Summary: Middle-school band teacher Joe's true passion is jazz, but when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have a soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC DISSalazar, Alicia
Summary: Camila has always loved singing, but now she would like to learn to play an instrument--if she can decide which one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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Summary: "Gerry Crane had hit his stride. A talented high school music teacher, he was loved by students and parents--lauded as one of the best teachers at his school. Gerry had reconciled his conservative religious upbringing with his identity as a gay man, finding an affirming spiritual home in a local church. He enjoyed a close circle of loving friends and had found the love of his life. In October...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penning History, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Soc Pol YaredSummary: The story of Erika, a middle-aged classical piano instructor who is trapped between her rigid passion for music and her suffocating home life. She escapes her life with nightly voyeuristic wanderings and self-inflicted masochistic experiments.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PIAGutman, Dan
Summary: The new music teacher must try to teach A.J. and the rest of his class to play well enough during their recital to impress crabby Dr. Carbles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUTSummary: This hilarious and high-spirited musical stars Danny Kaye as a professor of high-brow music who inadvertently becomes involved with a sensual saloon singer (Virginia Mayo) and a crooked criminal gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SONCatton, Eleanor
Summary: After a teacher has an affair with an underage student, a group of teenage girls gains a new awareness of their own power to attract and manipulate, and when a local drama group turns the story of the affair into their year-end show, reality and drama merge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reagan Arthur Book/Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODBalogh, Mary.
Summary: En route to Bath, England, to teach at Miss Martin's School for Girls, Frances Allard seeks refuge from a snowstorm at a nearby inn and finds unexpected passion with Lucius Marshall, unaware that Lucius is the heir to the Earl of Edgecombe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBalogh, Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BALLefteri, Christy
Summary: "In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches children to read and play music; her husband, Tasso, who paints pictures of the forest, his greatest muse; and Chara, their young daughter, whose name means joy. On the fateful day that will forever alter the trajectory of their lives, flames chase fleeing birds across the sky. The wildfire that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESummary: Fading pop star Debbie Taylor is on the verge of losing everything, including her freedom, when she runs away to suburban Ohio, where she finds her way into teaching music to a talented group of misfit kids. As she lays low and taps into the kids' talents in an attempt to become relevant again, she begins to realize that fame isn't everything.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD Family SummerBeery, Karin
Summary: Elementary school music teacher Callie Stevens thinks she’s finally figured out God ’s plan for her life—she even made a list to keep her on track. Moving in with her brother and reconnecting with her ex-boyfriend are at the top of the list. What ’s not on the list is running into her childhood crush, Ryan. God wanted her to connect with Kyle, right? Trying to figure out God ’s plan is hard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Lake Publishing, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBouchard, Natasha
Summary: A Step 3 Step Into Reading leveled reader based on the Disney/Pixar animated film takes younger fans on a journey from the streets of New York City to the cosmic realms of the universe to explore some of life's most important questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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Summary: Investigates the multifaceted nature of human identity and follows the experiences of Joseph, who flees Austria in 1938 and pretends to be Jewish before disappearing from London under mysterious circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GASKent, Christobel
Summary: Bridget has a secret--one she keeps from everyone, even her husband. One that threatens to explode when her childhood music teacher, Carmichael, walks into her dress shop. With him is a young girl on the cusp of adulthood, fresh-faced and pretty. She reminds Bridget of herself at that age, naïve and vulnerable. Bridget wants him away--away from her, away from that girl. But Carmichael won't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENSlocumb, 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 SLOBrowning, Norma Lee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1992
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local MaddySummary: Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOUSummary: A frustrated composer comes to realize that his real passion is teaching and that his legacy is not a truly memorable piece of music, but the generations of young people whose lives he affects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 1999
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRHambly, Barbara.
Summary: A black American surgeon fights racism as he works alongside whites during a cholera epidemic in 1830s New Orleans. What particularly disturbs the French-trained Benjamin January, a free man of color, is that many other free men are disappearing. Are they victims of cholera or a human hand?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMLarsen, Mylisa
Summary: "In a timely, insightful story told with sparkling wit and heart, young musicians protesting plans for budget cuts navigate miscalculations, indifferent adults, and unexpected loss as they discover the power of speaking out and the value of listening. "A brave and dazzling debut, this timely novel is a blueprint for hope."--Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medalist and best-selling author of The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Dora Bannan hopes for a new life when she moves her husband and their three children to the wild moorland. She finds a job teaching music at a progressive school, where she also enrolls the children. When the school's elegant art teacher offers Dora a seductive alternative to her domestic routine, Dora finds that real change is far from easy. Sensual, unnerving, and gripping, Briscoe examines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIElmer, Robert.
Summary: Widowed farmer Gerrit Appeldoom and sophisticated piano teacher Joan Horton form an unlikely attachment to each other after meeting during Gerrit's granddaughter's lesson, but their growing relationship must face the challenges of their different lifestyles, beliefs, and pasts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2004