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Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A surrealistic novel on a man who finds himself in a strange city, not knowing what he is doing there, but everyone seems to know him. What is more, he must be important because people ask him for favors. As he goes from encounter to encounter, the man discovers himself. By the author of The Remains of the Day.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a young, upper-class New Yorker who gets into trouble in the Civil War draft riots and flees west. On the frontier he meets gamblers, Indians, outlaws and mountain men, and has run-ins which such famous characters as General Custer and Wild Bill Hickok. Twenty years later he returns, only to take off again, this time to write cowboy songs for the movie industry in Hollywood. Narrated as an old man.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
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.
5) RL's dream
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
When a black musician in New York is evicted for non-payment of rent, a white woman living in the same apartment block takes him in. He is Soupspoon Wise, a gentle jazz guitarist from Mississippi who has cancer. She is Kiki Waters, a drinking, swearing redhead from Arkansas who works on Wall Street. The novel traces their menage.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"Carla is a talented jazz singer nearing forty. Maxwell is a renowned tenor saxophonist, the man Carla deeply loves and wants to marry. But Maxwell, who is black, finds himself increasingly at odds with the notion of lifelong togetherness with a white woman, as he yields to group pressure. While they are visiting his parents (whom Carla hopes to win over in her struggle to keep Maxwell in her life), scenes from Carla's past play out against the present,...
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Juliet, naked
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Annie initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got. What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And a childless woman looks for a change?
11) Fallen skies
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Lily Valence wanted to forget the people she lost in World War I and enjoy her career as a singer in the 1920s. However, she met and married Stephen Winters, a man haunted by nightmares of Flanders.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1939. Lavender--La to her friends--decides to flee London, not only to avoid German bombs but also to escape the memories of her shattered marriage. Settling in as small town, she organizes an amateur orchestra from the village and the local RAF base and falls in love with one of her prized recruits.
15) Crazy heart
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2010, c1987
Language
English
Description
"At the age of fifty-seven, Bad Blake is on his last legs. His weight, his ticker, his liver, even his pick-up truck are all giving him trouble. A renowned songwriter and "picker" who hasn't recorded in five years, Bad now travels the countryside on gigs that take him mostly to motels and bowling alleys. Enter Ms. Right. Can Bad stop living the life of a country-western song and tie a rope around his crazy heart?" --Cover, p. 4.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A conductor succumbs to cyanide at the famed Venice opera house, in the first mystery in the New York Times–bestselling, award-winning series.
During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder....
During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder....
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