Slocumb, Brendan
Summary: "From the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time-that his music was stolen from a young Black composer named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth and right history's wrongs, Bern Hendricks will stop at nothing to finally give Josephine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOBowman, Akemi Dawn
Summary: Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOWCowell, Stephanie.
Summary: The lives of the four Weber sisters are changed by the arrival of twenty-one-year-old Wolfgang Mozart, a young man struggling to find his place in the eighteenth-century musical world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COWZinovieff, Sofka
Summary: An inappropriate bond between the preadolescent daughter of a famous novelist and a rising 1970s London composer twenty years her senior intensifies into a predatory affair, in a tale told from three perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZINOrtiz, Raquel M.
Summary: Young Sofi enters a New York City community garden and finds a half-painted mural. It's full of big, leafy plants in blue and yellow, and a vibrant emerald green color appears where the two colors meet. As Sofi runs her fingers over the image, she is suddenly transported to a beautiful place with plants just like the ones on the wall! Sofi finds herself in the Dominican Republic, where she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG ORTKaplan, Mitchell James
Summary: "A fact-based historical novel, as compelling as Nancy Horan's New York Times bestseller, Loving Frank, set primarily in New York City in the 1920s and '30s and inspired by the decade-long relationship between the celebrated composer George Gershwin and Kay Swift, who was both his romantic partner and a gifted musician in her own right"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAPGuilfoile, Kevin.
Summary: In an ambitious novel fusing historical fact with contemporary suspense, a gifted young woman races to find her father's killer and to free herself from the crossfire of a centuries-old civil war in which she has unknowingly become ensnared.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUILim, Dominic
Summary: "Quito Cruz might be a composing and piano genius, but he's a few notes short of success. Broadway, here I don't come. But Quito knows what the problem is. Or rather who. Because ever since that night in college-with pretty-boy jock Emmett Aoki--his inspiration has been completely MIA ... Now Quito's beloved dad wants him to put on a charity performance in his hometown. And there's one hella...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIMCarlson, Melody
Summary: "All Emma Daley wants this holiday season is a white Christmas. But the young teacher and struggling musician sure can't find that in sunny Arizona. Luckily, there's someone living in a perfect mountain home in the Colorado Rockies looking to make a vacation trade. West Prescott is an in-demand songwriter and talented musician who put his own singing career on hold to write songs for celebrity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARSolomons, Natasha.
Summary: "A captivating novel that evokes the author's New York Times bestseller The House at Tyneford Natasha Solomons's breathtaking new novel has it all: a love triangle, family obligations, and rediscovering joy in the face of grief, all set against the alluring backdrop of an English country estate perfect for fans of Downton Abbey It's a terrible thing to covet your brother's girl New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Plume Book 2015
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Roberts, Nora.
Summary: Songwriter Shawn Gallagher claims to be content with his life, but his music tells a different story. Brenna O'Toole, a fiercely independent tomboy who is secretly in love with Gallagher, provides him with the chance to fulfill his destiny as both man and musician.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Book/Berkely Pub. Group/Penguin Putnam Inc. 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBAlbert, Elisa
Summary: On the eve of her fourth album, singer-songwriter Aviva Rosner is plagued by infertility. The twist: as much as Aviva wants a child, she is wary of technological conception, and has poured her ambivalence into her music. As the album makes its way in the world, the shock of the response from fans and critics is at first exciting--and then invasive and strange. Aviva never wanted to be famous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc 2022
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Summary: As the only child of a single mom, Jenny Collins wanted to be part of a large family like the O'Briens, but when her mother married into that family, Jenny still felt like an outsider. Now, after years in Nashville as an established songwriter, Jenny's drawn back to Chesapeake Shores to collaborate on a Christmas production and to make peace with the past. And on top of that, Caleb Green, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOHeinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson)
Summary: Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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Summary: "Arky Levin has reached a creative dead end. Guilty and restless after an unexpected separation from his wife, almost by chance he stumbles upon an art exhibit that will change his life. Based on a real piece of performance art, the installation that the fictional Arky Levin discovers is inexplicably powerful. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art sit across a table from artist Marina Abramović...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P ROSPowers, Richard
Summary: An experimental composer becomes a fugitive after his home microbiology lab, set up to find music in surprising patterns, results in a Homeland Security raid.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC POWCarlson, Melody
Summary: "When songwriter West Prescott tries a vacation trade for Christmas, he accidentally ends up playing the caretaker of his own house-and falling in love with the struggling musician staying there. Will keeping his true identity from her hinder their blossoming romance?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARDunlap, Susanne Emily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNPowers, Richard
Summary: An experimental composer becomes a fugitive after his home microbiology lab, set up to find music in surprising patterns, results in a Homeland Security raid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWRoberts, Nora.
Summary: Songwriter Shawn Gallagher claims to be content with his life, but his music tells a different story. Brenna O'Toole, a fiercely independent tomboy who is secretly in love with Gallagher, provides him with the chance to fulfill his destiny as both man and musician.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Reed, Deborah.
Summary: Famed alt-country artist Annie Walsh has more than enough reason to sing her version of the blues, including a broken heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family. Annie seeks refuge from an upended love affair with her producer, Owen Pettybone, by sequestering herself at home with her old dog Detour, surrounded by a lush Florida tangelo grove. Soon, however, this quiet, small town existence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Encore 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Reed 2011Roberts, Nora.
Summary: Songwriter Shawn Gallagher claims to be content with his life, but his music tells a different story. Brenna O'Toole, a fiercely independent tomboy who is secretly in love with Gallagher, provides him with the chance to fulfill his destiny as both man and musician.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBRushdie, Salman.
Summary: Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSGarvin, Eileen
Summary: "Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hope, healing, and unexpected friendship set amidst the wild natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024