°Õ¾±á»ƒu's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 08 May 2023 09:32:53 -0700 60 °Õ¾±á»ƒu's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg If I Tell 10841337
Until she sees her mom's new boyfriend making out with her own best friend. When do you forgive people for being human or give up on them forever?]]> 256 Janet Gurtler 1402261039 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.66 If I Tell
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]]> <![CDATA[Manolito tiene un secreto (Manolito Gafotas, #7)]]> 68871 144 Elvira Lindo 8420444553 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.86 2002 Manolito tiene un secreto (Manolito Gafotas, #7)
author: Elvira Lindo
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> <![CDATA[Tales from a New Amsterdam: The Legend]]> 17068416
Love and Cherokee magic combine in a 1980s Heavy Metal world to manifest an unexpected surprise for two star crossed lovers. Mature content warning.]]> 12 Hunter S. Jones °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.69 Tales from a New Amsterdam: The Legend
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]]> <![CDATA[A Voice in the Distance (Flynn Laukonen, #2)]]> 3664164 256 Tabitha Suzuma 186230355X °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.21 2008 A Voice in the Distance (Flynn Laukonen, #2)
author: Tabitha Suzuma
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> <![CDATA[A Note of Madness (Flynn Laukonen, #1)]]> 1822182 Why is this happening to me? he asked himself desperately. What is wrong with me?

Life as a student should be good for Flynn. He's one of the top pianists at the Royal College of Music, he has been put forward for an opportunity-of-a-lifetime concert, and he's got great friends. But beneath the surface, he's falling apart.

On a good day he feels full of energy and life, but on a bad day being alive is worse than being dead. Sometimes he wants to compose and practice all night, at other times he can't get out of bed.

With the pressure of the forthcoming concert and the growing concern of his family and friends, emotions come to a head. Sometimes things can only get worse before they get better.]]> 305 Tabitha Suzuma 0099487535 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.99 2011 A Note of Madness (Flynn Laukonen, #1)
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average rating: 3.99
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]]> Rockoholic 9637716 368 C.J. Skuse 1906427526 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.74 2011 Rockoholic
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average rating: 3.74
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]]> High Fidelity 285092
Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it—even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behaves as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can't move on. He's stuck in a really deep groove—and it's called Laura. Soon, Rob's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life—and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.]]> 323 Nick Hornby 1573225517 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 5 3.92 1995 High Fidelity
author: Nick Hornby
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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]]> Music of a Life 135164 128 Andreï Makine 0743475607 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.97 2001 Music of a Life
author: Andreï Makine
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> <![CDATA[My Name is Chloe (Diary of a Teenage Girl: Chloe, #1)]]> 363450 300 Melody Carlson 1590520181 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.97 2003 My Name is Chloe (Diary of a Teenage Girl: Chloe, #1)
author: Melody Carlson
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]]> <![CDATA[Into the Silence (Torchwood, #10)]]> 5068378


With the Welsh Amateur Operatic Contest getting under way, music is filling the churches and concert halls of Cardiff. The competition has attracted the finest Welsh talent to the city, but it has also drawn something else - there are stories of a metallic creature hiding in the shadows. Torchwood are on its tail, but it's moving too fast for them to track it down.



This new threat requires a new tactic - so Ianto Jones is joining a male voice choir...]]> 239 Sarah Pinborough 1846077532 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.69 2009 Into the Silence (Torchwood, #10)
author: Sarah Pinborough
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> <![CDATA[Face the Music (Diary of a Teenager Girl: Chloe, #4)]]> 436229
Monday, June 13

prepare my heart for the storm / keep me safe, keep me warm / heap those bags, around my heart / build that wall, before it starts / pile them up, and pile them high / keep me safe, keep me dry / before the waves come rushing in / Lord, please, make me strong again

Chloe, Allie, and Laura split their time between “normal� high school life—going to classes, attending prom—and touring as Redemption, a rising new Christian band. When Allie’s mom needs to bow out of their summer tour, Caitlin O’Conner fills in as chaperone.

And a good thing, too. Caitlin is the perfect person to have around as Chloe’s feelings for the handsome lead singer of Iron Cross continue to grow. Amid a grueling concert schedule, Chloe realizes that attraction is a powerful and even dangerous force. But when death hits close to home, Chloe’s heart is slammed by another emotion: guilt.

In good times and bad, with blessing and temptation, and especially when things spin out of control, trusting God is the challenge. ’Cause there comes a time when we all have to face the music.

Story Behind the Book

Chloe and her band, Redemption, are being given amazing opportunities, but with it comes the responsibility of serving God wholeheartedly. In this book, perhaps more than the others in the Diary series, Chloe begins to grasp what sort of ministry (not just a music career) that God is calling her to. As an author, I travel a similar road. I am constantly weighing my "art/craft" against what God is pressing on my heart to write, while striving to be authentic and uncompromising.]]> 288 Melody Carlson 1590522419 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.09 2004 Face the Music (Diary of a Teenager Girl: Chloe, #4)
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> Clara 468487 Romeo and Juliet" (The Times, London), Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann.

This impassioned novel gives voice to Clara Wieck Schumann, one of the most celebrated pianists of the nineteenth century, who today is best remembered not for her music but for her marriage. "How often you must purchase my songs with invisibility and silence, little Clara," says Robert, and, for Clara, the price of his love is dear. Shrouded in alternate layers of music and silence, the Schumann union was anything but a lullaby, marked by her valiant struggle for self-expression and his tortuous descent into madness.

Clara, a deeply moving fugue of love, solitude, and artistic creation, Janice Galloway "has taken a melodic line and scored it for an orchestra" (The New York Times Book Review).]]> 448 Janice Galloway 0743238532 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.69 2002 Clara
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]]> Inez 59410 150 Carlos Fuentes 0747568162 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.24 2000 Inez
author: Carlos Fuentes
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]]> Dancer 110896 336 Colum McCann 0312423187 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.95 2003 Dancer
author: Colum McCann
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]]> Death and the Maiden 163330
The explosively provocative, award-winning drama set in a country that has just emerged from a totalitarian dictatorship

Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man—the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before.

Relentlessly paced and filled with lethal surprises, Death and the Maiden is an inquest into the darker side of humanity—one in which everyone is implicated and justice itself comes to seem like a fragile, perhaps ambiguous invention.]]> 96 Ariel Dorfman 0140246843 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.99 1991 Death and the Maiden
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]]> The Time of Our Singing 23007 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities.

Jonah, Ruth and Joseph are the children of mixed-race parents determined to raise them beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. Yet they cannot be protected from the world forever.

