Leela is a mathematician who has escaped her Southern hometown to study in Boston. She meets an Australian musician, Mishka, and from the moment she first hears him play his music grips her; they quickly become lovers. Then one day...
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Author:Aragon, Andrea, McCann, SéanSummary:In this deeply personal memoir, co-written with wife Andrea Aragon, singer-songwriter and renowned mental health, addiction, and recovery advocate Séan McCann leaves no stone unturned. Detailing, in powerful and lyrical prose, a...
- Author:Wildenstein, OliviaSummary:
Angie has studied music her entire life, nurturing her talent as a singer. Now a high-school senior, she has an opportunity to break into Nashville's music scene via a songwriting competition launched by her idol, Mona Stone....
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Author:Laine, SusanSummary:Il quindicenne Addy Monroe, imbottigliato nel traffico insieme ai suoi zii, assiste a una scena che cambierà tutta la sua vita: sul sedile posteriore di un taxi bloccato accanto alla loro auto ci sono due ragazzi che gli rivelano l’...
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Author:Thorne, Jenn MarieSummary:Ruby has always been Ruby Chertok: future classical pianist and daughter of renowned composer Martin Chertok. But after her horrendous audition for the prestigious music school where her father is on faculty, it's clear that music has...
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Author:Crowe, JuliaSummary:Famous guitarists reveal the stories behind their first six-string and their lifelong passion for music
Every guitarist remembers his or her first instrument, the guitar that was a gateway to a lifetime of passion and...
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Author:Gutman, Dan.Summary:When boring Mr. Loring retires, A.J.'s class gets a new music teacher who raps, break-dances, and thinks he has what it takes to become a famous musician.
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Author:Pflug, UrsulaSummary:Seventeen-year-old Camden splits her time between her father, a minor rock star, and her mom, a scruffy “hardware geek” who designs and implements temporary and sustainable power systems and satellite linkups for off-grid music and art...
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Hotel clerk Abby Medford has always enjoyed the quiet solitude of the night shift. The long, boring hours allow her time to study her law books. But when bad-boy-rocker Lucas Ford checks into the penthouse suite one night and demands...
- Author:Gladwell, MalcolmSummary:
Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon is unlike any artistic portrait you've ever heard before. Recorded over a series of 30 hours of conversation between Simon, Malcolm Gladwell, and Broken Record podcast co-host Bruce...
- Author:MacLeod, ElizabethSummary:
Meet Buffy Sainte-Marie, music legend, activist and teacher! Buffy Sainte-Marie is not exactly sure where or when she was born, but it was likely the Piapot Reserve in the Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan. As a baby she was adopted...
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Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:Thunderbowl, la banda de Jeremy, es excelente, y acaba de conseguir su primera gran oportunidad: una serie de tocadas en el bar local. El problema es que Jeremy debería estar al corriente con sus trabajos para la escuela, pero pasa casi...
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Author:Robertson, RaySummary:Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson's 'Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)' offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll, blues, folk, and alt-country's most...
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Author:Krull, KathleenSummary:It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals. But what were these people-and other famous musicians-really like' What did they eat' What did they wear'...
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Rich in voices from fellow musicians, close friends, Lightfoot's family and the singer's own reminiscences, the biography tells the stories behind some of his best-known love songs, including "Beautiful "and "Song for a Winter's Night...
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Author:Reynolds, BillSummary:The man who gave it all away at age 50, when some people start planning for retirement, John Lefebvre hit the digital motherlode--Neteller, a tiny Canadian internet start-up that processed payments between players and online gambling...
- Author:Julien, Jacques, Ringuet, ChantalSummary:
La carrière de Leonard Cohen s’est déployée par vagues successives. Admiré et célébré d’abord comme poète, il a donné l’essentiel de son message dans ses trois premiers albums. Si les suivants, plus singuliers, ont surtout été appréciés...
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Author:Summary:A tribute to more than two dozen legendary music artists who significantly influenced the landscape of music for generations to come, from Ray Charles and Bob Dylan to Chuck Berry and Johnny Cash.
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Author:Poulsen, David A.Summary:A musical cold case has Cullen and Cobb back on the beat. On February 28, 1965, a young singer named Ellie Foster stepped into the alley behind The Depression, a Calgary folk club where she shared the bill with Joni Anderson, later to...
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Author:Rapp, AdamSummary:All Francis Falbo has left is his childhood home, whose remaining rooms he rents to a cast of eccentric tenants. He becomes increasingly entangled in their lives, with results that are disastrous, hysterical, and ultimately healing.
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