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41) This Jazz Man
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Presents an introduction to jazz music and nine well-known jazz musicians, set to the rhythm of the traditional song, "This Old Man." Includes brief facts about each musician.
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"A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, alive with music, sex, and fame, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969 at the crossroads of rock and folk, for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six. "[A]live with music, sex, and the trappings of fame, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969 at the crossroads of rock and folk. Raised on an island off Massachusetts by a mother who wrote songs for famous musicians, Jane Quinn is singing...
43) Rock star
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""If you pick up this book, you won't put it down....Collins fans will gobble up Rock Star." -Vogue
Jackie Collins didn't just write about the rich and famous—she had a front-stage insider's view! When her husband ran nightclubs in London, top rockers often frequented and they'd bare their most salacious secrets to her, which she'd then weave into her stories. Combining these real-life experiences and her incredible imagination,...
Jackie Collins didn't just write about the rich and famous—she had a front-stage insider's view! When her husband ran nightclubs in London, top rockers often frequented and they'd bare their most salacious secrets to her, which she'd then weave into her stories. Combining these real-life experiences and her incredible imagination,...
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National Hispanic Heritage Month (SCPL)
Notable Novels: 1980s
OBD Culturally Diverse Award Winners
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Notable Novels: 1980s
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Street-smart and lyrical, impassioned and reflective, this novel is a rich and provocative book--a moving portrait of a man, his family, a community, and a time.
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Omar Tyree, New York Times and Blackboard bestselling author and winner of the 2001 NAACP Image Award for literary fiction, delivers a powerful story of two childhood friends lured into the sex, drugs, money, and madness of R&B stardom.
Darin Harmon and John Williams, two good church boys from Charlotte, North Carolina, have been best friends forever. Both use their God-given talents to breeze through high school, and both are awarded scholarships...
Darin Harmon and John Williams, two good church boys from Charlotte, North Carolina, have been best friends forever. Both use their God-given talents to breeze through high school, and both are awarded scholarships...
46) Restless heart
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Destiny finds success on the musical stage but struggles to reconnect to the things in her life that matter most.
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
48) Wildflower
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"Sixteen-year-old Bird Barrett is discovered by a country music record label while playing in her family's bluegrass band. As her star rises, she must learn to stay true to her roots while navigating a brave new world of glamour and gold records in Nashville, Tennessee"-- Provided by publisher.
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"What radiates from all of her novels is a sense that women are just as capable of great things as men." - ALEXANDRA HEMINSLEY, author of Some Body to Love
The internationally bestselling scorcher Lovers and Gamblers is a Jackie Collins classic—packed with all the luscious ingredients that stir up the drama and sizzle with every page turned...
Fans don't realize that rock and roll superstar Al King has a family...
The internationally bestselling scorcher Lovers and Gamblers is a Jackie Collins classic—packed with all the luscious ingredients that stir up the drama and sizzle with every page turned...
Fans don't realize that rock and roll superstar Al King has a family...
52) The Haters
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A road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band.
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"From the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time--that his music was stolen from a young Black composer named Josephine Reed. Determined to uncover the truth and right history's wrongs, Bern Hendricks will stop at nothing to finally give Josephine the recognition she deserves. Bern Hendricks has just received...
54) The favorite son
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They're handsome, smart, and gifted. Brothers Camden and Blaine Drake have combined their talents and founded a gospel group. At first, their bishop father is against the idea -- until Blaine, his favorite, wows the congregation performing at a church revival. Sure enough, once the bishop witnesses their effect on the crowd he wants them there every Sunday. But he may have set the stage for trouble: as the group's popularity increases, so do the groupies....
55) Rock hard
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Sinners on tour volume 2
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After calling off their engagement, Sed and Jessica rekindle their steamy romance when they are trapped together on the tour bus for the summer.
57) Coming undone
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Marine series volume 4
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It's supposed to be the biggest summer of Priscilla Jayne Morgan'slife. She's on the brink of country music superstardom, yet shehad to fire her crooked-manager Mama, and the tabloids arehaving a field day. Now her record label's hired a watchdog toescort her on her massive summer tour. And not just anyone,either—they sicced Jared Hamilton on her, the guy she onceidolized more than anyone in the world.
Well, she doesn't care how hot he is....
Well, she doesn't care how hot he is....
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Christmas Notch volume 1
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"Cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone--a steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with"--
59) Before I met you
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"After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age in order to care for Arlette. Her will included a woman named Clara Pickle who presumably could be found at a London address. Now, having landed on a street corner in '90s Soho, Betty is determined to find the mysterious Clara. As Betty navigates the ups and downs of city life and begins working as a nanny,...
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“Have you ever wanted something so bad you was willing to crawl over bodies to get it? I mean, fiend for it so hard it didn’t matter who you hurt, how low you had to scrape, it was gonna be yours? That’s what music and balling did for me. They were the fundamentals behind my rise . . . and the perpetrators of my fall. They called me Harlem’s black prince–a rising star who carried street dreams on his back. But the streets,...
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