Even as Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, the opera arena remains fixated on his race. Ruth turns her back on classical music and disappears, dedicating herself to activism and a new relationship. As the years pass, Joseph � the middle child, a pianist and our narrator � must battle not just to remain connected to his siblings, but to forge a future of his own.

This is a story of the tragedy of race in America, told through the lives and choices of one family caught on the cusp of identities.]]> 631 Richard Powers 0099453835 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.27 2002 The Time of Our Singing
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]]> Save Me the Waltz 150104 Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by Zelda Fitzgerald. During the years when her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night—which many critics consider his masterpiece—Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story. The novel strangely parallels events from her husband’s life, throwing a fascinating light on Scott Fitzgerald and his work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story—centered upon the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina—that captures the spirit of an era.]]> 225 Zelda Fitzgerald 0099286556 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.56 1932 Save Me the Waltz
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average rating: 3.56
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]]> <![CDATA[The Master Butchers Singing Club]]> 142900
With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious set of knives, Fidelis sets out for America, getting as far as Argus, North Dakota, where he settles, building a business and a home for his family, which now includes Eva and four sons, and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town.

What happens when the Old World meets the New, in the person of Delphine Watzka, becomes one of the great adventures of Fidelis's life. Delphine meets Eva and is enchanted. She meets Fidelis, and the ground trembles. These momentous encounters will determine the course of Delphine's life, and the trajectory of this brilliant new novel in which Louise Erdrich creates a world filled with memorable characters who grapple with the worst and best of human nature.]]> 389 Louise Erdrich 0060837055 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.06 2003 The Master Butchers Singing Club
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]]> The Cellist of Sarajevo 2475251
One day a shell lands in a bread line and kills twenty-two people as the cellist watches from a window in his flat. He vows to sit in the hollow where the mortar fell and play Albinoni’s Adagio once a day for each of the twenty-two victims. The Adagio had been re-created from a fragment after the only extant score was firebombed in the Dresden Music Library, but the fact that it had been rebuilt by a different composer into something new and worthwhile gives the cellist hope.

Meanwhile, Kenan steels himself for his weekly walk through the dangerous streets to collect water for his family on the other side of town, and Dragan, a man Kenan doesn’t know, tries to make his way towards the source of the free meal he knows is waiting. Both men are almost paralyzed with fear, uncertain when the next shot will land on the bridges or streets they must cross, unwilling to talk to their old friends of what life was once like before divisions were unleashed on their city. Then there is “Arrow,� the pseudonymous name of a gifted female sniper, who is asked to protect the cellist from a hidden shooter who is out to kill him as he plays his memorial to the victims.

In this beautiful and unforgettable novel, Steven Galloway has taken an extraordinary, imaginative leap to create a story that speaks powerfully to the dignity and generosity of the human spirit under extraordinary duress.]]> 235 Steven Galloway 1594489866 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.99 2008 The Cellist of Sarajevo
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]]> <![CDATA[The Double-Bass (Bloomsbury Classics)]]> 2902 Original German]]> 90 Patrick Süskind 0747537232 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.72 1981 The Double-Bass (Bloomsbury Classics)
author: Patrick Süskind
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average rating: 3.72
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]]> Farewell My Concubine 150434 272 Lilian Lee 0060976446 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.92 1985 Farewell My Concubine
author: Lilian Lee
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 1985
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]]> The Trumpeter of Krakow 825546
When Joseph and his family seek refuge in medieval Krakow, they are caught up in the plots and intrigues of alchemists, hypnotists, and a dark messenger of evil. Will Joseph be able to protect the crystal—and the city—from the plundering Tartars?]]> 208 Eric P. Kelly 0689715714 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.75 1928 The Trumpeter of Krakow
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> The Speech of Angels 1140124
Jyothi is growing up on the streets of Bombay when she is rescued by an affluent Western couple, their contribution to the starving of India. But she soon finds adapting to the orderly, middle-class English way of life, to school, and to rules and regulations hard. She feels a misfit.

But then, by chance, it is discovered that she has a rare musical talent. Words might never be easy but music flows from her. The delicate girl, with her extraordinary looks and her unique talent , takes the world by storm. And the rootless Indian waif, Jyothi, becomes the international superstar, Jade.

But she â€� and her family â€� discover the burdens of fame too, and Jyothi becomes torn between the urge to re-find her original roots and wanting to become that western girl, with that lifestyle, those men, those values. And running through her mind is the vision of a high, light room, looking out over green hills, a man's clear, candid gaze with the memory of a music of enchantment.]]> Sharon Maas 0007123868 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.46 2002 The Speech of Angels
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]]> The Phantom of the Opera 480204 The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous 'ghost' of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster.

Leroux's work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik's past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows.]]> 360 Gaston Leroux 0060809248 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.98 1910 The Phantom of the Opera
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> The Song of the Lark 48214 The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young woman's awakening as an artist against the backdrop of the western landscape. Thea Kronborg, an aspiring singer, struggles to escape from the confines her small Colorado town to the world of possibility in the Metropolitan Opera House. In classic Cather style, The Song of the Lark is the beautiful, unforgettable story of American determination and its inextricable connection to the land.

"The time will come when she'll be ranked above Hemingway." -- Leon Edel]]> 417 Willa Cather 0395345308 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.88 1915 The Song of the Lark
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> How Soon Is Never? 88051
Welcome to the big Reagan �80s, where ketchup is a vegetable and the Cold War looms large and chilly. If like Joe Green you were coming of age during this boom era, your main concerns include one or more of the a rainbow assortment of Polo shirts worn with the collar flipped up, K-Swiss tennis shoes, a new cable channel called MTV, and Top 40 radio. Stuck in the suburban haze of Long Island, New York, Joe Green knows there has got to be more to life.

However, salvation is on the way, in the form of a quiffed-up quartet from Manchester, England, who take over the airways of a local radio station. Hearing the Smiths for the first time jerks Joe Morrissey’s wry and witty lyrics speak to him, and Johnny Marr’s driven guitar chords get under his skin. He destroys his Phil Collins cassettes, pomades his hair into New Wave submission, studies up on his Oscar Wilde, and falls in love. He even shows up for dinner on time. That is, until his favorite band breaks up and then breaks his heart.

Fast-forward some fifteen years. Joe Green is making a living as a rock journalist, still recovering from a wicked post-college smack addiction and slumming with youngsters who ironically “appreciate� the seminal �80s music that once gave his life meaning. It’s too late to go home, or is it?

