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"From the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise, a rich and riveting novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of The Cold Millions and Great Circle that tells the story of one unforgettable woman’s rise in country and western music. It’s 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time. Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending...
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Destiny Hart's dream of becoming a singer has come true. But with the exhilarating rush of success comes a price-and a battle to recapture the traditions that were her foundation. Reconnecting with what matters most, Destiny is putting an unexpected new spin on her career that wi;; redirect her life in ways she never imagined.
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On the rise and on the run, a young singer-songwriter arrives in Nashville to claim her destiny, but it's also where the darkness she's fled might find her--and destroy her.
Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy her.
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A collection of two novels includes "The Cowboy and His Wayward Bride," in which country singer Laurie Jensen leaves her childhood sweetheart, Harlan Patrick Adams, after discovering she is pregnant, but comes to regret her decision.
"In the heart of Texas, love comes knocking when you least expect it… The Cowboy and His Wayward Bride Country singer Laurie Jensen has never forgotten her childhood sweetheart, rancher Harlan Patrick Adams. After...
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"For the first time ever, legendary singer-songwriter Dolly Parton brings you behind the lyrics of 175 of her songs to reveal the personal stories and vibrant memories that have inspired sixty years of songwriting. Lushly illustrated and told in Dolly's inimitable voice, this rich collection offers an intimate, exclusive look at the colorful life, prolific career, and rags-to-rhinestones journey of one of the most revered entertainers of our time"--...
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Domestic equalizers volume 7
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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"Darla Denman the former Queen of Country Music has trouble on her hands. First, her upstart back-up singer Roxie Jo Jenkins is found dead in her dressing room (one that clearly doubled as a supply closet). Second, her career ain't what it used to be--she's gone from big arenas to run down bars and from first-class jets to fourth-class busses. And yes, to top is all that 4th class bus has broken down just outside of Salt Lick, Texas. Well, someone...
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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This inspirational and dazzlin’ story of Dolly Parton—noted singer, songwriter, and humanitarian—follows her rise to fame, from her beginnings in East Tennessee to performing to thousands at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Dolly is a little girl with a BIG voice. Music fills Dolly’s heart so plumb full she has to let it out! She’ll even sing to her cornhusk dolls or a pen full of pigs. She makes her own drum from a pot and her own guitar...
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University of Texas Press
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2022.
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English
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"When everything fell apart for Lynn Melnick, she went to Dollywood. It was perhaps an unusual refuge. The theme park, partly owned by and wholly named for Dolly Parton, celebrates a country music legend who grew up in church and in poverty in rural Tennessee. Yet Dollywood is exactly where Melnick—a poet, urbanite, and daughter of a middle-class Jewish family—needed to be. Because Melnick, like the musician she adores, is a survivor. In this...
9) Wild Rose
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Fresh out of prison, a working-class young woman, juggling two jobs and raising two children pursues her dream of becoming a country singer.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2011]
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English
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A stunning carhop who wants to be a country singer and her sweetheart who dreams he's Billy the Kid become involved in robbery and murder.
"A stunning carhop who wants to be a country singer and her sweetheart who dreams he's Billy the Kid become involved in robbery and murder"--Container.
11) Ring of fire
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A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
p2013.
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English
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June Carter Cash wrote Johnny Cash's most famous song, 'Ring of Fire,' while she was falling in love with the fascinating and difficult musician who was the love of her life. Ring of Fire takes viewers inside that volatile relationship, as seen through the eyes of their son, John, as well as profiling the woman who patiently supported one of country music's biggest stars even as she found her own idiosyncratic path to stardom.
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Her Country is veteran Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss's story of how in the past two decades, country's women fought back against systems designed to keep them down, armed with their art and never willing to just shut up and sing: how women like Kacey Musgraves, Mickey Guyton, Maren Morris, The Chicks, Miranda Lambert, Rissi Palmer, Brandy Clark, LeAnn Rimes, Brandi Carlile, Margo Price and many more have reinvented the rules to find their...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020.
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English
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"Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust shares the 'important and inspiring' (Miranda Lambert) never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationship between country music icons Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends--country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their relationship up until Patsy's tragic and untimely death. Full of...
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Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Traces the life of Dolly Parton from her childhood of poverty in the Great Smoky Mountains to her stardom as a performer and song writer.
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Quarry Press Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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This book traces the fairy-tale careers of two superstars--from Faith's childhood as an adopted daughter growing up in Star, Mississippi, and Tim's as the illegitimate son of baseball star Tug McGraw raised in Start, Louisiana, through their hard-scrabble, lean Nashville years--culminating in their Spontaneous Combustion and Soul 2 Soul tours. Featuring full accounts of the story behind their songs and a color phot insert.
17) Taylor Swift
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Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ever since she exploded onto the scene with her self-titled 2004 debut album, Taylor Swift has been one of the biggest stars in country and pop music. Readers will find out how Taylor went from living on a Christmas tree farm to playing sold-out stadium shows for her loyal fans.
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Music matters volume 010
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University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Tammy Wynette is literally referred to as "the first lady of country music," which speaks both to her importance in the genre as well as the way she has been partially defined by her marriage to singer George Jones. She had 20 number-one hits, the best-known being "Stand By Your Man." Steacy Easton believes Wynette was a complicated figure whose work plays with themes of domesticity, high femme armor, soft politics, pain, melodrama, sex, fame, tradition,...
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