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1) August blue
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A novel by the author of The Man Who Saw Everything about wayward selves, femininities, sexualities, avatars, alter egos, and the twin poles of compassion and cruelty that exist within all of us"--
"A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living. At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson―former child prodigy, now in her thirties―walks...
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English
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"In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at the Conservatory. She produces a sound from the piano no one else does, employing a special technique she learned from her parents--also stunningly talented musicians--who fled China in the wake...
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English
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It's been twelve years, but very little in Hyattown, Maryland has changed. Vanessa Sexton, a successful concert pianist, has finally come home to the small town after having her heart shattered all those years ago. In some ways her high school sweetheart, Brady Tucker, hasn't changed much either - he is still lean, athletic, rugged . . . But the once reckless boy has become a solid, dependable man. He'd stood her up on the most important night of...
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English
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"In this searching and funny memoir, based off his popular New Yorker article, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. Life is difficult enough as a precocious, temperamental, and insufferable six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey. But then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico, far from classical music's nerve centers, and he has to please a new taskmaster while navigating cacti, and the perils of junior high school....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
From Mozart’s fabulous legato that “flowed like oil” to Beethoven’s oceanlike surge, from Clara Schumann’s touch “sharp as a pencil sketch” to Rubinstein’s volcanic and sensual playing, The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalities, methods, and technical peculiarities of history’s greatest pianists. Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and author Harold C. Schonberg presents vivid accounts...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.
9) Lessons
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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With his life constantly in flux as he lives through many historic upheavals, Roland Baines, haunted by lost opportunities, searches for comfort through music, literature, friends, sex, politics and love, struggling against global events beyond his control that have shaped his existence and memories.--
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the best-selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations...
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Her Majesty the Queen investigates volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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It is the early spring of 2016 and Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. But the preparations are interrupted when a guest is found dead in one of the Castle bedrooms. The scene suggests the young Russian pianist strangled himself, but a badly tied knot leads MI5 to suspect foul play was involved. The Queen leaves the investigation to the professionals--until their suspicions point them in the wrong direction....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners.
15) Find me
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Call me by your name novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than Andrâe Acimans haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey DErasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Awardwinning film starring Timothâee...
16) Wanderer
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An exceptional debut novel that explores the stifled, unspoken feelings of a music teacher and his former student, and the damage done by their years of silence. Hermin, a composer and instructor, leads a secluded life near the Bourbonnais Mountains in France, composing an homage to Schubert. On a bitter January night, this studious peace is broken when his former pupil, Lenny, a piano prodigy, mysteriously knocks at his door. The two men must confront...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One of Vanity Fair's "Best Books of the Fall" From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about love and the mutability of human relationships. Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential―and provocative―authors of our time. With characteristic insight and a “brittle wit that forces our attention on the common terrors we...
18) Deception
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
World War II has separated pianist Christine Radcliffe from her great love, cellist Karel Novak. Thinking Karel has been killed in action, she is unexpectedly reunited with him. Now, Christine desperately strives to hide her wartime dalliance as the mistress of a wealthy, sadistic composer. She'll lie to keep her shameful past a secret.
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of musical Romanticism and Chopin's twenty-four Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, drawing on rare manuscripts to document the fate of the small Majorcan pianino on which he composed the Preludes.
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Amish journey volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The first novel in the new Amish Journeys series by bestselling author Beth Wiseman. Mary Hershberger lives a happy life in an Amish community in Indiana with her parents and sister. Levi Shetler lives forty miles away in a crowded and unorganized home that is part of a much stricter community. When the two met as children, Mary learned a secret about Levi: he is a musical prodigy, but his talent must remain unused and unheard in his community. Eight...
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