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A legendary opera singer tries to discover who betrayed her secret past as a courtesan when she is offered a chance at immortality through an original role that tells her tale.
Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singers chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only...
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English
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"This reissue of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera is the first title in The Haunted Library, a new horror classics series presented by the Horror Writers Association and Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks. The award-winning musical based on Leroux's work is world-famous, but many people are unaware that the show was inspired by a novel, originally published in a serialized form. The Phantom of the Opera is a timeless piece of gothic...
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For Beginners
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
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Irreverent and passionate, this book is an ideal introduction for people who are convinced that opera is soley for those refined few who were born listening to arias. Written in short, humorous, and informative chapters, and laced with some of the opera world's juiciest anecdotes, this guide is sure to convert even the most ambivalent of music lovers. Line drawings.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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What do you get when you cross the Muppets and the classics? A monster hit! Join Kermit, Miss Piggy, Uncle Deadly, and the other Muppets as they bring this gripping tale of mystery and suspense to life in their own hilarious way.This classic tale of love, intrigue, and jealousy at the Paris Opera House, which has thrilled readers, musical lovers, and movie goers for more than a century, has now been reimagined with the cast of the Muppets. Readers...
12) Opera cat
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the opera diva Madame SoSo gets laryngitis, her singing cat Alma fills in for her.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A user's guide to opera--Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera"--
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Immersing himself in his love for opera in order to cope with a difficult life, shy and bullied Bart embraces an optimistic outlook and bonds with an outgoing girl who encourages him to perform in a school talent show.
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Publisher
Plaza & Janes
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Una novela llena de glamour, intriga y romance, por la autora de la saga superventas Las Siete Hermanas. Rosanna Menici es muy joven cuando conoce a Roberto Rossini, el hombre que le cambiara la vida. En los anos siguientes, sus destinos se veran entrelazados por sus extraordinarios talentos como cantantes de opera y tambien por su incombustible pero obsesivo amor, un amor que acabara afectando las vidas de todos los que los rodean. Porque, como Rosanna...
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera in which the disfigured Phantom goes to America. He builds the world's greatest opera house, hoping to lure his love, the opera diva who rejected him in Paris. By the author of The Day of the Jackal.
17) Babylon's ashes
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Series
Expanse volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The sixth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series from Syfy! A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien...
18) Acqua alta
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English
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In Leon's fifth Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, the beating of renowned art historian Dotoressa Brett Lynch draws the contemporary Venetian police detective out of his warm and loving home and into the yearly onslaught of acqua alta, the torrential winter rains. Brett, an American who spearheaded a recent exhibition of Chinese pottery in Venice, lives with her lover, Flavia Petrelli, the reigning diva of La Scala. With his open mind and good sense,...
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Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"From multiple New York Times best selling author David Weber and #1 New York Times best selling author Timothy Zahn. NEW ENTRY IN BEST-SELLING SERIES. Book #2 in the Manticore Ascendant series, set in David Weber's Honorverse. Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is the sort of person who likes an orderly universe. One where people follow the rules. Unfortunately, he lives in the real universe. The good news is that Travis is one...
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 3
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Banking on a short, victorious war to replenish their depleted treasury, the ruling class of the People's Republic of Haven do not count on coming up against Captain Honor Harrington and the Royal Manticoran Navy.
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