Chloe McBride has some reservations about accepting her elderly great-aunts' invitation to spend part of the summer with them in Little Venice, but her initial reluctance is outweighed by her curiosity about the mysterious key that came...
Pianists
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Author:Muller, RachelSummary: -
Author:Desjardins, MarieSummary:Hongrois d’origine, fils d’un violoniste éleveur de chevaux, Vic est l’enfant doué du jazz. Musicien, arrangeur, chef d’orchestre et compositeur, il a joué aux côtés de Miles Davis, d’Oscar Peterson, de Sammy Davis, de Michel Legrand. A...
- Author:Solomons, NatashaSummary:
Harry Fox-Talbot and his brothers are determined to save their once grand home from ruin. Fifty years later, now a celebrated composer, Fox reels from the death of his adored wife, Edie. But his connection with his four-year-old...
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Author:L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:"An unusual and beautiful book," the first novel by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time explores the life of a young artist (Los Angeles Times). At only ten years old, Katherine Forrester has already experienced her fair share...
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Author:Clarkson, MichaelSummary:Long after his death, Glenn Gould still lures new listeners to his piano, connecting with them on a haunting, personal level. “He feels and you feel,” says young New York writer Nicole Spectre. “I can feel his pain and joy — it touches...
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Author:Karp, LarrySummary:Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano-playing fool, hears Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” played one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It’s destiny calling. Asking for ragtime lessons, he’s told, “No, Ragtime is colored music.” So Brun runs...
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Author:Karp, LarrySummary:It’s 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback. In Sedalia, Missouri, plans are underway for a ceremony to honor Scott Joplin. Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Kid, is working to establish Joplin’s legacy. Brun learns of a journal Joplin...
- Author:Darke, MinnieSummary:
Behind every great love song is a great love story, from the author of Star-Crossed NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "A tender tribute to the healing powers of love and music . . . Readers will be wowed...
- Author:O'Neill, HeatherSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Book A NOW Magazine Book You Have to Read A Toronto Star Book We Can't Wait to Read "Heather O'Neill is just getting better...
- Author:TAYLOR, WilliamSummary:
n his sixth form year, Matthew 'Spider' Trent must make decisions regarding his future with little guidance from his family, but the opportunity to enter a piano competition gives him a focus and provides the direction he...
- Author:Jae-Jones, S.Summary:
The conclusion to the gorgeous and lush Wintersong duology, Shadowsong by S. Jae-Jones. Six months after the end of Wintersong, Liesl is working toward furthering both her brother's and her own musical careers. Although she is...
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Author:Wren, JacobSummary:Who hasn't, at one time or another, considered killing a billionaire? Rich and Poor is a novel of a man who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a billionaire as a political act. It is literature as political theory...
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Author:Farmer, Bonnie, Lafrance, MarieSummary:Long before Oscar Peterson became a virtuoso jazz pianist, he was a boy who loved to play the trumpet. When childhood tuberculosis weakened his lungs, Oscar could no longer play his beloved instrument. He took up piano and the rest is...
- Author:Sarah, RobynSummary:
After thirty-five years as an 'on-again, off-again, uncoached closet pianist,' poet and writer Robyn Sarah picked up the phone one day and called her old piano teacher, whom she had last seen in her early twenties. Music, Late...
- Author:Keys, AliciaSummary:
An intimate, revealing look at one artist's journey from self-censorship to full expression. As one of the most celebrated musicians in the world, Alicia Keys has enraptured the globe with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal...
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Author:Shearing, GeorgeSummary:"Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the US, as a result of the "Shearing sound"―the recordings of his historic late 1940s quintet. Together with his unique...
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Author:Boyd, WilliamSummary:The Whitbread Award-winning author of A Good Man in Africa and the Costa Award-winning Restless now gives us a sweeping new novel that unfolds across fin-de-siecle Europe as it tells a story of ineffable passions'familial, artistic,...
- Author:Cliche, NormandSummary:
1945. Dans le Québec rural de l’après-guerre, à Saint-Georges, en Beauce, un jeune pianiste orphelin réchauffe le coeur d’une marchande d’amour convertie. Donné en adoption à un vendeur de bétail violent, l’adolescent fait face à une...
- Author:Musso, GuillaumeSummary:
Par une nuit brumeuse de décembre, une jeune femme est repêchée dans la Seine au niveau du Pont-Neuf. Nue, amnésique, mais vivante.Très agitée, elle est conduite à l'infirmerie de la préfecture de police de Paris... d'...
- Author:Lavallée, FrançoisSummary:
Deux personnages antinomiques:David, jeune homme timide, indécis, qui étudie le piano et rêve d’écrire un roman et Octave, bourlingueur, coureur, cynique et sûr de lui. L’un sauve la vie de l’autre…pour mieux l’empoisonner. Entre les...
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