Voris, Jenna
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who's as famous for her classic hits as she is for her partnership with songwriter Mickenlee Hooper. The same Mickenlee who mysteriously backed out of the limelight at the height of their careers, never to be heard from again. Now Decklee's televised funeral marks the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Summary: In 1963, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. Meanwhile, Dwayne's forbidden black friend Larry, aspiring to play piano like Thelonius Monk, apprentices to a jazz musician called the Bleeder. A mutual passion for music help Dwayne and Larry as they try to achieve their dreams.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EDGNakamura, Mei
Summary: "Poppy and Branch return for an all-new chapter in DreamWorks Animation's blockbuster musical franchise Trolls Band Together! Get ready for an action-packed all-star, rainbow-colored family reunion as the Trolls go on an epic quest to help Branch reunite with his missing brothers--spreading music, joy, friendship, and good times along the way!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LINde la Peña, Matt
Summary: "La Música exists in many places--in the twang of a guitar, in the beat of a drum, even in the whistling wind and the morning bird's son. She brings color and life wherever she goes, connecting people to a grand harmony. And in the town of Santa Cecilia, she is everywhere. When La Música discovers a boy with longing in his heart and no music in his home, she vows to help him find his passion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction de la Pena 2017Dunlap, Shannon
Summary: Across alternate universes and varying scenarios, the paths of two musicians, Anna and Liam, consistently intertwine as they forge a connection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DUNSennaar, Mai
Summary: "When Bonnie and Mansour meet in New York in 1968--his piercing gaze in a downtown jazz club threatening to carry her away--their connection is undeniable. Both from fractured homes, with childhoods spent crossing the Atlantic, they quickly find peace with each other. And as Mansour's soaring Senegalese melodies continue to break new ground, keeping time with the sound of revolution and taking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SJP Lit, an Zando imprint 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SENHurd, Thacher.
Summary: Miles and the Swamp Band have the time of their lives playing at the Alligator Ball, until they discover the menu includes Swamp Band soup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1985
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JPB HUR BASKETHertz, Kellen
Summary: When aspiring songwriter Tenney gets invited to perform at Nashville's famed Bluebird Café, her parents decide she's too young to perform professionally, leaving her future hanging in the balance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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Summary: "What does the perfect song sound like? Normally, Malcolm Kid wouldn't give this type of question the time of day. As a straight B-student with a heart of copper, he is far more concerned with overcoming mediocrity than he is with achieving perfection. But that all changes when he stumbles across the LK-2000--a strange keyboard cursed with the soul of an old jazz musician. Malcolm soon learns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PARThoene, Bodie
Summary: Her own identity was safely disguised. But what about those she loved most. They would soon disappear with all the others unless... .
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1989
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THOENEFeehan, Christine.
Summary: Hired as the mechanic for a traveling troupe of musicians, Tempest, gifted with the ability to communicate with animals, is astounded to discover an overpowering attraction to Darius, the troupe's leader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FEEGarza, Xavier
Summary: Just as Joaquin and his mother are about to enjoy their pan de muerto on the Day of the Dead, a skeleton arrives offering to play music in exchange for one tiny bite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG GARKemp, Laekan Zea
Summary: Set in the Monte Vista neighborhood of San Antonio and told in alternating voices, teenaged musicians Aarón and Mia grow close as they share and struggle to overcome the emotional pain of their troubled home lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEMOndaatje, Michael
Summary: Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans barber, cornet player, and full-time editor of a gossip sheet, disappears for two years, and when he returns, he goes berserk and spends his final years in the East Louisiana state hospital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONDDeLuca, Jen
Summary: "The Renaissance Faire is on the move, and Lulu and Dex are happily along for the ride, in the next utterly charming rom-com from Jen DeLuca. A high-powered attorney from a success-oriented family, Louisa "Lulu" Malone lives to work, and everything seems to be going right, until the day she realizes it's all wrong. Lulu's cousin Mitch introduced her to the world of Ren Faires, and when she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2022
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Summary: "In the stunning conclusion to the #1 internationally bestselling Elements of Cadence duology that began with A River Enchanted, A Fire Endless finds the tenuous balance between the human and faery realm threatened by Bane, the spirit of the North Wind, whose defeat may require Jack, Adaira, Torin, and Sidra to pay the ultimate price. East and West. Humans and Spirits. Breccans and Tamerlaines....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSDoktorski, Jennifer Salvato
Summary: Graduation was supposed to be a relief, but Quinn can't avoid the rumors that plagued her throughout high school-- or the barrage of well-intentioned questions about her college plans. Why does no one understand that it's hard for her to think about the future when her best friend is dead? Spending the summer with her aunt on the Jersey shore may be the fresh start Quinn so desperately needs....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2024
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Summary: Rafi Francisco needs something really special to put her true crime podcast on the map. She sets her sights on River Stone, the hearthrob musician who rose to stardom after the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend. Rafi lands herself a ticket to the exclusive Fly Fest, where River will be the headliner. But when Rafi arrives on the Caribbean island location of Fly Fest with hundreds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MOLWalton, Dawnie
Summary: "Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can't imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job--despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can bea star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar's amateur night, she takes him up on his offer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALMason, Lizzy
Summary: After deciding to leave home to attend New York University and be near the boy she likes, eighteen-year-old Sydney Holman learns that her long-absent father is schizophrenic and she may be, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MASEdgerton, Clyde
Summary: In 1963, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. Meanwhile, Dwayne's forbidden black friend Larry, aspiring to play piano like Thelonius Monk, apprentices to a jazz musician called the Bleeder. A mutual passion for music help Dwayne and Larry as they try to achieve their dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDGPatricelli, Leslie.
Summary: Monkey Mike is reprimanded for making noise when he taps pencils and clangs trash cans until he sees a drum set in the music store and puts his hands-on talents to work in a most impressive way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E PATSolomon, Rachel Lynn
Summary: Aspiring choreographer Sophie Orenstein, eighteen, wonders if seventeen-year-old Peter Rosenthal-Porter, gifted pianist, best friend, and secret crush, will love her back after receiving her kidney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2019