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221) Falling for trouble
Author
Series
Librarians in love volume 2
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Joanna never thought she'd have to come back to her dull, tiny fishbowl of a hometown ever again. She almost had a record deal for her all-girl rock band. She almost had it made in L.A. And then her deal went sour and her granny broke her leg ... and now here she is, running into everybody's favorite librarian every time she heads to a dive bar or catches up with old friends. He has charm, he has good taste in music--and the sight of him in running...
Author
Series
Deep in the heart of Texas volume 7
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Country music princess Starlet Brubaker has a sweet tooth for moon pies and cowboys: both are yummy-and you can never have just one. Now Beckett Cates may not be a cowboy, but he certainly has the heart, soul-and body-to whet her appetite. He's a sexy ex-Marine with a touch hotter than the scorching Texas sun and arms strong enough to catch her when she lands into trouble. Playing bodyguard to America's sweetheart isn't easy for Beckett. But falling...
223) Girl can't help it
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"No sooner do Hot Rod and the Pistons reunite for their induction into the Iowa Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, than two band members take a final bow. Both alleged suicides. A tragic way to go out. A bum way for one-hit wonders to be remembered. But it's Labor Day weekend. The show must go on. With replacements at the ready, the Pistons are back on home turf to headline the first ever Rock and Country Music Fest. Police Chief Krista Larson and her father,...
224) Not your average Jo
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Riley Jo is a teenager who knows what she wants. Born and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas, this Korean American girl has her sights set on being a musician. So when her parents are surprisingly cool about her attending the prestigious Los Angeles-based arts-focused boarding school her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance. This is her moment to make her indie rock dreams a reality! Things at Carlmont Academy start out strong: She joins...
225) Punk rock karaoke
Author
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Ariel has dreams of leaving her southside Chicago neighborhood and making it big as a punk rocker with her best friends and bandmates, now that they've graduated from high school, but the realities of young adulthood make that challenging and strain their friendships with each other."--Provided by publisher.
226) Lonely for you only
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Young heiress Scarlett Lancaster is delighted when her father tells her he hired a famous pop star and former boy band member to play at her eighteenth birthday. But delight becomes utter disappointment when it turns out he wasn't talking about Harry Styles. No, Scarlett's dad hired Tate Ramsey, former lead singer of the band Five Car Pileup, who hasn't been popular for years. Tate, after years of alcohol- and drug-fueled partying, is sober and ready...
227) Taking the lead
Author
Series
Secrets of a rock star volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows Ricki Hamilton as the icy heiress living in a billion-dollar mansion, high up in the Hollywood Hills. But few realize that behind the gilded gates, Ricki is the mistress of LA's most exclusive private club. A place where no fantasy is forbidden and no one goes unsatisfied-except for Ricki. If she had her way, she'd leave the business behind... until she meets the one man with the power to change her mind. The hottest rock star in the...
228) Bluestone & vine
Author
Series
Blue Hollow Falls volume 2
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Pippa MacMillan is a legend on the Irish folk music scene. But when her voice requires a time-out, she's left wondering how - and where - to find happiness in the silence... Seeking answers, Pippa leaves Ireland in favor of a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Turns out lovely Blue Hollow Falls is the perfect place to heal - and solitary Seth Brogan is the surprisingly perfect host. After all, Seth is beginning again too: turning...
229) Song for a cowboy
Author
Series
Kings of Country volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Emmy Lou King is lead singer for the famous band Three Kings, and when her father lands her the opportunity to sing the American Football League anthem and serve on one of the AFL's anti-drug charities, Emmy Lou agrees. Combining her fan-base and those of the AFL could do some good in the fight against drugs. But can she handle working with Brock Watson? She'd barely recovered from their breakup--and she's never loved anyone else. When a hotshot...
Author
Series
Elements of Cadence volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the stunning conclusion to the #1 internationally bestselling Elements of Cadence duology that began with A River Enchanted, A Fire Endless finds the tenuous balance between the human and faery realm threatened by Bane, the spirit of the North Wind, whose defeat may require Jack, Adaira, Torin, and Sidra to pay the ultimate price. East and West. Humans and Spirits. Breccans and Tamerlaines. The Isle of Cadence has always held itself and its residents...
231) Hillbilly rockstar
Author
Series
Blacktop cowboys volume 6
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Country music star Devin McClain understands there's a downside to life in the public eye, but the laidback Wyoming cowboy has never imagined he'd attract crazed fans who would do anything to garner his attention. When veiled threats become real, he agrees to hire a discreet security detail. But Devin is shocked when that bodyguard is a hard-bodied woman. He's even more stunned to be attracted to the steely-eyed stunner. Former soldier Liberty Masterson's...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
All her life Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr. This summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency, their father decides it is time for Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. When he brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news, Orr has already been sent away. Furious at his betrayal, Iph storms off and gets lost in the maze of Old Town. Enter George, a queer Robin Hood who swoops in on a bicycle,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Fly and Stela meet in twenty-first-century New York City, it seems like fate. He's a Black American musician from a mixed-religious background who knows all about heartbreak. She's a Catholic science teacher from the Caribbean looking for lasting love. But are they meant to be? The answer goes back decades--all the way to their parents' earliest loves ... Monster in the Middle moves across decades, from the continental United States to the Virgin...
234) Doughnuts and doom
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Being a amateur witch - or rock star - is tougher than it looks! And it doesn't help to run into an impossibly rude girl at the doughnut shop But maybe, between Margot's flying broom and Elena's electric guitar, they can find enough magic to transform enemies to friends ... or something more?"-- cover page 4.
235) How sweet the sound
Author
Series
Gospel volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Shar Gracey loves to sing the Lord's praises, so she jumps at the chance to join a traveling choir led by the father of black gospel music, Thomas A. Dorsey, and earn money for her ailing mother's medical care. On tour she falls under the tutelage of gospel great Mahalia Jackson -- and falls for the handsome but not-so-great Nicoli James. When Nicoli shatters her faith and dreams, Shar loses her voice and has no place to run except back home.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions. An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Manhattan's East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country. One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his band's biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jack's prized bass, presumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. Jack's search for his buddy uncovers...
238) Our year of maybe
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Aspiring choreographer Sophie Orenstein would do anything for Peter Rosenthal-Porter, who's been on the kidney transplant list as long as she's known him. Peter, a gifted pianist, is everything to Sophie: best friend, musical collaborator, secret crush. When she learns she's a match, donating a kidney is an easy, obvious choice. She can't help wondering if after the transplant, he'll love her back the way she's always wanted. But Peter's life post-transplant...
239) Happy & you know it
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After her former band shot to superstardom without her, Claire reluctantly agrees to a gig as a playgroup musician for overprivileged infants on New York's Park Avenue. Claire is surprised to discover that she is smitten with her new employers, a welcoming clique of wellness addicts with impossibly shiny hair, who whirl from juice cleanse to overpriced miracle vitamins to spin class with limitless energy. There is perfect hostess Whitney who is on...
Author
Series
Nava Katz novels volume 1
Publisher
Te Da Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Bridesmaids meets Buffy with a dash of the seven deadly sins. The age-old story of what happens when a foul-mouthed, romance impaired heroine with no edit button and a predilection for hot sex is faced with her worst nightmare-a purpose. Ari Katz is intelligent, driven, and will make an excellent demon hunter once initiated into the Brotherhood of David. However, this book is about his twin Nava: a smart-ass, self-cultivated hot mess, who is thrilled...
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