What if Joe Green can get the Smiths back together? What if reuniting the long-broken-up band can reverse the passage of time and bring back the magic of youth? What if it helps him win the heart of the woman he loves?

How Soon Is Never? is an acerbic, ingenious look at Reagan-era adolescence, the power of hearing a record that changes your life, and the dangers of nostalgia.

Be prepared to see a bit of yourself in Joe Green.]]> 400 Marc Spitz 0609810405 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.74 2003 How Soon Is Never?
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]]> <![CDATA[Sold Out (Diary of a Teenage Girl: Chloe, #2)]]> 436232 288 Melody Carlson 1590521412 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.03 2003 Sold Out (Diary of a Teenage Girl: Chloe, #2)
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> Amadeus 84927
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

Steven Brand as Baron van Swieten
James Callis as Mozart
Michael Emerson as Salieri
Darren Richardson as Venticello 2
Alan Shearman as Count Orsini-Rosenberg
Mark Jude Sullivan as Venticello 1
Simon Templeman as Joseph II
Brian Tichnell as Count Johann Kilian Von Strack
Jocelyn Towne as Constanze

Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in September of 2016.]]> 160 Peter Shaffer 0060935499 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.16 1979 Amadeus
author: Peter Shaffer
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> Mumbo Jumbo 761156 The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages

Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In it, Reed, one of our preeminent African-American authors, mixes portraits of historical figures and fictional characters with sound bites on subjects ranging from ragtime to Greek philosophy. Cited by literary critic Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred most significant books in the Western canon, Mumbo Jumbo is a trenchant and often biting look at black-white relations throughout history, from a keen observer of our culture.]]> 224 Ishmael Reed 0684824779 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.86 1972 Mumbo Jumbo
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> Mister Sandman 80969 288 Barbara Gowdy 0156005778 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.70 1995 Mister Sandman
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]]> Plays Well with Others 41349
Funny and heartbreaking, as eventful as Dickens and as atmospheric as one of Fitzgerald's parties, Plays Well with Others combines a fable's high-noon energy with an elegy's evening grace.  Allan Gurganus's celebrated new novel is a lovesong to imperishable friendship, a hymn to a brilliant and now-vanished world.]]> 368 Allan Gurganus 0375702032 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.95 1997 Plays Well with Others
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]]> Pinball (Kosinski, Jerzy) 18465
Ricocheting with humor and bursting with erotic intensity, Pinball is a game as intricate, unpredictable, suspenseful, and complex as life.]]> 310 Jerzy KosiÅ„ski 0802134823 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.61 1982 Pinball (Kosinski, Jerzy)
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average rating: 3.61
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]]> The Surprise of Burning 12146753 254 Michael Doane 0749390247 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.00 1988 The Surprise of Burning
author: Michael Doane
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]]> <![CDATA[The Year of Silence (Contemporary American Fiction)]]> 96016 144 Madison Smartt Bell 0140115331 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.51 1987 The Year of Silence (Contemporary American Fiction)
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average rating: 3.51
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]]> <![CDATA[Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band: A Love Story- with Rock 'n' Roll]]> 350528 192 Enrico Brizzi 0802135218 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.61 1994 Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band: A Love Story- with Rock 'n' Roll
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]]> Innocence 891572
It's 1986 and eighteen-year-old Evie dreams of being an actress. Leaving her hometown of Eden, Ohio, for the first time, she's heading to London to study drama. Together with fellow students Imogene (a born-again Laura Ashley poster child and frustrated virgin) and Robbie (a native New Yorker, budding bohemian, and very much not a virgin), Evie's flung into a thrilling new world—a world illuminated by the glamorous, outrageous Robbie. Together, anything's possible.


But then life, and love, intervene. And everything changes.


Fifteen years later, Evie's a single mother teaching drama to night students and living with the eccentric Bunny in her house of artistic renters. Robbie's gone now, killed in a car accident. And Evie's doing her best to forget the past, as well as the dreams they once both shared.


Then an old friendship comes back to haunt Evie. Literally. And suddenly everything is about to change again.

]]> 400 Kathleen Tessaro 0007151454 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.25 2005 Innocence
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]]> Rock Chicks 7748376
The Groupie: Coco LaBiba has the beauty, she has the money, but she just needs sex, music and fame to get high. She won't give up her wild ways for anyone - except the one guy she can never have.

The Wife: Marny Rammer- pretty, quiet, devoted wife of the band's lead singer. But there's a price to pay when superstardom comes knocking on your husband's door, and for Marny it comes in a dangerous pile of fine white powder...

The Manager: Lori Wyatt is the girl from the sticks who is now the most kick-ass band manager in the business. She can play any man at their own game and will do anything she can to sky-rocket her boys to the top. Anything.

Warning: Explicit]]> 450 Ronni Cooper 075154275X °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.86 2010 Rock Chicks
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> The Bear Comes Home 174089 Village Voice, the Bear begins to play around town and hobnob with some of jazz's real-life greats. A live album, a police raid, a jailbreak, a cross-country tour, and no small amount of fame later, Bear finds himself in love with a human woman -- and staring down the greatest improbability of all.

Admittedly, a novel about a talking, sax-blowing bear may not initially seem everyone's cup of tea, but Zabor's Bear is no cuddly anthropomorph: "I may be wearing a hat and a raincoat, thought the Bear, but no one's gonna mistake me for Paddington." He lives, he suffers, he loves--in fact, the love scenes come as something of a shock, and not just for the usual interspecies reasons. Who knew that the description of a bear's reproductive mechanisms could be so tender or so unabashedly erotic? Most of all, though, The Bear Comes Home evokes the world of improvisational jazz with consummate skill; Zabor, a longtime jazz journalist and drummer, writes about music with a passion and inspiration seldom found on the printed page. A wistful fable about an artist's coming of age, a brilliantly satiric send-up of the music business and jazz criticism, The Bear Comes Home is a debut much like that of the Bear himself: transcendent, unexpected, wise.]]> 492 Rafi Zabor 039331863X °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.85 1997 The Bear Comes Home
author: Rafi Zabor
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1997
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]]> Nana, Vol. 2 98411 200 Ai Yazawa 1421503786 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.48 2000 Nana, Vol. 2
author: Ai Yazawa
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2000
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]]> <![CDATA[Dead Beat (Kate Brannigan, #1)]]> 146068
As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realize that finding Moira is a prelude to murder...]]> 275 Val McDermid 0007142919 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.44 1992 Dead Beat (Kate Brannigan, #1)
author: Val McDermid
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.44
book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[Man with an Axe (Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mysteries, #7)]]> 894838 240 Jon A. Jackson 0802136036 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.00 1998 Man with an Axe (Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mysteries, #7)
author: Jon A. Jackson
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1998
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]]> Rookery Blues 1245666 512 Jon Hassler 0345423089 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.80 1995 Rookery Blues
author: Jon Hassler
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1995
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]]> Psalm at Journey's End 141619 384 Erik Fosnes Hansen 0156005271 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.03 1990 Psalm at Journey's End
author: Erik Fosnes Hansen
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1990
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]]> <![CDATA[Love and Other Four-Letter Words]]> 49169 the country. Her mother—well, she’s packing up and relocating to New York City with Sammie, who has no say about any of it. Overnight Sammie is forced to deal with change. And one change spawns Roles get reversed, old and new friendships tested, and sexual feelings awakened. It’s a scary time. But as Sammie realizes that things can’t stay the same forever, that even the people she loves and trusts the most can disappoint her, she begins to accept that change isn’t always bad. It’s how you cope, jumbled feelings and all, that counts. And as she copes, Sammie’s sense of self emerges proud and strong.


