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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...
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English
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"Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQIA icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life"-- Provided by publisher.
Etheridge has lived a life of many blessings-- but has also struggled mightily along the way. Changes in the music industry threated her...
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English
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"Taylor Swift always knew she wanted to be a country music artist, so at age thirteen, she convinced her parents to move their family out of Pennsylvania to Nashville. As a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Taylor wrote songs about teenage heartbreak and fitting in with her peers, and she performed these and other tunes at open mic nights and karaoke events. Breaking into the music industry took longer than she expected because record executives...
4) Priscilla
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland,...
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English
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"Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and work as co-writer, vocalist, and keyboardist has been an essential part of the success story of Canadian progressive rock trio Rush. Here for the first time is his account of life inside and outside the band. ... [He] was [born] Gershon Eliezer Weinrib, after his grandfather murdered in the Holocaust. As he recounts [his life's] transformation,...
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English
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"An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the '90s and beyond. Her band Bikini Kill embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like "Rebel Girl" and "Double Dare Ya"...
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Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Quito Cruz might be a composing and piano genius, but he's a few notes short of success. Broadway, here I don't come. But Quito knows what the problem is. Or rather who. Because ever since that night in college-with pretty-boy jock Emmett Aoki-his inspiration has been completely MIA ... Now Quito's beloved dad wants him to put on a charity performance in his hometown. And there's one hella big string attached: convince Emmett--now one of Hollywood's...
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Publisher
Beascoa
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"Manu is a boy with great sensitivity, and he has always expressed his emotions and his feelings through music. His friends and family know that he could one day be a great musician, but his classmate, Joel, claims that feelings are just sillyand music too! What they don't know is that they are about to discover that saying or doing what we feel is more complicated than we think, and that many times, we have more things in common than we can imagine."--Provided...
12) Hiss me deadly
Author
Series
Cat in the stacks mysteries volume 15
Language
English
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"Charlie and Diesel must catch a killer before he strikes another deadly note in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Cat in the Stacks Mysteries. Charlie Harris remembers Wilfred "Wil" Threadgill as one of the outsiders during high school in Athena. Although Wil was a couple of years ahead of him and his friend Melba Gilley, Melba had a big crush on Wil, who dropped out after his junior year. An aspiring musician, Wil hit the...
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Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER MONTH~~ YOUNG ADULT
Winter 2024 YA Book Releases to Enjoy This Season (& Beyond)
Winter 2024 YA Book Releases to Enjoy This Season (& Beyond)
Description
A hopeful young Korean American musician faces the harsh realities of the music industry.
15) The five pennies
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning in this success-tempered-with-tears biopic of jazz great Loring "Red" Nichols.
16) Her smell
Author
Publisher
Something She, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Forced to get sober and reckon with the past, a self-destructive punk rock superstar retreats from the spotlight and tries to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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Description
"En kinder, Lupe Lopez inició una banda y le demostró a todos que era una estrella de rock. Este año, como estudiante de primer grado, Lupe tiene una nueva meta: ganarse una estrella en el Muro de la Fama de Lectura del salón de clase de la maestra Moreno. Lupe puede roquear con las palabras en su lista de lectura, pero cuando aparecen juntas en una frase, ella no puede darles la vuelta. Y lo peor es que Victor, el brabucón de la clase, se burla...
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A music critic pining for her ex-girlfriend targets her high school crush for a career comeback and a chance at revenge in this fresh and original enemies to lovers romance debut. What could possibly go wrong? Sammy Espinoza is known for her smart and hilariously cynical music criticism, and she has a successful column to prove how notoriously hard to please she is in the music biz. But when her singer ex-girlfriend breaks up with her via song on...
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Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels, Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince was a complete artist, all at once author, composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. A real showman on stage, songs like "1999" or "Purple Rain," made him an international star. With his tormented life, sulfurous relationships, sex and drugs, he was above all a genius artist with a very distinctive original style who sold more than 80 million records around the world. Here is his extraordinary destiny...
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Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old musician Xue faces a lifetime of servitude until Duke Meng offers her freedom in exchange for serving as a musician in residence, but Xue soon discovers the Duke is a celestial ruler with ulterior motives and she must unlock her past to prevent an impending war in the Six Realms.
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