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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Portuguese
Description
A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps. " Based on his own memories and on a sturdy body of research evidence, the director analyzes race relations in Brazilian soap operas, calling attention to their likely influence on Black people's identity-forming processes.
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Language
English
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"Newly divorced on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Brynn is sick of heartbreak. She thought she had found her happy ending, but now she's now living with a roommate, Josh, to afford her mortgage and trying to adjust to her new single life. At least she's got Carson's Cove to binge, her beloved 2000s teenage soap. The show ended unexpectantly on a cliffhanger after five seasons, and the two main characters, Sloan and Spencer, never got to declare...
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Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: The first rule of watching K-dramas: Never fall in love with the second lead. As an avid watcher of K-dramas, Hana knows all the tropes to avoid when she finally lands a starring role in a buzzy new drama. And she can totally handle her fake co-star boyfriend, heartthrob Bryan Yoon, who might be falling in love with her. After all, she promised the TV producers a contract romance, and that's all they're going to get from her....
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Publisher
Venevision International
Language
Español
Description
Deseo y odio definen una intensa y apasionante historia de amor jamás vista. Victoria, una mujer hermosa y exitosa regresa acompañada de su hija, Carolina, luego de 20 años buscando vengar todo el daño que la familia Montero le causó. Sin embargo el destino se interpone en sus planes cuando Victoria se enamora perdidamente de Diego, el vecino de los Montero, y Carolina encuentra el verdadero amor en Alejandro, parte de la familia que Victoria...
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Publisher
Venevision International
Language
Español
Description
Young, rich, successful, and beautiful, everyone considers them to have 'the perfect marriage'. However everything is not always what it seems, and when Laurita becomes bored with her marriage it sparks a series of events that no one saw coming.
Laura se enamora apasionadamente de su entrenador Alex, pero divorciarse la dejaría sin un centavo! Decidida a todo por Alex, pone en marcha un plan: lograr que su esposo se enamore y sea él quien le pida...
6) Acorralada
Series
Publisher
Venevision International
Language
Español
Description
After leaving jail Fedora finds her daughter, Diana, and they become friends. Diana, thinking that she and her sister are orphans, does not realize Fedora is her mother. Fedora plans her revenge on the women that snatched her daughter.
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Series
Primas of power volume 1
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After a messy public breakup leaves her face splashed across the tabloids, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez returns to New York City to film the starring role in a bilingual romantic comedy for the number one streaming service in the country. A casting shake-up pairs her with telenovela hunk Ashton Suárez, who is worried about his career after his last telenovela character was killed off. A disastrous first impression smothers the embers...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
After his dream of managing a rock band is shattered, struggling writer Campbell discovers that his two best friends, Henry and Nell, have been secretly dating. Henry's children's video production also puts a strain on their friendship.
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Series
Publisher
MIRA
Language
English
Description
It's the most dangerous role of her career-and possibly the last . . . A romantic thriller that's "tough to put down" from the New York Times–bestselling author (Romantic Times).
Playing a malicious diva on a popular daytime soap, actress Kelly Trent has garnered more than her fair share of hate mail. She doesn't believe anyone would really confuse her with her character, but when an accident on the set hits too close for the producers' comfort,...
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Series
Publisher
Onyx
Language
English
Description
Soap opera diva Serena McCormack's road to success has taken a deadly turn. Her costar has been murdered on the set. Wrose yet, all the clues point to Serena as the intended victim. Enter Private Investigator Liam Murphy-a man to whom she's undeniably attracted-a man hired to protect her. But as the ratings soar, so do the terrifying threats against Serenc's life. And now, with only Liam standing between her and a deranged killer, Serena knows...
Publisher
Distributed by Xenon Pictures
Language
Español
Description
En un bellísimo valle donde se siembran las uvas más exquisitas, florece la gran e intensa historia de amor entre Valeria San Román y Francisco Contreras. Valeria es una mujer de carácter fuerte que ha sufrido mucho por sus decepciones amorosas, por su maternidad frustrada, y por el desamor de su padre: José Maria San Román, un hombre cruel y ambicioso que se hizo rico a través de engaños. Valeria es la única capaz de rebelarse ante él pues,...
12) Tootsie
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
25th anniversary ed.
Language
English
Description
Michael Dorsey is a talented actor, but his demanding nature and stubborn temperament have antagonized every producer in New York. Now his agent insists no one will hire him. But Michael needs money - eight thousand dollars to be exact - and to earn it, he's willing to play the role of a lifetime.
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Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Following the success of Linda Palmer's first book in the series, Love Is Murder, listeners are treated to the return of Morgan Tyler, feisty head writer for the TV soap opera Love of My Life. Her imagination is always at work, churning out the scenes that fill many a fan's daytime with drama. But when fiction becomes stranger (and more deadly) than art, Morgan is forced to rely on her ingenuity to save herself from “early cancellation.”
Author
Series
Nancy Drew Files volume 17
Publisher
1987
Language
English
Description
Bess and Nancy get to be extras on a soap opera and end up investigating death threats to the star, Rick Arlen.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Ex-cop Cat O'Connor is bored working for her sister, Chloe, as a personal assistant on the set of her soap opera. Until Chloe gets an opportunity to audition for the role of a lifetime and asks her identical twin to substitute for her on the soap with no one the wiser. It's a perfect switch-until Cat attracts the attention of the mysterious Mr. Tall, Dark, and Way-too-handsome leading man.
17) Delirious
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Description
Jack Gable, a soap opera writer, takes a knock on the head one day and wakes up in the very television show he has been writing. He discovers that through his typewriter he can control events in his new reality.
19) Dead ex: a novel
Author
Series
Wollie Shelley mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Publisher
Televisa
Edition
Special edition.
Language
Español
Description
The conclusion to one of the most loved telenovelas of all time, the epic nineteenth century drama tells the story of Matilde Penalver y Beristain, a proud and beautiful young woman of noble birth, who falls in love with penniless soldier Adolfo Solis. Matilde's mother, Augusta, determined that her daughter land a rich husband, pressures her to marry Manuel Fuentes Guerra, the illegitimate son of a powerful landlord and heir to his fortune.
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