From the Paperback edition.]]> 256 Carolyn Mackler 038573266X °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.48 2000 Love and Other Four-Letter Words
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average rating: 3.48
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]]> <![CDATA[The Old Silent (Richard Jury, #10)]]> 102386 396 Martha Grimes 0451412079 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.92 1989 The Old Silent (Richard Jury, #10)
author: Martha Grimes
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1989
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]]> <![CDATA[Swing, Brother, Swing (Roderick Alleyn #15)]]> 1747080 Let's Play Cards Ngaio Marsh 0006512437 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.40 1949 Swing, Brother, Swing (Roderick Alleyn #15)
author: Ngaio Marsh
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.40
book published: 1949
rating: 0
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]]> Madame Sousatzka 2222060 224 Bernice Rubens 0446356468 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.63 1962 Madame Sousatzka
author: Bernice Rubens
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1962
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]]> The Soloist 229108 284 Mark Salzman 0679759263 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.67 1994 The Soloist
author: Mark Salzman
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1994
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]]> While the Music Lasts 2499453 320 Alice McVeigh 185799342X °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.88 1995 While the Music Lasts
author: Alice McVeigh
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1995
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]]> BloodAngel (BloodAngel #1) 53136 The fans of Asha are finding one other-and the world is running out of time.]]> 352 Justine Musk 0451460529 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.48 2005 BloodAngel (BloodAngel #1)
author: Justine Musk
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.48
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]]> Book of a Thousand Days 248484
As food runs low and the days go from broiling hot to freezing cold, it is all Dashti can do to keep them fed and comfortable. With the arrival outside the tower of Saren's two suitors--one welcome, the other decidedly less so--the girls are confronted with both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows.

With Shannon Hale's lyrical language, this little-known classic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm is reimagined and reset on the central Asian steppes; it is a completely unique retelling filled with adventure and romance, drama and disguise.]]> 306 Shannon Hale 1599900513 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.96 2007 Book of a Thousand Days
author: Shannon Hale
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2007
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]]> Walking After Midnight 1614398 0 Maureen McCoy 5551235580 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.21 1985 Walking After Midnight
author: Maureen McCoy
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.21
book published: 1985
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]]> The Scream 844120 420 John Skipp 0553267981 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.66 1987 The Scream
author: John Skipp
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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]]> Laid Bare (Brown Family, #1) 6100797
It's been ten years since clean-cut, sexy-as-hell police officer Todd Keenan had a white-hot fling with Erin Brown, the provocative, wild rocker chick next door. Their power exchange in the bedroom got under his skin. But love wasn't in the cards just yet...

Now, life has thrown the pair back together. But picking up where they left off is tough, in light of a painful event from Erin's past. As Todd struggles to earn her trust, their relationship takes an unexpected and exciting turn when Todd's best friend, Ben, ends up in their bed--and all three are quite satisfied in this relationship without a name. As the passion they share transforms Erin, will it be enough to help her face the evil she thought she had left behind?]]> 336 Lauren Dane 0425229718 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.90 2009 Laid Bare (Brown Family, #1)
author: Lauren Dane
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2009
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]]> <![CDATA[Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)]]> 85990
Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen and win the heart of her childhood best friend. But when bandits seek out the academy to kidnap the future princess, Miri must rally the girls together and use a power unique to the mountain dwellers to save herself and her classmates.]]> 314 Shannon Hale 1599900734 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.03 2005 Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
author: Shannon Hale
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2005
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]]> Pink Flamingo 6494752 191 Monika Seck-Agthe 3473350842 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.56 1987 Pink Flamingo
author: Monika Seck-Agthe
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1987
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]]> The Gold Bug Variations 23012 640 Richard Powers 0060975008 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.03 1991 The Gold Bug Variations
author: Richard Powers
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1991
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]]> Twelve Bar Blues 231791
The book begins with a Prologue set in the mythical Afican kingdom of Zimindo in 1790, where two young best friends, the mesmerizing singer Zike and the zukulu (witchdoctor) Mutela become romantic rivals until Mutela uses witchcraft to spoil Zike’s relationship—and transporting him out of the village and into the hands of slavers who take him to New Orleans. One hundred years later, his descendant Fortis James (Lick) Holden grows up in a life of poverty in Mount Marter, Louisiana with his grandmother, mother, half-sisters, and stepsister, the beautiful fair-skinned “quadroon� Sylvie Black. At the age of ten shows his skill with playing the coronet, but when he runs afowl of the law he is sent away to reform school. There he joins a band and learns to play with his “head, chops, and heart� from a man called the Professor.

The story then shifts to present-day Zimindo, now the fictional African nation of Zambawi, and follows the reactions of chief Tongo, his argumentative pregnant wife Kudzai, and Musa, his zukulu, to the arrival of the African-American archaelogist from Northwestern University named Olurunbunmi (Bunmi) Durowoju (formerly Coretta Pink). She has excavate the remains of an old tribal village nearby and turned up a fantastic tribal headdress but needs Tongo’s permission to take it, which he refuses (hoping to sleep with her in exchange), but his wife intervenes, and when he goes to Musa for advice the shaman tells him he can’t help, because he is about to embark on a journey�

Meanwhile in 1912 Lick returns from reform school and begins making a name for himself among the juke joints of his small home town. He soon travels to New Orleans at the height of its jazz age glory at the suggestion of a local star (and also to search for the missing Sylvie), but his connection doesn’t pan out—though a young Louis Armstrong takes him under his wing, which transforms his sound, but he departs the Big Easy once he hears that Sylvie has returned to his hometown, abandoning the prostitute he married.

