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From America's most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller--a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy...
3) Body & soul
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This saga of a son of the working class who grows into a piano prodigy is "hypnotically readable . . . the best story I know of in a long, long time" (Vanity Fair). As a boy, Claude Rawlings looks up through the grated window of his basement apartment to watch the world go by. Poor, lonely, supported by a taxi-driver mother whose eccentricities spin more and more out of control, he faces the terrible task of growing up on the margins of life, destined...
4) Taft
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John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft-Fay and Carl's dead father-and begins to reconstruct the life of a man he never met. But his sympathies for these lost souls soon take him...
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2014.
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A young music prodigy goes missing from a hotel room that was the site of an infamous murder-suicide fifteen years earlier, renewing trauma for a bridesmaid who witnessed the first crime and rallying an eccentric cast of characters during a snowstorm that traps everyone on the grounds.
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Tending roses volume 5
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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English
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The hip break-out novel from 2016 Man Booker Prize winning author, Paul Beatty, about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-Wall Berlin in search of his transatlantic doppelganger.
Hailed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as one of the best writers of his generation, Paul Beatty turns his creative eye to man's search for meaning and identity in an increasingly chaotic world.
After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes...
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2021.
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English
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"Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can't imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job--despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar's amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 21
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English
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"The fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire sends Gabriel Allon on a dangerous journey across Europe and into the orbit of a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth about his friend's death. The plot Allon uncovers leads to secret channels of money and influence that go to the very heart of Western democracy and threaten the stability of the global order.
13) Blue: season
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"A moment ago, Molly was a promising musician and graduate student. Now, she's calling herself Lucia and struggling to find her feet in a Baltimore psychiatric hospital. Could the story in Molly's journals--of memory, trauma and Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce--hold the key?"--
14) Carnal innocence
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New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts provides a potent mix of small-town secrets, scandalous romance, and down-home Southern atmosphere as a young woman searching for some bayou R&R finds herself entangled in a serial killer’s wicked web.
Burned out and still reeling from a love affair gone bad, world-class violinist Caroline Waverly goes to her grandparents’ home in Innocence, Mississippi, for
15) Berlioz the bear
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Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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Berlioz the bear and his fellow musicians are due to play for the town ball when the mule pulling their bandwagon refuses to move. A strange buzzing in Berlioz's double bass turns into a surprise that saves the day.
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Scumble River mysteries volume 14
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Signet
Pub. Date
2011
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xii, 252 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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Adah Knepp has a dream of making music, something her strict Amish community will not permit, so when she meets a man who can give her the opportunity to realize her dream, she must decide if she will turn her back on her family, and gentle farmer Matthew.
18) The villa
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"From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls' trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end...
19) The ensemble
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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339 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Forging a familial bond over their shared artistic talents and secrets, four young people navigate a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love reinforce and divide them throughout the course of their lives.
20) Grounded
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2013
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English
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Grace Meredith is a beloved contemporary Christian recording artist whose life has hit unexpected turbulence. She feels grounded - in more ways than one. Grace's fiancé, bothered by her outspoken stance on purity and her near-constant travel, has broken off their relationship. Exhausted and unable to continue her concert tour, Grace returns to her Chicago home where she finds herself connecting for the first time with her neighbors.
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