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A tale of immigrants centered on an accordion brought to America in the 1880s. After its Italian owner is murdered, the instrument passes into the hands of other ethnic groups--German, French-Canadian, Mexican, Polish, Norwegian--and the novel describes their ceremonies, dreams and hates. By the author of The Shipping News.
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...
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1991
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253 pages ; 21 cm
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As a bored graduate student, Geraldine Coleshares is plucked from her too-tame existence when she is invited to tour as the only white backup singer for Vernon and Ruby Shakely and the Shakettes. The exciting years she spends as a Shakette are a mixed blessing, however, because when she ultimately submits to a conventional life of marriage and children, she finds herself stuck in bittersweet recollections of life on the road. As she grudgingly searches...
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In a dreary seaside town in England Annie loves Duncan - or thinks she does because she always has. Duncan loves Annie but then all of a sudden he doesn't anymore. So Annie stops loving Duncan and starts getting her own life. She sparks an e-mail correspondence with Tucker Crowe a reclusive Dylanesque singer-songwriter who stopped making music years ago and who is also Duncan's greatest obsession. A surprising connection is forged ... (Bestseller)...
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With the German blitz looming over London and scathing memories of her broken marriage fresh in her mind, La flees to small-town England. To pass the time, La organizes an amateur orchestra, which garners attention from shelter-seeking musicians, including Feliks, a Polish refugee for whom she falls.
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[2014]
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369 pages ; 25 cm
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Composer Peter Els --the "Bioterrorist Bach" -- pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey and, through the help of his ex-wife, his daughter, and his longtime collaborator, he hatches a plan to turn his disastrous collision with Homeland Security into a work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around them.
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a contemporary American classic, a book that still captivates and inspires readers more than twenty years after its first publication. Now, in Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos returns to this indelible story, to tell it from the point of view of its beloved heroine, Maria.
She's the great Cuban beauty who stole musician Nestor Castillo's heart and broke it, inspiring him to write the Mambo Kings'
...11) Facing the music
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1997
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298 p. ; 22 cm.
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On a rebound, young concert flutist Flavia Cameron marries elderly Gervaise Henderson, the headmaster of an upper-crust English boys' school. All goes well, until she meets Alistair Forbes, the father of one of the boys, and then sparks fly.
15) The piano tuner
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In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair. On his journey, Edgar meets soldiers, mystics, bandits, and tale-spinners as well as an enchanting woman as elusive as the surgeon-major. Sensuous, lyrical, rich with passion and adventure, this is a hypnotic tale of myth, romance,...
16) Small town girl
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A famous country music star is shamed by her sister into going home to look after her bedridden mother. The town is dull, her mother gets on her nerves and the "dork" who had a crush on her in high school is once again after her. But with time she gets used to it, even falls in love with the dork. By the author of That Camden Summer.
17) Finding Anna
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Music of the heart volume 1
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c2005
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316 p. ; 22 cm.
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"An historical drama based on the story behind the hymn 'It Is Well With My Soul.' When tragedy strikes, Horatio Spafford writes a poem on the back of a telegram--words that have become a hymn of hope for millions facing sorrow"--Provided by publisher.
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1993, c1985
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264 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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The Classic Gothic Mystery - The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909, to January 8, 1910. It was published in volume form in April 1910 by Pierre Lafitte. The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet...
20) Prairie Nocturne
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Set during the 1920s, Prairie Nocturne finds Susan Duff, the young songbird from Doig's Dancing at the Rascal Fair, now a middle-aged singing coach living in Helena. When her old flame Wes Williamson asks her to mentor his black chauffeur, Monty, she agrees. But racial tensions erupt when Susan's private lessons with Monty attract the attention of the KKK.
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