Back in 1998, a black Englishwoman, Sylvia di Napoli is boarding a plane bound for New York, to untangle the secret of his ancestry. Born of two ostensibly white parents, she had run away from her angry father’s household as a teenager, becoming a prostitute before deciding that she wanted to turn her life around and become a singer. She meets an Englishman named Jim on the plane who she tells her story to Jim over the course of the planeride and at a bar in New York. He decides to join her in meeting her great uncle in Harlem.

In 1920 Mount Marten, Louisiana, Sylvie Black has become a prostitute for the young white gentlemen of the town, while Lick searches for her in between infrequent performances. Lick encounters her at a dance but she leaves him for the young white man she came with.

In 1998 New York, Jim and Sylvia meet with Fabrizio Berlone, her long-lost grand uncle, who reveals the mystery of her racial heritage: her grandmother was a mixed-race blues singer named Sylvia who was passing for white and gave birth while in New York. They head to Chicago in search of her great aunt (where Musa the zukulu has also turned up) and go to the Apostolic Church of All Saints, where the pastor reveals that her great aunt has been survived by a daughter: Coretta Pink. They head to her office at the university, where they are informed that she is in Africa, but Musa is there to meet them.

Back in Zambawi, Kudzai abandons Tongo in a fury and he makes a rash pass at Bunmi, who rejects his moves with a swift knee to the groin—but after Tongo agrees to let her take the mask, she relents. But six months later, after Musa has returned to the village Tongo reveals he did not sleep with her, and Kudzai has returned to the village with a son, now named Tongo.

Six months earlier in New Orleans, Jim, Sylvia, and Musa, frequent an “Irish� bar where a blues guitarist named Fortnightly plays. There Jim reveals his jealousy at Sylvia’s attraction to Musa and Musa reveals that Fortnightly is Fortis Holden Jr.

Back in 1920 Mount Martin, LA, Sylvie seeks out Lick and stays with him for five days but leaves to return to her white lover, and sees Lick on the side and begins performing with his band. But when she becomes pregnant, they decide they must leave. Fortis Holden Jr. explains the rest of the story to Jim, Sylvia, and Musa in 1998 New Orleans, and tells of how Sylvie’s white lover comes to kill Lick, Sylvie goes to New York and becomes the wife of the Italian man who Sylvia knows as her grandfather. After an ugly bout of jealousy, Jim reveals his love for Sylvia, and months later Sylvia meets Bunmi to complete the circle and the story.
]]> 416 Patrick Neate 0802140564 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.93 2001 Twelve Bar Blues
author: Patrick Neate
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.93
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]]> Through the Ivory Gate 1078636
“Skillfully evokes the mood of a decade when social change seemed not only possible but imminent.� � Washington Post Book World

When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means grappling with artistic ambition, memories of rejected love, and shocking truths about her family.]]> 288 Rita Dove 0679742409 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.43 1992 Through the Ivory Gate
author: Rita Dove
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.43
book published: 1992
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]]> The Night Swimmers 1351683
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, An American Book Award, Parents' Choice Award, A Child Study Children's Book Committee: Children's Book of the Year, An IRA-CBC Children's Choice, A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.]]> 144 Betsy Byars 0440458579 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.56 1980 The Night Swimmers
author: Betsy Byars
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1980
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]]> Dogs, Dreams, and Men 2366625 253 Joan F. Kaufman 0393025810 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.50 1988 Dogs, Dreams, and Men
author: Joan F. Kaufman
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1988
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]]> Jackie Leven Said 1266025 Ian Rankin 0976911302 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.25 2005 Jackie Leven Said
author: Ian Rankin
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2005
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]]> <![CDATA[Rock Hard (Sinners on Tour, #2)]]> 9442157 An ultimatum can break your heart...

Every night lead singer, Sed Lionheart whips thousands of women into a frenzy with his voice alone. But the stage is the only place Sed feels any passion since he lost Jessica...

If you’re not willing to break all the rules...

It shattered her heart, but law student Jessica broke off her engagement to Sed, determined to be successful on her own terms. But no other man can ever hold a candle to Sed...

Then a chance meeting and tortuously close quarters lead to uncontrollable flares of passion and rediscovery of their unique penchant for public encounters. Now, in addition to the risk of mutual heartbreak every time they get together, they’re in danger of truly scandalous public exposure...]]> 392 Olivia Cunning 1402245793 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.08 2011 Rock Hard (Sinners on Tour, #2)
author: Olivia Cunning
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2011
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]]> Bed Rest 137092 0 Rita Kashner 0441052851 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.40 1981 Bed Rest
author: Rita Kashner
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.40
book published: 1981
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[I Woke Up in Love This Morning]]> 13423475 27 Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons 1465712577 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.72 2012 I Woke Up in Love This Morning
author: Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2012
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]]> Young Man with a Horn 2950202 252 Dorothy Baker 0848808770 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.63 1938 Young Man with a Horn
author: Dorothy Baker
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1938
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]]> Honey Trap 2235339 Julie Cohen 0755341368 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.61 2008 Honey Trap
author: Julie Cohen
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2008
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]]> Who Fears the Devil? 425518
From the strange world of the North Carolina mountains, in the shadows of their tall rocks, beside their waters, among their trees, some of the weirdest tales you may ever read. Wellman's work is not bound by space, or time, and least of all by science... it is unique, unsettling, and strangely habit-forming.]]> 191 Manly Wade Wellman 0352300655 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.20 1963 Who Fears the Devil?
author: Manly Wade Wellman
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1963
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]]> Shoot the Piano Player 42589
Shoot the Piano Player is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty: the kind a man owes his family, no matter how bad that family is; the kind a man owes a woman; and, ultimately, the loyalty he owes himself. The result is a moody thriller that, like the best hard-boiled fiction, carries a moral depth charge.]]> 158 David Goodis 0679732543 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.03 1956 Shoot the Piano Player
author: David Goodis
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1956
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]]> My Double Life 6658565 Rebelliously, Alexia flies off to L.A. and gets immersed in a celebrity life. Not only does she have to get used to getting anything she wants, she romances the hottest lead singer on the charts, and finds out that her own father is a singing legend. Through it all, Alexia must stay true to herself, which is hard to do when you are pretending to be somebody else!

