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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Last One tells the story of twelve contestants who are sent to the wilderness in a Survivor-like reality show. But while they're away, the world changes completely and what is real and what is not begins to blur. It's post-apocalyptic literary fiction at it's best. With a fast pace and a wry sense of humor, this is the kind of book that will appeal to readers of literary fiction and genre fiction alike. It points out the absurdity of reality...
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Language
English
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"A former prodigy refuses to believe her best years are behind her in this sparkling debut about second chances, unexpected joys, and the miraculous healing power of art and connection. It's a lot of pressure being compared to Mozart. Especially when you're only five. Prudence Childs was once the most famous kindergartner on the planet. She played at the White House, appeared on talk shows, and inspired a generation of children to take up piano. But...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Alison and Jenny McGregor -- Aberdeen's own mother-daughter singing sensation -- are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain's Next Big Star. But their reality-TV dream turns into a real-life nightmare when a ransom demand appears in all the papers, on TV, and the internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep them alive. Time is running out -- and DS Logan McRae and his colleagues have nothing to go on.
Author
Publisher
Bancroft Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Two-Plate Solution is a satire about reality TV cooking competitions that features a diverse cast of chefs, TV producers, and terrorists-turned-cheftestants! It's fun and a bit wild, but the author takes the characters and the food very seriously.
45) NYPD Red 6
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When reality star Erin Easton disappears from her wedding reception leaving behind a blood-spattered wedding gown and signs of a struggle in her dressing room, Detective Kylie MacDonald of NYPD Red, already on-scene as a plus-one, loops in her partner, Detective Zach Jordan to activate Level One mobilization for this public relations nightmare, but after Erin's "proof of life" video makes it to air, every A-lister on the guest list becomes a target...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pastry chef Kate McGuire is loving life on the laid-back island of Coral Cay, Florida. As junior partner in a bakery renowned for luscious desserts--especially her cookies--life is pretty sweet. So when an old friend arrives and announces a spur-of-the-moment beach wedding, that's just the icing on the wedding cake. But the groom vanishes right as a television crew descends on the town to film a hot, new realty show. Is there a connection? Is her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It happened at Serenity's swap meet, right after Brandy Borne and her ever-more-eccentric mother Vivian finished shooting the pilot for their very own TV show, Antiques Sleuths. Brandy just, well, lost her balance and fell...into the helpful arms of an old flame, local tycoon Wesley Sinclair III. But did Brandy's innocent slip lead to the murder of Wesley's wife, Vanessa?"--Jacket.
Author
Series
Pies before guys mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daisy bakes a little murder into every pie she creates, and she and her dog, Zoe, deliver them to the town's worst cads. Now, Daisy's entered a televised, elimination-style competition and has a shot at $100k in prize money--but she still has a murder pie to deliver between filming. In a completely unexpected turn of events, she discovers that her intended victim is one of the competition judges, and he turns up dead before the pie even arrives. Now,...
Author
Series
Kitty Norville series volume 7
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Talk radio host and werewolf Kitty Norville has agreed to appear on TV's first all-supernatural reality show. She's expecting cheesy competitions and manufactured drama starring shapeshifters, vampires, and psychics. But what begins as a publicity stunt will turn into a fight for her life. The cast members, including Kitty, arrive at the remote mountain lodge where the show is set. As soon as filming starts, violence erupts and Kitty suspects that...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2016, 2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
It centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy taken in as a farmhand and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family. Both intrusions are of particular interest to the eldest daughter, who is struggling to find her footing in the world, and Rohrwacher conveys her adolescent sense of...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been two years since Maya's ex-boyfriend cheated on her, and she still can't escape him: his sister married the crown prince of a minor European country and he captured hearts as her charming younger brother. If the world only knew the real Jordy, the manipulative liar who broke Maya's heart. Skye Kaplan was always cautious with her heart until Jordy said all the right things and earned her trust. Now his face is all over the media and Skye is...
52) Reality boy
Author
Language
English
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Description
"An emotionally damaged seventeen-year-old boy in Pennsylvania, who was once an infamous reality television show star, meets a girl from another dysfunctional family, and she helps him out of his angry shell"--
54) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
Author
Series
Fern Falls volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ben Parrish dreams of moving his bakery to San Francisco, but he's been quietly in love with Adam Reed, his musician-slash-mechanic neighbor. When Ben enters a make-or-break competition to show off his own recipes. If he wins, he is going to buy his overprotective family out of the business. And he is going to ask Adam out. When his big plans get punched, Ben heads down the coast for his grandma's 80th birthday party in Maywell Bay, California. Turns...
Author
Publisher
New Harvest
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiii, 361 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Hollywood party girl Lorelei auditions for television's hottest reality show, she finds her life self-destructing after her mother wages a racially-slanted war against the stunning, young, African-American woman who won the role.
57) The one-eyed man
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the "startlingly talented" (New York Times) author of Everything Matters! - the compelling story of a man who takes everything far too literally, and his adventures as the star of a reality TV show. Ron Currie's three previous works of fiction have dazzled readers and critics alike with their originality, audacity, and psychological insight. A writer of unique vision and huge imagination, Currie excels at creating complex, troubled, yet endearing...
58) Get real
Author
Series
Dortmunder novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
John Dortmunder and his crew encounter a television reality show that is pushing the limits of the medium by covering the gang as they plan and execute one of their capers.
59) Sell-out!
Publisher
Kani
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD (digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet (28 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
Fony Corporation has just promoted doe-eyed Eric Tan to Head of Product Design and he's already invented a revolutionary 8-in-1 soy bean machine! Taste the silken tofu, the creamy soy milk, the crispy bean curd! It just has one reprehensible flaw: no flaws! The lack of a built-in-breakdown mechanism appalls the conglomerate's two-man executive branch who resorts to a budget exorcism to solve their problem named Eric. Also under the axe is Fony TV...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Holly and Robert Barron are attractive young real-estate investors and contestants in a competition run by To the Manor Build, the nation's most popular home renovation app. With millions in product endorsements and online followers at stake, they're rehabbing a Vermont home they scored at a bargain price into a chic hilltop estate ideal for entertaining. It's all camera-ready laughs and debates over herringbone tile until Holly and Robert go missing...
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