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Something Real

Heather Demetrios Β· 406 pages

Since the cancellation of her family's reality television show, seventeen-year-old Bonnie Baker, one of twelve siblings, has tried to live a normal life with real friends and a possible boyfriend, until her mother and the show's producers decide to bring "Baker's Dozen" back on the air.

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Fifteen Minutes

Karen Kingsbury Β· 384 pages

Just as Zack Dylan on the verge of winning it all on the popular TV show Fifteen Minutes, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster. Meanwhile, a former Fifteen Minutes winner is searching for meaning amidst her own private losses. Can she warn Zack about the real price of fame? Or will Zack lose everything he loves for his fifteen minutes of glory?

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The Vault of Dreamers

Caragh M. O'Brien Β· 425 pages

Rosie Sinclair, who attends an elite arts school where students are contestants on a high stakes reality show, skips her sleeping pill one night and discovers that the school is really a cover-up for the lucrative and sinister practice of dream harvesting.

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Sweet Little Lies

Lauren Conrad Β· 309 pages

How Sweet it is?Jane Roberts was the average girl next door until she and her best friend, Scarlett Harp, landed their own reality show, L.A. Candy. Now the girls have an all-access pass to Hollywood's hottest everything. But there's more to life on camera than just parties and shopping...When racy photos of Jane are leaked to the press, she finds herself at the center of a tabloid scandal. She tu

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The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

Kate Hattemer Β· 329 pages

"When a sleazy reality television show takes over Ethan's arts academy, he and his friends concoct an artsy plan to take it down"--

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The Wedding Game

Amy Matayo Β· 368 pages

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The Accidental TV Star

Emily Evans Β· 134 pages

Marissa, a recent high school graduate and amateur chef, loves cooking, the culinary reality show Scoop Out, and hot Scottish movie star Garrett Campbell. Despite her big dreams, her feet are firmly planted on the non-slip, rubber floor mat behind the counter of the Texas Fry Hut. -- until Marissa receives a wild job offer -- To spend the summer cooking for Garrett Campbell in Hollywood.-Goodreads

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Ghouls Gone Wild

Victoria Laurie Β· 336 pages

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Extras

Scott Westerfeld Β· 417 pages

Now that the world is in a complete cultural renaissance, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but Aya knows that would propel her into celebrity--a status she's not prepared for.

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Suck It Up

Brian Meehl Β· 323 pages

ARE YOU UP to your neck in bloodsucking vampire stories?Tired of those tales about dentally enhanced dark lords?Before I wrote this book I thought all vampires were night-stalking, fangpopping, bloodsucking fiends. Then I met Morning McCobb. He's a vegan vampire who drinks a soy-blood substitute called Blood Lite. He believes staking should be a hate crime. And someday he hopes to march in a Vampi

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All's Fair in Love and Cupcakes

Betsy St. Amant Β· 313 pages

When Kat's best friend Lucas unwittingly signs Kat up for a reality television cupcake baking competition, Kat suddenly has the chance to win a successful career in New York--but may lose Lucas in the process.

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Life in a Fishbowl

Len Vlahos Β· 332 pages

Fifteen-year-old Jackie is determined to reclaim her family's privacy and dignity by ending a reality television program about her father's terminal brain tumor.

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Reality Check

Jen Calonita

Sixteen-year-olds Charlie, Keiran, Brooke, and Hallie have just been signed up for their own reality television show. They can't even believe it. "You'll be The Hills meets The Secret Life of the American Teenager," the Armani-suited executive tells them, "and the hottest thing on our network." How could they say no? But soon enough, cameras following them everywhere and interfering producers

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Royce Rolls

Margaret Stohl Β· 393 pages

"A famous-for-being-famous LA family stars on their own reality show, but the sixteen-year-old daughter wants out"--

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Waterfall

Lisa Tawn Bergren Β· 384 pages

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Cell 7

Kerry Drewery Β· 400 pages

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The Golden Braid

Melanie Dickerson Β· 320 pages

Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry. Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter, and warns he

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Empress of a Thousand Skies

Rhoda Belleza Β· 332 pages

When their paths cross after a brutal attack Aly is falsely accused of making on Rhee, they are forced to work together to save their own lives and the universe.

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Flash Point

Nancy Kress Β· 501 pages

Amy had dreams of going to college, until the Collapse destroyed the economy and her future. Now she is desperate for any job that will help support her terminally ill grandmother and rebellious younger sister. When she finds herself in the running for a slot on a new reality TV show, she signs on the dotted line, despite her misgivings. And she's right to have them. TLN's "Who Knows People, Baby-

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Hunter

Mercedes Lackey Β· 387 pages

Long ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were ripped open, and it's taken centuries to bring back civilization in the wake of the catastrophe. Now, the luckiest Cits live in enclosed communities,behind walls that keep them safe from the hideous creatures fighting to break through. Others are not so lucky.

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Kitty's House of Horrors

Carrie Vaughn Β· 292 pages

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 film

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Chaos Choreography

Seanan McGuire Β· 356 pages

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