]]> 272 Janette Rallison 0399252622 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.91 2010 My Double Life
author: Janette Rallison
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mighty Storm (The Storm, #1)]]> 15724654
Jake Wethers, sexy, tattooed and deliciously bad lead singer, and brains behind The Mighty Storm, one of the biggest bands in the world, left Tru with a broken heart when he moved from England to America with his family when they were both fourteen.

Sent to interview Jake for her music column by the magazine she works for, they are both unprepared for the sparks that fly the instant they reconnect. Only, there’s a complication to their instant feelings for one another—Will, Tru’s boyfriend of two years.

Then Jake makes Tru a job offer she can't refuse—travelling the world with him and his band. But taking the job means leaving Will behind, and being on the road with the band means spending an inordinate amount of time with Jake.

Is Tru strong enough to resist the delectable bad boy who once held her heart so completely, or will she willingly risk it all for one night with the world's most notorious womanizer?]]> 442 Samantha Towle °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.15 2012 The Mighty Storm (The Storm, #1)
author: Samantha Towle
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> Chasing Fire 612085 416 Michelle M. Welch 0553588230 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 2.67 2005 Chasing Fire
author: Michelle M. Welch
name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 2.67
book published: 2005
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]]> Calypso (87th Precinct, #35) 4133204 208 Ed McBain 0553133993 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.80 1979 Calypso (87th Precinct, #35)
author: Ed McBain
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average rating: 3.80
book published: 1979
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]]> <![CDATA[Midnight Whispers (Cutler, #4)]]> 563462
Yet Christie can't help feeling as if a dark cloud hovers over Cutler's Cove ... a cloud whose origins lie in her family's troubled history, and the many questions no one, not even Dawn, will answer. Only one person can always chase away her blues: Gavin, Daddy Jimmy's young and handsome stepbrother.

Then, in one harsh night, Christie's world is changed forever. She is shocked to discover her Uncle Philip's unbrotherly love for her mother, but even worse is the way he now looks at Christie, his eyes bright with tortured passion. Fleeing to New York City, she finds her real father, a pathetic, helpless has-been. Desperate and heartbroken, she turns to Gavin, who travels with her to The Meadows, the plantation where Christie was born. In Gavin's arms, in the first, tender moments of true love, Christie finds a refuge from her painful memories. But The Meadows is blighted by its own dark secrets --- and all too soon Christie is torn from Gavin's embrace. Now as black storms of evil gather around her, Christie must struggle to break the cruel bonds of the past ... to defy the curse that has haunted Cutler's Cove for generations ...
(back cover)]]> 440 V.C. Andrews 0671695169 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.85 1992 Midnight Whispers (Cutler, #4)
author: V.C. Andrews
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average rating: 3.85
book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[Bring on the Night (WVMP Radio, #3)]]> 7199485
Recovering con artist Ciara Griffin seems to finally have it all. A steady job at WVMP, the Lifeblood of Rock ’n� Roll. A loving relationship with the idiosyncratic but eternally hot DJ Shane McAllister. A vampire dog who never needs shots or a pooper-scooper. And after nine years, it looks as if she might actually finish her bachelor’s degree!

But fate has other plans for Ciara. First she must fulfill her Faustian bargain with the Control, the paranormal paramilitary agency that does its best to keep vampires in line. Turns out the Control wants her for something other than her (nonexistent) ability to kick undead ass. Her anti-holy blood, perhaps? Ciara’s suspicions are confirmed when she’s assigned to a special-ops division known as the Immanence Corps, run by the Control’s oldest vampire and filled with humans who claim to have special powers. To a confirmed skeptic like Ciara, it sounds like a freak fest. But when a mysterious fatal virus spreads through Sherwood—and corpses begin to rise from their graves—Ciara will not only get a crash course in zombie-killing, but will be forced to put her faith, and her life itself, in the hands of magic.]]> 399 Jeri Smith-Ready 1439163480 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.98 2010 Bring on the Night (WVMP Radio, #3)
author: Jeri Smith-Ready
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> The Trumpet of the Swan 24335 The Trumpet of the Swan, about a cygnet who finds his voice, is now a full-length animated film from Sony. Now younger readers can experience the joy of reading about Louie the trumpeter swan and his friends in these adorable readers with original full-color illustrations.

Louie is very popular. Who wouldn't love a swan who can read, write, and play the trumpet? When Louie goes to camp, he meets a boy named A.G. who doesn't like birds, and since Louie is a bird, that means he doesn't like Louie. When A.G. pulls a dangerous stunt out on the lake, he realizes that Louie is a hero, after all.]]> 252 E.B. White 0064408671 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.10 1970 The Trumpet of the Swan
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]]> <![CDATA[Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall]]> 7616033 Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro explores the ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the ‘hush-hush floor� of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning.

Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life’s romance, even as one gets older, relationships flounder and youthful hope recedes.]]> 221 Kazuo Ishiguro 0571245013 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.47 2009 Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
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average rating: 3.47
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]]> <![CDATA[Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit (Voices of the South)]]> 879911 Book by Gingher, Marianne 308 Marianne Gingher 0807123226 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.71 1986 Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit (Voices of the South)
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average rating: 3.71
book published: 1986
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]]> Osama Van Halen 6034927
Meanwhile, Ayyub embarks on a mission to rid the taqwacore scene of a Muslim pop-punk band called Shah 79. Along the way, he makes himself invisible, escapes punk-eating zombies in a mosque off the desert highway, and runs into some psychobilly jinns. Things turn existential when Ayyub finds himself face-to-face with his creator—no, not Allah, but the author.

This riotous journey of enlightenment reads like a religious service for teenagers on Halloween. But it isn't all raucous fun; written into his own novel, the author finds he is at the mercy of his creation.
]]> 212 Michael Muhammad Knight 1593762429 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.32 2009 Osama Van Halen
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]]> <![CDATA[Bad to the Bone (WVMP Radio, #2)]]> 4360147 TURN ON. TUNE IN. DROP DEAD.

If you’re just joining us, welcome to radio station WVMP, “The Lifeblood of Rock ‘n� Roll.� Con-artist-turned-station-owner Ciara Griffin manages an on-air staff of off-the-wall DJs—including her new boyfriend Shane McAllister—who really sink their teeth into the music of their “Life Time� (the era in which they became vampires). It’s Ciara’s job to keep the undead rocking, the ratings rolling, and the fan base alive—without missing a beat.

For Halloween, WVMP is throwing a bash sure to raise the dead. They’ve got cool tunes, hot costumes, killer cocktails—what could go wrong? Well, for starters, a religious firebrand ranting against the evils of the occult preempts the station’s midnight broadcast. Then, when Ciara tracks down the illegal transmission, the broadcast tower is guarded by what appears to be…a canine vampire? And behind it all is a group of self-righteous radicals who think vampires suck (and are willing to stake their lives on it).

