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Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter move from one dusty town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the mike in another roadhouse. But it is not an easy life for...
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Whiskey Creek novels volume 9
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English
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Kyle Houseman believes that he'll never find anyone he could love as much as Olivia Arnold, who's now married to his stepbrother. Not only did he lose her, he's been through one divorce and has no desire to go through another. He's determined to be extra careful about the next woman he gets involved with, which is why he fights his attraction to the beautiful stranger who rents his farmhouse for the Christmas holiday. Lourdes Bennett is a country...
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From America's most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller--a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy...
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Bromance book club volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Country music's golden boy Colton Wheeler felt the most perfect harmony when he was with Gretchen Winthrop. But for her, it was a love him and leave him situation. A year later, Colton is struggling to push his music forward in a new direction. If it weren't about to be the most magical time of year and the support of the Bromance Book Club, he'd be wallowing in self-pity. It's hard for immigration attorney Gretchen not to feel a little Scrooge-ish...
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"Playing to packed houses while her hit song rushes up the charts, country singer and fiddler Jo Lover is poised to become a one-name Nashville star like her idols, Loretta, Reba, and Dolly. To ensure her success, Jo has carefully crafted her image: a pretty, sassy, down-to-earth girl from small-town Virginia who pours her heart into her songs. But the stage persona she's built is threatened when her independent label merges with big-time Capitol...
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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While working at country music legend Wanda Jean's amusement park, polar opposites Emmett and Luke become inseparable until a long-lost secret about Emmett's idol and Luke's grandmother, a disgraced singer, comes to light.
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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When she is named her late best friend's literary executor, Jamie, believing that Gretchen's death was an accident, discovers that Gretchen's manuscript about a murder in her family that haunted her childhood may have caused her demise.
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Food and drink writer and single mom Hayley Powell figures it's up to her to save country music superstar Wade Springer's reputation after Wade's tour bus is burned and a roadie named Mickey Pritchett is found in the remains--shot, and with one of Hayley's trademark chicken legs stuffed in his mouth.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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From the author of the award-winning Shadows of Pecan Hollow comes a novel set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville about a struggling musician who writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime.
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Cowboys in paradise volume 2
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Jove
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Arriving on Paradise Island to work on his new album, country superstar Knox Shepler, posing as a contractor to hide his true identity, is forced to work with Claudia Alvarez, and as they spend their days together, he finds inspiration and more in this beautiful woman until the truth comes to the surface.
13) Country: a novel
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Struggling to find her true self in the wake of her lawyer husband's sudden death, stay-at-home mother Stephanie Adams finds unexpected hope in the song of a country music superstar who is about to change her life forever. Read By: Danjohn Miller, 9 CD(s), 11:00 hour(s).
14) The song
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Tyndale House Publishers
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[2014]
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English
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Jed Kings life has been shaped by the songs and mistakes of his famous father. He wants to sing his own song, but the words and melody are elusive. Haunted by the scars inflicted by his broken family, Jeds dreams of a successful music career seem out of reach . . . until he meets Rose.
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Last Chance romances volume 1
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Kennebec Large Print
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Gone to the dogs volume 2
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Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Trina Potter, a country music star, buys a ranch near her hometown in Brenham, Texas, with the idea of making it into a rescue facility for dogs. But old high school rivalries are stirred up, dealing with her mother is a challenge, and strange accidents begin to happen. Does someone want Second Chance Ranch shut down before it even opens?
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Carpenter Whitney Whitaker, her cousin Buck, and guard-cat Sawdust just scored a hot property near downtown Nashville in a tax sale. While the Music City Motor Court might not be much to look at now, the two plan to transform the motel's twelve units into six one-bedroom condominiums with popular mid-century styling. But surprises await when Whitney discovers a squatter living in Room 9 and her cat Sawdust uncovers a body in the bed next door"--Back...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Caroline Sweeney has always done the right thing--the responsible, dependable thing--unlike her mother who abandoned her family. But when her best friend challenges her to accept an exciting job adventure in Barcelona, Spain, Caroline says "yes" to destiny. Then, without warning, ownership of the run-down cafe where she's been waitressing falls right into Caroline's lap. While she's trying to determine the cafe's future, handsome Deputy Sherriff J.D....
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"It's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time. Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow...
20) Long way gone
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Thomas Nelson
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English
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"At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley Cross, an angelic voice in need of a song. But just as he realizes his love for Daley, Cooper faces a tragedy that threatens his...
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