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"The murdered woman could have been her double. When reporter Meghan Collins sees the sheet-wrapped corpse in a New York City hospital, she feels as if she's staring into her own face. And Meghan has troubles enough already without this bizarre experience. Nine months ago, her much-loved father's car spun off a New York bridge. Now, investigators are saying that there's no trace of his car in the river, and they suspect he faked his own death. With...
2) Funny girl
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Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingenue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters. Insightful and humorous, Nick Hornby's latest does what he does best: endears us to a cast of characters who are funny if flawed, and forces us to examine ourselves in the process. "--
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Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery.
4) Foul play
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A red-hot screwball comedy romance tells a tale of love at first sight and a woman's struggle to overcome losing her job to a chicken.
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[2008]
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Eliza Blake, host of the top-rated KEY News morning show, has witnessed tragedy and danger in her career. But nothing the accomplished professional has experienced has prepared her for when her seven-year-old daughter, Janie, is snatched from summer camp. She and the rest of the Sunrise Suspense Society--brilliant producer Annabelle Murphy, cameraman extraordinaire B.J. D'Elia, and psychiatrist Dr. Margo Gonzalez--will band together to outwit a cunning...
9) Prime time
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The romance between television interviewer Andrea Malone and Lyon Ratliff is threatened when he begins to resent her ambitiousness.
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1998
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TV gardener Louise Eldridge, who is married to a Washington CIA agent, receives a call from a college beau, a journalist in town to do a political story. The Eldridges put him up in their house and several days later find him dead in a neighbor's fish pond. Louise investigates.
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1996
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While recovering from wounds she suffered in Mulch, Louise Eldridge, gardener and wife of a CIA agent, is asked by the Northern Virginia public television station to help host an organic gardening show. Once she accepts, she discovers herself in a behind-the-media-scenes world of backbiting and jealousy. Despite the wholehearted support of the show's producer, Louise is upstaged by her cohost, John Batchelder, who keeps giving himself extra lines,...
14) Charade
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A TV personality with a transplanted heart feels compelled to leave Hollywood for San Antonio to host a TV show spotlighting adoptive children with special needs at the same time that other patients who received donor hearts meet with fatal accidents.
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2010.
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After she moves to New York City and becomes a TV crime fighter, former felony prosecutor Hailey Dean learns that the television industry is filled with treachery. A killer is targeting a series of beautiful actresses, each one a former star struggling to get back into the limelight.
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Gardening mysteries (Ann Ripley) volume 8
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[2003]
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When Louise Eldridge covers the spring plant sale of the venerable Bethesda Garden Club for her television show, she finds blue-blooded traditions, deeply rooted resentments--and fertile ground for murder...
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Gardening mysteries (Ann Ripley) volume 9
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[2005]
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Garden show host Louise Eldridge finds her career and life in danger when she is accused of murdering a former mental patient who harbored a grudge against her, and as she sets out to dig up the truth, she unearths dark secrets about her neighbors.
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The Elmwood Springs volume Book 1
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[1998]
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A sentimental look at small-town life featuring Dena Nordstrom, a New York TV show hostess. Sent by her doctor home to Missouri to nurse her ulcer, she hopes to learn why her mother abandoned her when she was 15 years old