Now Ciara must protect the station while struggling with her own murky relationship issues, her best friend’s unlikely romance with a fledgling vampire, and the nature of her mysterious anti-holy powers. To make it to New Year’s in one piece, she’ll need to learn a few new tricks…]]> 356 Jeri Smith-Ready 1416551786 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.91 2009 Bad to the Bone (WVMP Radio, #2)
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]]> Twilight's Child (Cutler, #3) 397429
At last, Dawn can create a haven of warmth and love for her beautiful baby girl, Christie, and her darling Jimmy. Dawn is a huge success as the new owner of the Cutler's Cove hotel and soon she and Jimmy will be blessed with a child of their own.

Yet Dawn cannot quell her forebodings of evil. She can sense Grandmother Cutler's presence everywhere ... can feel her bitter hatred as if the old lady plotted her vengeance from the grave. When Dawn discovers that her brother, Philip, still clings to his mad, shameful passion for her, she is heartstricken. Her spiteful, jealous sister, Clara, is far easier to ignore until the day Clara's childish rage explodes into violence, destroying Dawn's most cherished, precious dream.

Then Christie's father, debonair singing star Michael Sutton, returns. Now, as the heartaches and scandals of the past threaten to engulf her, Dawn must fight for her steadfast Jimmy ... for only with Jimmy's love can she find the rainbow at the end of the storm.
(back cover)]]> 410 V.C. Andrews 0671695142 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.85 1992 Twilight's Child (Cutler, #3)
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average rating: 3.85
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]]> Mozart's Last Aria 10815657 When Nietzsche Wept, Louis Bayard’s The Pale Blue Eye, andPhillip Sington’s The Einstein Girl to achievethe very best in historical fiction with Mozart’s Last Aria.]]> 320 Matt Rees 0062015869 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.19 2011 Mozart's Last Aria
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name: °Õ¾±á»ƒu
average rating: 3.19
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]]> The Devil's Dream 177611 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Moses Bailey, a preacher's son, forbade his fiddle-loving wife Kate Malone to play. But while he was gone on his travels, looking for God, Kate couldn't help herself, and began fiddling for her three children. For the love of music, Kate is willing to defy anyone who tries to stop her. From generation to generation, the gift and love of music cannot be stopped, and no Malone is immune from its spell.]]> 320 Lee Smith 0345382919 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 4.05 1992 The Devil's Dream
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average rating: 4.05
book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[Try Me (One Night with Sole Regret, #1)]]> 13649056 For the five sexy rock gods of Sole Regret, finding love is easy, keeping it is hard.

Melanie has no desire to meet the members of the rock band, Sole Regret, but her groupie of a best friend gets them both backstage and then rushes off with the band’s lead singer. Left alone at an after party with a bunch of scary tattooed and pierced metal-heads, sheltered Melanie is relieved when the only normal-looking guy in the room insists on keeping her company.

By the time Melanie discovers that Gabe is the band’s drummer and not as normal as she assumed, she has already made a complete fool of herself. She can’t help but be interested in him, not as a rock star, but as the sexiest man she’s ever encountered. Strangely attracted to his hidden tattoos and body piercing, she wonders what it would be like to spend a night with a bad boy.

Gabe is more than willing to show sweet Melanie there’s more to him than meets the eye. All she has to do is try him. Will they only share a single night of passion? Or will their hearts entangle as quickly as their bodies?


Contains explicit sex, graphic language, and a hot rock star with a naughty and inventive mind.

***

Gabe and Melanie's story continues in
Book 6: Tell Me and Book 11: Trust Me (not yet released).]]> 103 Olivia Cunning °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.87 2012 Try Me (One Night with Sole Regret, #1)
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]]> Devil Take the Blue-tail Fly 613229
In 1946 New York, Ellen, a world-renowned musician, is suffering from the effects of her latest mental breakdown. Amongst other challenges, a chance meeting with a folk singer from her past causes her psychological well-being to rapidly deteriorate. Over the following terrifying weeks, Ellen finds herself becoming both a criminal and a victim as she attempts to contend with the darkness within.]]> 192 John Franklin Bardin 0140107347 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.63 1948 Devil Take the Blue-tail Fly
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]]> <![CDATA[Hidden Voices: The Orphan Musicians of Venice]]> 5127139
It is a longing and search for love that motivates three girls living in the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage renowned for its extraordinary musical program. But for Rosalba, Anetta, and Luisa, the love they seek is not where they expect to find it. Set in the early 1700s in the heart of Venice, this remarkable novel deftly weaves the history of Antonio Vivaldi’s early musical career into the lives of three young women who excel in voice and instrument. Under the composer’s tutelage and care, the orphans find expression, sustenance, and passion. But can the sheltered life of the orphanage prepare them for the unthinkable dangers outside its walls?]]> 352 Pat Lowery Collins 0763639176 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.26 2009 Hidden Voices: The Orphan Musicians of Venice
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]]> Lythande (Thieves World) 314254
And Lythande's secret was perhaps the most dangerous of all, setting the mage apart from all humanity, forcing Lythande to war against spell beast, sorcerer, thief, swordsman, and the magic of the gods themselves.�

As an added bonus, Lythande includes a special guest appearance by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Vonda N. McIntyre.

Contents:
The Secret of the Blue Star � (1979) � novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Incompetent Magician � (1983) � novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Somebody Else's Magic � (1984) � novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Sea Wrack � (1985) � novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Wandering Lute � (1986) � novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Looking for Satan â€� (1981) â€� novella by Vonda N. McIntyre]]> 237 Marion Zimmer Bradley 0886771544 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.74 1986 Lythande (Thieves World)
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]]> <![CDATA[Say Goodbye: The Laurie Moss Story]]> 379201
Laurie Moss seemed to come out of nowhere, but behind those songs, behind that powerful voice, lies a history. This extraordinary book takes you from her Texas roots to her first recording contract, from her struggling days in L. A. to her final tour---and beyond. It's also the story of her relationship with the legendary guitarist Skip Shaw, whose passion for self-destruction illuminated her career like a bonfire.

Lewis Shiner writes about the music scene with unequalled passion and firsthand knowledge. Critic Charles Shaar Murray hailed his Glimpses as "a superb contemporary novel, and a groundbreaking work of creative rock criticism" and BAM raved "a music lover couldn't find a better read."

