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Spokane Valley Library Book Club selection for Wednesday, November 21st, at 2pm. Everyone is welcome! |
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 | Baker, J. I. (James Ireland) | | The Empty Glass | | The worlds of celebrities, politics, and power collide in this fictional re-creation of Marilyn Monroe’s mysterious death, and as L.A. deputy coroner Ben Fitzgerald investigates the evidence he finds himself facing powerful people willing to stop at nothing in hiding the truth. |
|  | Benneton, Nina | | Compulsively Mr. Darcy | | Die-hard fans of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice will appreciate this modern day story of Fitzwilliam Darcy – a handsome and wealthy philanthropist – who falls for an infectious disease specialist working in Vietnam. |
|  | Cezair-Thompson, Margaret | | The Pirate’s Daughter | | Cezair-Thompson takes the glamor and excitement of Hollywood to Port Antonio, Jamaica during the 1940s and creates a fictional love story between actor Errol Flynn and a young island girl, Ida – resulting in a daughter who meets her father just once over the next twenty years. |
|  | Depp, Daniel | | Babylon Nights | | Fifteen years ago, Anna Mayhew won an Oscar for Best Actress -- rich, famous, and beautiful, she had the world at her feet. These days she’s being offered only bland supporting roles, so she spends her time thinking up clever and dangerous methods of self-destruction -- but then, she discovers she has a stalker. |
|  | Egan, Jennifer | | A Visit from the Goon Squad | | Follows a punk rock band and their groupies back and forth through time as they navigate a mosaic of relationships, rebellion, corruption, addiction, and redemption. |
|  | Fleming, Irene | | The Brink of Fame | | In 1913 a woman is stranded in Arizona after her movie mogul husband/business partner leaves her for a young starlet. A local PI offers her work in cracking a case for a film tycoon whose lead actor has gone missing…who in turn offers her the chance to direct her own movie in Hollywood if she is successful in bringing him back. |
|  | Kashner, Sam | | Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century | | The romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the early 1960s began a tempestuous and legendary Hollywood love affair full of scandal, passion, and drama that continued for a quarter of a century. |
|  | Kelley, Kitty | | Elizabeth Taylor: the Last Star | | Drawing on extensive reporting and interviews, Kitty Kelley follows the rise, fall, and rebirth of the woman who was perhaps Hollywood’s brightest star. |
|  | Mann, William | | How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood | | Follows her publicly, as she makes her ascent at MGM, falls into (and out of) marriages, wins Oscars, fights studio feuds -- also shines light on her rich private life, revealing a love for her craft and a loyalty to the underdog that fueled her lifelong battle against the studio system. |
|  | Moriarty, Laura | | The Chaperone | | A future Hollywood starlet and her chaperone travel from Wichita to New York during the summer of 1922 and embark on a journey of self-discovery that transforms both their lives. |
|  | Napolitano, Ann | | A Good Hard Look | | Crippled by lupus at twenty-five, celebrated author Flannery O’Connor was forced to return to her family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia -- years later, while finishing a novel, her mother drags her to the wedding of a family friend, and she meets Melvin Whiteson, who’s beginning a new chapter in his life, and is drawn to her like a moth to a flame. |
|  | Rea, Steven | | Hollywood Rides a Bike: Cycling With the Stars | | Combining two seemingly unrelated topics of cinema and bicycling, this book provides a picturesque history of Hollywood stars riding bikes – from the 1930s through present day. A full index of bikes, many vintage and high-end, provided. |
|  | Roberts, Nora | | Tribute | | Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is a long way from Hollywood, and that’s exactly how Cilla McGowan wants it -- a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, she has come to her grandmother’s farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin, and find some kind of normalcy for herself. |
|  | Weiner, Jennifer | | The Next Best Thing: a Novel | | A young television writer, ecstatic to learn her sitcom has been picked up by Hollywood, soon faces the challenges of the show business industry – including demanding actors, backstage politics, and falling in love with her boss. |
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