Best-selling music biographer Charlie Rhindress presents the lives and music of Nova Scotia’s six most important and successful women singers: Portia White, Anne Murray, Carroll Baker, Rita MacNeil, Holly Cole and Sarah MacLachlan....
Women singers
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Author:Rhindress, CharlieSummary: - Author:Robinson, LisaSummary:
This program is read by the author. An intimate look at the lives of our most celebrated female musicians--and their challenges with fame--from a legendary music journalistOver four decades, Lisa Robinson has made a name for herself as...
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Author:Difranco, AniSummary:A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the...
- Author:Todd, Traci N.Summary:
This illuminating and defining picture book biography, adapted for audio, tells the story of little Eunice who grew up to become the acclaimed singer Nina Simone and her bold, defiant, and exultant legacy. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in...
- Author:Story, Rosalyn M.Summary:
In 1955, a young boy brings a small infant to the door of an unsuspecting family. Forty years later, L.J. Tillman, a professional jazz musician, makes his way to New York City after a startling revelation wrecks his life in Kansas....
- Author:Hare, LouiseSummary:
The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for. London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn't worked...
- Author:Lynn, LorettaSummary:
Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust shares the never-before-told story of the remarkable relationship between legendary country queen Patsy Cline and country music icon Loretta Lynn. Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends—...
- Author:Lee, StephanSummary:
She thought that debuting in a K-Pop band was the finsh line, but it was only the beginning. Because now it's not only Candace'scompany judging her—it's the entire world. How will she find the courage to stand by her...
- Author:Lee, StephanSummary:
A Korean-American girl travels to Seoul in hopes of debuting in a girl group at the same K-pop company behind the most popular boy band on the planet in this romantic coming-of-age novel about chasing big dreams, for fans of Mary H. K....
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Author:Monk, KatherineSummary:From the moment Joni Mitchell's career began — with coffee-house bookings, serendipitous encounters with established stars, and a recording contract that gave her full creative control over her music — the woman from the Canadian wheat...
- Author:Gregson, JuliaSummary:
Young singer Saba Tarcan journeys from her native Wales to the bazaars of Cairo to entertain Allied troops. After wishing farewell to her fighter pilot beau Dom Benson, Saba's life takes a dramatic turn when she's recruited by the...
- Author:Couture, ChristaSummary:
A powerful testament to resilience by performing and recording artist Christa Couture. Christa Couture has come to know every corner of grief--its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet...
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Author:Davis, StephenSummary:Gold Dust Woman gives "the gold standard of rock biographers" (the Boston Globe) his ideal topic: Nicks' work and life are equally sexy and interesting, and Davis delves deeply into each, unearthing fresh details from new, intimate...
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Author:Stelllings, CarolineSummary:The year Louisiana – Easy for short – meets Janis Joplin is the year everything changes. Easy is a car mechanic in her dad’s shop, but she can sing the blues like someone twice her age. So when she hears that Janis Joplin is passing...
- Author:Stoks, PeggySummary:
For years, Elena Breen soaked up the spotlight as a famous singer. But now her overworked voice is damaged, and her body is worn out. Her career may be over. Exhausted and downtrodden, she turns to the man who once stole her heart--her...
- Author:Parton, DollySummary:
A Recorded Books Audio Original production of songs and stories performed by Dolly herself, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics goes beyond the glitz, glamour, and rhinestones to the warmth, heart, and soul of a treasured pop-...
- Author:Goodwin, DaisySummary:
"Lorelei King narrates the book, nicely handling the Greek and Italian accents...She also gives the pestilential, professional gossip Elsa Maxwell exactly the right note of intrusiveness and ravening schadenfreude. This is a big, tragic...
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Author:Andersen, SusanSummary:When Priscilla Jayne Morgan, a country music superstar, becomes the talk of the tabloids, her record label hires her ex-crush Jared Hamilton to escort her on her summer tour, causing things to get hot and heavy.
- Author:Warner, AndreaSummary:
Narrated by the author, with interludes narrated by Buffy Sainte-Marie. A powerful, intimate look at the life and music of a beloved folk icon and activist. Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these...
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