Books like The Seventh Veil of Salome
In 1950s Hollywood, Vera Larios, an unknown young Mexican actress, is cast as Salome in a lavish biblical epic, a part that Nancy Hartley, a blonde starlet who has worked for years to be noticed, wanted for herself.
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Reclusive Hollywood legend Evelyn Hugo chooses an unknown magazine writer to tell her life story, seven marriages, a hidden love and the machinery of fame, and the writer wonders why she was chosen.
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
When Kitty Karr, a white star of Hollywood's golden age, dies, she leaves her fortune to the St. John sisters, three wealthy young Black women in Los Angeles, and Elise, a celebrity in her own right, is left to settle Kitty's affairs and the questions that follow.
The Last Tycoon
A brilliant Hollywood producer in the 1930s burns himself out running a studio while falling in love. Left unfinished at Fitzgerald's death.
Table for Two
Six short stories set mostly in New York and a novella that follows Eve Ross from Rules of Civility to 1938 Hollywood, each turning on a chance meeting or a decision made over a meal.
Carrie Soto Is Back
Carrie Soto retired from tennis with twenty Grand Slam titles and a reputation as the most ruthless woman in the game, and in 1994, at thirty-seven, she comes back to defend her record against a younger player, with her father as her coach again.
Mercury Pictures Presents
Maria Lagana, who fled Mussolini's Italy as a girl, works her way up at a low-budget Hollywood studio during the Second World War, where everyone is hiding something and the government wants propaganda.
The Henna Artist
In Jaipur in 1955, Lakshmi Shastri, who fled an abusive marriage at seventeen, has made herself the most sought-after henna artist among the city's wealthy women, until a younger sister she never knew she had turns up at her door.
City of Girls
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris, sent down from Vassar, goes to live with her aunt Peg, who runs a crumbling midtown theatre called the Lily Playhouse, and plunges into a world of showgirls, playboys and nights that last until morning.
Great Big Beautiful Life
Two writers, hopeful Alice Scott and Pulitzer winner Hayden Anderson, are invited to a balmy island by the reclusive heiress Margaret Ives, who will tell her life story to only one of them after a one-month trial.
Rules of Civility
A young woman in Depression-era New York navigates the city's elite hotels and speakeasies, building a life through wit, nerve, and a single evening's lucky encounter.
The Book of Illusions
A man watches a silent film and becomes obsessed with the actor, whose disappearance fifty years ago may hold the key to his own unraveling life.
The Invention of Sound
A Hollywood Foley artist who records real screams for horror films crosses paths with a grieving father hunting the snuff-film ring he believes took his daughter.