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Good Brother, Bad Brother

James Giblin

Tells the life stories of nineteenth-century actor Edwin Booth and his actor brother John Wilkes Booth, describing the differences between the two men, chronicling John's assassination of Abraham Linc

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Teen Idol

Meg Cabot

High school junior and columnist for the school newspaper, Jenny Greenley is good at dispensing advice to others, but when nineteen-year-old film heartthrob Luke Striker pays a visit to research a rol

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Colleen A. Sexton

A biography of the Austrian-born bodybuilder who has become a Hollywood star and governor of California.

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Say Goodnight, Gracie

Julie Reece Deaver

When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to breaking into the professional theater scene in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan must

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One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

Sonya Sones

Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who d

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Whoopi Goldberg

Rose Blue

A biography of the comedian and actress who won an Academy Award for her role in the movie "Ghost".

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Oprah Winfrey

Lois Nicholson

Describes the life and career of the award-winning host of America's most watched television talk show.

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Rick Springfield

Simone Gillianti

A biography of musician and actor, Rick Springfield, an Australian import who came to the United States and became a superstar.

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Starring Peter and Leigh

Susan Beth Pfeffer

When her mother remarries, 16-year-old Leigh abandons her acting career and tries to lead the life of a normal teenager. She is coached by her 17-year-old stepbrother, homebound with hemophilia.

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