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Death of the author : a novel / by Okorafor, Nnedi,author.;
Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister's lavish Caribbean wedding, she's unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It's a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots. When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journey--one that will catapult her into literary stardom, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space, Zelu's novel will change the future not only for humanity, but for the robots who come next. A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written, Death of the Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Surprisingly funny, deeply poignant, and endlessly discussable, this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Sagas.; Novels.; Authors; Fame; Families; Movement disorders; Nigerian Americans; Robots in literature; Women authors; Women with disabilities;
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Once upon a K-prom / by Cho, Kat.;
Instead of going to prom, seventeen-year-old Elena Soo wants to spend her time saving the local community center, and she is determined to keep her priorities straight even when her childhood best friend--who is now a K-pop superstar--returns to make good on their old pact to go to prom together.LSC
Subjects: High school students; Community centers; K-pop (Subculture); Fame; Dating (Social customs); Proms; Korean Americans;
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Look up with me : Neil deGrasse Tyson : a life among the stars / by Berne, Jennifer.; Nam, Lorraine.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.A biography of famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and awe-inspiring facts about our universe.Ages 4-8.LSC
Subjects: Tyson, Neil deGrasse; Astrophysicists; Astronomy;
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Chosen Ones / by Roth, Veronica,author.;
"The first novel written for an adult audience by the mega-selling author of the Divergent franchise: five twenty-something heroes famous for saving the world when they were teenagers must face even greater demons-and reconsider what it means to be a hero ... by destiny or by choice"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Heroes; Fame; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Secrecy; Prophecies (Occultism); Fate and fatalism; Identity (Psychology); Magic;
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The winner stands alone / by Coelho, Paulo.; Coelho, Paulo.Venceder está só.English.; Costa, Margaret Jull.;
Subjects: Cannes Film Festival; Celebrities; Divorced people; Fame; Film festivals; Fortune; Good and evil; Russians;
© 2009., HarperCollins Publishers,
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The seventh veil of Salome / by Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,author.;
In 1950s Hollywood, when an unknown Mexican ingenue is cast as Salome, a star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary heroine, she becomes the object of envy of Nancy Hartley, a bit player who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Salome (Biblical figure); Actresses; Fame; Motion picture actors and actresses;
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The seventh veil of Salome [text (large print)] / by Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,author.;
In 1950s Hollywood, when an unknown Mexican ingenue is cast as Salome, a star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary heroine, she becomes the object of envy of Nancy Hartley, a bit player who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Salome (Biblical figure); Actresses; Fame; Motion picture actors and actresses;
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Warriors in winter / by Osborne, Mary Pope.; Ford, AG.;
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back in time to meet famed Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius!"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Jack (Fictitious character from Osborne); Annie (Fictitious character from Osborne); Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180; Brothers and sisters; Kings and rulers; Soldiers; Time travel; Magic; Tree houses;
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Too famous : the rich, the powerful, the wishful, the notorious, the damned / by Wolff, Michael,1953-author.; Wolff, Michael,1953-Columns.Selections.;
"The bestselling author of Fire and Fury is once again coming for some of the largest power brokers in America as he brings to light their lives, careers, and always equivocal end games"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Celebrities in mass media.; Executives; Fame.; Gossip in mass media.; Journalists; Mass media; Politicians; Publishers and publishing; Television broadcasting of news;
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Louder than bombs [videorecording] / by Trier, Joachim,film director,screenwriter.; Vogt, Eskil,screenwriter.; Byrne, Gabriel,1950-actor.; Eisenberg, Jesse,1983-actor.; Huppert, Isabelle,actor.; Druid, Devin,actor.; Brosnahan, Rachel,actor.; Jerins, Ruby,1998-actor.; Ketch, Megan,actor.; Strathairn, David,actor.; Ryan, Amy,actor.; Orchard Films,presenter.; Motlys (Firm),presenter,production company.; Memento Films,presenter,production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Editor, Olivier Bugge Coutte ; composer, Ola Fløttum ; director of photography, Jakob Ihre.Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabelle Huppert, Devin Druid, Rachel Brosnahan, Ruby Jerins, Megan Ketch, David Strathairn, Amy Ryan.The fractious family of a father and his two sons confront their different feelings and memories of their deceased wife and mother, a famed war photographer.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Families; Grief; Fathers and sons;
For private home use only.
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