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Kiss quotient novels volume 3
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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...
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
4) The fiddler
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 1
Language
English
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Description
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.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The peaceful life of two aging sisters is shattered when they take in a young Polish violinist who they find injured after having been washed ashore near their coastal English home. Their town is suspicious of any visitors and things get worse when he befriends a Russian woman who is visiting the town.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
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IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Describes his upbringing by a poor immigrant family in Tel Aviv, the music that inspired his early childhood and the difficult obstacles, including disabling polio, that challenged his musical development.
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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
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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,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Relates how the author, an aspiring violinist, left her Appalachian home to pursue a career in classical music in New York, only to discover that the ensemble she has joined pretends to play over CD recordings, and describes her subsequent identity crisis and disillusionment.
11) Passenger
Author
Series
Passenger volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles, but years from home.
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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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English
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A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War IIand the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival. Love brought them together. But only time can save them 1931, Germany. Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna Ginsberg, a budding concert violinist, and immediately he feels a powerful chemistry between them. It isnt long...
17) Infernal devices
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Series
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
English
Description
Dylan is someone who notices things. His mom is someone who doesn't. So try as he might, Dylan can't get his mom to listen to the man playing the violin in the subway station. But Dylan is swept away by the soaring and swooping notes that fill the air as crowds of oblivious people rush by. This video is based on the true story of Joshua Bell, the renowned American violinist who famously took his instrument down into the Washington, D.C. subway for...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Swedish
Description
An orchestra violinist's dreams of becoming a celebrated soloist and fears of his own mediocrity get in the way of his marriage. To Joy is a heartbreaking tale of one man's inability to overcome the demons standing in the way of his happiness.
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