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1) Sweet talk
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 17 cm.
Description
Claire Keyes is a twenty-eight year old piano prodigy who has never had a regular boyfriend, much less a real romance. Her music career has left little room for friends or family - which is just part of the reason she hasn't seen the family bakery or her two sisters in years.
Author
Series
Maggie O'Shea novels volume 1
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Description
With her godson missing, Maggie O'Shea is shown a picture by the special agent on the case of her long-lost first love, who inexplicably appears to be alive, compelling Maggie to travel to France to uncover the link between these two.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Starting to emerge from her shell in the months after devastating losses, Annie Lee takes piano lessons from an elderly mall pianist before his disappearance forces her to break a promise to a new friend.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
A young orphaned piano prodigy in 1936 is admitted to a North Carolina mental hospital under the care of a celebrated doctor and receives innovative treatment based on exercise, diet, and art therapies alongside Zelda Fitzgerald.
8) Player piano
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Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. His rebellion is a wildly funny, darkly satirical look at modern society.
Author
Series
Victorian mysteries (Karen Odden) volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
385 pages, 15 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Description
Nineteen-year-old Nell Hallam lives in a modest corner of Mayfair with her brother Matthew, an inspector at Scotland Yard. An exceptionally talented pianist, she aspires to attend the Royal Academy; but with tuition beyond their means, Nell sets out to earn the money herself-by playing piano in a popular Soho music hall. And the fact that she will have to disguise herself as a man and slip out at night to do it doesn't deter her. Spending evenings...
10) Rhapsody
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
352 pages
Description
One evening in 1924, Katharine "Kay" Swift--the restless but loyal society wife of wealthy banker James Warburg and a serious pianist who longs for recognition--attends a concert. The piece: Rhapsody in Blue. The composer: a brilliant, elusive young musical genius named George Gershwin. Kay is transfixed, helpless to resist the magnetic pull of George's talent, charm, and swagger. Their ten-year love affair, complicated by her conflicted loyalty to...
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Series
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
137 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
Piano tuner and jazz musician Frank Ryan is in Japan teaching bored housewives how to play piano. Then he gets a gig in a trendy underground bar and ends up ensnared with a young woman with a grudge and the crime boss who owns the bar. Drawn into Tokyo Girl's vendetta, Frank stumbles into an underworld where transgressions are paid for by the flash of a razor-sharp cleaver. And for a pianist, that's not a good thing. Tokyo Girl is the follow-up to...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
An accomplished concert pianist, Richard received standing ovations from audiences all over the world in awe of his rare combination of emotional resonance and flawless technique. Every finger of his hands was a finely calibrated instrument, dancing across the keys and striking each note with exacting precision. That was eight months ago. Richard now has ALS, and his entire right arm is paralyzed. His fingers are impotent, still, devoid of possibility....
14) Find me
Author
Series
Call me by your name novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
"In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami's plans and changes his life forever."--Amazon.com.
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Description
Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close-raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf's desire to end her life. After Elf's latest attempt, Yoli must quickly determine how to keep her family from falling apart...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"From the Whitbread Award winning author of: A Good Man in Africa and the Costa Award winning Restless, a sweeping, electrifying new novel set at the end of the 19th century that follows the fortunes of a young Scottish musician embarking across Europe and into the tumultuous, impassioned story of his life. When Brodie Moncur is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different...
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Series
Library of America volume 226
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
834 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
This collection of Vonnegut's early work opens with Player Piano (1952), a Metropolis-like parable of breakneck technological innovation and its effect on those it robs of their livelihoods. The Sirens of Titan (1959), the interplanetary adventures of the world's wealthiest and most despised man, is both a pulp-fiction space opera and a satire on the vanity of human striving. The confessions of a German-American double agent well placed among the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at the Conservatory. She produces a sound from the piano no one else does, employing a special technique she learned from her parents--also stunningly talented musicians--who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But when an accident leaves...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
10 CDs (776 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi's club once again the hottest spot...
20) The unconsoled
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
535 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A surrealistic novel on a man who finds himself in a strange city, not knowing what he is doing there, but everyone seems to know him. What is more, he must be important because people ask him for favors. As he goes from encounter to encounter, the man discovers himself. By the author of The Remains of the Day.
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