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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...
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Series
Maggie O'Shea novels volume 1
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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
Series
Victorian mysteries (Karen Odden) volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
385 pages, 15 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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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...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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"An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--
5) Sweet talk
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Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 17 cm.
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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.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
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"Part mystery, part coming-of-age story, and part tragedy, Scarlet In Blue, by acclaimed novelist Jennifer Murphy, traces the lives of a mother and daughter who, because of their fugitive lifestyle and the pain that overshadows it, share a dependence and a love so strong neither can imagine life without the other. Fifteen-year-old Blue Lake is a budding pianist who resents her mother Scarlet's nomadic lifestyle. She yearns to settle in one place so...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
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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...
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