The battlefield for Say Goodbye may be the music industry, but the novel's themes are success and failure, love and loss, obsession and forgiveness. This book is Shiner's most profound and moving work yet, a deep and heartfelt novel peopled with characters you will never forget.]]> 256 Lewis Shiner 0312263864 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.90 1999 Say Goodbye: The Laurie Moss Story
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> Wicked Game (WVMP Radio, #1) 2669405 LATE NIGHT RADIO YOU CAN SINK YOUR TEETH INTO

Recovering con artist Ciara Griffin is trying to live the straight life, even if it means finding a (shudder!) real job. She takes an internship at a local radio station, whose late-night time-warp format features 1940s blues, '60s psychedelia, '80s goth, and more, all with an uncannily authentic flair. Ciara soon discovers just how the DJs maintain their cred: they're vampires, stuck forever in the eras in which they were turned.

Ciara's first instinct, as always, is to cut and run. But communications giant Skywave wants to buy WVMP and turn it into just another hit-playing clone. Without the station — and the link it provides to their original Life Times — the vampires would "fade," becoming little more than mindless ghosts of the past. Suddenly a routine corporate takeover is a matter of life and undeath.

To boost ratings and save the lives of her strange new friends, Ciara rebrands the station as "WVMP, the Lifeblood of Rock 'n' Roll." In the ultimate con, she hides the DJs' vampire nature in plain sight, disguising the bloody truth as a marketing gimmick. WVMP becomes the hottest thing around — next to Ciara's complicated affair with grunge vamp Shane McAllister. But the "gimmick" enrages a posse of ancient and powerful vampires who aren't so eager to be brought into the light. Soon the stakes are higher — and the perils graver — than any con game Ciara's ever played...]]> 361 Jeri Smith-Ready 141655176X °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.70 2008 Wicked Game (WVMP Radio, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Secrets of the Morning (Cutler, #2)]]> 660523 Dawn can hardly believe she's a student at one of New York City's best music schools. Now her most precious wish, to become a singer, can come true. But Dawn still dreams about Jimmy, her strong, intense boyfriend, and the love and anguished secrets they share.
Then Michael Sutton arrives, a new teacher at the school, a singing star and the most wonderful looking man Dawn has ever seen. Together they create a world of feeling Dawn has never known. In his embrace Dawn awakens to disturbing, unfamiliar desires, and Michael's promises offer a vision of music and romance forever...until he disappears.
Dazed by his cruelty, alone with the bitter fruit of his betrayal, Dawn becomes, once again, a victim of her grandmothers twisted schemes. Desolate, she clings to the tender hope that Jimmy will return and renew with her their deepest hearts' dream...]]> 405 V.C. Andrews 0671695126 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.85 1991 Secrets of the Morning (Cutler, #2)
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]]> Edson 2053267 237 Bill Morrissey 067944629X °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.98 1996 Edson
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book published: 1996
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]]> <![CDATA[A Brush of Darkness (Abby Sinclair, #1)]]> 8200504 Six months ago, Abby Sinclair was struggling to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Now, she has an enchanted iPod, a miniature unicorn living in her underwear drawer, and a magical marketplace to manage. But despite her growing knowledge of the OtherWorld, Abby isn’t at all prepared for Brystion, the dark, mysterious, and sexy-as- sin incubus searching for his sister, convinced Abby has the key to the succubus’s whereabouts. Abby has enough problems without having this seductive shape-shifter literally invade her dreams to get information. But when her Faery boss and some of her friends vanish, as well, Abby and Brystion must form an uneasy alliance. As she is sucked deeper and deeper into this perilous world of faeries, angels, and daemons, Abby realizes her life is in as much danger as her heart—and there’s no one she can trust to save her.

]]> 357 Allison Pang 1439198322 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.70 2011 A Brush of Darkness (Abby Sinclair, #1)
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]]> Off the Record 7863551 256 Jennifer O'Connell 1615514910 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.09 2005 Off the Record
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]]> What We Do Is Secret: A Novel 806934
It’s been months since the suicide of Darby Crash, L.A. punk rock icon and lead singer of the Germs. He checked out on the same day John Lennon was shot: December 8, 1980. But for Rockets Redglare, it feels like yesterday. Darby was the hot-as-sun center of Rockets’s world. Part ringleader, part god, and all charismatic manipulator, Darby was as close to family as a hustler and street kid like Rockets might ever get.

Now, as Rockets amps up for another night looking for tricks and scrounging a meal, Sex Pistols and X lyrics on repeat in his head, he knows he’s come to a turning point–the scene is changing, and nothing’s as easy as it was when Darby brought him into the fold.

From the underground clubs to the back of the giant “Hâ€� in the Hollywood sign, Rockets and his crew of friends spend the night burning bridges, building new ones, tripping and talking and searching for answers. As the dark gives way to early morning, the punks and the cops engage in their ritual standoff–and Rockets faces the ultimate choice: Should he stay or should he go?]]> 368 Kief Hillsbery 0812973097 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.87 2005 What We Do Is Secret: A Novel
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]]> <![CDATA[Antiphon (Psalms of Isaak, #3)]]> 7979699
The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own.

Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father.

Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way.

And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes.]]> 384 Ken Scholes 0765321297 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.99 2010 Antiphon (Psalms of Isaak, #3)
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average rating: 3.99
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]]> Trombone 6904967 278 Craig Nova 080411157X °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.50 1992 Trombone
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average rating: 3.50
book published: 1992
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]]> Tempter 298399 242 Nancy A. Collins 1887368515 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.51 1990 Tempter
author: Nancy A. Collins
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]]> Dawn (Cutler, #1) 397456 Now Dawn and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a decent, respectable life, and Dawn's secret, precious hope to study singing can come true. Philip Cutler, the handsomest boy in school, sets Dawn's heart on fire. She is deeply devoted to her brooding brother; but with Philip, she imagines a lovely dream of romance...
Then Dawn's mother suddenly dies, and her entire world begins to crumble. After a terrible new shock, she is thrust into a different family and an evil web of unspoken sins. Her sweet innocence lost, humiliated and scorned, Dawn is desperate to find Jimmy again and...strip away the wicked lies that will change all their lives forever!]]> 407 V.C. Andrews 0671670689 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.90 1990 Dawn (Cutler, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)]]> 164154 334 Walter M. Miller Jr. 0060892994 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.99 1959 A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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book published: 1959
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]]> On Wings of Song 939284 359 Thomas M. Disch 0881844438 °Õ¾±á»ƒu 0 to-read 3.79 1979 On Wings of Song
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average rating: 3.79
book published: 1979
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