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1) Be cool
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In this sequel about sequels, Leonard continues his humorous and sometimes violent saga centered around ex-loan shark, Chili Palmer. Chili is looking for fresh faces for his next film when he stumbles into the music business, murder and the mob. He manipulates the law and the whole situation to his advantage with a shrewd and unruffled attitude. Once again, Chili proves that everything will turn out fine if you can just "be cool."
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Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life--except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy, a roguish small-time bass player, Violet comes alive, and soon she's risking everything for the chance to find herself again. Also in the picture...
3) Shine
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Shine (Jessica Jung) volume 1
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Seventeen-year-old Rachel Kim confronts the dark underbelly of the K-pop world as she strives to become a K-pop star.
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Gorgeous, successful executive Teri Stewart spends her days working for L.A.'s hottest record company - and her nights all alone. Her best friend Nicole is determined to find Teri a man, but she hasn't had much luck ... because Teri wants more than Mr. Maybe. Then a man from Teri's past returns to reignite their romance. With his sultry smile and easy-going charm, radio DJ Harrison Starr is one of a kind. But he may have a secret that could change...
5) Drama 99 FM
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One of today's most exciting voices lets loose in a novel starring three bold and beautiful women who are about to discover that life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be...
Ever since she started working for a top executive in the music industry, the once-shy Naomi has gone from drab to fab. And now that she's had a taste of the good life, she'll stop at nothing to get more--even if it means watching her career unravel and losing
...6) Intermission
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"As glittering as their name, The Diamonds were on the brink of 1990s pop music stardom-until betrayal tore them apart. Now these four very different women are getting a second shot at success. But will reuniting mend their rift-or will lasting secrets, unspoken betrayals, new temptations, and the hard-knocks of today's music industry destroy them, and their dreams, for good? Angel. Carmen. Doreen. Jade. Talented Memphis girls who had a brush with...
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"It's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time. Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow...
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"A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, alive with music, sex, and fame, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969 at the crossroads of rock and folk, for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six. "[A]live with music, sex, and the trappings of fame, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969 at the crossroads of rock and folk. Raised on an island off Massachusetts by a mother who wrote songs for famous musicians, Jane Quinn is singing...
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"Jacket Weather is told in fragments of narrative, snatches of conversation, and bits of reflection and weather, and set in present-day New York, about June and Mike, who knew each other in the downtown music scene in the '80s and who meet again after twenty years and fall in love. But they're in their fifties when they do, so the book is also about mortality, because all of a sudden it seems like there's barely enough time for them. Besides June...
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It is 1988. On a dead-end street in a run-down suburb there is a music shop that stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. Like a beacon, the shop attracts the lonely, the sleepless, and the adrift; Frank, the shop's owner, has a way of connecting his customers with just the piece of music they need. Then, one day, into his shop comes a beautiful young woman, Ilse Brauchmann, who asks Frank to teach her about music. Terrified...
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She wanted to be a hip-hop star but the streets got in the way.
Have you ever laid down with a man and wasn’t sure if you’d ever get back up? Tossed the sheets with a bone-knocking fear that only a hard-core hustler could produce? Sexed him like your life depended on it, because in reality it did? You still with me? Then let’s roll over to my house. Harlem. 145th Street. Grab a seat and brace yourself as I show you the...
Have you ever laid down with a man and wasn’t sure if you’d ever get back up? Tossed the sheets with a bone-knocking fear that only a hard-core hustler could produce? Sexed him like your life depended on it, because in reality it did? You still with me? Then let’s roll over to my house. Harlem. 145th Street. Grab a seat and brace yourself as I show you the...
12) The favorite son
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They're handsome, smart, and gifted. Brothers Camden and Blaine Drake have combined their talents and founded a gospel group. At first, their bishop father is against the idea -- until Blaine, his favorite, wows the congregation performing at a church revival. Sure enough, once the bishop witnesses their effect on the crowd he wants them there every Sunday. But he may have set the stage for trouble: as the group's popularity increases, so do the groupies....
13) Bad girlz 4 life
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Escaping the dark and dangerous world of strip clubs, dirty money, sex, and murder for a career as a hair stylist, Tonya Morris finds herself back in the business after being blacklisted, teams up with her best-friend Na'eema to seek success with their underground sex parties, and encounters new perils in the form of an ex-lover and his murderous baby mama.
14) Time to shine
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"Sunday Tolliver is now the hottest singer-songwriter in the business-but too much personal drama is spinning her crazy-busy life totally out of control. Her boyfriend, Sam, won't discuss the online buzz pulling them apart, and Sunday is past done putting up with him. Her two best friends are way far gone over one irresistible boy and it's messing with their tight-knit group. And Sunday's jealous diva cousin, Dreya, will do anything to stop her own...
15) Charlotte
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King, a southern born and bred hustler is determined to take the drug empire handed to him by his father into the legitimate world of the music industry. King's life is looking good when he meets a beautiful, classy queen. Sloan is a college-educated, hardworking singer. She has always tried to do the right thing, but when something from her past comes back to haunt her, it could destroy the love she and King are building.
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Sunday Tolliver has got talent, her own singing group and honor roll grades. Problem is her mother has spent her college funds and her only way to get to college is to work for her "big ego" diva counsin Dreya. A famous hip-hop rapper, her cousin's jeasously, paparazzi blogs - Sunday must somehow make her way through this crazy maze before her dreams of making it in the music industry go up in smoke.
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers a novel of ambition and passion as two musicians get a second chance at love.
Five years ago, Raven Williams and Brandon Carstairs were the celebrity couple of the day, dominating the gossip columns. And though their breakup devastated Raven personally, her professional life continued to flourish.
Now Brandon is back, dangling the project of a lifetime in front of her:...
Five years ago, Raven Williams and Brandon Carstairs were the celebrity couple of the day, dominating the gossip columns. And though their breakup devastated Raven personally, her professional life continued to flourish.
Now Brandon is back, dangling the project of a lifetime in front of her:...
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When Fabiola Mays hits the stage, all eyes are on her. She has the looks, the moves, and the voice to be the hottest diva alive. Her talent and sex appeal attracts the attention of the music industry's most influential (and shadiest) mogul, one who will do whatever it takes to get Fabiola into his bed. Too fly to bow down to such sleaze, Fabiola earns herself powerful enemies and an unlikely ally. When Casino, an older gangster battling demons of...