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      By Kaminsky, Stuart M
       2009, c2008., Forge Call No: MYS Fic Kam   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Lew Fonesca    Volume: 6Summary Note: Lovable everyman Lew Fonesca, the man who makes things work in Sarasota, takes on the cases of seventeen-year-old Ronnie Graeill accused of bludgeoning to death a local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding and a semi-retired and much beloved singer of children's songs who is being blackmailed.
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      -- Good time girl
      By Fragoulis, Tess
       c2012., Adult, Cormorant Books Call No: QWF Fic Fra   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: After losing everything in the Great Fire of Smyrna in 1922, Kivelli Fotiathi is stranded in the Greek city of Piraeus, surrounded by gangsters, prostitutes, and fellow refugees, and living in a brothel with nothing but a remarkable singing voice and the clothes on her back. Thanks to her talent and some good fortune, she soon becomes a recording star and escapes from poverty, but even though her life has improved, she still finds herself longing for the magical world of her youth.
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      -- Jackie & Maria :
      By Paul, Gill
       2020., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Fic Pau   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband. Life in the public eye with an overly ambitious--and unfaithful--man who could hardly be coaxed to return from a vacation after the birth of a stillborn child was breaking her spirit. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes...to a meeting that will ultimately change her life.Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's introduced to Aristotle Onassis, the world's richest man and her fellow Greek. Stuck in a childless, sexless marriage, and with pressures on all sides from opera house managers and a hostile press, she finds her life being turned upside down by this hyper-intelligent and impeccably charming man...Little by little, Maria's and Jackie's lives begin to overlap, and they come closer and closer until everything they know about the world changes on a dime.
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      By Erdrich, Louise
       c2003., HarperLargePrint Call No: LP Fic Erd   Edition: 1st [softcover large print] ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family -- which includes Eva and four sons -- and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town. When the Old World meets the New -- in the person of Delphine Watzka -- the great adventure of Fidelis's life begins. 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 novel."--Back cover.
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      By Sherman, David
       2022., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF Fic She   Edition: 1st ed..    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "The golden days of MaryAnne's singing career, of sold-out concert halls and hit records have given way to shabby rooms and paltry CD sales, battered by YouTube and streaming. But, MaryAnne, nearing 60, refuses to retire. When her party-animal single daughter becomes pregnant, MaryAnne rebels against becoming a grandmother and putting her dwindling career aside to help her daughter raise an infant. It's left to her live-in lover to try and sew the family back together while MaryAnne clutches her six-string for dear life"--
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      By Attia, Jasmin
       2023. Click to access digital title.     Summary Note: Vibrantly descriptive and evocative of Egypt and Cairo during the final years of British colonial rule during the mid-20th century, this debut novel by Jasmin Attia tells the compelling story of a young Egyptian woman, Laila, who defies the restrictive traditional roles set for women at that time, and instead follows a path inspired by her musician father-a much-beloved oud player-to become a singer and performer in her own right. After extricating herself from an abusive marriage, Laila struggles to maintain her independence as a singer in Cairo's chic international nightclubs, and embarks on an affair that puts her in grave danger, forcing her to make a decision that will forever alter the course of her life.
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      By Chee, Alexander
       2016., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Summary Note: "This book is a glorious performance . . . Enveloping, seductive." -Karen Russell From a writer praised by Junot DÃÚaz as "the fire, in my opinion, and the light," a mesmerizing novel that follows one woman's rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned diva.
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      By Spencer, LaVyrle
       c1997., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fic Spe    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A famous country music star is shamed by her sister into going home to look after her bedridden mother. The town is dull, her mother gets on her nerves and the "dork" who had a crush on her in high school is once again after her. But with time she gets used to it, even falls in love with the dork. By the author of That Camden Summer.
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      By Hiaasen, Carl
       2010., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Hia    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Ann DeLuisa, body double for drug-addled pop star Cherry Pye, is kidnapped by an obsessed paparazzo, and Cherry's entourage must rescue her while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry's public--and from Cherry herself.