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English
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Discovering an old and strikingly unusual musical composition that causes her to black out and has a violently transformative effect on her daughter, Julia Ansdell travels to Venice to find the man behind the music and uncovers a dark secret dating back to the Holocaust.
2) The fiddler
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Home to Hickory Hollow volume 1
Language
English
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A wrong turn in a rainstorm leads Englisher Amelia Devries to Michael Hostetle, and the young Amishman's charming Old Order community of Hickory Hollow. Despite their very different backgrounds, Amelia and Michael both feel hemmed in by the expectations of others and struggle with how to find room for their own hopes. And what first seems to be a chance encounter might just change their lives forever.
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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Maddie Kern elopes with her brother's best friend, Lane, a Japanese American, the day before the Pearl Harbor bombing, and now her family considers Lane not just an outsider, but an enemy. Maddie sacrifices her Juilliard education to follow Lane to a war relocation camp, and as she strives for the acceptance of her new family, Lane risks everything to prove his allegiance to America.
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Series
Kiss quotient novels volume 3
Language
English
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"A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected-and the man she enlists to help her-in this sizzling new romance by USA Today bestselling author Helen Hoang. When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to be perfect in other people's eyes. If Anna ever wants to move forward, she has to learn to listen to her own heart, but...
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English
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"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....
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English
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The classic Steampunk novel from the creator of the term itself thirty years ago this month. When George's father died, he left his son a watchmaker's shop, and a whole lot more. But George has little talent for watches and other infernal devices. When someone tries to steal an old device from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery of time travel, wild music and sexual intrigue.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Female Science Fiction Writers
2022 ALA Youth Media Awards
AANHPI Science Fiction and Fantasy
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2022 ALA Youth Media Awards
AANHPI Science Fiction and Fantasy
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"Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen,...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Struggling to make her way in Buenos Aires after the murder of her husband, seventeen-year-old Leda masters the violin and disguises herself as a man so that she can join a troupe of tango musicians and perform in public.
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"For fans of My Brilliant Friend and Mexican Gothic, Julia Fine's Maddalena and the Dark is a novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls drawn together by a dangerous wager..."--
16) Against the wind
Author
Series
Zion diaries volume 2
Publisher
Summerside Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
As Nazi forces tighten their net of evil over Europe in1940, famed Jewish concert violist Elisa Lindheim Murphy escapes from Vienna to England. But both Elisa and her American newsman husband, John Murphy, are convinced that nowhere in Europe is safe from ...
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Series
Hidden masterpieces volume 1
Publisher
Nashville, Tennessee
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An art dealer searches for a mysterious portrait of a young violinist with piercing blue eyes.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Emma's world collides with piano-playing YouTube sensation Elliott Hart, she finds herself falling for the way he plucks at her heartstrings -- but when he insists they can't be together, it's up to Emma to strike up a little romance. Will she be able to bring their two worlds into harmony, or will she only manage to get herself in trouble?
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The close friendship between Martin Simmonds and violin prodigy Dovidl Rappoport, two Jewish boys living in London between the 1930s and the end of World War II, is threatened by the unexpected disappearance of Dovidl on the eve of his debut performance.
20) Dark tribute
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English
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Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara's lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history, would even talk to her, everything would be perfect. But the carefully constructed life Cara has built for herself is suddenly threatened...
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