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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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English
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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"--...
5) To believe
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Series
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Country girl Roseanna Cahill, having come to terms with her failed marriage to city boy Colin Vance Fields III, realizes that she might have a second chance at love after he is kidnapped and she must use her tracking skills to find him.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville, a struggling musician writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime. Nashville, 1977: A broken heart. A terrible crime. A song the world would sing. When aspiring musician Twyla Finch arrives in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1977, the nineteen-year-old Texan is dazzled by the fringe-and-rhinestones country music scene. Live music flows from bars,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning "premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation" (New Yorker), Rickie Lee Jones. Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight after a now- iconic performance on Saturday...
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Singer-songwriter Aviva Rosner struggles with infertility and pours her feelings into her music, which hits a nerve with fans and critics in a darkly humorous novel about feminism, fame, art, and our cultural obsession with childbearing.
On the eve of her fourth album, singer-songwriter Aviva Rosner is plagued by infertility. The twist: as much as Aviva wants a child, she is wary of technological conception, and has poured her ambivalence into her...
12) Goodbye girl
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Series
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English
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''A contentious intellectual piracy case leads to an unsolved murder, and Jack Swyteck’s client—a pop music icon—is the accused killer. Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won’t stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Imani Nichols, is a Grammy-winning popstar whose career has skyrocketed. Despite her success, she’s the most underpaid superstar on the...
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Español
Description
Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and desire unite them as they chase their dreams and each other from Havana to New York to Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas. Bonus features include the U.S. trailer, the making of Chico & Rita, and audio commentary with Director Fernando Trueba.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Juliet Lyman is a senior executive at Yesterday Records. Music is her passion and she's very good at her job. That's why her famously philanthropic boss Gideon sends her to Majorca, Spain to work with a very tortured, but talented client. Lionel Harding is one of the best song writers of the 20th century, the multi-Grammy award-winning lyricist of the third most recorded song in history. But now he's 42 and six months overdue on the his latest paid...
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A young Chinese woman describes growing up in Moso country in the Himalayas, among her people's unique matrilineal society, and the conflicts with her strong-willed mother that led her to leave her mother's home to create a life of her own.
"In the remote Himalayas, on the shores of magnificent Lake Lugu, there is a place the Chinese call "the Country of Daughters." This is the home of the Moso, a remarkable society in which women rule men. In the...
16) Bel canto
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together, including American opera star Roxanne Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan.
17) Bright eyes
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Series
Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan series volume 5
Language
English
Description
Zeke Coulter has no intention of getting married - until he buys a ranch next door to Natalie Patterson, a sexy divorcee with two kids, a zany extended family, and a philandering ex-husband involved in shady business dealings.
Author
Publisher
It Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The singer and star of "Braxton Family Values" reveals the measures she took to make herself and her family whole again after heart ailments and a diagnosis of lupus forced her to let go of her past and take charge of her own healing--physically and spiritually.
20) War for the Oaks
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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