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"Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place."--
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They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris Conservatory, there's no way an impoverished musician can make his way in 1890s Paris without an outside patron. Young gossip columnist Marcel Proust takes Léon under his wing, and the boys game their way through an extravagant new world. When the larger-than-life Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac offers...
4) Lovely War
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The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music revealing that War is no match for the...
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Your lie in April volume 3
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"Kosei's return to the stage as Kaori's accompanist was a complete disaster. He couldn't hear the music, he lost track of the tempo, and they stopped and restarted the piece. But it did accomplish one thing: It reminded him the trill of playing for an eager audience. Now Kaori's demandling Kosei enter a piano competition solo, but he's terrified that, alone on the bench, the ghost of his abusive mother will paralyze him yet again ..."--Page 4 of cover....
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Your lie in April volume 11
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While Kaori undergoes surgery, Kosei performs in his competition, and as their time together draws to a close, the truth of their friendship is revealed, a friendship that began with an April lie, but changed them and the lives of those around them.
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Wintersong volume 2
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Oscura, romántica e inolvidable, una encantadora historia para las lectoras de Dentro del laberinto y La bella y la bestia. La conclusión de la extraordinaria bilogía iniciada con Canción de invierno. scura, romántica e inolvidable, una encantadora historia para las lectoras deDentro del laberinto yLa bella y la bestia. La conclusión de la extraordinaria bilogía iniciada conCanción de invierno. Seis meses después del final de Canción de...
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