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61) Prom & prejudice
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Tesh describes how the obstacles that shaped him--including being suspended from college, living homeless for months, and facing a deadly disease--shaped his remarkable life. You'll hear how Tesh became the youngest correspondent at WCBS News less than thirty-six months after he was working at a gas station and sleeping in a public park. You'll go inside the unconventional way he composed the now-iconic theme song for NBC Sports basketball and how...
Author
Series
Your lie in April volume 7
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"With Kaori nowhere to be seen at the gala concert, Kosei is forced to perform alone. As he plays, he confronts painful memories and finds a link connecting him t the audience, his late mother, and even himself. Meanwhile, Tsubaki struggles to find truth within her complicated feelings for Kosei is he like a little brother to her, a childhood friend, or something more&?"-- cover page 4.
64) You're not you
Publisher
Daryl Prince Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a life changing bond inspiring each other to live life to the fullest, while being brought together by the most challenging of circumstances.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A piano man in 1960s New York keeps to himself and away from his father's mob ties until his hit collaboration with an African American woman singer thrusts him into a national spotlight that also stirs up issues with his father's associates.
Author
Series
Your lie in April volume 6
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Spirits are still high after the Maiho Music Competition when Kaori receives a letter in the mail: There's going to be a gala concert to celebrate the winners, and even though Kaori and Kosei didn't advance, they're invited to perform! Conficent they can leave a lasting impression, Kaori seizes the chance to order Kosei back onto the stage with her. The ultimate duo that moved an entire audience's hearts will perform once more, and people are buzzing...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Chun Li grows up and becomes a talented concert pianist. At the end of one of her concerts, she receives a scroll written in Ancient Chinese text. On her way home, she sees a mysterious homeless man getting assaulted by street thugs. After the thugs leave, Chun Li tends to him and notices a spiderweb tattoo on his hand. Nash and Maya investigate the murders of several heads of criminal syndicate families in Bangkok. On the side, Chun Li is meeting...
70) Once
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A Guy lives in Dublin. He is a guitarist/singer-songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad's Hoover repair shop by day. By night, he sings and plays for money on the Dublin streets. A Girl from Czechoslovakia loves to play the piano when she gets a chance. During the day she does odd jobs. At night she takes care of her mom and her daughter. Guy meets Girl, and they get to know each other. Girl helps Guy put together a demo...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Pattern recognition -- Immortal virtue -- How do you know? -- To eat and dring -- Heartstrings -- Through the looking glass -- Exponential growth -- Con espressione e semplice.
"A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life. How do we relate to--and hold--our family's past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art, poetry, music? Or is it through the resonances we look...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and executive produce Jerry Weintraub, this HBO Films drama recreates the glittering private world of Liberace, the flamboyant, phenomenally successful entertainer whose extravagant costumes, trademark candelabra, and elaborate stage shows made him the most bankable entertainer of his time. This film also recounts the last ten years of his life and the affair he had with Scott Thorson.
74) Green book
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the...
Author
Series
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A German Red Cross nurse joins the world's first guide dog training school for the blind and begins a quest to show a Jewish pianist who was blinded on the battlefield that life is worth living"--
76) Andhadhun
Publisher
Reliance Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Hindi
Description
Things go hilariously awry when a man posing as a blind pianist witnesses a murder. Akash is a young musician who decides to conduct a social experiment that requires him to pretend that he is blind. When Akash is invited to give a private performance for a has-been celebrity, a murder occurs. The young man cannot report the crime because he has convinced everyone that he cannot see. He must now find a way to convince the authorities that he saw the...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer comes an exuberant YA historical coming-of-age novel about a rising star French pianist, navigating his way into high society as he explores his sexuality. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and The Gentleman's Gide to Vice and Virtue.--
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author chronicles her story from her beginnings in Brooklyn through her success as one of the world's most acclaimed musical talents, to her present day as a leading performer and activist. Includes photos from her childhood, her own family, and behind-the-scenes images from her performances over the years.
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Piano Student centers on an affair between one of the 20th century's most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young male student, Nico Kaufmann, in the late 1930s. As Europe hurtles toward political catastrophe and Horowitz ascends to the pinnacle of artistic achievement, the great pianist hides his illicit love from his wife Wanda, the daughter of the renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini. The affair is narrated by Kaufmann in the 1980s...
Author
Series
Your lie in April volume 8
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Interrupted Time -- After successfully performing a piece imbued with his mother's memories, Kosei overcomes his trauma and seems stronger than ever. But for Kaori, the ga;a concert was spent bedridden in the hospital. Her second hospitilizationm, nearly back-to-back with the previous one, exacerbates Kosei's fears. Even then, he continues to practice piano. But one day, on the way to his music lessons, a strange gift falls into Kosei's life -- what...
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