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Series
Family upstairs volume 1
Language
English
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Description
You thought they were just staying for the weekend. They looked harmless enough - with only two suitcases and a cat in a wicker box. But soon things turn very, very dark. It happens slowly, yet so extraordinarily quickly. Now you and your sister must find a way to survive. Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I...
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 24
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
84 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink attend a concert during which someone steals the star's diamond pendant, and they are soon on the trail of the thief.
23) The Haters
Author
Language
English
Description
A road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 323 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Born in Gainesville, Florida, with more than a little hillbilly in his blood, Tom Petty was a Southern shit kicker, a kid without a whole lot of promise. Rock and roll made it otherwise. From meeting Elvis, to seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, to producing Del Shannon, backing Bob Dylan, putting together a band with George Harrison, Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne, making records with Johnny Cash, and sending well more than a dozen of his own...
25) Burn
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Series
Language
English
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Anna Pigeon, a National Park Service ranger on administrative leave after a traumatic ordeal, stays with a friend, Geneva, in New Orleans, and when she encounters a strange man named Jordan and finds herself the target of a curse, she is forced to use her outdoors skills to help save herself and others in the urban setting.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 588 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of "bebop" and establishing Monk as one of America's greatest composers. Yet throughout much of his life, his musical contribution took a backseat to tales of his reputed behavior. Writers tended to obsess over Monk's hats or his proclivity to dance on stage. To his fans, he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors, he was temperamental,...
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Language
English
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Greta James's rise to indie stardom was hard-won. Before she graced magazine covers and played to sold out venues, she spent her girlhood practicing her guitar in the family garage, full of big dreams and determination. Her first fan was her mother, Helen, who always encouraged Greta to follow her heart. But her father, Conrad, was less supportive; he saw only a precarious road ahead for his daughter, and always pushed her to make more practical choices....
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
367 p. : ill. cheifly col. ; 36 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Here, for the first time in print, is the history of the Beatles--by the Beatles. The extraordinary project has been made possible because Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have agreed to tell their combined story especially for this book. Together with Yoko Ono Lennon, they have also made available the full transcripts (including all the outtakes) of the television and video series 'The Beatles
29) Trombone Shorty
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"What I say is that this is the story of my life, told as clear as a Texas sky and in the same rhythm that I lived it. It's a story of restlessness and the purity of the moment and living right. Of my childhood in Abbott, Texas, to the Pacific Northwest, from Nashville to Hawaii and all the way back again. Of selling vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias while hosting radio shows and writing song after song, hoping to strike gold. It's a story of...
33) Revival
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
35) A star is born
Language
English
Description
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally. She has given up on her dream to become a successful singer, until she meets Jack, who immediately sees her natural talent. This is the raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. Theirs is a complex journey through the beauty and the heartbreak of a relationship struggling to survive.
Author
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of rock musician Jimi Hendrix, describing his impoverished Seattle childhood, his beginnings as a guitarist, his years in England, his rise to stardom, his evolution as a songwriter and performer, his drug use, and the personal demons with which he struggled until his death at the age of twenty-seven.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life and career of singer, James Brown, and describes growing up in the segregated South and introduction to gospel, R & B, and soul music, and his personal struggles that included trouble with the law.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
©2020
Physical Desc
277 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The intimate debut memoir by the man known to the world as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood 's "Officer Clemmons," a Grammy Award-winning artist who made history as the first African American actor to have a recurring role on a children's television program
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. 'When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender...
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