin contar la verdad sobre su vida llena de glamour y de es̀cndalos. Pero cuando elige para ello a Monique Grant, una periodista desconocida, nadie se sorprende ̀ms que la misma Monique. ¿Por qǔ ella? ¿Por qǔ ahora? Monique no es̀t precisamente en su mejor momento. Su marido la abando̤n, y su vida profesional no avanza. Aun ignorando por qǔ Evelyn la ha elegido...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Ten copies plus discussion guide. "Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself ... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career....
11) One true loves
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Emma and Jesse are living the perfect life together until Jesse disappears in a tragic helicopter crash on their first wedding anniversary. Four years later, Emma has found happiness again and is about to marry her best friend when Jesse resurfaces, turning her world upside down and leaving her torn between two great loves
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"'Have you ever heard of supernovas? They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly, a short burst of extraordinary energy. I like to think you and Ben were like that . . . in that short time, you had more passion than some people have in a lifetime.' Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year's Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one....