01988cam a2200301 i 4500 944218530 TxAuBib 20230920120000.0 230828s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781662510588 HRD 28.99 1662510586 HRD 28.99 TxAuBib rda Rooney, Kathleen, 1980-, author. From dust to stardust [BOOK] : a novel / Kathleen Rooney. First edition. Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2023] 266 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Chicago, 1916. Doreen O'Dare is fourteen years old when she hops a Hollywood-bound train with her beloved Irish grandmother. Within a decade, her trademark bob and insouciant charm make her the preeminent movie flapper of the Jazz Age. But her success story masks one of relentless ambition, tragedy, and the secrets of a dangerous marriage. Her professional life in flux, Doreen trades one dream for another. She pours her wealth and creative energy into a singular achievement: the construction of a one-ton miniature Fairy Castle, the likes of which the world has never seen. So begins Doreen's public tour to lift the nation's spirits during the Great Depression--and a personal journey worth remembering. A sweeping journey from the dawn of the motion picture era through turbulent twentieth-century America, From Dust to Stardust is a breathtaking novel about one determined woman navigating change, challenging the price of fame, and sharing the gift of real magic"-- Provided by publisher. 20230920. Actors Fiction. Dollhouses Fiction. United States History 1913-1921 Fiction. United States History 1919-1933 Fiction. Historical fiction.