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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.
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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.
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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...
13) 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.
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....
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Series
Her Majesty the Queen investigates volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm
Description
It is the early spring of 2016 and Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. But the preparations are interrupted when a guest is found dead in one of the Castle bedrooms. The scene suggests the young Russian pianist strangled himself, but a badly tied knot leads MI5 to suspect foul play was involved. The Queen leaves the investigation to the professionals-until their suspicions point them in the wrong direction....
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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...
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...
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Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 23 cm
Description
From the author of Crossing the Limits, a new bet for Fresh and the New Adult genre. An emotional and sentimental novel, with a fine and delicate plot and big twists that you do not expect. A story that will make you laugh, cry and suffer in equal parts. Novalie has spent the last four years taking care of her sick mother, and that terrible circumstance has forced her to grow up too quickly. She has become a strong and determined young woman who knows...
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...
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