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In Orfeo, Powers tells the story of a man journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present. Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab-- the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns-- has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive. As an Internet-fueled hysteria erupts, Els-- the " Bioterrorist...
5) The line
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Putnams
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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A diverse group of people line up at a shuttered ticket booth after hearing rumors that a famous exiled composer will be returning to Russia to conduct his final symphony, but as the days pass and tickets do not go on sale, those waiting in the line form unexpected friendships and perform acts of kindness that change all their lives.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The Phantom of the Opera (1910) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. Originally serialized in Le Galois, the novel was inspired by legends revolving around the Paris Opera from the early nineteenth century. Originally, a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. Despite its lack of success relative to Leroux's other novels, The Phantom of the Opera has become legendary through several...
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Leaving L.A.'s Parker Center, Shane Scully and his wife, Alexa, agree to meet at home in one hour. Shane gets there; Alexa doesn't. Things quickly turn deadly when, in the middle of the night, he's called to a crime scene on Mulholland Drive, where the victim, who appears to be a gang member, has been handcuffed and executed gangland-style. What's worse is that the victim's body is in Alexa's car. Her service revolver, which Shane discovers nearby,...
12) Swing: a novel
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English
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Two-time Edgar Award winner Rupert Holmes–author of the critically acclaimed Where the Truth Lies and creator of the Tony Award-winning musical whodunit The Mystery of Edwin Drood–now fuses gripping suspense and evocative music in an innovative novel of intrigue set in 1940, during the very heart of the Big Band era. Swing is a multimedia experience, it contains musical tracks which give clues to the mystery.Jazz saxophonist and arranger Ray Sherwood,...
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A conductor succumbs to cyanide at the famed Venice opera house, in the first mystery in the New York Times–bestselling, award-winning series.
During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder. To...
During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder. To...
16) Jam: A Novel
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The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Jam is a passionate tale of money-hungry musicians, sleazy record companies, over-adoring fans, the majesty of jazz, and ultimately, a creative soul who is true to himself and to his art.
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Pocket Star Books
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[1997], c1996
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English
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When Shelby Kay Tate's ex-husband, Leroy, shows up in Nashville and begins to cause Shelby trouble, the policeman who comes to Shelby's aid becomes too friendly. Meanwhile, Leroy gets deeper into trouble with the help of a dying con man, and Shelby finds a new song writing partner.
18) Nemesis
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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This "mesmerizing" novel about a crime at an elite music school " calls to mind a David Lynch film" (The New York Times). Shy piano teacher Maggie Blackburn has selflessly devoted her life and career to her students at the Forest Park Conservatory of Music in an affluent Connecticut suburb. Then a rape shakes the school's refined grounds. The violated young student, Brendan Bauer, is a timid ex-seminarian. The perpetrator, Rolfe Christensen, is the...
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A small-town girl becomes a world-famous artist in this powerful coming-of-age novel from one of the twentieth-century's most celebrated authors From childhood piano lessons to center stage at the Metropolitan Opera House, The Song of the Lark is the poignant story of an artist discovering herself. Fiercely independent and singularly talented, Thea Kronborg realizes at an early age that she is destined to leave her family and the frontier town of...
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