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For decades, film and TV producer Brian Grazer has scheduled a weekly "curiosity conversation" with an accomplished stranger. From scientists to spies, and adventurers to business leaders, Grazer has met with anyone willing to answer his questions for a few hours. These informal discussions sparked the creative inspiration behind many of Grazer's movies and TV shows, including Splash, 24, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Arrested Development, 8 Mile,...
2) Djibouti
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English
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"Elmore Leonard is in a class of one....The greatest crime writer who ever lived."
—Dennis Lehane
"Elmore Leonard is our greatest crime novelist...the best in the business."
—Washington Post
44 novels and still going strong! The incomparable Elmore Leonard—"The reigning King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times)—is back with Djibouti, a gripping, twisting, playful, and always
...3) NYPD red
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Detective Zach Jordan investigates a series of brutal, public crimes that coincide with the arrival of dozens of glamorous celebrities in town for parties and premieres. NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately manse with a famous and reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up murdered, strangled by a length of film from her own movies! With the snow raging outside and Buckshaw locked in, the house is full of suspects....
5) NYPD Red 4
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An audacious jewel heist. A murdered actress. A killer case for NYPD Red. In a city where crime never sleeps, NYPD Red is the elite task force called in only when a case involves the rich, famous, and connected. Detective Zach Jordan and his partner, Kylie MacDonald--the woman who broke his heart at the police academy--are the best of the best, brilliant and tireless investigators who will stop at nothing to catch a criminal, even if it means antagonizing...
6) Chomp
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father
7) Double down
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Greg Heffley's mom wants him to take a break from video games while Halloween approaches and he comes up with an idea to make a movie.
8) Quentins
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English
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While filming a documentary about Quentins, a famed Dublin restaurant, Ella Brady explores the changing face of the city from the 1970s to the present day as she captures the stories of the people who have made Quentins a center of their lives.
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Simon & Schuster/BFYR
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Fame and success come at a cost for Natasha "Tash" Zelenka when she creates the web series "Unhappy Families," a modern adaptation of Anna Karenina-- written by Tash's eternal love Leo Tolstoy. One complication, of many-- how-- or whether-- to tell her cyber-flirtation-crush that she's a heteromantic asexual. Because experience has taught her that revealing this can change, and even end relationships.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Presents a rare, behind-the-scenes look at Jackson as he developed, created, and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts at London's 02 Arena. Drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius, and great artist at work is captured in raw and candid detail as he created and perfected his planned final London shows.
12) Tropic thunder
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Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
While filming an action movie in the jungle, death and hilarity ensue as the lead actors believe the murderous heroin-producing gang they encounter is a part of the script
14) Money monster
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A financial TV host and his producer are put in a dangerous situation when an angry investor takes over their studio.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
A rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable 18th century British comic novel The life and opinions of Tristam Shandy, gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Shandy's warped tales reveal far more than any conventional autobiography
16) Saving Mr. Banks
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her difficult...
17) The TV set
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Follows the comedic chaos as a television network prepares to air a series pilot.
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Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"After having foiled the arch-nemesis who tried to kill them, identical twins Edgar and Allan Poe travel to New Orleans, where they will play their famous namesake in a feature film--and try not to get killed again"--
19) Their finest
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
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