Ortiz, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Cowell, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COWRose, Heather
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...
Format: text
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 ROSZinovieff, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZINSummary: A stern lady communist comes to Paris to retrieve three wayward comrades and a Russian composer, but instead warms up to capitalist attractions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SILBowman, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOWHeinlein, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEISummary: In the international world of classical music, Lydia Tár is widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra. As her accolades grow, so does her hubris, bleeding into her personal life where it eventually brings reprecussions into her career and reputation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA TARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TARSlocumb, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOSummary: Based on the life of composer Ludwig Beethoven. A letter found after his death leads to efforts to uncover the mystery of who was his immortal beloved.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IMMAlbert, 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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBCarlson, 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 CARLim, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIMReed, 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...
Format: text
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Book/Berkely Pub. Group/Penguin Putnam Inc. 2000
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBRoberts, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Harvey, a divorced, down-on-his-luck music jingle composer, and Kate, a lonely British airline employee, are brought together by chance. Harvey comes to London for his daughter's wedding, planning only to attend the wedding ceremony. However, he ends up being let go from his job before going back to America and decides to stay for the reception, asking Kate to accompany him. Thus begins a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Last 2008Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: A rousing musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan--playwright, entertainer, and composer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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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...
Format: text
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 CARPowers, 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 POWPowers, 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: text
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000