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1) The soloist
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As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two events: he becomes a juror in a murder trial for the brutal killing of a Buddhist monk, and he takes on as a pupil a Korean boy whose brilliant musicianship reminds him of his own past.
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While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, two other men set out in search of bread and water to keep themselves alive, and a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.
3) The cellist
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 21
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English
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After the poisoning of a Russian billionaire, Gabriel Allon travels across Europe and finds himself in the reach of a virtuoso cellist who may be able to help uncover the truth about his friend's death.
The fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire sends Gabriel Allon on a dangerous journey across Europe and into the orbit of a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth about his friend's death. The plot Allon uncovers leads to secret channels...
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Kimani romance volume 461
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English
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A desire they never imagined… New Orleans has always been a musical city, and April Knight quickly fell under its spell. Despite the challenges of poverty and disillusionment, April defied everyone to realize her dream of becoming a celebrated cellist. Buoyed by her success, she's returned to the Ninth Ward to share her encouragement and enthusiasm with the local youth, unaware of a new passion that awaits. Years ago, Damien Alexander encouraged...
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Frederick Troy novels volume 7
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English
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A novel set before, during, and after World War II follows the loosely parallel lives of an Austrian cellist, Meret Voytek, whose orchestra becomes part of the Hitler Youth, and Hungarian physist Karel Szabo, who is recruited by the Americans to help build the atomic bomb.
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Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a third his age. He forges a denouement that is staggering...
9) XOXO
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"Jenny never had much time for boys, Kpop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. But when she finds herself falling for a Kpop idol, she has to decide whether their love is worth the risk"--
Cello prodigy Jennys goal is to get into a prestigious music conservatory. When she meets Jaewoo in her uncles Los Angeles karaoke bar, its clear he is the kind of boy who would uproot her careful plans. In a moment of spontaneity...
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St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Eleanor Morse's Margreete's Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, and nearly burns her place down. When Margreete Bright calls her daughter Liddie to confess, Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. She, her husband Harry, and their children Eva and Bernie move from a settled life in Michigan across the...
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"Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring sexuality, gender, and maternal ambivalence, from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People. It's 1997 and Missy's band has finally hit the big time as they tour across America. At twenty-two years old, Missy gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous. Missy is the only girl in the band and she's...
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Ben Jones novels volume 1
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English
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A singularly compelling debut novel, about a desert where people go to escape their past, and a truck driver who finds himself at risk when he falls in love with a mysterious woman. Ben Jones lives a quiet, hardscrabble life, working as a trucker on Route 117, a little-travelled road in a remote region of the Utah desert which serves as a haven for fugitives and others looking to hide from the world. For many of the desert's inhabitants, Ben's visits...
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Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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After her American boyfriend, George, abandons her to return to his wife, British academic Eloise disappears into the country, shutting herself from the world. But George has left his wife again and is looking for Eloise. A comedy of errors.
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HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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Viktor Orlov tenía una cita con la muerte desed hace tiempo. El una vez hombre más rico de Rusia, vive ahora en un espléndido exilio en Londres, donde ha llevado a cabo una incasnable cruzada contra el autoritario cleptócrata que ha tomado control del Kremlin. Su mansíon en el exclusivo Cheyne Walk en Chelsea es una de las viviendas londienese más fuertemente protegidas, y aun así, es una tarde lluviosa, en medio de una pandemia global, en...
19) Solo
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Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Evie Silverman is a semi-celebrity in the British tabloids, known as much for her fabulous sense of style as for her rising reputation as a "pop" classical musician. But Evie is getting restless, growing dissatisfied with both her stale marriage and her shallow career. An extended trip to New York seems to be just what she needs, but Evie's problems follow her: the demands of the media on an emerging pop starlet, the threats of a determined stalker,...
20) Coming home
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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With her career as a cellist crippled by an injury, Libby is back in Sydney seeking employment and a home. When she meets Charles, memories stir - of an obnoxious man in the apartment below thumping on the ceiling when she practiced. But that was years ago, in Vienna. The son of famous musical parents, Charles had a lonely childhood alleviated only by his great-aunt Gloria, who, now in her frail old age, has hired Libby as her live-in companion.
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