Randisi, Robert J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANBagley, Jessixa
Summary: Maurice loved to share his music with everyone, and the crowds loved him, but times changed, his audience drifted away, and without anyone to share with Maurice became sad and lonely--until one day, his heart remembered and he found a new audience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAGO'Connor, Jane
Summary: "It's Nancy Clancy's time to shine as she takes center stage in the school play! There's no way Nancy will get stuck in the chorus again this year--she's been practicing guitar for months and her audition was superb. So when Nancy gets a callback, she's overwhelmed with joy! But after Nancy's performance during the play is captured on a video that gets posted on YouTube, it seems her stardom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OCOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OCOGilbert, Elizabeth
Summary: In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GILGrabenstein, Chris
Summary: Everybody starts somewhere, and once upon a time Luigi Lemoncello was a twelve-year-old boy in a large family who dreamed of being a showman; he gets his first chance working for a famous barker at a summer carnival where a mysterious puzzle leads him and his friends on a treasure hunt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRASwift, Graham
Summary: "It's the summer of 1959, and something magical can be witnessed at the end of the pier in beach town Brighton, England. Jack Robbins, Ronnie Deane, and Evie White are performing in a seaside variety show, starring as Jack Robinson the compere comedian, and The Great Pablo and Eve: a magic act. By the end of the summer, Evie's glinting engagement ring will be flung to the bottom of the ocean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWIPancholy, Maulik
Summary: "From the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. Thirteen-year-old Nikhil Shah is the beloved voice actor for Raj Reddy on the hit animated series Raj Reddy in Outer Space. But being a star on TV doesn't mean you have everything figured out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PANRobards, Karen.
Summary: Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse's position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won't be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian that will derail the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Robards 2020Alexander, William (William Joseph)
Summary: Hoping to find his lost brother, Rownie escapes the home of the witch Graba and joins a troupe of goblins who perform in Zombay, a city where humans are forbidden to wear masks and act in plays.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALETapper, Jake
Summary: In a fast-paced sequel to The Hellfire Club, Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington D.C., arrive in Los Angeles on their latest case, only to be pursued by sinister forces from Hollywood's stages to the newly founded Church of Scientology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tapper 2021Carnoy, David.
Summary: Completing a prison term and supporting himself by doing impersonations of Frank Sinatra, San Francisco lounge performer Richie Forman is wrongfully implicated in the murder of an ex-best friend who stole his fiancée while Forman was in prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARGould-Bourn, James
Summary: "Danny's life is falling apart. He's become a single father to eleven-year-old Will--who hasn't spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash a year earlier--and Danny has just been fired from his construction job. To make matters worse, he's behind on the rent and his nasty landlord is threatening to break his legs if he doesn't pay soon. Danny needs money, and fast. After observing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOUFeldman, Ellen
Summary: "Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble with You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Seven Sisters Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction FeldmanDavis, Fiona
Summary: "From the dramatic redbrick facade to the sweeping staircase dripping with art, the Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City's creative oasis for the many artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and poets who have called it home--a scene playwright Hazel Riley and actress Maxine Mead are determined to use to their advantage. Yet they soon discover that the greatest obstacle to putting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAVPeterson, Tracie
Summary: In 1901, Mary, an accomplished sharpshooter, can't rest until the man who killed her brother is brought to justice. Journalist Christopher is immediately captivated by Mary--but getting close to someone would threaten to bring his past to light. Can they find healing from the past together?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Peterson 2019Byars, Betsy Cromer.
Summary: In continued adventures, May-May and Rose take their traveling road show to more audiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1990
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BYADavis, Fiona
Summary: From the dramatic redbrick facade to the sweeping staircase dripping with art, the Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City's creative oasis for the many artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and poets who have called it home-a scene playwright Hazel Riley and actress Maxine Mead are determined to use to their advantage. Yet they soon discover that the greatest obstacle to putting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Davis 2019Peterson, Tracie
Summary: 1902. Ella Fleming is on the run from her past and the secrets that could tear her family apart. As a member of the Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza, a wild west show comprised of all-female performers, her uncanny talent for trick riding impresses the viewers. Only while performing can she forget the truth about who she really is - the daughter of a murderer. Phillip DeShazer blames himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Peterson 2019Lee, Robinne
Summary: "Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of an art gallery in Los Angeles, is reluctant to take her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band. But since her divorce, she's more eager than ever to be close to Isabelle. The last thing Solène expects is to make a connection with one of the members of the world-famous August Moon. But Hayes Campbell is clever, winning, confident,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEStewart, Amy
Summary: The U.S. has finally entered World War I is and Constance is chasing down suspected German saboteurs and spies for the Bureau of Investigation while Fleurette is traveling across the country entertaining troops with song and dance. Meanwhile, at an undisclosed location in France, Norma is overseeing her thwarted pigeon project for the Army Signal Corps. When Aggie, a nurse at the American field...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEHairston, Andrea
Summary: "Winner of the Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award. At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIReid, Taylor Jenkins
Summary: 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. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2017
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REIBirch, Carol
Summary: London had the best freaks, always had. The Egyptian Hall, the Promenade of Wonders, the Siamese twins, pinheads, midgets, cannibals, giants, living skeletons, the fat, the hairy, the legless, the armless, the noseless, London had seen it all. In the Hall of Ugliness the competition was stiff. But noone had ever seen anything quite like Julia . . . Pronounced by the most eminent physician of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: "In 1881, Jacci Reed is only five years old when a man attempts to kidnap her from the steamboat her mother, Irena, works on. Badly wounded during the confrontation, Irena takes Jacci aboard the Kingston Floating Palace, a showboat tied up beside them. There, Jacci's actor grandfather tends to her mother and Jacci gets a first taste of the life she will come to lead. Fifteen years later, Jacci...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023