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Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After a corpse is discovered at a secret rendezvous of mountain men in the untamed Rockies, Benjamin January must find out who the murderer is.
82) No ordinary love
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
At first, aspiring reality-show star Trina Woods doesn't know what a catch she's found she meets award winning musician Tony "Art E" Santangelo, but soon they begin to make beautiful music together.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henery Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With few other options, African-American classical musician Gethsemane Brown accepts a less-than-ideal position turning a group of rowdy schoolboys into an award-winning orchestra. Stranded without luggage or money in the Irish countryside, she figures any job is better than none. The perk? Housesitting a lovely cliffside cottage. The catch? The ghost of the cottage's murdered owner haunts the place. Falsely accused of killing his wife (and himself),...
86) Dirty bird blues
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set in post-World War II Chicago and Omaha, the novel features Manfred Banks, a young, harmonica-blowing blues singer who is always writing music in his head. Torn between his friendships with fellow musicians and nightclub life and his responsibilities to his wife and child, along with the pressures of dealing with a racist America that assaults him at every turn, Manfred seeks easy answers in 'Dirty Bird' (Old Crow whiskey) and in moving on. He...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Rebekah Blake becomes the Sinners' new soundboard operator, she has no idea that red-hot drummer Eric Sticks is the only man who can give her everything her dirty mind desires...
Author
Series
Elements of cadence volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Tamerlaine hasn't stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armor, and the smallest cut of a knife can instill fathomless fear. The capricious spirits that rule the isle by fire, water, earth, and wind...
89) Shadow's fall
Author
Series
Shadow World (Dianne Sylvan) volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When her dual lives start to collide, Grammy-winning artist and vampire Queen of the South Miranda Grey-Solomon, along with David, her Prime, finds everything she has worked hard for threatened by the arrival of a sworn enemy who has come to take his revenge on those who defied him.
Author
Publisher
Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Jeff Pine rents a cabin in the hometown he's been avoiding for fifteen years, he just wants some time away from his rock 'n roll world to figure out his life. Instead he runs into his former BFF--and the inspiration for dozens of love songs--on the first day. Facepalm. Park naturalist Carter Rhodes is a cinnamon roll dressed like a lumberjack. Fame and fortune don't turn his head, but the snarky little nerd who followed him around as a kid?...
Author
Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
92) Beats and blow
Author
Series
Crescent Crew volume 4
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The founder and leader of the Crescent Crew negotiates a supply of products from lockdown while his second-on-command, Bone, has a secret agenda that is starting an internal war.
93) Drummer boy
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After accidentally being thrown away, a beloved toy drummer boy goes on an adventure that eventually brings him back to a warm home, where he is placed near baby Jesus in a manger scene.
94) Wisp of a thing
Author
Series
Tufa novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the isolated ridges and hollows of the Smoky Mountains, musician Rob Quillen comes to Cloud County, Tennessee, in search of a song that might ease his aching heart and instead gets caught up in a subtle power struggle he can't begin to comprehend.
95) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A failed Glasgow musician looks back on the half century that has passed since he convinced four friends to run away with him as ambitious teens and is haunted by the memory of a traumatizing event. Meanwhile a murderer in London embarks on a nightmarish spree.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brothers Jimmy and Jack Sullivan live a nomadic life touring with their band, The Unknown Souls. But now Jack is engaged to Kara, with a Christmas wedding planned in Ireland. Until Jimmy met Kara's best friend, Charlotte, he never expected to fall in love. When Jimmy and Charlotte write a song together, it catches the attention of a manager for a famous country band. Before Jimmy knows it, he's on tour with the band and everyone knows his name. But...
Author
Series
American Royalty (Tracey Livesay) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"In this dangerously sexy rom-com that evokes the real-life romance between Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle, a prince who wants to live out of the spotlight falls for a daring American rapper who turns his life, and the palace, upside down. Sexy, driven rapper Danielle 'Duchess' Nelson is on the verge of signing a deal that'll make her one of the richest women in hip hop. More importantly, it'll grant her control over her life, something she's...
99) Rock star
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Charlie the basset hound has difficulty adjusting to life as a rich and famous rock musician.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Soho, London, 1967. Folk-rock-psychedelic quartet Utopia Avenue is formed. Guitarist Jasper de Zoet, a shy, half-Dutch public-school musical prodigy, was hearing voices long before he dropped acid. Keyboardist Elf Holloway must defy the prejudices of her bank manager father, her housewife mother, and her age to forge her own career. Bassist Dean Moss cannot, will not, spend his life on the factory floor like everyone else in Gravesend. Band manager...
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